Trenkle's piece might be of interest, as it touches on the contradiction between tackling ecological issues and protecting workers' jobs (though Trenkle is by no means the first to discuss such contradictions; my emphasis),
Trenkle wrote: Given that every member of contemporary society is fundamentally dependent upon the production of abstract wealth to survive, we all find ourselves in a kind of hostage situation. We have to hope that the end-in-itself motion of endless capital accumulation keeps going because that is the only way we can sell our labor or our commodities, even when we know that doing so will keep pushing the ecological catastrophe that is already happening forward.
I suppose one could also argue that in the here-and-now we could still sympathize with such strikes, but in the long-term such socially useless/harmful productive activity (e.g. coal mining, the auto industry, and so on) must be stopped.
Trenkle's piece might be of…
Trenkle's piece might be of interest, as it touches on the contradiction between tackling ecological issues and protecting workers' jobs (though Trenkle is by no means the first to discuss such contradictions; my emphasis),
I suppose one could also argue that in the here-and-now we could still sympathize with such strikes, but in the long-term such socially useless/harmful productive activity (e.g. coal mining, the auto industry, and so on) must be stopped.
Yes, that seems the only…
Yes, that seems the only sane position.
Potential rail strike in the…
Potential rail strike in the US, https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-hosting-talks-with-union-railroads-avert-shutdown-2022-09-14/