1. El Rol Crucial y el Abandono de los Trabajadores Esenciales.
Durante la pandemia, la sociedad reconoció la indispensable labor de los trabajadores esenciales, a menudo mal pagados y marginados. Sin embargo, este reconocimiento fue efímero, y muchos fueron rápidamente olvidados o incluso castigados una vez que las restricciones se levantaron.
- Ngl, this feels reminiscent during the height of the pandemic when people were saying we need to support the essential workers! while simultaneously neglecting those workers extra pay, benefits, safety, etc.
- Yeah, i think the pandemic was a real eye opener for a lot of people. The whole essential workers thing really annoyed me minimum wage folks forced to expose themselves to infection, hailed as heroes by govt, then promptly abandoned when restrictions lifted. They were seen as disposable.
- Blows my mind that a lot of the people we called essential workers during covid were the same people we shit on and underpay for doing unskilled labor. We made them risk their own health to keep society from falling apart during a global pandemic. And then still shit on and underpay them now.
- I will always remember that a large percentage of our essential workers during the pandemic were among our lowest paid.
- Its funny how during the pandemic they were required to work as essential workers, risking often losing their lives. Now we just snatch them off the street disappear them for political theater.
2. El Breve Ascenso del Poder Obrero y la Flexibilidad Laboral.
La escasez de mano de obra y las políticas de apoyo gubernamental durante la pandemia otorgaron a los trabajadores una inusual capacidad de negociación, permitiéndoles exigir mejores salarios, beneficios y la opción de teletrabajo.
- I feel like the pandemic was a turning point for these people going mask off. Proof that work from home could work and for a brief time power was back with the worker in terms of demanding higher wages. These people didnt like that and its been downhill since.
- The pandemic couldve been an unprecedented time of worker bargaining power. But the reality is we got outplayed. They gave the money to employers. All of the leverage was given to employers to hold paychecks over people. And they got to decide when to pressure people back to work.
- Yeah, they really didnt like when we had a mini labor movement during the pandemic. They want us desperate for any work we can find.
- The pandemic shifted power relations for some time, and maybe not only workers were able to push better policies, but more in general the idea that safety and collective good should prevail over profits socialism! was getting a wider acceptance.
- The only time in my entire life that workers gained anything in society was during pandemic. Wages went up because people refused to work for so little. Thats it. A tiny blip in history. Every other time theyre just exploited.
3. La Reacción Corporativa y la Represión de los Derechos Laborales.
Ante la creciente autonomía de los trabajadores, las corporaciones y la élite empresarial orquestaron una ofensiva para revertir las ganancias laborales, buscando restaurar una fuerza laboral sumisa y desesperada mediante despidos, recortes de beneficios y la eliminación del teletrabajo.
- Whats happening right now is corporations are punishing the working class for expressing some rights during the pandemic. They want a subservient, desperate workforce.
- This just seams like its all based on resentment toward workers who gained more power during the aftermath of the pandemic. They really want a pool of desperate people willing to work for nothing.
- The revenge of the bosses continues. The pandemic shifted the power dynamics in the workplace. 100 wfh, increased mobility of labour as people had time to reconsider their priorities, quit their jobs, wages went up, pandemic cheques, increased personal savings, etc.
- Ceos were openly pissed about the little bit of leverage workers had during the pandemic. Theyve been working collectively, i think to claw back everything from that time and even some of what they provided in the before time. Their tone is much more contemptuous of late.
- The idea is to stop the gains that workers had since the pandemic. People were acting their wage, working 40 hours a week and taking vacations without their work phones. The 1 cannot extract value from people that know their rights.
4. La Exposición de las Fallas del Capitalismo y la Desigualdad.
La pandemia puso de manifiesto las profundas desigualdades inherentes al sistema capitalista, revelando cómo la vida de los trabajadores se sacrificaba por el beneficio económico y cómo los más vulnerables eran los más afectados.
- As far as i can tell, the pandemic had made corporations across the world turn malicious toward the working classit showed the failure of capitalism.
- The pandemic proved that they actually would like to see as many poor people die off as possible, and if they arent dead, they should be toiling in a factory with no union representation, and as few rights as possible.
- The pandemic showed that many companies had the means all along, for adjustments to allow people who wanted to work, the means to work comfortably and safely. It shows they only cared about money.
- And looming all over this is the fact that the pandemic threw into sharp relief that if you are working a service job, literally your boss and the company he works for does not care if you live or die. Covid overwhelmingly killed service workers.
- The pandemic proved to everybody whos essential in our economy, and point flew right over americans heads.
5. El Llamado a la Acción Colectiva y la Huelga General.
La experiencia de la pandemia reforzó la conciencia de clase entre los trabajadores, quienes reconocieron su poder colectivo para paralizar la economía y exigir un cambio sistémico, con la huelga general como una herramienta potencial.
- A general strike? i like the last one best pandemic proved that wo working people, everything falls apart fast.
- During the pandemic the working people saw that they are the ones who keep the country running. We need to shut it down on our terms.
- Non-cooperation is a tool well have to use. The same workers who were deemed essential during the pandemic are the same ones who can bring the country to a stop.
- Workers of the world, unite. We began to rediscover our power during the pandemic. The money people dont like that one but. They mean to crush us, until were glad to have that ag job.
- General strike! during the early days of the pandemic we learned who really keeps the country running but the republicans managed to quash the neo-labor movement.
6. El Impacto Desproporcionado en los Trabajadores Inmigrantes.
Los trabajadores inmigrantes, a menudo en roles esenciales y de bajo salario, enfrentaron riesgos significativos durante la pandemia y, posteriormente, se convirtieron en blanco de políticas de deportación, a pesar de su contribución vital a la economía.
- Many of them were essential workers during the pandemic. They worked in grocery stores bodega, food production, agriculture, hardware stores, construction etc. They put their lives on the line so others didnt have to.
- It amazes me that some of the people who were hailed as essential workers during the pandemic are now hunted by ice at the very workplaces they kept open. We are an ungrateful country.
- And, ironically, it will trash our economy. There is a huge overlap between essential workers who were required to go to work as usual during the covid pandemic, often without any significant ppe, and who bravely did so, and the people the ice gestapo are hunting down today.
- Remember essential workers? they were the only people who kept working during the covid pandemic and most of them were immigrants. And those are the people trump is kicking out.
- During the covid-19 pandemic, cunha recalled, . The country heaped praise on farmworkers. Everybody said they were the most essential front-line workers. Every worker put their life on the line to feed the world, and today we cant give them a little piece of paper to be here legally?