Hi 😀
I am a decade long hr middle management lady and for many reasons I love this group.
I see posts of two kinds here:
- How to work the system with HR
- How to politically as organized activists systemically fight back
In terms of effectiveness I think it’s worth acknowledging and strategizing these two prongs. We are capable of doing so. I believe this.
I suggest:
Some system of dedicated Qs where HR middle management ppl like me and other labor professionals can respond with strategy to help the individual worker and I would be absolutely GLEEFUL to help beleaguered workers with advice from my perspective having now worked in HR for a long time (and most of my contributions here come from that perspective) and knowing how insurance works and how labor laws work. Dedicated professionals working to workers is desperately needed and I am here for that (we used to call those unions but that’s a decimated strategy so we need new language and reworked strategies)
AND Another system dedicated to organized big group activitism so that we can lay the bones for a true general strike which is historically super effective but we’ve been so tamed in America we don’t know how to do it anymore and we just fight over other (often extremely legitimate) things instead
I strategically want my life’s work to be about bringing down this trash glorified feudal system.
Please for real let’s do it.
I’m down. Let’s be clever and supportive of each other and remake this shit because it’s absolutely only getting worse and I say that as someone who works for nice billionaires and overhears their convos and they are actively preemptively strategizing how to repress workers more so it doesn’t hurt their 5 exotic vacations a year while the world is literally on fire and we HAVE TO fight back.