• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 hours ago

    More than just unions, people need to walk out. They can’t fire all of you in one day.

    Four years is a great amount of time to plan for it and get people on board. You gotta start talking to people about it, first!

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      3 hours ago

      Can corporations afford to sit and wait longer than poor people can?

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        2 hours ago

        Yes because of wealth inequality. They literally have hoards of money that can be used in a case like this.

        The wealth didn’t just disappear during the Great Depression and “nobody had any money”. Boeing, Chrysler, Kennedy, Rockefeller, grocery stores like publix all doubled, tripled, quadrupled, 10x’ed their wealth. It was a big wealth transfer, not that everyone was poor.

        It was literally mostly the working class and some of the lower-owning-class that suffered.

        It was solved mainly by taxing the ever loving shit out of oligarchs and redistrubing the wealth back to the people.

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          53 minutes ago

          Yeah that’s the reason that so many people can’t afford to be super selective when applying for jobs, and will take the first offer they get, but corporations will sift through thousands of people to get to who they perceive to be the perfect candidate, they’re sitting on liquid assets and credit lines. They’re not desperate

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      5 hours ago

      Four years is great timing if a liberal Dem wins the presidency four years from now on a Trump rebound. Labor can go out of their way to make their ally look bad.

      They really need a clear set of demands for this - like a minimum wage demand, or Medicare for all.

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          5 hours ago

          It really depends on the union, and the people. They do tend to be blue-collar workers, though, which are often more susceptible to the kind of disinformation and propaganda against the working class they’re a part of.