Lile Ulie Islands wrote:Kannap wrote:"essential workers" was a bullshit term when it popped up at the beginning of the pandemic in an attempt to fit as many employees under the umbrella of it as possible without considering their health or safety or without increasing their pay and benefits during skyrocketing corporate profits and hazardous working conditions.
"essential workers" is still a bullshit term now that looks like it's still being used to endorse and spout anti-worker bullshit.
Essential workers isn't a bullshit term. Essential workers are devoted people who served our country during its rough times of a pandemic plague. We rarely appreciate those workers; many of them getting paid little for the large, and important jobs they do.
And because of not being appreciated they are striking.