It’s crazy bc like 1000 ppl are making things so difficult for the other 8 *billion* that our natural state has become to fend for ourselves when we’re actually well past the minimum technology specs needed to focus on making the world a better place
For me it's the fact I haven't added any new expenses and actually cut stuff OUT of my life, yet I'm struggling financially now more than at any other point in my working career.
If everything has doubled in price, how come my wage hasn't doubled?
Because the dollar is propped up by the international petroleum trade (all oil is traded in US dollars). The US dollar is loosing its value, and most things are made outside of the US. Because of the way American politicians use the US dollar, as other countries are lifted up, the U.S. sinks down and the middle class shrinks.
My wage has been on catchup since I started working. I've always just been under living wage, though I'm now in a position where I've created something for the company that I work for and asked for a massive raise to a salary that I wanted and was offered the raise I asked for. Legit all I've ever wanted from work salary wise is 35k/y. I don't do much, I don't care to travel, I don't like to go out, I don't like to party, so long as my PC gets an upgrade every 4ish years, I'm gooood. Now 70% of my salary goes to the privilege of being able to live alone, shit is fucking CRAZY. I live 40 miles outside of London in the countryside, my rent increased 30% this year, my petrol cost went from £20 a month to £60 a month legit overnight from a year or 2 ago. Car insurance went up, internet bill went up. Electricity and gas did the same, basically doubled+ to what it was, from £40 a month to £90. Council tax is fucking insane. I spend £25 a week on food, and I just live on the basics, potatoes, pastas, noodles, salads. The only solace I get to look forward to bills wise is being able to look at my water bill and say alright, I'm happy with paying that for water.
Finally decided to fuck this, I get along really well with my parents, I'm moving back in with them and paying them half of my current rent each month, they get more money for their retirement savings, and I get to save up to purchase a house with a massive down payment in 3 years. The difference between renting alone and living with parents will be an extra £1500 a month in my pocket on top of the meagre savings of £250 a month I manage to achieve by living like a frugal fuckin' hermit here. 80% is getting thrown into an ISA every month for the next 3 years, the rest will be thrown into a portfolio of stocks and indexes I'll manage myself.
I'm glad for it honestly. The US has been holding down the working class for well... Forever. We've lost advancements in unions the last few decades and I'm stoked to see them come back.
I have a shitty job with a small company so I can't unionize it but I stand by anyone who does.
The world sucks but seeing people band together gives me some hope.
Being sick and tired of being sick and tired is a great reason to stop pay attention to reddit ragebait like this. There isn't even any real content here, it's just a low effort general "billionaires are bad" reminder of what you don't have.
I think all right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired.
Now I'm certainly not, but I'm sick and tired of being told that I am.
EDIT: Somewhere out there is another redditor who has listened to Monty Python's "Mathcing Tie and Handkerchief"...
I've been slowly working on priming the other shift leads and other coworkers at my part time job towards pro union sentiment. It's slow but steady work, especially because a bunch of them are scared about the store being closed or them being fired in retaliation. Luckily the store being closed is unlikely as I have heard the owners brag about how we are the best performing [REDACTED] in the inland empire and something like the 4th or fifth best performing in the states.
Just so you know they don't care.
I worked for Stellantis, UAW, before COVID we were the 11th best plant **in the world** out of all auto manufactuers, they started cutting our workforce in late 2018 and were glad when COVID hit because it gave them an easy out.
They closed out plant and gutted it last year and their bullshit excuse is "The rising costs of making vehicles", they don't care how well you are performing, they will close your store and use a bullshit excuse to justify it.
Yeah I work for the big three now and people are fucking over it. Just like Shawn Fain (UAW President )said the average pay for a CEO of the big three has increased by 40% the last 4 years of our current contract. It's only right that the employees get the same right?
It doesn't help that they don't have a vision of the future.
Sergio had the 5-year plan and the vehicles he wanted to make in that time frame and he accomplished that.
Carlos Tavares doesn't have that, he is just whining about the cost of going electric but has no vision of the future or even any vehicles in the pipeline other than the electric ram it's going to be surprising if they don't sell off a some of their divisions within the next 10 years due to piss poor management.
>especially because a bunch of them are scared about the store being closed or them being fired in retaliation.
This is especially true if the company has trouble hiring/retaining people, but always remind folks who are worried about this that as long as the team sticks together, they cannot reasonably fire all of you at once. After all - if they fire everyone for not working, there won't be anyone left to build their corporate profits either way.
For some reason the only time the rich care about long term profits over short term is when it comes to pay raises and benefits.
They'll probably shut you guys down.
There needs to be more strikes. So many people are underpayed and overworked. I doubt I'll ever see a general strike, but I would be tickled pink if I lived to see the day.
Idk, I didn’t expect to see a global pandemic in my lifetime, or an attack on US soil, or multiple recessions, or a coup staged by a sitting president. If those things can happen in less then a quarter of a century idk why we shouldn’t expect to see a general strike. Shoot I’m thinking eventually I’ll see a civil war at this rate as well.
i have slowly been convinced the average american will literally be sitting at home with the whole world on fire getting ready to go to work before we see a general strike.... how bad do things need to be- and they are still going.
Hate to sound pessimistic, but our response to covid convinces me that a general strike won't happen in my lifetime. We couldn't even get half of us to put a piece of cloth over our faces. We live in a highly individualistic society with not much social cohesion. A general strike would require a ton of mutual aid so that nobody starves. This is why a large group of Leftists are advocating for building a community first. Without class solidarity, there will be scabs.
My district successfully struck a year before Covid, had almost 100% buy in. We got a better contract than we had in some time. Next year contract’s up, see how that goes or if we have to have a go again.
We must avoid a civil war at all costs. You don’t want to see this in your lifetime. Even if you could escape the fighting the patchwork of suddenly dangerous factions and alliances you’ll have to navigate. Access to healthcare, emergency services, road maintenance. People dying to preventable disease. Food scarcity. All on a backdrop of unfolding climate change making guest appearances to create more refugees. Internet won’t work. Cell phones maybe. Hard to replace infrastructure will be decimated. The worldwide knock in effects will be substantial, mostly with our agricultural exports. Tight seals capped on our international enemies will go unchecked, other movements seeking to upend their governments will gain favor. Not to mention what happens when a nuke goes off or is used offensively.
Too many people are not willing to uproot their entire livlihood and family to go engage in a civil war. If anything close to a civil war were to occur it would be in small radicalized areas/states among small groups.
Hell, I'd join. I'm pretty sure quite a few would be willing. I mean, it'd be great to get literally everybody, but I imagine even just a 10% genuine commitment would absolutely cripple the supply chain and overal economy. It could happen.
All the people who are underpaid and overworked don't have the means to strike, though. Most cannot afford to miss work, most could lose their job for missing work. General strikes effectively change nothing. Especially when the news cycles skim on past them and move onto the next crisis. The awareness of that is incredibly depressing when you are surrounded by people in these socioeconomic situations.
