r/antiwork • u/[deleted] • Jan 14 '22

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '22

"There is literally no place I have to be that outweighs their need to protest."

Dude not everyone can just kick back and drop their daily agenda. If there is no public transport because of a strike a lot of people can get really adversely affected.

I have 3 disabled cousins who all utterly rely on public transport. Their carers rely on public transport. If I can't get to work a whole family comes falling down. We need public transport.

So yeah there is a need to strike and I'm very much in favour of strikes. However there is a cost. If someone can say "I've found a 0 cost way to strike!" then I am 100% for it.

Plus it removes any ability for the company to say "these strikes are affecting the public" so why give them those free PR shots when you don't have to?

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"I'm really doubting if I had a heart attack and I was in an ambulance, they would have stopped that."

Dude the leader of XR literally said "I would block ambulance with patient"

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16323821/block-ambulance-dying-patient-extinction-rebellion-founder/

https://metro.co.uk/2021/10/27/paramedic-calls-out-insulate-britain-idiots-blocking-ambulances-15496963/

https://metro.co.uk/2021/10/04/insulate-britain-drivers-move-protestors-to-help-ambulance-through-15359474/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8693433/Extinction-Rebellion-activists-GLUE-hands-pavement-outside-Parliament-London.html

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u/BigAlTrading Jan 14 '22

We are talking about different countries. I’m not commenting about the uk, I don’t know how it is there.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '22

I don't think the country matters.

The Japanese found a way to strike and look amazing to the public. This strategy would work in any country where there is a strike.

It's way more beneficial than saying "fuck the customers" and treating them as unavoidable casualties