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by chrisg23 329 days ago
We should talk about the details of this particular strike then.

I don't know anything so I'm just copying from wikipedia, they could have a bad analysis:

The 1975–1976 Washington Post pressmen's strike was a strike action by The Washington Post's pressmen. The strike began on October 1, 1975. The Washington Post hired replacement workers to replace the union in December 1975. The last unions supporting the pressmen's strike returned to work in February 1976.

And then from the "Aftermath and Impact" section:

The outcome of the strike was viewed as a victory for the Post and a defeat for the labor unions involved.[6][9] The Post was estimated to save $2 million in 1976 as a result of hiring non-union pressmen.[4]

On October 2, 1976, to commemorate the 1-year anniversary of the start of the strike, a crowd of over 1000 supporting the pressmen met at McPherson Square. They proceeded to the Post's headquarters, where they burned Graham in effigy.

This doesn't seem like the worker's thought it was positive for them.

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The replacement workers probably thought it was positive.
Until they started wondering why their pay and benefits was worse than they people they replaced, and when the management would decide that they could be replaced by even cheaper workers.
That you had to make up a fictional story to make your point says a lot.
I'm concerned that you're not trolling. If you do mean this in earnest - do you truly believe that this was positive for all future workers? Do you not see how this is bad for the organization as a whole from a systems perspective?

Like I said, I hope you're trolling, but I also know there's plenty of people who have drank so deeply from the rabidly pro business kool-aid so hard they're drowning in it.

Business owners doing everything they can to pay workers as little as possible is the thing you call out as a fantasy? Buddy.
Why do you always take the side of techno-oligarchs? Do you not understand the very basic reasons why strikebreakers are bad? Are you really this deeply brainwashed or just trolling?