politics, strikes
🇫🇷 vs 🇮🇹
What is done better in #France than in #Italy ?
Kissing? I don't know.
Football? recently, yes.
Food? No.
Wine? We can discuss.
Strikes? Hell yes.
I am far left 🟥 (on the italian spectrum) but the way strikes are done in italy has become increasingly detrimental to the whole concept of striking.
A single day #strike every single last-day before the end of the week (usually, friday, this time thursday).
My daughter (5) thinks "strike" is one day of the week.
Every, or most, of the reasons for strikes are fundamental and worth fighting for (today, is huge cuts of funding in recruitment and schools and university, last time was safety at work, etc).
Sadly, keeping home children every friday is not contributing to the fight.
That's why I prefer "the French way" here, at least in the way I perceive it: you strike for weeks on time, until your mission is done (or at least, you try - last time did not go well I guess).
@franco_vazza
The small, one day (or even less) strikes are very common in France too, and probably like in Italy they don't do terribly much.
For example: during the Olympics inauguration there was a police strike, a security guard strike, a luggage handler strike and a dancer strike, but you'd never know if you didn't check https://www.cestlagreve.fr/
or the union webpages (maybe not even then, the french are so and so on using the web).
Fundamentally the problem is that unions lack popular power, so the small strikes are the safest option in an environment where a big failed strike could eliminate worker power nationwide... not sure I agree that current strategies for growing unions are working
@tobychev Ok maybe I have a biased perception because French strikes end up in the news here when they are prolonged and massive. But this is the way I guess: such a strong a collective strike shared by many unions gives a sense of collectivity and "greater good" than many people (of course not all - far right still will exist) can tolerate and support, despite the practical problems it cause.