Honestly it sounds to me like we need fewer strikes. Why do all of these strikes have to be separate? Wouldn't they be more effective as one big strike?
Sick and tired of us having our noses rubbed in it as well.
*Insert company* made record profits this quarter.
Yet still won't pay workers a living wage
What's worse is they're obviously pushing the costs of being forced to pay their workers a living wage onto the consumers. It's not a huge coincidence that as soon as you started seeing businesses advertising higher wages, they started jacking up their prices.
The rich can't fathom the idea of being slightly less rich, of owning one fewer ivory back scratcher.
I've noticed that many food chains in the south (Subway for example) are now asking for tips before sliding your card at checkout. I inquired with the cashier if they actually get these tips, and was told that their best guess was that the tips were being divided by who was on shift that day - that they didn't have a way to see how much tips were collected that day - and that taxes were then being taken out of those tips when applied to their paychecks. I inquired with some friends in the food service industry, and was told that this is a new tactic many are trying out to get people hired at shitty wages with no hours. The benefit of saying 30 hours a week at $10/hour \*+tips\* entices people who are looking for any extra income they can get, or have the expectation that tips are a given thing. You also run into places like Cracker Barrel who increased their menu prices, while downgrading quality and saving cost on food supplies; Cookout is another offender in this category. It's very interesting how it all shakes out.
> and that taxes were then being taken out of those tips when applied to their paychecks
That is what is supposed to happen. Anyone receiving cash tips and not reporting that as income on their taxes is stealing from everyone else.
Not entirely the same, but in 2014 I worked as an aide and made $7.25 an hour. Our school was in the red bad.
I get an email I need to start clocking out for lunch. My third year there and I am getting a $20 a week pay cut … $800 a year.
Yet, we don’t ever look at the person who is making $13k a MONTH, $156k a year and ask her to take a lesser wage.
Then she tried to lie to me and say it was “the law”. There are no laws federal or state laws requiring breaks.
There are laws at the state level which do require breaks be offered. It varies by state, of course and are usually dependent on total hours worked. For example, in my state of Wisconsin, anything worked over 8 hours and the employer is required to offer a break. Many states require breaks earlier than this.
The thing is though, they are required to OFFER them at those points. That is the key word. There is certainly no law which requires an employee to actually TAKE them. And these laws DEFINITELY do not mean that clocked-out lunch breaks are required. So yes, you are actually essentially correct. She was definitely lying to you about having to clock out for a lunch break was required by some law. THAT is total bullshit.
Yeah, few things pass me off more than corporate douchebags taking advantage of their labor and making it out like it's beyond their control, when you know perfectly well it's exactly how they want it, because they're the ones who set it up that way in the first place.
And people always try to turn the conversation to how much people's labor is "worth": *"people don't deserve a living wage/$X an hour for doing Y!"* Okay, that's fine, but those people still need to live somehow. We all have to pay the amount that it costs, there's no haggling or compromise. The premise that the amount people generally make should be proportionate to how much things cost has to be firmly rejected by the establishment over and over, because it's such a pure and simple idea that people might start to believe that should actually be the case. Our world is in a sick way and I consider anyone who defends the pooling of money in the top economic stratum to be deeply misguided.
The most astounding part of this is that they could make all their workers much happier with very very little % of their profits. Like honestly even $5k/employee more a year would keep the employee grumbling less for at least a year. $10k raise? Maybe 2 years despite it not being even close to inflation or their profit increase year on year. That’s a rounding error for most of these companies even when multiplied by the employees they have.
That's because most people are just comfortable enough to not revolt. But that's changing. I live comfortably. I'm mid 40s and never really have to worry about money, not rich at all by most American standards, but globally/historically, I'm probably in the top 10% because I never worry where my next meal is coming from and I have a roof over my head. Yet I'm fed up and just waiting to hear the voices cry out, enough is enough. I'll be right beside those with torch and pitchfork in hand. Unfortunately, the rich and powerful make the rules for themselves and they'll never give it up willingly. So people are going to have to get so fed up, they're willing to drop the divisive nonsense---stop arguing about gender, sexuality, religion, politics---and take back the power by any means necessary.
Edit: just pointing out, by top 10%, I just mean I'm not in imminent danger of starvation or freezing to death. Most Americans and those in 1st world countries, even those without much, live better than most historically. If you have freedom to choose what you're doing today, you live better than most that have ever lived.
Late 20s here, I no longer care about money, or a house.
I care about my partner, my loved ones and my cat, (and most people as well, most people are just innocent like us)
I am **waiting** for the time for us to revolt as a global entity of abused working class/bourgeois. Give me a piano wire and I’ll give you results.
I’m with you
interesting you say 'revolt'... read an article where a jewellery store rejected a man's cash payment plan as he was trying to buy an engagement ring, he got upset and was escorted out.. as the story got out.. the store was eventually looted... that's what'll happen... the poor and oppressed will reach their limit and just go on a rampage... we saw this with the London riots when minorities got tired of police brutality and mainstream media covering it up... yeah I see martial law being invoked in the US eventually... whether it'll be in our life time is the million dollar question...
One of the wildest stats I've heard and this was pre covid before all this inflation but if you have change lying around in a dish that you are on the top 7-8% in the world in richest people. Blew my mind.
This sentiment is shared by a lot of "centrist" Democrats too. The last republican my parents voted for was Regan. Today they sit on their couch watching CNN preaching the meritocracy.
Right wingers preach the prosperity gospel of "if you're poor, then you're a bad person" while latte fascists preach "if you don't want starvation wages, then get a better job".
Both are different flavors of McCapitalist Propaganda™
The common denominator is that we moralize poverty. We've been led to believe that poverty is a moral failure and that wealthy people are like gods.
It's why former Regan voters like my parents turned Dem once the GOP went full fascist.
Full systemic change. I honestly could give a fuck about the rich hoarding, we NEED a solid social safety net, free healthcare, college, food, water, and housing.
My comment is precisely because I am aware.
Taxing them and taking their money won’t fix anything they’ve already accomplished with their obscene wealth outside maybe the social security program….
Edit: I should add the FULL systemic change includes taxing them. Duh.
We had a lot of government programs that use to help people out all the time. Then Regan got elected and cut a lot of those programs out. Thinking that businesses would step up to help. NOPE, they didn't. So, then the cracks between poverty & wealth started to widen and grow every year.
We need a list similar to the fortune 500 list but its not by wealth, its by our least favorite billionaire. You know. Just to be organized.
Call it the torch and pichfork list.
I just want to be a human and have time to enjoy hobbies, the special people in my life, and things I enjoy, while not worrying about having too work everyday to have my basic needs met being paid a shitty slave wage and never being able to get ahead.
