- cross-posted to:
- antiwork@lemmy.ml
- socialism@lemmy.ml
- workreform@chat.maiion.com
- cross-posted to:
- antiwork@lemmy.ml
- socialism@lemmy.ml
- workreform@chat.maiion.com
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A few rich people that refuse to pay living wages could cost the US economy &7.1 billion.
cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/620668
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Do ittttt. Get the railroad unions to join in too, considering what they got in their contract.
Fuck the economy. Fuck those rich bastards and strike if they don’t give you exactly what you want and deserve for all the money you made them. Without you, their wealth doesn’t exist.
I’m all for it and hopeful. For the first time I’m beginning to feel that there’s a real chance that even the US could move towards a General Strike before too long in response to how drastically conditions are collapsing across the board.
If working full-time isn’t enough anymore to support yourself and your family, then what’s the point of working? Workers have been getting nickel-and-dimed for so long that there’s almost nothing left to take from us and people are barely surviving. Medieval peasant serfs in feudal society probably had more free time than we do nowadays.
They did.
And this is from 2013. The last line is particularly poignant.
Speaking of Congress, its members seem to be the only people in America getting as much down time as the medieval peasant. They get 239 days off this year.
I’m in. Freaking do it. We need to have some strikes.
I don’t work for UPS but, hell, I’ll join in. I love seeing people finally stand up for their rights
Cool. Maybe if their job is so important, they should be getting paid better.
“[Teamsters] said in the past that if there is a strike it will be the fault of the company for not stepping up and agreeing to the economic package being sought by the union despite having its earnings nearly double during the life of the current five-year contract.”
I don’t know what they’re going for in the contract but at the bare minimum the employees doing the actual work need to see more money for that work. Best of luck Teamsters!
