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Kentucky Unions Stand Up to Halt Deportation of Two Hundred Workers (labornotes.org)

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Two hundred union workers, out of 5,700 who assemble dishwashers, refrigerators, washers, and dryers for GE Appliances-Haier at Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, received notice this month that the Trump administration is revoking their work authorizations.

The immigrant workers from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela have received a mixed reaction to their imminent deportation—hostility from some co-workers and an outpouring of support from their union and the local labor movement. They’re part of the Communications Workers’ industrial division, IUE-CWA Local 83761.

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[–] millie@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago (22 children)

Thank you for this. There has been far too much of people utterly ignoring the hard work that people have done against authoritarianism in the US and the actual impact it's had. Lemmy seems to be inundated with people insisting that nothing anyone can do could possibly help and the no one has ever done anything meaningful to resist, and that's just bullshit. It's some terminally online doomerism and it's the last thing we need.

Frankly, it's complicity. It needs to be called out and opposed, and you're doing good work by not mincing words here.

People who pull this shit day in and day out are as much a part of the problem as the MAGA idiots, both in their constant attempts to undermine any and all resistance and very likely in getting us into this situation in the first place.

We need to stop tiptoeing around them and throw their bullshit back in their faces. It's fucking shameful, and they should be embarrassed to be such spineless bootlickers.

[–] SinAdjetivos@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Your turn! Point out where what I said is bullshit.

I'm not

"insisting that nothing anyone can do could possibly help and the no one has ever done anything meaningful to resist"

I'm saying that we have the benefit of hindsight now and can look back and see the results of actions taken and determine what tactics were and weren't effective. If you don't do that and instead only focus on how much "hard work" was put in instead of the results of the labor you're going to be constantly wearing yourself out and accomplishing nothing.

I'm begging you to focus less on the "how many people showed up" and focus more on the "what did it accomplish" and update your tactics accordingly.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

Am I wrong, or was your original comment saying that people were so intimidated by police brutality that they weren't willing to show up?

Yes, I am saying that police militarization has resulted in a populace that is unable/unwilling to revolt in even the slightest of ways

[–] SinAdjetivos@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago

I'm saying that is an important factor, yes.

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