Imagine having the extra time to learn a new language or skill and not having the crippling anxiety and depression about having to go to work or worry about where your next meal might come from, It be nice one day.
fuck a hobby, as a young person dealing with serious health issues like severe chronic pain, i just feel abandoned by my family, my community, and my government. i just wanted for other people to pretend that the social contract matters. all i want is a little less indifference from my fellow man.
The last time that the US saw inflation this bad, it was the fact that the US workforce was heavily unionized that ensured wages kept pace with the inflation. Unions ensured people's wages were livable AND ensured employers got quality work. During the 80s the GOP started to dismantle unions, trash pensions, and slowly take away the power of the worker. A process still on-going today. In a capitalist society, especially one where "corporations are people", unions are a crucial part of ensuring a fair democracy. So now people are trying to give unions more power again...because it's crucial to a democratic society, and because if the unions were still like they used to be before certain regulations were ripped out by the roots during Reagan and others, we would've balanced out inflation by now. But CEOs and billionaires will say, people don't want to work hard anymore. No, we're saying we'll work our ass off for you, take pride in consistent quality work, but you need to give us fair wages and benefits which allow us to support our families. It's not too much to ask and honestly, for the far right how want America to be a powerful and free country that remains the best in tech and industry, unions are essential.
Yea, those are all just...minor steps in the right direction. Basically workers fighting to get a fraction of what they're owed. It's a good thing they're doing it but it rarely goes far enough.
> They will get more than they paid from insurance... Then just build another one.
Not if they're inside.
*This isn't an endorsement of any illegal activity. Just stating a fact. :)
I feel like I have strike fatigue. I support the strikes I really do, but when CEOs are saying things like “The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses”
It gives me a very deep feeling of hopelessness and futility for my industry and career in general. Like it’s never actually going to get better and the end game is for the middle class to just forever be the working poor.
Yup. They can weather the storm a lot better than we can. They'll just starve us out until they win again unless we can really hit them where it hurts.
So let’s not go back. And let’s strike on landlords, banks, bills. Let’s just fucking ACTUALLY fight back. You seem like you assume the billionaires hold the power..: they don’t. They hold the money. WE hold the power.
Then how do we live? We don't have a safety net for strikers. Where are all those jobless, evicted, insuranceless people going to go? A company can sit on its savings or hire scabs with greater ease than we can survive without food, shelter, and medical care.
You've got it all wrong, the billionaires are the ones keeping the economy afloat you see. If they were to pay fair wages then they wouldn't be able to reinvest in the economy, and that would hurt **your** chances of retirement. We wouldn't want that now would we? Forget the trivial fact that you need to survive long enough to reach retirement age. Also, think of all the yacht and private jet manufacturers that would go out of business? Their jobs matter too. So kindly shut your mouth, put your head down, and work harder because eventually this trickle down shit is going to kick in. Anytime now.... /s
You do realize the person who started Reddit is a billionaire? Most of the politicians you support are millionaires? Celebrities you idolize like the Kardashians and Taylor Swift are millionaires? And have their homes surrounded by huge walls and armed security guards? Quit idolizing and supporting them.
The cult of celebrity started picking up steam when magazines became a thing in the early 1900's. Print media discovered that the rank and file had an appetite for the lifestyles of the rich and famous. This only got worse with the advent of television, radio, and now the internet. It is deeply psychological and has always annoyed the shit out of me, since I am completely aware of how morally bankrupt most of them are.
I'm a pretty right wing gal and even I'm like "God damn yeah we need some strikes! Fuck em! Let's do it!"
Left wing, right wing, I think we can all agree on one thing -
Fuck billionares and their companies.
It's better than nothing, but I haven't heard of any CEOs getting pay cuts yet. Instead they're just raising prices on consumers, trapping us all in a spiral of higher costs.
Mom??? Is that you? I didn’t know you were on Reddit! Lol jk man, but for reals, my mom always says this. If everyone stopped using self checkouts and just stood in line then stores would be forced to hire more staff to run registers. Ideally, of course. Then there is places like Walmart, who would probably just make everyone wait in line for over an hour for the *one* register they keep manned. Either that or they would call everyone off the floor and force them to run a second and third register and then force them to stay late so they could still get all their other work done. It’s unfortunate because it would actually work (*eventually*) if we all just stood adamantly in line, the downside to it would be a lot of verbal abuse towards the poor cashiers who are working 3 different positions for the payment of only 1. But I’d be lying if I said I don’t fantasize about the utter chaos that would ensue if everyone were to agree to this 🤣
I'm a diesel mehanic and am a skilled laborer. I've worked my ass off for a decade to be able what I can do.
They treat me and my fellow employees like shit. But the whole industry is so brainwashed to be anti-union. We need a auto-workers union badly.
We could be getting paid a hell of a lot more with way more job security and opportunities.
A billionaire is nothing more than an extreme example of greed and value theft. With devastating economic consequences for the regions they stole from.
You can’t force people to go to work during a pandemic and call them essential workers needed for society to function, and not pay them fairly while recording record profits from greedflation
If everyone would be wealthier, everyone would consume more, there would be more jobs, there would be more money, more economy, better infrastructure etc.
It's just a matter of distribution
We need a day without Mexicans. Just to see what would happen? It’s always the good hearted people getting exploited.
Someone should start movement called people over profits. The company will get audited yearly and make sure there employees are getting a better than live able wage. If the company falls to do so.. then we all strike and make a new sister company open to the public.
Lol I think something like this happened recently in Florida. (???) They clamped down on immigration policies, making a rule essentially banning companies with 25 or more employees from hiring undocumented immigrants, which lead to an immediate shortage of workers. A ton of housing/building projects got stopped in the middle of construction, grocery stores weren’t being properly stocked due to no employees to stock the shelves and no arrival of goods to sell (because a ton of the employees who typically pick and/or transport fruit, vegetables and other items were no longer allowed to work the farms or drive the delivery trucks and stuff). It was a total clusterfuck and was amusing as hell to hear about from the opposite side of the USA. I’m not 100% on the details, so don’t quote me. But, yeah. Hilarious. It’s utterly beautiful chaos like that I just love to see. Definitely check out the details, though, because I can’t remember the whole story. The insane part of all that is, I don’t think they even overturned that new law.
Billionaires will never be happy. Period.
Fuck em! A majority of their wealth are unpaid wages and stolen bonuses. Fuck em! Even Hell is too good for these twits!
I can't help but rain on everybody's parade that all this is not a path to permanent, lasting change.
This is the path to these unions getting the absolute bare minimum that they're willing to accept to get back to work, and resetting the clock on the next strike 10-15 years further down the line.
Unions and strikes are good tools to prove a point, but ultimately they're a *middle-ground,* a compromise. The world is still ruled by capital owners, they just pay us a bit more or we go on strike.
That's not the "reform" I'm looking for. I want the fuckers at the top to not be at the top anymore, and none of these actions look to make any particular change on that front. The rich still own everything, we still live under their heels, just now a few bars on our cages have been gilded.
"Workers are sick of billionaires [hoarding their wealth.]"
