On the scene of the Amazon strike in Maspeth, the NYPD is trying to break the picket, engaging in arrests of union members and engaging in physical confrontations with workers and their supporters.
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Protests and pickets are not supposed to be so confined that no one notices. Rosa Parks went to jail twics because organizing a boycott was illegal. We can no longer allow the laws set up to protect the rich to stop us. Shame on the police and the police union for being used to bust unions for bezos
You are correct, I am a Teamster in CALif. all the units here supported Kamala, as well the other states. The president he pissed us off, speaking for us that we supported Trump. BS lie as usual.
Propaganda. The International President was doing a fav for the orange one, to gain favor.
The union president back east learned a big lesson, losing a huge contract by being a suck up to the orange one, people are so ignorant to think that man has anyone's interest but his.
This is why we need an industrial union like @iwwnyc.bsky.social instead of trade unions.
Organize from the bottom up, not top-down.
The leadership of many trade unions have been co-opted by powerful individuals.
Police protect the rich first in any Capitalist society. The treatment of Luigi Mangione vs school shooters if proof of that. Stay strong, the people are with you!
JVL's law: Any organization that doesn't resist Trump will be subsumed by Trump. And the police unions will be all for it - at first. Then they will realize they've been used by a GOP that will never have their backs. You know, like veterans.
So they'll get screwed over and not realize it. That doesn't make them any less screwed. They're counting on Trump to have their backs while they alienate America. Would you call that reliable plan?
Time will tell, I suppose.
I'm sort of tempted to spread the confusion around. I want everyone who hates teachers' unions to tell me why exactly police unions are different in their own words. Because I suspect when President Musk hears union, that's all he hears.
If the "scabs" get through and happen to leave all their fully loaded Amazon trucks in the middle of a neighborhood, wide open, I don't see how that's crossing the picket line. Its just moving the line elsewhere.
Which part? Using a ‘blocking a public thoroughfare’ pretext is pretty standard for police suppression of activism, labor or otherwise. They even use a pre-recorded message with the specific terms needed to give a fig-leaf to arrests. Police thugs train for this.
Didn't think Amazon had that much money to pay NYPD to do their bidding...
WHAT WAS I THINKING!
Of course Amazon does.
Way to go Blue. Cash that check-
Guess a 2nd house in LI, a wife, kids & 3 girlfriends across 2 boroughs ain't cheap.
This has been a thing for well over a century now. The police exist to protect private property and the interests of capital, and everything else is propaganda. They've been allowed (even encouraged) to unionize by the powers that be as a reward for being their footsoldiers in breaking other strikes
The police union aren't sympathetic to other unions because they're given favored status by the state and capital, so they have no need to show solidarity (and indeed, as I say, they are required to sabotage other worker's unions). If CEOs formed a union it would be equally unsympathetic to others
Biden is president now and there is a democratic mayor and the state is strike busting NOW. It’s not happening in two months state power is being used the break a strike right now.
Police can have a union but not Amazon workers. Union workers going up against non-unionized workers who want to unionize. Wild. And apparently what American voters wanted. 🤷🏾♂️
The only truly good cops either end up fired or murdered by their peers and that’s not an exaggeration. A cop in LA was recently beat to death by his peers during a training exercise. Came out that he was investigating them for gang rape. The PD is protecting them too, and labeled it all an accident
Law enforcement departments are governed by elected leaders or leaders who are appointed by them in America. Leaders or law enforcement departments exist even in communist societies and other similarities. They would, at large, change a different name or form because there are always rules and
-who enforces the rules and who plays a leadership role. No rules mean everyone can be "pigs." As long as there are "pig" leaders, these leaders will certainly turn law enforcement departments into "pigs" even if they are not because they are so useful for "pig" leaders. It's a systematic
Only good cop I know quit being a cop back in 99 after he got tired of being harassed for being the only gay cop in his department. It changed how he viewed cops.
*sees American fascist cops violently attacking other Americans in America to protect American billionaire oligarch wealth, like they always do in America
Corporation donate millions to police dept so they'll do their bidding. It pisses me off police are union but they are happy to do the bidding of corps and smash other unions peoples heads!
no
Cops are the force for our judicial system. They aren't a class, they are part of the system. If laws are just then they are generally good, if laws are unjust they are generally bad.
