Wave of worker strikes resurrects our call to solidarity
People do not strike because they fear that they are replaceable. A shortage of willing workers has mitigated that fear. A job that cannot attract workers will not attract scabs. It is easy to find safety in numbers when you know that no one else wants your job.
In the South, authoritarian culture predominates. There is support for the kind of capitalism that recognizes the right of management to expect obedience. In such a culture, a strike is almost unthinkable. I suspect that this is true, even now. A culture of solidarity can bring workers out of that culture at work, but it is a hard ask. A society that mocks wokeness finds solidarity amongst itself hard.
If the Church now recognizes the right to strike, it is news to me. It was not in Rerum Novarum. The Church will only stray so far against Authoritarianism.
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