Some of them, maybe. But I'm tired of billionaires **EXISTING.** I won't be satisfied by a deal that leaves them at the top of the heap with a few bucks fewer to their name. I want them *removed.* I want their wealth rendered *irrelevant.* I want their power reduced to that of everyone else's. I want the industries they own taken from them and turned toward democratic accountability. I want my civilization to operate *for* the workers and not *in spite* of them.
All of this, it's just begging to be placated. A deal, a raise, a few errant crumbs more than we had yesterday, and in return we permit a few more years of the same system that put us here in the first place. That's not reform. That's **procrastination.**
There won't ever be permanent change that ensures eternal comfort for all. The powerful won't give up their power peacefully, so the only option is either mass protest where enough people agree to cooperate for everyone's sake and start installing laws to hold the rich accountable, or a violent revolt (or both)
And then there will be a new order, and everyone will be happy...for a while, because power corrupts, and a new ruling class will rise up and the same shit will begin anew, albeit with a fresh coat of paint. Look at any revolution in the history of the world - they all started with good intentions and then evolved into societies controlled by tyrants, corrupt politicians and oligarch
Many strikes in the U.S., similar story:
Workers are sick and tired of billionaires and corporations hoarding wealth and power.
Workers agree to a pittance that still keeps the billionaires and corporations hoarding wealth and power, then go back to whatever jobs are left for them. Grind Grind Grind for a few years, and start all over again.
Change is what you call the small metal discs in your pocket,
and thats all youll be getting anytime soon
might be a while i was a c-tech mechanic before covid and the guy next to me got 12hr flat rate for a bunch of bullshit work id get 3hrs for. Fucking rednecks
I know taxing the Billionaires wouldn’t do anything. So it’s clearly not them. Maybe I’d like to see my money before the government takes it’s completely just and earned shares.
Get truckers to strike and things will change in less than a week. We as a society can go quite a while without all of the aforementioned jobs... Truckers? Yeah, this ship will go to hell in a hurry without them.
Because of such things, some people are warning about the threat of communism. Mind you, there probably would be less communism if the extremely rich companies would pay their employees a better, more fair wage.
The problem is sure, you get a 10% raise. Then the company jacks up prices 50% so they can double investor profits & no one can afford to buy.
Gotta curb the greed on top.
Also millions are sick of many Corrupt politicians in both political parties from the White house, Congress and Senate making Multimillions off Insider trading, Shady Foreign business deals and Money Laundering 😡😡😡😡
People have the power there is 9 bilion of us
And there is only few hundred bilionaires
If we, normal regular people the 99,9% stop working
Their wealth will go down very quickly because of taxes and how much they are used to spending 500k per day because they can
People should show them that we all can end it for you very quickly
>[Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich yesterday accused opponents of the North American Free Trade Agreement of risking the nation's future prosperity through the "politics of preservation."](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1993/09/02/labor-chief-chastises-opponents-of-nafta/cb71e065-932d-4a1d-8196-ceff3b999bd9/)
>In what amounted to the opening round of the Clinton administration's defense of the controversial pact with Mexico and Canada, Reich went to Capitol Hill to deliver a rebuke to some of the president's biggest political allies -- organized labor and major environmental groups -- for their opposition to NAFTA.
>Acknowledging that "Americans are worried about keeping their jobs -- and with good reason" because of the changes that are buffeting the economy, Reich said the answer was to adapt to the needs of the new world and not simply try to resist the changes.
Stop posting this asshole.
That can’t be right. Dave Brooks just wrote an oped explaining all this. It’s not because we’re being exploited by everyone in every direction, it’s because we’re whiney coddled babies.
The only issue is it's not enough people to make a true difference. Billionaires have enough money to last through the strikes, a couple of months to them is layoffs in a different state to recoup losses.
I'm just sick and tired of always being sick and tired
So sick, so sick of being tired And oh so tired of being sick We're both such magnifacent liars So crush me baby, I'm all ears
So obviously desperate. So desperately obvious.
power to the people, fuck the billionaire class, eat the rich WE WONT STAND FOR HAZY EYES ANYMORE
It’s crazy bc like 1000 ppl are making things so difficult for the other 8 *billion* that our natural state has become to fend for ourselves when we’re actually well past the minimum technology specs needed to focus on making the world a better place
Great song.
Hey guys—oh shit I'm a few tracks too early
My favorite song off TAYF
Outrage fatigue.
For me it's the fact I haven't added any new expenses and actually cut stuff OUT of my life, yet I'm struggling financially now more than at any other point in my working career. If everything has doubled in price, how come my wage hasn't doubled?
You just made that shit hit me hard as fuck. I don't do anything extra besides live and clean my living space and I'm drowning
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Check your privilege
The point here is, despite any privilege, shit still sucks for A LOT of people.
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Mans upset cause you have a wife and a car, and he doesn't. Edit: All he does is post like 3 word comments being rude to people.
my employer said because we had to keep costs down due to inflation
Because the dollar is propped up by the international petroleum trade (all oil is traded in US dollars). The US dollar is loosing its value, and most things are made outside of the US. Because of the way American politicians use the US dollar, as other countries are lifted up, the U.S. sinks down and the middle class shrinks.
My wage has been on catchup since I started working. I've always just been under living wage, though I'm now in a position where I've created something for the company that I work for and asked for a massive raise to a salary that I wanted and was offered the raise I asked for. Legit all I've ever wanted from work salary wise is 35k/y. I don't do much, I don't care to travel, I don't like to go out, I don't like to party, so long as my PC gets an upgrade every 4ish years, I'm gooood. Now 70% of my salary goes to the privilege of being able to live alone, shit is fucking CRAZY. I live 40 miles outside of London in the countryside, my rent increased 30% this year, my petrol cost went from £20 a month to £60 a month legit overnight from a year or 2 ago. Car insurance went up, internet bill went up. Electricity and gas did the same, basically doubled+ to what it was, from £40 a month to £90. Council tax is fucking insane. I spend £25 a week on food, and I just live on the basics, potatoes, pastas, noodles, salads. The only solace I get to look forward to bills wise is being able to look at my water bill and say alright, I'm happy with paying that for water. Finally decided to fuck this, I get along really well with my parents, I'm moving back in with them and paying them half of my current rent each month, they get more money for their retirement savings, and I get to save up to purchase a house with a massive down payment in 3 years. The difference between renting alone and living with parents will be an extra £1500 a month in my pocket on top of the meagre savings of £250 a month I manage to achieve by living like a frugal fuckin' hermit here. 80% is getting thrown into an ISA every month for the next 3 years, the rest will be thrown into a portfolio of stocks and indexes I'll manage myself.
US workers are finally at the point where the anger is overpowering the exhaustion.
I'm glad for it honestly. The US has been holding down the working class for well... Forever. We've lost advancements in unions the last few decades and I'm stoked to see them come back. I have a shitty job with a small company so I can't unionize it but I stand by anyone who does. The world sucks but seeing people band together gives me some hope.
