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CountScrofula 路 41-45, M
It's 2002 or so. I'm a member of the IWW before it started to really find its niche and become the thing it is today. At the time we did solidarity work. So if someone else strikes, we help 'em out.
A local TV has a strike. It started out as a "We'll pay you less than everyone but we believe in this so hang on and you will be rewarded". The station is successful, and they decide to expand instead of paying the staff. The staff go on strike, and the TV personalities do not strike which makes everything awful. It was a reasonable strike too - forced relocations and fast food wages for the producers of the biggest morning TV show in a large city for example.
If the TV personalities joined the strike, it'd be over in seconds because you no longer have that reliable face reading the news (which mattered back then). I can't stress how selfishly these people fucked their colleagues.
In a strike, that means pressure tactics and a part of that is letting scabs know the social consequence of hurting their colleagues os badly. One of the scabs was the weathergirl, and she was a jazz singer.
So the union asks us to heckle her at one of her gigs. We do so gladly. It's in a martini bar. we're all 20 and have never been someone that fancy. There's six of us. We split into three groups of two, buy some martinis (FIRST MARTINI EXCITING) and settle in for the show.
This is a small venue, and we're like two feet from her. I'm in the last group. The first group goes and starts shouting about the strike. It's at this point I notice strikebreakers, enormous beefy ex-cons. So the first two shout and get escorted out roughly, but without violence. A half hour goes, and the second group goes.
The idea is that she doesn't know how many there are or when it will end. Aka "RESOLVE THE STRIKE OR THE ANNOYANCE WILL CONTINUE."
Finally, we go. I recall shouting "The forecast calls for suck!"
The strikebreakers -lose it-. I get slammed against aw all, and my friend Nick gets his tie wrapped around his neck and his face hammered into the table repeatedly. We manage to get out, and I get in a tug-of-war with another friend of mine and one of these howling goons. I get him away, and the security guard we bribed with a bag of weed leads us out to safety.
A local TV has a strike. It started out as a "We'll pay you less than everyone but we believe in this so hang on and you will be rewarded". The station is successful, and they decide to expand instead of paying the staff. The staff go on strike, and the TV personalities do not strike which makes everything awful. It was a reasonable strike too - forced relocations and fast food wages for the producers of the biggest morning TV show in a large city for example.
If the TV personalities joined the strike, it'd be over in seconds because you no longer have that reliable face reading the news (which mattered back then). I can't stress how selfishly these people fucked their colleagues.
In a strike, that means pressure tactics and a part of that is letting scabs know the social consequence of hurting their colleagues os badly. One of the scabs was the weathergirl, and she was a jazz singer.
So the union asks us to heckle her at one of her gigs. We do so gladly. It's in a martini bar. we're all 20 and have never been someone that fancy. There's six of us. We split into three groups of two, buy some martinis (FIRST MARTINI EXCITING) and settle in for the show.
This is a small venue, and we're like two feet from her. I'm in the last group. The first group goes and starts shouting about the strike. It's at this point I notice strikebreakers, enormous beefy ex-cons. So the first two shout and get escorted out roughly, but without violence. A half hour goes, and the second group goes.
The idea is that she doesn't know how many there are or when it will end. Aka "RESOLVE THE STRIKE OR THE ANNOYANCE WILL CONTINUE."
Finally, we go. I recall shouting "The forecast calls for suck!"
The strikebreakers -lose it-. I get slammed against aw all, and my friend Nick gets his tie wrapped around his neck and his face hammered into the table repeatedly. We manage to get out, and I get in a tug-of-war with another friend of mine and one of these howling goons. I get him away, and the security guard we bribed with a bag of weed leads us out to safety.
wackidywack 路 22-25
@CountScrofula wild
CountScrofula 路 41-45, M
@wackidywack Gotta stand up for what you believe in, wacky. In my case that means making local celebrities cry.
Effloresce 路 26-30, F
@CountScrofula Holy shit dude that's crazy. Your level of determination is as high as I bet that security guard got from all that weed 馃槑
CountScrofula 路 41-45, M
@Effloresce Hahahaha