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by pibaker21 hours ago |
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upvoteby Aromasin21 hours ago|
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Look to Birmingham in the UK for evidence of the same deference. Many have been on strike since 2025. The city was a rat infested public waste dump for nearly 3 months until the government hired private firms to do the waste handling while the public worker strike action continued.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025%E2%80%932026_Birmingham_b...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqxlxv0vvnxo

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upvoteby ktm5j20 hours ago|
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You can go a long while without your trash being taken away for you.. you can't go very long without food.
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upvoteby yuye19 hours ago|
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Most of the food the farmers produce in the Netherlands is exported.

Meanwhile, trash piles up quickly: https://nltimes.nl/2023/02/07/utrecht-garbage-strike-comes-e...

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upvoteby vanviegen21 hours ago|
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I think this deference is largely inspired by the police not knowing how to deal with these huge tractors.
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upvoteby pjc5020 hours ago|
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Rubbish. They don't want to. The tractors have license plates, allowing them to be pursued after the fact, and the NL police have firearms if they want to get spicy.

There have been a number of attacks in Europe of the form "deranged person drives vehicle into crowd". I'm sure the police wouldn't sit back and shrug if that was done with a tractor. The vehicle doesn't have magic properties, the driver has police protection.

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upvoteby vanviegen16 hours ago|
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The protestors tape their license plates. And I'm happy to report Dutch police generally doesn't draw guns on people who are no direct threat.

And how is the "vehicle driven into crowd" even relevant here? Nobody's using these tractors to kill (intentionally), but they're just many and hard to stop.

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upvoteby pjc5012 hours ago|
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> The protestors tape their license plates.

One weird trick: simply commit an offense in front of the police, and suddenly they can't do anything because it's "too hard".

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upvoteby contravariant12 hours ago|
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> If the garbage men started dumping the contents of garbage bags in public places I bet they will not be given a free pass.

I mean, they wouldn't have to, they just need to stop cleaning it up. Such an action likely will be given a free pass, anything other than that is strikebreaking which is either illegal or heavily discouraged depending on jurisdiction.

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upvoteby account4218 hours ago|
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It's almost as if food security is much more important than most other jobs.
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upvoteby koiueo21 hours ago|
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Don't believe everything you read.

This is russian sabotage + russian trolls now trying to make it look like it's something else

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upvoteby vanviegen21 hours ago|
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Who's the troll here? Do you even know what you're talking about?
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