[39896880]

> Striking during election week is kind of a crappy move to pull.

Can we get a definitive list of weeks where workers’ rights are officially less important than $world_event? That way we can schedule our requests appropriately. We don’t want to inconvenience anyone.

[dang]

Please make your substantive points without snark. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

[madars]

That's not snark, that's just taking their argument to its logical conclusion. Big difference.

[legitster]

I know you are trying to be flip, but there topics that are more important than worker's rights. I'm not going to argue that the NYTimes crossword is up there, but I think a good case can be made that independent journalism is up there, especially during open elections.

There is a long list of organizations and governments that made worker's rights more important than inclusive democratic institutions, and it didn't work out for anyone, especially the workers.

Maybe any of the 207 weeks between presidential elections? Or any of the thousands of weeks when one of the running candidates has threatened the legitimacy of their institution directly?

[marricks]

Day of election there is a big tally when votes come in and pictures of American Democracy In Action with a bunch of puff stories about people in lines. Huge time for viewership, not a huge time for important journalism.

There is no perfect time to strike, but I think other outlets can cover the typical:

- "huge lines in Pennsylvania!"

- "Polls close in [KEY SWING STATE] in 2 hours!"

- "Wow the whole west coast went blue, who would have thought!"

- "Shocker that one battleground is going into recount which will somehow last 4 weeks."

[petesergeant]

There will be absolutely no shortage of other places where Americans get their election news, and arguably at a higher quality than NYT. I will miss their election ticker dashboard widget thing though, that thing is cool.

[Justsignedup]

All people who don't care say "can you please go over there, in the corner, where I can't see you, so you can protest and I can appropriately ignore you."

The point of a protest is to annoy you. Annoy you enough into action.

[science4sail]

Annoyance so that bystanders support the protesters' demands or annoyance so that bystanders act against the protesters out of spite? After all, the Westboro Baptist Church's protests don't seem to have been very effective at promoting the cause of homophobia.

I think that protests are a risky move unless the general population is already sympathetic to the protesters' goals.

[hollerith]

What action am I supposed to take on behalf of these cognitively-privileged workers already earning six-figure salaries?