Tournament: NSD Camp Tournament | Round: 6 | Opponent: Strake VH | Judge: Matt Moorhead
1ac r6
Plan
Plan text: A just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike. (check the doc if you need definitions)
Definition of unconditional right to strike:
NLRB 1 National Labor Relations Board; “Legislative History of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947: Volume 1,” Jan 1985; https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=7o1tA__v4xwCandrdid=book-7o1tA__v4xwCandrdot=1 Edited for gendered language
As for the so-called absolute or unconditional right to strike—there are
AND
health and welfare of our people in order to attain a selfish end.
The right to strike entail 2 different types of strikes: economic and unfair labor practices.
NLRB 2: The National Labor Relations Board is an independent agency of the federal government of the United States with responsibilities for enforcing U.S. labor law in relation to collective bargaining and unfair labor practices. “The Right to Strike” No Date AA
Strikes for a lawful object. Employees who strike for a lawful object fall into
AND
back even if employees hired to do their work have to be discharged.
Advantage 1 – Warming
Climate strike participants get arrested now.
Scanlan 19 Quinn. Quinn Scanlan. Voting, campaigns and elections for @ABC. “Jane Fonda arrested in climate change strike outside Capitol”. 10-11-2019. ABC News. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jane-fonda-arrested-climate-change-strike-capitol/story?id=66209415.
Academy Award winning actress Jane Fonda, 81, was arrested by police with a
AND
student climate strikers around the world for taking on this issue so passionately.
Strikes incentivize companies to take climate action seriously.
Ivanova 19 Irin. Work, tech, climate and data for @CBSNews. Priors: @HuffPost, @CrainsNewYork, @newmarkjschool. “These businesses are closing for Friday's climate strike”. 9-20-2019. No Publication. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/global-climate-strike-businesses-close-their-doors-in-time-for-climate-strike-2019/.
Thousands of people are planning to walk out of work or school on Friday to
AND
Tor, BoingBoing, Greenpeace, Change.org, among many others.
This uniquely harm POC – it’s part of a system of intentional racism that directly targets black people.
Covert 16: Covert, Bryce. Bryce Covert is a contributor at The Nation and a contributing op-ed writer at The New York Times. Her writing has also appeared in The Washington Post, the New Republic, New York magazine, Slate, and others, and she won a 2016 Exceptional Merit in Media Award from the National Women’s Political Caucus. She has appeared on ABC, CBS, MSNBC, NPR, and other outlets. “Race Best Predicts Whether You Live Near Pollution” The Nation, 2016 EM/ GC
When asked directly whether environmental racism was at play in Flint’s water crisis, Michigan
AND
, adding to the existing air pollution generated by the Genesee Power Station.
Advantage 2 – Work Conditions
Working conditions are bad and getting worse – the pandemic has exacerbated these pressures.
Olen 21: Helaine Olen is a contributor to Post Opinions and the author of "Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry" and co-author of "The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated." Her work has appeared in Slate, the Nation, the New York Times, the Atlantic and many other publications. She serves on the advisory board of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and lives in New York City with her husband, sons and poodle daughter. “Americans’ work conditions are terrible. No wonder many don’t want to go back.” June 2, 2021 AA
Such dissatisfaction and tensions can be seen across the U.S. workforce.
AND
it as a great reconsideration, one worker and workplace at a time.
And, this disproportionately affects Black Americans – especially Black women.
Weller 19: Christian E. Weller is a senior fellow at American Progress and a professor of public policy at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. His area of expertise includes retirement income security, macroeconomics, money and banking, and international finance. He is also a research scholar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute and an institute fellow at the University of Massachusetts Boston’s Gerontology Institute. Prior to joining the Center, he was on the research staff at the Economic Policy Institute, where he remains a research associate. “African Americans Face Systematic Obstacles to Getting Good Jobs” December 5, 2019, AA
These differences are not new, and the longest labor market expansion on record has
AND
labor market experiences, too often devaluing their work and confining their opportunities.
Worst, Black workers are barely represented in decision making roles.
Connley 21: Courtney Connley is a careers reporter for CNBC Make It. Prior to joining CNBC, she worked as a freelancer for Cosmopolitan and a freelancer for Black Enterprise magazine, where she eventually worked her way up to careers editor. During this time, she created daily content for Black Enterprise’s website and worked with the research team to create content for annual lists like the Most Powerful Women in Corporate America and the B.E. 100s, which spotlights the nation’s largest Black-owned businesses. “Why Black workers still face a promotion and wage gap that’s costing the economy trillions” April 16, 2021, AA
Today, Black workers are overrepresented in low-wage entry-level jobs and
AND
continues to hold them back and can even force them out the door.
