After the UAW won contracts with the Big Three, it's seeking to unionize 150,000 workers across a dozen companies including Tesla.

‘Your Turn’: United Auto Workers Launches Campaign to Unionize Tesla::After the UAW won contracts with the Big Three, it’s seeking to unionize 150,000 workers across a dozen companies including Tesla.

  • AndyEnglish
    24•1 year ago

    I think the most common explanation for anti union sentiment is this:

    Most of the time, our justifications for doing anything are post-hoc: we decide based on gut reasoning, then invent a justification after we’ve already made up our minds in order to convince ourselves that we’re creatures of logic.

    When companies show those videos, it does two things: it intimidates, and it provides ready-made arguments for post-hoc justification.

    They intimidate workers from organizing, but no one’s ego can accept that. If someone says “let’s unionize”, most people think (subconsciously) ‘Fuck!!! That’s scary! We’re not strong enough, and I’m gonna get totally beaten down if I stick my neck out!!’

    And then their brain does it’s thing and translates that into justifications, and when it needs words to form justifications, it draws then from the handy dandy premade justifications they were given during their intimation session. It’s like, ‘You’re a bug, and if you fight us we’ll step on you! Now here’s a balm to soothe this massive wound to your pride. You’re welcome. Now get back to work.’

    • @[email protected]English
      12•1 year ago

      Most of the time, our justifications for doing anything are post-hoc: we decide based on gut reasoning, then invent a justification after we’ve already made up our minds in order to convince ourselves that we’re creatures of logic.

      Woah, are you telling me that people are not rational thinking creatures instead act purely on emotion. Cause I fully support that statement.

      We have stop using the “reasonable, rational thinking” person as a standard. If people were truly that, there would be a lot less people in debt, more people taking care of their health before problems arose, and less bullshit overall.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•1 year ago

      True. I remember thinking it was a load of crap, but it certainly got the message across that I’d be alone and out of a job if I tried to form a union.

      And I also remember lessons in class where the textbook weren’t l went into great detail about the corruption and mob ties of some unions, but very little about anything positive. There has definitely been an effort on the part of powerful folks to denigrate unions.

      I remember reading The Jungle in college and getting a much different perspective of labor laws and union value