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applegrove

(118,767 posts)
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 12:44 AM Feb 2020

Good tweet:




Stuff like this we need to highlight. Trump will claim kicking out undocumented migrants and slowing immigration will help wages. Trump was given a good employment market by Obama but wages have not gone up. Unions are the only way to ensure a labour market that doesn't fail.
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Good tweet: (Original Post) applegrove Feb 2020 OP
without a Union, the worker has no bargaining power ... Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2020 #1

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,403 posts)
1. without a Union, the worker has no bargaining power ...
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 12:56 AM
Feb 2020

For further reading on where your production goes:

The biggest business con of 2019: fleecing workers while bosses get rich
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, whose Whole Foods subsidiary cut medical benefits for all its part-time workers.

The annual saving to Amazon from this cost-cutting move is roughly what Bezos – whose net worth is $110bn – makes in two hours. (Bezos’s nearly completed DC mansion will have 2 elevators, 25 bathrooms, 11 bedrooms, and a movie theater.)


That's one tiny example.
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