Strikes work at making progressive changes – teachers prove.
Beckett 18: Ben Beckett is an American writer in Vienna. “Public Sector Workers Should Have the Right to Strike” 08.13.2018 AA
Politicians have plenty to fear from striking public workers. The public sector remains a
AND
that neither side wants to face this prospect. We should make them.
The right to strike fights concentration of power while reducing inequality.
IER 17 Institute of Employment Rights. The IER exists to inform the debate around trade union rights and labour law by providing information, critical analysis, and policy ideas through our network of academics, researchers and lawyers. “UN Rights Expert: Right to strike is essential to democracy”. 3-10-2017. . https://www.ier.org.uk/news/un-rights-expert-right-strike-essential-democracy/.
The United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of
AND
this right, and a negative obligation not to interfere with its exercise.”
The plan spills over to challenge other facets of racism
Jones 20: Charisse Jones covers retail and workplace issues. “'Whatever it takes': Thousands of workers could join Strike for Black Lives, walking off jobs Monday to protest racial inequality” July 20, 2020 AA
Workers protested across the USA on Monday, going on strike, walking off the
AND
will review the complaint once it has been filed and take actions accordingly.”
The right to strike ensures a process of collective bargaining – without it, it would force workers to work against their will.
Croucher 11 Croucher, Richard, Mark Kely, and Lilian Miles. "A Rawlsian basis for core labor rights." Comp. Lab. L. and Pol'y J. 33 (2011): 297. Yoaks
There is another right for us to address here under the first principle. Even
AND
substantive right to bargain collectively is assured under the second principle of justice.
Strikes are key to gain higher wages and benefits – GM proves.
Isidore and Yurkivech 19: Vanessa Yurkevich is a Business and Politics correspondent, covering the intersection of business and politics across CNN's television and digital platforms. Chris Isidore is a senior writer for CNN Business, where he covers the auto industry, airlines, labor and all other manner of breaking financial news. “The long General Motors strike is finally over, as workers approve labor deal” October 25, 2019, AA
The long General Motors strike is finally over, as members of the United Auto
AND
a back-burner while it sought the deal with GM (GM).
Framing
As oppression is based in unwarranted power imbalances, the Role of the Ballot is to Endorse the Position that Better Ruptures Dominant Power Hierarchies. Solutions to critical issues must be discussed through pragmatic approaches within hegemonic power structures.
Bencze 14
Bencze: Bencze, John L. Assistant Professor of Science Education, University of Toronto “Activist Science and Technology Education.” Springer Press, 2014. CH
Viewing science education as a site for biopolitical engagement and reworking subjectivities can help science
AND
Negri (2009) is a good first step to locate what needs.
Debate is uniquely positioned to help us challenge oppression – prioritizing structural violence in educational spaces creates better politics both in and out of round.
Crawford 02 — Neta, PhD MA MIT, BA Brown, Prof. of poli sci at boston univ. Argument and Change in World Politics, p. 19-21
Coherent arguments are unlikely to take place unless and until actors, at least on
AND
entrepreneurs without serious political wrangling.” Hence framing is a meta-argument.
States must specifically consider marginalized groups, since excluding some perspectives creates a flawed epistemology that makes answering ethical questions impossible.
Medina 11: Medina, Jose contributing author for the Oxford University Press “Toward a Foucauldian Epistemology of Resistance: Counter-Memory, Epistemic Friction, and Guerrilla Pluralism”. Foucault Studies, 1(12), 9–35. 2011 DD
Foucault invites us to pay attention to the past and ongoing epistemic battles among competing
AND
until past epistemic battles are reopened and established frameworks become open to contestation.
Prefer ongoing violence over securitized impact scenarios.
Jackson 12: Jackson, Richard. Director of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago “The Great Con of National Security.” Richard Jackson Terrorism Blog, 8/5/12. MZ
It may have once been the case that being attacked by another country was a
AND
terrorism. Somehow, we need to challenge the politicians on this fact.
1 Neg advocacies may not include portions of the aff A Ground – removes my ability to leverage AC offense because you have co-opted it. The 1AR must either read new ev or up layer which kills substantive debate. Ground outweighs – it’s key to equal access to the ballot. B Clash – kills critical engagement with the aff because I can’t leverage it so I have nothing to say and limits us to generics – outweighs because clash is intrinsic to debate.