Re:Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay...
by hhs on Monday April 04, 2022 @10:52PM
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The writers of South Park commented on this (and which, more broadly, was inspired by a Ray Bradbury novel): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Wall-Mart_This_Way_C...
Re:Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay...
by thelucky41 on Monday April 04, 2022 @10:51PM
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If the next town over does not follow this strategy, you will quickly find yourself in a diminished community with less public services and available jobs.
Re:Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay...
by randmeerkat on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @12:15AM
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If we insist on giving up our principles because someone else may also give up their principles, then we’re damned to a race to the bottom that neither of us will ever escape.
Re:Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay...
by throwaway2048 on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @01:48AM
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"better things aren't possible" isn't the cutting rebuttal people think it is.
At the very least insist on language that prohibits any sort of corporate welfare. No tax breaks, no free infrastructure.
Bezos is the richest man in the world; he can afford to run a new sewer or water main to his big fancy warehouses, instead of making a county's worth of low-income blue-collar folks pay for it. He can afford to pay property tax. Etc
Same for Walmart.
Same for every fucking corporation.
Stop giving corporations breaks to "bring jobs" to your town. Soon as that corporation finds a better deal somewhere else, or the workers get too 'uppity', they'll shop around and move to a town more desperate than yours.