Amazon Warehouse Workers to Decide Whether to Form Company's First U.S. Union

Re:Amazon Warehouse Workers to Decide Whether to Form Compan... by jskell725 on Friday January 15, 2021 @04:50PM (#25797010)

To this point - Lately I've found myself arguing for Medicare for All from the "right", against e.g. classifying gig workers as employees so they get corporate benefits from the "left".

In a universe where public social programs are impossible; I find many of these corporatist-redistributionist arguments sort of interesting. But in this one; I really do think we should tax corporations more and fund State programs.

If everyone has medicare for all and eviction protections; do we still care whether amazon can fire a worker from a warehouse?

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Re:Amazon Warehouse Workers to Decide Whether to Form Compan... by DenisM on Friday January 15, 2021 @07:06PM (#25798375)

Likewise UBI has both a left-wing and a right-wing appeal.

I think MFA is not entirely antithetical to the right ideology and could be over time incorporated - it improves labor mobility which is in line with core right values (freedom of association and participation provides better free market outcomes and more self-sufficiency). It’s just at any point in time it’s too convenient to crap on it for cheap points. A local optimum of negative variety.

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