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A union vote is the only way to save that platform. Either unionize or let the company die.
by beebmam 3y ago
A union vote is the only way to save that platform. Either unionize or let the company die.
- skymast 3y ago[flagged]
- Chinjut 3y agoDo you enjoy having weekends off from working on somebody else's goals?
- macintux 3y agoAre you by any chance working 40 hour weeks?
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- froggychairs 3y agoYou can disagree with workplace organizing or the political positions of socialism, but this type of generalization is anti-intellectual, lazy thinking, and just wrong. Although yes. I don’t think Twitter unionizing will save the site.
- xenospn 3y agoHope you’re enjoying your weekend!
- M2Ys4U 3y agoAre you an employer, or do you just really like the taste of licking boots?
- medium_spicy 3y agoHaven’t been to Norway, then?
- MrDresden 3y agoHe should stop over in Iceland as well when he takes his trip.
- avidphantasm 3y agoCapitalism is the best political-economic system in world history, except for all the forms of socialism capitalists won’t let us try.
- megabless123 3y agoI appreciate your honesty about failing high school social studies
- krapp 3y agoSpeaking from a US perspective... Unions are the reason we have a minimum wage, limited work week, paid holidays, equal pay for equal work, unemployment benefits, workers' comp, the family medical leave act, and many more things. If not for unions we would all still be doing sixty hour weeks getting paid in company scrip. "Socialism" brought us Social Security, Medicare, child labor laws and agriculture subsidies, health insurance, food assistance, housing subsidies, energy and utilities subsidies, and education and childcare assistance. And it brings the rest of the modern world free education and healthcare.
- natebc 3y agoWhen I was 13 I had a lot of fun at the beach with my friends. Sure beat the heck out of working 100 hours a week at the paper mill in town.
- 12345hn6789 3y agoBe able to brag about ones lack of education takes a lot of courage. Kudos to you sir.
- pasdoy 3y agoVery bold claim. In the history of the world like you say, unions shaped our world in a good way. Certainly not all unions, but it literally saved workers life from corporate abuse. Check the Asbestos Corporation in 1950s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos_strike https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos_strike.
- drekipus 3y agoUnions are for the people, not the company
- flohofwoe 3y agoThose people often have a better idea how to run "their" company (and are more interested in keeping the company alive) than the latest celebrity CEO who's then replaced with the next one after six months.
- eyelidlessness 3y agoUnions are generally predicated on representing their members, but there are countless permutations of nuance where such representation would also benefit or protect the company, at least to some extent.
- Scalene2 3y agoWhat makes you say that?
- hgsgm 3y agoFor the people who work at the company and want to continue. They don't get paid after the company dies.
- zen928 3y agoa company is made of: _____
- typon 3y agoThe board of directors, rich shareholders and the C-Suite team. Incidentally they also employ powerless servants who are interchangeable and disposable.
- vba616 3y agoModern Western capitalism is pretty similar to the Soviet Union or China's. "State capitalism" and "monopoly capitalism" (the bad kind according to socialists) are about as different as Coke and Pepsi. Ultimately the "owners" in practice are people you never heard of that work for (government) pension funds and index funds. The billionaires, founders, and celebrities are mostly a sideshow. That's not a denial of wealth inequality, just as officially socialist countries have. But nearly all big companies have no owner in a top hat running the show, just faceless committees, responsible for buying everything - that company and all its competitors. Bureaucrats, apparatchiks, public or private, it's much the same. If the C-suite and directors of huge companies are generally parasites, it's because robber barons and corporate raiders are the exception today. People whose job is to invest trillions of dollars by simply buying everything for sale have the least control imaginable over company managers. The current situation reflects classic criticisms of socialism, but it won anyway. Nearly every source of information on public company stocks in the US has a figure for "institutional ownership". If a company is of any size, and is a real business, this is usually a high % - this is a reality check if what I'm writing sounds outlandish because nobody talks about anything but Twitter around here.