I am a provider at an emergency medical service company so I am unable to freely take off work but not just for the normal threats to my job reason but also because me taking off work without getting someone to cover for me (defeating the purpose of going on strike) could literally cause someone to die if not multiple people given the danger level of the city I am based in
I am purposely keeping this vague because I dont want to give away too much info
I am asking because there is what should hopefully be a decent sized strike going on soon in my home area and I want to participate but I can’t really because of the reasons I was talking about before
Can I get some advice on this especially if you are in the healthcare industry
we’ve had a few emergency services strikes here and the way they have generally worked is that the striking workers only respond to critical emergencies like “someone is most likely going to die if we don’t” level. despite not being willing/able to completely down tools they have generally been pretty successful
Theres more than one way to strike. Bus drivers commonly give free rides during transportation strikes for instance. Not your fault if everyone refuses to give names, just a whole load of John & Jane Does today.
MRNs, whats that? Sounds like a hospital thing, im just a lil ol Empty. You’ll have to call and ask records, all i got for the PCR was a birthday of 01/01/01 and a middle finger, sorry.
This is in fact part of workplace sabotage tactics for union organizing. The two most common are slow-down and sit-down strikes, then misallocating equipment or supplies, or just making service free. Look up Sabotage in the American Workplace, it’s an anarchist book but this gives you ideas how work stoppage can happen without the needs for vandalism or physical blockade, because as long as the business doesn’t gain profit, you win.
I don’t know the right answer to this question. It is certainly a difficult one. The only thing that I can say is that you can also help by offering the striking workers free medical assistance.
Hmm. Perhaps you could reach out to the strikers and see if there’s a way you could do workshops or the like, to help train people in things you know about emergency services. In this way, you could contribute to the cause, without putting anyone at risk. It’d also be a very innocent thing to be doing, as potential political repression is concerned (it’d be hard to vilify wanting to teach people better in how to handle emergencies).
(I wrote this before reading cfgaussian’s post, but it looks like they had a very similar thought.)