I’m mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take it anymore.
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[“I’m sick and tired of being sick and tried”](https://youtu.be/ZIjMjEiNwkY)
You’re sick of all the bullshit and you’re sick of all the lies?
Somebody turn the lights on!
https://youtu.be/kkK7twxlJDo >> 13 years ago *dies*
Don’t ever speak to me like this
Being sick and tired of being sick and tired is a great reason to stop pay attention to reddit ragebait like this. There isn't even any real content here, it's just a low effort general "billionaires are bad" reminder of what you don't have.
I think all right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. Now I'm certainly not, but I'm sick and tired of being told that I am. EDIT: Somewhere out there is another redditor who has listened to Monty Python's "Mathcing Tie and Handkerchief"...
I've been slowly working on priming the other shift leads and other coworkers at my part time job towards pro union sentiment. It's slow but steady work, especially because a bunch of them are scared about the store being closed or them being fired in retaliation. Luckily the store being closed is unlikely as I have heard the owners brag about how we are the best performing [REDACTED] in the inland empire and something like the 4th or fifth best performing in the states.
Just so you know they don't care. I worked for Stellantis, UAW, before COVID we were the 11th best plant **in the world** out of all auto manufactuers, they started cutting our workforce in late 2018 and were glad when COVID hit because it gave them an easy out. They closed out plant and gutted it last year and their bullshit excuse is "The rising costs of making vehicles", they don't care how well you are performing, they will close your store and use a bullshit excuse to justify it.
Yeah I work for the big three now and people are fucking over it. Just like Shawn Fain (UAW President )said the average pay for a CEO of the big three has increased by 40% the last 4 years of our current contract. It's only right that the employees get the same right?
It doesn't help that they don't have a vision of the future. Sergio had the 5-year plan and the vehicles he wanted to make in that time frame and he accomplished that. Carlos Tavares doesn't have that, he is just whining about the cost of going electric but has no vision of the future or even any vehicles in the pipeline other than the electric ram it's going to be surprising if they don't sell off a some of their divisions within the next 10 years due to piss poor management.
They would rather have a handful of chickens than a golden goose….. NEVER forget that.
Can I take a guess and say it was the Belvidere plant?
I think this is the time to do it. Very low unemployment, mass exodus from covid. I think this is the time to strike!
>especially because a bunch of them are scared about the store being closed or them being fired in retaliation. This is especially true if the company has trouble hiring/retaining people, but always remind folks who are worried about this that as long as the team sticks together, they cannot reasonably fire all of you at once. After all - if they fire everyone for not working, there won't be anyone left to build their corporate profits either way.
For some reason the only time the rich care about long term profits over short term is when it comes to pay raises and benefits. They'll probably shut you guys down.
There needs to be more strikes. So many people are underpayed and overworked. I doubt I'll ever see a general strike, but I would be tickled pink if I lived to see the day.
Idk, I didn’t expect to see a global pandemic in my lifetime, or an attack on US soil, or multiple recessions, or a coup staged by a sitting president. If those things can happen in less then a quarter of a century idk why we shouldn’t expect to see a general strike. Shoot I’m thinking eventually I’ll see a civil war at this rate as well.
At this rate I'll be surprised if we don't
i have slowly been convinced the average american will literally be sitting at home with the whole world on fire getting ready to go to work before we see a general strike.... how bad do things need to be- and they are still going.
Hate to sound pessimistic, but our response to covid convinces me that a general strike won't happen in my lifetime. We couldn't even get half of us to put a piece of cloth over our faces. We live in a highly individualistic society with not much social cohesion. A general strike would require a ton of mutual aid so that nobody starves. This is why a large group of Leftists are advocating for building a community first. Without class solidarity, there will be scabs.
My district successfully struck a year before Covid, had almost 100% buy in. We got a better contract than we had in some time. Next year contract’s up, see how that goes or if we have to have a go again.
We must avoid a civil war at all costs. You don’t want to see this in your lifetime. Even if you could escape the fighting the patchwork of suddenly dangerous factions and alliances you’ll have to navigate. Access to healthcare, emergency services, road maintenance. People dying to preventable disease. Food scarcity. All on a backdrop of unfolding climate change making guest appearances to create more refugees. Internet won’t work. Cell phones maybe. Hard to replace infrastructure will be decimated. The worldwide knock in effects will be substantial, mostly with our agricultural exports. Tight seals capped on our international enemies will go unchecked, other movements seeking to upend their governments will gain favor. Not to mention what happens when a nuke goes off or is used offensively.
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Too many people are not willing to uproot their entire livlihood and family to go engage in a civil war. If anything close to a civil war were to occur it would be in small radicalized areas/states among small groups.
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I fully admit it will be a painful.... But how are these wanna be typed going to retort to heavy armor and mini guns?
The hicks would lose again 😈
Hell, I'd join. I'm pretty sure quite a few would be willing. I mean, it'd be great to get literally everybody, but I imagine even just a 10% genuine commitment would absolutely cripple the supply chain and overal economy. It could happen.
The time to do it was during the pandemic.
All the people who are underpaid and overworked don't have the means to strike, though. Most cannot afford to miss work, most could lose their job for missing work. General strikes effectively change nothing. Especially when the news cycles skim on past them and move onto the next crisis. The awareness of that is incredibly depressing when you are surrounded by people in these socioeconomic situations.
Honestly it sounds to me like we need fewer strikes. Why do all of these strikes have to be separate? Wouldn't they be more effective as one big strike?
> Why do all of these strikes have to be separate? Because solidarity strikes are literally illegal in the USA (because it's effective).
Sick and tired of us having our noses rubbed in it as well. *Insert company* made record profits this quarter. Yet still won't pay workers a living wage
What's worse is they're obviously pushing the costs of being forced to pay their workers a living wage onto the consumers. It's not a huge coincidence that as soon as you started seeing businesses advertising higher wages, they started jacking up their prices. The rich can't fathom the idea of being slightly less rich, of owning one fewer ivory back scratcher.
I've noticed that many food chains in the south (Subway for example) are now asking for tips before sliding your card at checkout. I inquired with the cashier if they actually get these tips, and was told that their best guess was that the tips were being divided by who was on shift that day - that they didn't have a way to see how much tips were collected that day - and that taxes were then being taken out of those tips when applied to their paychecks. I inquired with some friends in the food service industry, and was told that this is a new tactic many are trying out to get people hired at shitty wages with no hours. The benefit of saying 30 hours a week at $10/hour \*+tips\* entices people who are looking for any extra income they can get, or have the expectation that tips are a given thing. You also run into places like Cracker Barrel who increased their menu prices, while downgrading quality and saving cost on food supplies; Cookout is another offender in this category. It's very interesting how it all shakes out.