They are also the tools of oppression wielded by the state. We [marxists] are not against policing, Marx and lenin have written about how the working class should organise and police itself.
i'm not here to write a dissertation go fight a liberal.
I mean definitional they are working class. They make their livelihood through their own labor rather than owning the means of the production but they are the ultimate class traitors. They’re only real purpose is protecting capital
I FIND THAT I CAN ORDER EVERYTHING I USED TO ORDER FROM AMAZON FROM OTHER ON-LINE RESOURCES PLUS TARGET, WALMART and LOCAL GROCERY STORES & PHARMACIES. SO, I DON'T THINK I'LL MISS AMAZON.
Don't let the Nazis take hold
Start the #resistance in your city, call friends and family. Organize a march or a protest.
Remember to remain NON-VIOLENT.
Use your voice and your pen.
Teach the girls how to fight dirty. (YBMC)
Teach boys to respect/protect women.
There is no time to lose! Start NOW.
That’s small ball compared to the conspiracy to commit riot felonies that organizers get tagged with when the corporate execs get scared and lean on their stooge politicians
Do you think that maybe the amazon workers deserve to make enough money to survive emergencies? Such as the general emergency that is living under capitalism? 🤷♀️
Absolutely to the first part. I support their cause and their unionization.
The second part is silly ideological hyperbolic rhetoric. Everything unfair in society doesn’t have to get the emergency tag. You’re just going to make the term emergency meaningless.
So actually the NYPD is aiding in the breaking of the law because Amazon is required to negotiate with these unions - instead, the police are helping a billionaire-owned behemoth expoit its workers.
they literally cannot arrest people for being on strike, the right to strike is protected by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) under certain conditions, and those conditions are basically "don't be violent" ~<3
"Laws are threats made by the dominant socio-economic, ethnic group in a given nation. It's just a promise of violence that's enacted, and police are basically an occupying army"
People are striking for fairness. Cops act as enforcers for corporations. They arrest strikers to protect profits over people. This is a system that sides with capital over labor. FTP
If they block the road they get arrested. It’s pretty simple.
Being arrested is part of the deal of being a peaceful protester.
Actions. Consequences.
For those who don’t want to be arrested they stay on the sidewalk. Those taking a stronger position should expect it. It’s kinda the point.
Well they're doing their job, you can't block streets because somebody can get hurt and then it would be the protesters upset that the police let them get hurt or Amazon upset that the police let the protesters in the street
You're missing the point. None of the police will be charged with anything on the first place. They will never be tried and would therefore never need to be pardoned. Police break the law to kill strikes every day in this country, this is normalized.
No I haven't missed the point, the point is cops do Adams bidding, Adams wants a pardon, Bezos has potential influence with trump - as I said cops to Adams to Bezos to trump to pardon. Do ya get it?
Cops would be doing this under DiBlasio too. Adams wanting a pardon isn't providing motivation to break strikes when this would be happening regardless. Your point still isn't pointing.
It would be cool if someone with infinitely more patience than me calculated (roughly) how much this whole fiasco cost the New York public, let's say assuming an average cop salary, non-overtime, to be as generous as possible.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
They gotta get out their and strike, now.
Before the leopards come for their faces.
Dammit
https://teamster.org/2024/09/teamsters-release-presidential-endorsement-polling-data/
Normally, I wouldn't cross the picket line AT ALL, but I'm buying my special charging cable, because fuck that 27% of them.
They would have endorsed Trump.
But the rank-and-file DID endorse Trump. OVERWHELMINGLY.
The Teamsters ARE right-wing populists.
I do not support right-wing populists.
https://teamster.org/2024/09/teamsters-release-presidential-endorsement-polling-data/
https://teamster.org/2024/09/teamsters-no-endorsement-for-u-s-president/
Want solidarity?
Show some.
The union president back east learned a big lesson, losing a huge contract by being a suck up to the orange one, people are so ignorant to think that man has anyone's interest but his.
Organize from the bottom up, not top-down.
The leadership of many trade unions have been co-opted by powerful individuals.
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/30/940196997/amazon-reportedly-has-pinkerton-agents-surveil-workers-who-try-to-form-unions
https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/239-23/mayor-adams-olr-commissioner-campion-tentative-contract-agreement-pba-providing#/0
The unions aren’t real unions
You give them too much credit.
