COMMUNIQUE
BOSSES CALL FOR A GENERAL LOCKOUT
On 12, Jul 2012 | No Comments | In COMMUNIQUE | By secontent
via Business Wire (press release)
CALL FOR A WORLDWIDE GENERAL LOCKOUT
As a rising tide of austerity sweeps the globe, we, as bosses, refuse to be left behind. Never again will we make the mistake of negotiating contracts that raise wages, protect pensions, or provide adequate health insurance for workers and their families. We will no longer be bullied into reducing our massive profits for the sake of workers’ livelihoods. Direct action must be taken to protect our freedoms. We call upon our colleagues to lock out all workers in all industries until we get what we want.
While we’ve been making big gains in our campaign to de-unionize all workplaces, it’s no longer enough to kill the union; we must also kill the solidarity. Sympathy strikes will be met with sympathy lockouts. Work slowdowns will be punished with benefit slowdowns. Are you plagued by employees who engage in workplace sabotage? Wait until they feel the effects of what we call “homeplace sabotage.” We’ll keep their wages stagnant and cut their benefits, forcing them to take up second and third jobs just to make ends meet. We’ll make sure that they’re so worried about paying their rent, their bills, their mortgages, that their free time will be anything but. We will sabotage workers’ very ability to live.
We have the momentum. At long last, we’ve finally got the public’s attention. We’ve leaped into the popular imagination and seized the headlines in an unprecedented way. We must now make our voices heard with a global show of force that won’t be soon forgotten. Now is the time for bold action. Now is the time for a worldwide general lockout.
Ride the wave of austerity!
—BUMMer (Bosses United by Mergers & Merchandising)
Efforts of the General Strike Public Redcoration Committee