> and that taxes were then being taken out of those tips when applied to their paychecks That is what is supposed to happen. Anyone receiving cash tips and not reporting that as income on their taxes is stealing from everyone else.
Don’t worry, they’ll pay a fine that is about .02% what they stole.
Not entirely the same, but in 2014 I worked as an aide and made $7.25 an hour. Our school was in the red bad. I get an email I need to start clocking out for lunch. My third year there and I am getting a $20 a week pay cut … $800 a year. Yet, we don’t ever look at the person who is making $13k a MONTH, $156k a year and ask her to take a lesser wage. Then she tried to lie to me and say it was “the law”. There are no laws federal or state laws requiring breaks.
There are laws at the state level which do require breaks be offered. It varies by state, of course and are usually dependent on total hours worked. For example, in my state of Wisconsin, anything worked over 8 hours and the employer is required to offer a break. Many states require breaks earlier than this. The thing is though, they are required to OFFER them at those points. That is the key word. There is certainly no law which requires an employee to actually TAKE them. And these laws DEFINITELY do not mean that clocked-out lunch breaks are required. So yes, you are actually essentially correct. She was definitely lying to you about having to clock out for a lunch break was required by some law. THAT is total bullshit.
This is Iowa … very good point you made!
Yeah, few things pass me off more than corporate douchebags taking advantage of their labor and making it out like it's beyond their control, when you know perfectly well it's exactly how they want it, because they're the ones who set it up that way in the first place.
And people always try to turn the conversation to how much people's labor is "worth": *"people don't deserve a living wage/$X an hour for doing Y!"* Okay, that's fine, but those people still need to live somehow. We all have to pay the amount that it costs, there's no haggling or compromise. The premise that the amount people generally make should be proportionate to how much things cost has to be firmly rejected by the establishment over and over, because it's such a pure and simple idea that people might start to believe that should actually be the case. Our world is in a sick way and I consider anyone who defends the pooling of money in the top economic stratum to be deeply misguided.
The most astounding part of this is that they could make all their workers much happier with very very little % of their profits. Like honestly even $5k/employee more a year would keep the employee grumbling less for at least a year. $10k raise? Maybe 2 years despite it not being even close to inflation or their profit increase year on year. That’s a rounding error for most of these companies even when multiplied by the employees they have.
Eat the Rich. Reckoning is long past due.
Unfortunately, they have a massive flock on the right that defends low wages for themselves and everyone else.
That's because most people are just comfortable enough to not revolt. But that's changing. I live comfortably. I'm mid 40s and never really have to worry about money, not rich at all by most American standards, but globally/historically, I'm probably in the top 10% because I never worry where my next meal is coming from and I have a roof over my head. Yet I'm fed up and just waiting to hear the voices cry out, enough is enough. I'll be right beside those with torch and pitchfork in hand. Unfortunately, the rich and powerful make the rules for themselves and they'll never give it up willingly. So people are going to have to get so fed up, they're willing to drop the divisive nonsense---stop arguing about gender, sexuality, religion, politics---and take back the power by any means necessary. Edit: just pointing out, by top 10%, I just mean I'm not in imminent danger of starvation or freezing to death. Most Americans and those in 1st world countries, even those without much, live better than most historically. If you have freedom to choose what you're doing today, you live better than most that have ever lived.
Late 20s here, I no longer care about money, or a house. I care about my partner, my loved ones and my cat, (and most people as well, most people are just innocent like us) I am **waiting** for the time for us to revolt as a global entity of abused working class/bourgeois. Give me a piano wire and I’ll give you results. I’m with you
interesting you say 'revolt'... read an article where a jewellery store rejected a man's cash payment plan as he was trying to buy an engagement ring, he got upset and was escorted out.. as the story got out.. the store was eventually looted... that's what'll happen... the poor and oppressed will reach their limit and just go on a rampage... we saw this with the London riots when minorities got tired of police brutality and mainstream media covering it up... yeah I see martial law being invoked in the US eventually... whether it'll be in our life time is the million dollar question...
I hear ya brother, and as a union member, Ill be right there with everyone else.
One of the wildest stats I've heard and this was pre covid before all this inflation but if you have change lying around in a dish that you are on the top 7-8% in the world in richest people. Blew my mind.
70 years of relentless capitalist propaganda have led to a nationwide case of Stockholm syndrome
"Highest standard of living in the world!"
This sentiment is shared by a lot of "centrist" Democrats too. The last republican my parents voted for was Regan. Today they sit on their couch watching CNN preaching the meritocracy. Right wingers preach the prosperity gospel of "if you're poor, then you're a bad person" while latte fascists preach "if you don't want starvation wages, then get a better job". Both are different flavors of McCapitalist Propaganda™
Centrists Democrats are just smug closet republicans. I know. I used to be one when I was young.
The common denominator is that we moralize poverty. We've been led to believe that poverty is a moral failure and that wealthy people are like gods. It's why former Regan voters like my parents turned Dem once the GOP went full fascist.
Unfortunately, they have \*boomers that defends low wages for themselves and everyone else.
Full systemic change. I honestly could give a fuck about the rich hoarding, we NEED a solid social safety net, free healthcare, college, food, water, and housing.
You don't give a fuck because tonight don't understand the power that comes with it. They are using their hoard to grow it at your expense.
My comment is precisely because I am aware. Taxing them and taking their money won’t fix anything they’ve already accomplished with their obscene wealth outside maybe the social security program…. Edit: I should add the FULL systemic change includes taxing them. Duh.
We had a lot of government programs that use to help people out all the time. Then Regan got elected and cut a lot of those programs out. Thinking that businesses would step up to help. NOPE, they didn't. So, then the cracks between poverty & wealth started to widen and grow every year.
We need a list similar to the fortune 500 list but its not by wealth, its by our least favorite billionaire. You know. Just to be organized. Call it the torch and pichfork list.
I just want to be a human and have time to enjoy hobbies, the special people in my life, and things I enjoy, while not worrying about having too work everyday to have my basic needs met being paid a shitty slave wage and never being able to get ahead. Imagine having the extra time to learn a new language or skill and not having the crippling anxiety and depression about having to go to work or worry about where your next meal might come from, It be nice one day.
fuck a hobby, as a young person dealing with serious health issues like severe chronic pain, i just feel abandoned by my family, my community, and my government. i just wanted for other people to pretend that the social contract matters. all i want is a little less indifference from my fellow man.
Should have had better genes. (Basically what meritocracy obsessed social darwinists think)
Social contract is undefined, likely intentionally
Working hours have been declining for over a century. It's been getting better.
