You all really should start reading strike manifestos or statements before calling boycotts or assuming what the strikers want you to do. Like, I know I sound like s broken disc by now but you should just do it anyway if you really care about their cause.
But for more specific reasons:
- if they haven't called for a boycott but people do it anyway it can cause them legal issues with their employer who can claim they called or insinuated they wanted one
- depending on the industry, earnings, bonuses or pay rises can depend on the employer's revenue. Some workers cannot afford a boycott.
- many strikes are not to "stick it up to the man" or to "bring the company down". Sometimes they are to bring attention to a specific injustice or illegal thing the company has done. By not reading the manifesto and just going "boycott the company" you're kind of defeating the whole point.
- if creatives are on strike they might not want that to prevent you from actually consuming what they've put effort in. Might surprise you that your working conditions can be bad and you can still feel proud of what you've created.
- statements or manifestos might actually have steps the workers want you to take. They might provide links to charities with similar goals, phones you can call, representatives you can contact, hashtags to use to show up in reports, etc.
Just read it and understand the reason for the strike and what's the best way to help (sometimes it IS a boycott). at the end of the day, you decide how you support, just make sure the information you share is correct and in line with the workers requests.
