Two hundred union workers, out of 5,700 who assemble dishwashers, refrigerators, washers, and dryers for GE Appliances-Haier at Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, received notice this month that the Trump administration is revoking their work authorizations. The immigrant workers from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela have received a mixed reaction to their imminent deportation—hostility from some co-workers and an outpouring of support from their union and the local labor movement. They’re part of the Communications Workers’ industrial division, IUE-CWA Local 83761.

Two hundred union workers, out of 5,700 who assemble dishwashers, refrigerators, washers, and dryers for GE Appliances-Haier at Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, received notice this month that the Trump administration is revoking their work authorizations.

The immigrant workers from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela have received a mixed reaction to their imminent deportation—hostility from some co-workers and an outpouring of support from their union and the local labor movement. They’re part of the Communications Workers’ industrial division, IUE-CWA Local 83761.

  • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
    3·
    3 days ago

    And they aren’t, at least not in any way that matters.

    The Hands Off protests are only permitted because they have no impact. They even schedule them on a Saturday so that nobody who works at the places being protested at will be inconvenienced, and they very deliberately leave the genocide in Palestine out of it because they’re organized by Indivisible, which is aligned with the Democrat party.

    • PhilipTheBucketA
      2·
      3 days ago

      THEY BURNED DOWN THE FUCKING POLICE STATION

      Also many police cars. This is the weirdest conversation. Like I say, I really think you guys are just saying random stuff to try to wind me up.

      • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
        3·
        3 days ago

        And I cheer them for it, but a momentary expression of righteous anger against the injustice of our ruling order does not constitute a successful movement for systemic change.

        The people who own this country allow us to protest peacefully because they can easily channel all that energy into a political structure designed to diffuse it and any non-peaceful protests stand out so much they can easily be brought down by the intelligence services before they get any momentum. That political structure has been falling apart since Nixon and the violence they dish out to suppress protest has escalated to the point of sending college kids to torture camps without due process on nothing but an accusation of thought crime.

        Suffice it to say, I’m too cynical to have much faith in the most domesticated culture on the planet. Americans will not turn out to cause problems in unignorable numbers until the government gives in, we’ll follow the course of that old poem until they come for us and there is noone left to speak up.

      • SinAdjetivos@beehaw.org
        2·
        3 days ago

        What is the argument you are trying to make with repeating that?

        Is your argument that was a massive blow to the material holdings of US law enforcement? There are 17,985 police agencies in the US, we’ll pretend they only have one station per agency (that’s a gross underestimate, the Minneapolis 3rd precinct should make that clear…) then 0.000056% of police precincts were burnt down during the protests. I would argue a number that small is negligible.

        Is your argument that a burnt down precinct is a form of justice that was achieved? There were ~1200 police killings in 2020. If that is your argument, then only 0.083% of people murdered that year got justice, much less any from previous/subsequent years.

        • PhilipTheBucketA
          1·
          3 days ago

          It should be pretty obvious. You said the American people are too scared to do resistance. I’m saying that the police killed a black man and they mobbed the police station and burned it down. (And that’s actually a step down from what people often used to do in the pre-2014 time, where they would sometimes burn down a big chunk of the city and shut everything down for a few days, because they felt that there was no other way to be heard.)

          The reason why you saying that, could lead to me bringing up that, as a way of counterargument, should be pretty obvious. It’s pretty weird that you seem to be confused by the sequence and jump off into talking about something else or not understanding why thing A might be responded to with thing B.