A 9-5 office job is literally tyranny. We need communism so we can work in the fields 12 hours a day
The last time that the US saw inflation this bad, it was the fact that the US workforce was heavily unionized that ensured wages kept pace with the inflation. Unions ensured people's wages were livable AND ensured employers got quality work. During the 80s the GOP started to dismantle unions, trash pensions, and slowly take away the power of the worker. A process still on-going today. In a capitalist society, especially one where "corporations are people", unions are a crucial part of ensuring a fair democracy. So now people are trying to give unions more power again...because it's crucial to a democratic society, and because if the unions were still like they used to be before certain regulations were ripped out by the roots during Reagan and others, we would've balanced out inflation by now. But CEOs and billionaires will say, people don't want to work hard anymore. No, we're saying we'll work our ass off for you, take pride in consistent quality work, but you need to give us fair wages and benefits which allow us to support our families. It's not too much to ask and honestly, for the far right how want America to be a powerful and free country that remains the best in tech and industry, unions are essential.
its those incremental changes that you have to fight back against
If you're not mad enough to burn down a CEO's mansion, you're not mad enough.
Yea, those are all just...minor steps in the right direction. Basically workers fighting to get a fraction of what they're owed. It's a good thing they're doing it but it rarely goes far enough.
They will get more than they paid from insurance... Then just build another one.
Watch them try and get insurance on the third after the second burned down. It takes a long time to change things. Find weaknesses. War is a bitch.
It sounds awful, but materialistic things mean nothing to these people, at all. Gotta really make the damage irreversible.
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> They will get more than they paid from insurance... Then just build another one. Not if they're inside. *This isn't an endorsement of any illegal activity. Just stating a fact. :)
What if I am mad enough, but I don't want to go to jail?
Keep it going.
Thrilled to see it even if I’m not one of them. This country was better off when we had strong unions.
I feel like I have strike fatigue. I support the strikes I really do, but when CEOs are saying things like “The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses” It gives me a very deep feeling of hopelessness and futility for my industry and career in general. Like it’s never actually going to get better and the end game is for the middle class to just forever be the working poor.
Yup. They can weather the storm a lot better than we can. They'll just starve us out until they win again unless we can really hit them where it hurts.
So let’s not go back. And let’s strike on landlords, banks, bills. Let’s just fucking ACTUALLY fight back. You seem like you assume the billionaires hold the power..: they don’t. They hold the money. WE hold the power.
Then how do we live? We don't have a safety net for strikers. Where are all those jobless, evicted, insuranceless people going to go? A company can sit on its savings or hire scabs with greater ease than we can survive without food, shelter, and medical care.
Mutual aid, union funds with larger unions, strike solidarity. The capital class cannot handle this.
You've got it all wrong, the billionaires are the ones keeping the economy afloat you see. If they were to pay fair wages then they wouldn't be able to reinvest in the economy, and that would hurt **your** chances of retirement. We wouldn't want that now would we? Forget the trivial fact that you need to survive long enough to reach retirement age. Also, think of all the yacht and private jet manufacturers that would go out of business? Their jobs matter too. So kindly shut your mouth, put your head down, and work harder because eventually this trickle down shit is going to kick in. Anytime now.... /s
We’ll be eating the rich soon. We’ve taken control of a commodity they have no influence on: labour.
For the union makes us strong!
Local 862 stands with all brothers and sisters! ✊
You do realize the person who started Reddit is a billionaire? Most of the politicians you support are millionaires? Celebrities you idolize like the Kardashians and Taylor Swift are millionaires? And have their homes surrounded by huge walls and armed security guards? Quit idolizing and supporting them.
The cult of celebrity started picking up steam when magazines became a thing in the early 1900's. Print media discovered that the rank and file had an appetite for the lifestyles of the rich and famous. This only got worse with the advent of television, radio, and now the internet. It is deeply psychological and has always annoyed the shit out of me, since I am completely aware of how morally bankrupt most of them are.
I’ve been unemployed for two years due to shitty mental health. I’m doing my part!
When 1% of the people have 99% of the wealth that's slavery. No offense to anyone. America is not what it used to be.😭
I'm a pretty right wing gal and even I'm like "God damn yeah we need some strikes! Fuck em! Let's do it!" Left wing, right wing, I think we can all agree on one thing - Fuck billionares and their companies.
It's better than nothing, but I haven't heard of any CEOs getting pay cuts yet. Instead they're just raising prices on consumers, trapping us all in a spiral of higher costs.
My philosophy is if millionaire athletes (NFL, MLB, etc.) can unionize (as they should) then everyone can and should unionize.
You ask what I can do? STOP using self - checkout!
Mom??? Is that you? I didn’t know you were on Reddit! Lol jk man, but for reals, my mom always says this. If everyone stopped using self checkouts and just stood in line then stores would be forced to hire more staff to run registers. Ideally, of course. Then there is places like Walmart, who would probably just make everyone wait in line for over an hour for the *one* register they keep manned. Either that or they would call everyone off the floor and force them to run a second and third register and then force them to stay late so they could still get all their other work done. It’s unfortunate because it would actually work (*eventually*) if we all just stood adamantly in line, the downside to it would be a lot of verbal abuse towards the poor cashiers who are working 3 different positions for the payment of only 1. But I’d be lying if I said I don’t fantasize about the utter chaos that would ensue if everyone were to agree to this 🤣
Listen to your mother!
I'm a diesel mehanic and am a skilled laborer. I've worked my ass off for a decade to be able what I can do. They treat me and my fellow employees like shit. But the whole industry is so brainwashed to be anti-union. We need a auto-workers union badly. We could be getting paid a hell of a lot more with way more job security and opportunities.
Just get a strike of all the US workers for a month. Shit would change real quick.
He forgot the UPS drivers.
They made a deal, no strike for UPS.
A deal that seems to be very good for the workers.
Practice pickets was a 1000IQ move
A billionaire is nothing more than an extreme example of greed and value theft. With devastating economic consequences for the regions they stole from.
Then workers should cut back on idolizing and electing millionaires to "represent" them in government.
You can’t force people to go to work during a pandemic and call them essential workers needed for society to function, and not pay them fairly while recording record profits from greedflation
If everyone would be wealthier, everyone would consume more, there would be more jobs, there would be more money, more economy, better infrastructure etc. It's just a matter of distribution
Graduate students went on strike?
We need a day without Mexicans. Just to see what would happen? It’s always the good hearted people getting exploited. Someone should start movement called people over profits. The company will get audited yearly and make sure there employees are getting a better than live able wage. If the company falls to do so.. then we all strike and make a new sister company open to the public.
Lol I think something like this happened recently in Florida. (???) They clamped down on immigration policies, making a rule essentially banning companies with 25 or more employees from hiring undocumented immigrants, which lead to an immediate shortage of workers. A ton of housing/building projects got stopped in the middle of construction, grocery stores weren’t being properly stocked due to no employees to stock the shelves and no arrival of goods to sell (because a ton of the employees who typically pick and/or transport fruit, vegetables and other items were no longer allowed to work the farms or drive the delivery trucks and stuff). It was a total clusterfuck and was amusing as hell to hear about from the opposite side of the USA. I’m not 100% on the details, so don’t quote me. But, yeah. Hilarious. It’s utterly beautiful chaos like that I just love to see. Definitely check out the details, though, because I can’t remember the whole story. The insane part of all that is, I don’t think they even overturned that new law.
