Are we entering a 'golden age' for trade unions?
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Coffee drinkers! Listen! Starbucks workers nationwide are starting a 3-day strike today (Friday 12/16) as part of their effort to unionize. How can you help? Don't cross the picket line. Get your coffee elsewhere. (Preferably at independent coffee shops. Long live small biz). And spread the...
Corporate abuses have spread into many state legislatures, via ALEC too....ALEC has been working on limiting the growth of workers rights for over 30 years...and they have become very effective especially at the state and local level.Hope so....runaway corporate power and abuse of employees need to be curtailed
Are we entering a 'golden age' for trade unions?
The pandemic has led to an increase in the number of people joining a union to get support at work.www.bbc.com
They have a big hand in selecting every republican state legislator in Florida. Due to aggressive gerrymandering, that is around 75-80% of the seats.
Around 10 years ago, I had a sales call on some joker in Sarasota, who was a friend of a longtime client. He had just returned from "candidate school" or some similar name where they evaluate potential do-boys, I mean legislators. He spent the first 20 minutes of the meeting excitedly telling me and my client about candidate school. The guy was a tool and never paid his bills so I cut him off. ALEC apparently had better options because they ran someone else in that district. CSB
Here is a longer version of the exchange with the Trumpanzee meat head acting like a bully and then becoming even angrier when the union leader pushed back on him
"the average worker in America is making roughly $43 a week less today than she made 50 years ago." Quote from the above Bernie sanders article.
This is why I believe the USA will have a major recession/ depression in the next couple years.
Corporate America greed has neutered the American working class by refusing to pay reasonable wages and reasonable working conditions. I imagine all of us are feeling the effects of the inflation and this will only get worse.
This is why I believe the USA will have a major recession/ depression in the next couple years.
Corporate America greed has neutered the American working class by refusing to pay reasonable wages and reasonable working conditions. I imagine all of us are feeling the effects of the inflation and this will only get worse.
These unions better be careful what they wish for because artificial intelligence is coming on very quickly. Union workers who aren’t productive will be replaced quickly.
At 14 I was milking cows until 9 p.m. It taught me to have a strong work ethic.
This thread needs a poll attached to determine who has been or is currently a member of a Union. I'd wager it's very few.
Still carry my Teamsters card even though it's been nearly 40 years since I was a member. Can't be in a union now.
Workers are in demand and have power. The executives making millions and millions don't like it.
Its a gold age in certain professions. Labor broadly has more leverage than it has in some time simply by having supply limited.
Wages now working up to scale actually capable of supporting individuals. What a travesty.
California continues to lead the way. Hopefully Newsome signs this today and other states follow their lead and pass similar legislation.
I’m 100% in support of organizations striking if they want but I’d be furious if my state passed this law.
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