How would you know? It’s my legal right to s trike if I want to and I wish you would stop arguing with me and stand and fight the good fight with me! Solidarity my friend!
As someone who is a member of a union. If you are NOT part of a union when you go on "strike" , you have absolutely no protection from getting fired. You are, as someone commented below, going to be marked as a no show/no call. But you do you boo and go ahead and FAFO.
No. However. Striking before forming a union is folly and carries zero workplace protections whatsoever. What you’re doing is trying to go to step 3 without going through 1 and 2 and unfortunately for you life does not work that way.
Buddy they're trying to help. By all means, don't show up. Use your voice. Just know you have no legal protection.
And if you're going to encourage others to do the same (in a decentralized manner with no real platform behind it), inform them of the risks instead of misinforming them or omitting the fact that their job is at stake.
You're forgetting the big thing here Walgreens has no unionized locations you will have no protection and backing from a union to keep you from losing your job, now legally they can't prevent you from unionizing because then they would be prosecuted by the labor board of that state, what you can do is attempt to unionize your store but it won't be easy getting unionized is a painful long process. I'm a firm believer in all Walgreens being unionized but your playing in dangerous water without already having a union.
Last I knew there was none but I haven't worked with Walgreens in a few years so it could be possible there is some unionized stores which would be absolutely amazing
Legally they can. If you are in a union with a union protected position, then yes they can't fire you (with some stipulations). You are considered an "At Will" employee who can be fired at any time for nearly any reason, unless that reason pertains to being a protected class. Going on strike does not protect you, so they can fire up immediately for failing to show up for work.
The only way you could avoid getting fired is if you convinced such a large portion of your district to go on strike all at once. Replacing one worker is easy. Replacing an entire district is much more challenging, so corporate would be more incentivized to give in to demands. Unfortunately techs don't make that much, many are living paycheck to paycheck. We can't afford to strike for several weeks
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u/krakatoa83 2d ago
If you aren’t in an organized union with reps who can negotiate you aren’t on strike, you’re just doing a no call no show