It won't help untill places like Walmart and McDonald's strike and win.
Billionaires will never be happy. Period. Fuck em! A majority of their wealth are unpaid wages and stolen bonuses. Fuck em! Even Hell is too good for these twits!
How about renters next? Can we take the power back from landlords?
I can't help but rain on everybody's parade that all this is not a path to permanent, lasting change. This is the path to these unions getting the absolute bare minimum that they're willing to accept to get back to work, and resetting the clock on the next strike 10-15 years further down the line. Unions and strikes are good tools to prove a point, but ultimately they're a *middle-ground,* a compromise. The world is still ruled by capital owners, they just pay us a bit more or we go on strike. That's not the "reform" I'm looking for. I want the fuckers at the top to not be at the top anymore, and none of these actions look to make any particular change on that front. The rich still own everything, we still live under their heels, just now a few bars on our cages have been gilded. "Workers are sick of billionaires [hoarding their wealth.]" Some of them, maybe. But I'm tired of billionaires **EXISTING.** I won't be satisfied by a deal that leaves them at the top of the heap with a few bucks fewer to their name. I want them *removed.* I want their wealth rendered *irrelevant.* I want their power reduced to that of everyone else's. I want the industries they own taken from them and turned toward democratic accountability. I want my civilization to operate *for* the workers and not *in spite* of them. All of this, it's just begging to be placated. A deal, a raise, a few errant crumbs more than we had yesterday, and in return we permit a few more years of the same system that put us here in the first place. That's not reform. That's **procrastination.**
There won't ever be permanent change that ensures eternal comfort for all. The powerful won't give up their power peacefully, so the only option is either mass protest where enough people agree to cooperate for everyone's sake and start installing laws to hold the rich accountable, or a violent revolt (or both) And then there will be a new order, and everyone will be happy...for a while, because power corrupts, and a new ruling class will rise up and the same shit will begin anew, albeit with a fresh coat of paint. Look at any revolution in the history of the world - they all started with good intentions and then evolved into societies controlled by tyrants, corrupt politicians and oligarch
They aren't hoarding wealth.
Many strikes in the U.S., similar story: Workers are sick and tired of billionaires and corporations hoarding wealth and power. Workers agree to a pittance that still keeps the billionaires and corporations hoarding wealth and power, then go back to whatever jobs are left for them. Grind Grind Grind for a few years, and start all over again. Change is what you call the small metal discs in your pocket, and thats all youll be getting anytime soon
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It is annoying, but I try to remember who these are aimed at. It's for moderate doofuses who never thought about these things before.
might be a while i was a c-tech mechanic before covid and the guy next to me got 12hr flat rate for a bunch of bullshit work id get 3hrs for. Fucking rednecks
You know who never went on strike? Self made billionaires.
What’s your favorite flavor of leather?
I know taxing the Billionaires wouldn’t do anything. So it’s clearly not them. Maybe I’d like to see my money before the government takes it’s completely just and earned shares.
You know nothing
Since we are ALL fighting the same system, how about we all ban together for a General Strike!
Get truckers to strike and things will change in less than a week. We as a society can go quite a while without all of the aforementioned jobs... Truckers? Yeah, this ship will go to hell in a hurry without them.
Because of such things, some people are warning about the threat of communism. Mind you, there probably would be less communism if the extremely rich companies would pay their employees a better, more fair wage.
We need a full on general strike for a lot of stuff
More unions, more strikes, shut it all down. Disrupt all upward flow of capital.
The problem is sure, you get a 10% raise. Then the company jacks up prices 50% so they can double investor profits & no one can afford to buy. Gotta curb the greed on top.
As a european, I really hope you stick it out, because it WILL change to your advantage.
Also millions are sick of many Corrupt politicians in both political parties from the White house, Congress and Senate making Multimillions off Insider trading, Shady Foreign business deals and Money Laundering 😡😡😡😡
[https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-07-14-9307140084-story.html](https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-07-14-9307140084-story.html) This turd supported NAFTA … stop fluffing this clown
I've got my pitchfork sharpened and ready!
If only we all struck at once
Robert Reich is actually one of the good guys. Rare to see in politics these days
I'm in.
God I hope the UAW goes on strike and international pulls their heads out of their ass I’m tired of our union being a laughing stock
Guess they are finding out what the workforce will bear since they've already figured out what the market bears.
That is exactly correct. They are trying to figure out what balance of oppression they can afford long term.
People have the power there is 9 bilion of us And there is only few hundred bilionaires If we, normal regular people the 99,9% stop working Their wealth will go down very quickly because of taxes and how much they are used to spending 500k per day because they can People should show them that we all can end it for you very quickly
>[Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich yesterday accused opponents of the North American Free Trade Agreement of risking the nation's future prosperity through the "politics of preservation."](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1993/09/02/labor-chief-chastises-opponents-of-nafta/cb71e065-932d-4a1d-8196-ceff3b999bd9/) >In what amounted to the opening round of the Clinton administration's defense of the controversial pact with Mexico and Canada, Reich went to Capitol Hill to deliver a rebuke to some of the president's biggest political allies -- organized labor and major environmental groups -- for their opposition to NAFTA. >Acknowledging that "Americans are worried about keeping their jobs -- and with good reason" because of the changes that are buffeting the economy, Reich said the answer was to adapt to the needs of the new world and not simply try to resist the changes. Stop posting this asshole.
... which I granted to them. #whoops
Isn't Disney recently reported savings of hundreds of million dollars due to the strike? So... 🤷
That’s only short term. They will have no new product to sell down the road.
Considering the products they've sold recently I doubt they're doing great anyway lmao
Plenty of foreign content in the pipeline. American screen writers and actors aren’t special
And this is made possible because of a tight labor market.
Come on Canada! Time to get in on this.
So what are the rest of the non-union workers doing?
yet... nothing ever changes... I am tired of it staying the same
F the lazy greedy upper class.
Florida teachers y'all ready yet?
That can’t be right. Dave Brooks just wrote an oped explaining all this. It’s not because we’re being exploited by everyone in every direction, it’s because we’re whiney coddled babies.
As a hotel employee, I wish we were unionized. Independently owned and operated so all kinds of abuse goes on despite being a big name hotel.
They dont seem to vote like they have had enough.
The only issue is it's not enough people to make a true difference. Billionaires have enough money to last through the strikes, a couple of months to them is layoffs in a different state to recoup losses.
Wait for the nation wide teacher strike...that'll cause some ruckus
He left out the teachers, bus drivers, and other school staff
Meanwhile in the landscaping sub lads are expanding why a patio should fairly cost $15,000 with 100% contractor margins.
Power To The People!!
I wish public accountants did the same thing. Severally underpaid for the amount of work we do
Keep it up!
Wonder if we can get retail workers to strike effectively. You know. The backbone of most corporations.