Yeah, there seems to be a background of class-collaborationism here. The employees do what they have to to get on with their lives, which is only fair, but the relationship with management seems suspiciously incestuous for a newly-unionized workplace.
Obviously it’s extremely bad to tell workers to kill themselves, but following that with a defence of management makes me think that some of the “kill yourself” comments may have had some missing context, like… someone they were explicitly directed at. Again, people who hurl abuse at workers online should find a better hobby.
The thing is, I’m okay with this comms person saying that just generically posting “kys” is bad and maybe even actually abusive to employees as they say, but they aren’t giving detractors a way of attacking management, just saying that the existing ways are all wrong, which is equivalent to them posing themselves as a human shield and saying “You can’t attack management, you’ll just be hitting me, and I’m just a worker. You wouldn’t attack a worker would you? Not a good look, sweaty.”
At that point, in the absence of being able to have a conversation with them to get a better answer out of them, I think the correct answer is to say fuck it and treat them as management, because they are treating themselves as management’s protective shell anyway.
which is equivalent to them posing themselves as a human shield and saying “You can’t attack management, you’ll just be hitting me, and I’m just a worker. You wouldn’t attack a worker would you? Not a good look, sweaty.”
Exactly. How can a union possibly be taken seriously when this is their first public action?
Yeah, there seems to be a background of class-collaborationism here. The employees do what they have to to get on with their lives, which is only fair, but the relationship with management seems suspiciously incestuous for a newly-unionized workplace.
Obviously it’s extremely bad to tell workers to kill themselves, but following that with a defence of management makes me think that some of the “kill yourself” comments may have had some missing context, like… someone they were explicitly directed at. Again, people who hurl abuse at workers online should find a better hobby.
The thing is, I’m okay with this comms person saying that just generically posting “kys” is bad and maybe even actually abusive to employees as they say, but they aren’t giving detractors a way of attacking management, just saying that the existing ways are all wrong, which is equivalent to them posing themselves as a human shield and saying “You can’t attack management, you’ll just be hitting me, and I’m just a worker. You wouldn’t attack a worker would you? Not a good look, sweaty.”
At that point, in the absence of being able to have a conversation with them to get a better answer out of them, I think the correct answer is to say fuck it and treat them as management, because they are treating themselves as management’s protective shell anyway.
Exactly. How can a union possibly be taken seriously when this is their first public action?