Originally Posted by
catocony
You know this to be true....how? Have you questioned everyone picketing? Or are you just assuming that poor unskilled labor would never defend their rights and anyone protesting it must be outside agitators or disinterested randos being paid to protest? That's the usual anti-union belief, which is completely baseless.
A couple of other notes ... the Berkeley student papers have been pushing Berkeley students to participate which might account for the concerns being posted by some regarding the strike in Oakland.
And as to outsiders, the Democratic Socialist Labor Commission has been providing support for the picket lines and food:
https://www.dsausa.org/statements/ds...e-at-marriott/
Also, the SF City Council wanted Arne to come take their questions (and his participation and answers would then have been used by the union to argue it was an unfair labor practice), but he refused stating under the union’s current proposal, “the hotel’s wage and benefit costs for a full-time housekeeper would reach $100,000 in the third year of the contract.”
Marriott CEO speaks out about strike, rejects invitation to meet with city supervisors - by l_waxmann - October 31, 2018 - The San Francisco Examiner