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I'm not even slightly surprised to see your lack of support for the workers and admitting to breaking the boycott and spending your money there.
I find the lack of solidarity in Brixton heartbreaking. And there definitely was a time where more people would have got involved, but the changing demographic appears to have put paid to that.
You know what paraphrasing is. Why not respond to the post rather than pick on a detail and then ask for me to hunt out your quotes. You shut down arguments/opinions with that every time. But don't respond to the main thrust of the post.
That’s not my point. I never said you did. There are others on here I am sure who support Ritzy but also use Amazon.
If you like to discuss the difference between actively ‘caring’ and not ‘not caring’ then maybe we’ll come back to that.
are you going to show your support for the workers and condemn their taxation practices by boycotting amazon?
I still want to check out if the staff also want the public not to use the sign board there as well as avoiding the films - can anyone ask any BECTU members? I hope to see an ex - ritzy worker on wed so I intend to ask then.
Are Amazon workers actively in dispute and calling for a boycott? That’s the difference, the Rutzy staff are in an official dispute, and have requested a boycott. That’s by they should be bocotted, and if Amazon workers organise and put out the same call we should do the same. I personally feel they lacked experienced union support to better publicise the boycott, but thinking of the big historic trade union backed disputes of the past - grunwick, garners even the miners strike, which were defeated by the resilience of the bosses and the eventual lack of wider movement support for the long haul battle, I’m not sure even if there had been more persistent activity it would have made much difference. Solidarity is difficult to generate these days. to be fair to the people breaking the boycott, I’m sure many were doing so unwittingly as they’re not crossing a picket line or being handed leaflets as they approach the cinema. That is how the local supporters of the staff could have helped to reduce income to the company. Long duration disputes need a pool of committed activists that maintain consistent pressure. Chatting on line in forums and sharing photos of the occasional pickets isn’t what wins disputes. There’s nothing to stop supporters organising flash pickets , or managing a rota of supporters to ensure that no one enters that cinema without knowing they’re breaking a boycott. They had some success with the dispute but I think it’s simply run out of steam.
Was that a request from the BECTU staff? or just locals?
Are Amazon workers actively calling for a boycott? If not, your post is ignorant, ridiculous gibberish.
So your argument is: don't bother supporting a boycott by local workers because you might be using services by workers elsewhere who have it worse (even though they've not asked people to boycott their services). So don't support any industrial action by anyone, and you just carry on doing as you please.
Strike action has been ongoing since April 2014 and has had plenty of publicity from the start. This is just a few headline from 2014:
I used to like going to the cafe there. It was one of my favourite places to work and I knew loads of the staff and customers so it was always friendly. I miss it.