Time will tell, I suppose.
WHAT WAS I THINKING!
Of course Amazon does.
Way to go Blue. Cash that check-
Guess a 2nd house in LI, a wife, kids & 3 girlfriends across 2 boroughs ain't cheap.
I wonder if any of the million dollars Bezos gave to Trump has greased some senior police’s hand.
Cops are in gangs, not labor unions.
https://bsky.app/profile/hellgatenyc.com/post/3ldo7n2ppx22j
Who says Republicans are the only Nazis?
they are protecting *property* and *business interests* - not "the people"
Union members SUPPORT unions when there’s no crime happening.
cops are the lackies of the bosses !!
the original strike breakers !!
1. ACAB includes your uncle who’s a “good cop”
2. Cops are the embodiment of the “monopoly on violence” that grant govs legitimacy
3. Cops aren’t workers
4. Cops are terrorists for capital in the class war
5. When you have the numbers, de-arrest your comrades
#FuckThePolice
That dad beat his wife & kid so often it led to divorce. My bud, his son, is still so scared of him that he only addresses him as "sir".
Yeah, great example of a good cop, lol.
Of course when she came out to him he called her a slur.
Keep in mind however, they MIGHT shoot.
If they do, make sure it's on camera and it's obvious no one else is armed.
They serve the establishment, protect the status quo, and keep the peace for capitalism.
#ACAB
One of my cop uncles offered me weed and beer when I was in my mid teens. Lol. What a great guy.
I’m certain all of my cop uncles are/were racist, abusive, law-breaking, narcissistic shitstains on society.
#ACAB
Private detectives CAN be good too... but that's literally because they work for the public, solving cases often thrown in the bin by the pigs.
"welcome to Russia"
Class traitors.
They are class traitors
Cops are the force for our judicial system. They aren't a class, they are part of the system. If laws are just then they are generally good, if laws are unjust they are generally bad.
Mainly from the israeli army Teaching them to treat us as insurgent
Attacking protesters climate n anti war protesters non violent protesters
Nobody is breaking any law here. Cops routinely beat the s*** out of people who do not break the law. Shoot them in the back, kill unarmed people
They barely solve crime. Do nothing about threats incredible threats. Until it's a rich person victimized then the world stops
They are also the tools of oppression wielded by the state. We [marxists] are not against policing, Marx and lenin have written about how the working class should organise and police itself.
i'm not here to write a dissertation go fight a liberal.
their are contradictory parts of our society but at base level no cop is a part of the working class.
#ACAB
https://youtu.be/TaKrm5txGCQ?si=V2NLSfJOj7AN_oL2&t=120
I FIND THAT I CAN ORDER EVERYTHING I USED TO ORDER FROM AMAZON FROM OTHER ON-LINE RESOURCES PLUS TARGET, WALMART and LOCAL GROCERY STORES & PHARMACIES. SO, I DON'T THINK I'LL MISS AMAZON.
Cal-Maine PROFITS UP 718%
Kraft-Heinz UP 448%
General Mills UP 97%
Tyson Foods more than DOUBLED PROFITS
https://time.com/6269366/food-company-profits-make-groceries-expensive/
Start the #resistance in your city, call friends and family. Organize a march or a protest.
Remember to remain NON-VIOLENT.
Use your voice and your pen.
Teach the girls how to fight dirty. (YBMC)
Teach boys to respect/protect women.
There is no time to lose! Start NOW.
WOW ILL NEVER VISIT THERE AGAIN
I wouldn’t feel safe with these terrorists running around in officers clothing.
The second part is silly ideological hyperbolic rhetoric. Everything unfair in society doesn’t have to get the emergency tag. You’re just going to make the term emergency meaningless.
That’s how socials operate though.
https://labornotes.org/2024/12/cops...
Fuck regressives.
Being arrested is part of the deal of being a peaceful protester.
Actions. Consequences.
For those who don’t want to be arrested they stay on the sidewalk. Those taking a stronger position should expect it. It’s kinda the point.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-charged-bribery-wire-fraud-scheme-spanning-nearly-rcna172804
Scabs get picked.
Rats end up in traps.
https://youtu.be/NriOZ6ofj_Q?si=gPe1u9hZdf_6mZg1