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"Pinkerton: for over one-hundred years, the ones to call when you've got a union problem." I mean, that has to be their schtick, right, even if it's unspoken?
by mikestew 6y ago
"Pinkerton: for over one-hundred years, the ones to call when you've got a union problem."
I mean, that has to be their schtick, right, even if it's unspoken? Because that pretty much sums up what I know about Pinkerton, so I would assume they are happy with that.
As for the topic at hand, yeah well, that's what companies do...for over one-hundred years as well.
- criddell 6y agoSomebody should try to unionize Pinkerton employees.
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- ausbah 6y agoseems like police unions would be more fitting if my memory of history serves me right
- Florin_Andrei 6y agoI honestly thought "Pinkerton agents" was a metaphor. :) Like the way you say "xerox that paper".
- rimiform 6y agoDito. But it's really far worse that Amazon is able to use literal Pinkerton agents, because it implies the organisation hasn't been torn to shreds as you expect it should have been.
- vidarh 6y agoTo the point where if someone ever introduces themselves to me as a Pinkerton employee, my first instinct would be to assume they're immoral and not someone I want to know. It's a company with a history of supporting exploitation wherever it's gone.
- smabie 6y agohow many Pinkerton employeee have you met? Also, you know what they say about assumptions..
- ativzzz 6y agoBy extension, anyone you meet who works at Amazon should be considered that as well. Google and Facebook too probably. Walmart? Honestly any corporation. Add anyone working for the government in there as well
- vidarh 6y agoI don't think that is fair. Pinkerton has a history of actual violence and in directly enabling the very worst tendencies of some of the very worst abusive labour practices. In terms of participating in oppression, the proportion of Pinkerton employees directly involved in making lives worse for employees is much higher than most other companies and at least most democratic governments.
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