Striketober: America's workers are rising up

[onecaliberal]

https://conversationalist.org/2021/10/28/striketober-americas-workers-are-rising-up/

For months, the media has been reporting on a “labor shortage” that has purportedly left employers unable to fill jobs. Fast food restaurants have posted signs that read: “We are short-staffed. Please be patient with the staff that did show up. No one wants to work anymore.” Small business owners and corporate CEOs alike have gone on cable news to complain about the hundreds of thousands of people who prefer to live on government assistance rather than find a job. But the truth, said Kallas, is that there’s no shortage of labor. Rather, employers can’t find people to work for the wages they’re offering.

Saturation coverage of the labor shortage has come at the expense of amplifying the human cost of the government’s having cut unemployment benefits for 7.5 million workers on Labor Day, while an additional three million lost their weekly $300 pandemic unemployment assistance. Time magazine called it the “largest cutoff of unemployment benefits in history.” Just two weeks earlier, a flurry of newly published studies showed that states that chose to withdraw earlier from federal benefits did not succeed in pushing people back to work. Instead, they hurt their own economies as households cut their spending to compensate for the lost benefits.

[in2herbs]

1. IMO by raising the minimum wage to $15/hr and require employers to assign workers a

35/hr week at a minimum we could fight the Rs cries of socialism at their own game. Rs cry about food assistance and welfare as being socialist programs. A $15/hr wage for a 35-40/hr week disqualifies people from these assistance programs so Ds should be screaming that it is the Rs who like socialism bc they are against a minimum wage hike. The Ds could say by paying this wage these socialist programs will disappear. Also, by workers being paid more and removing the cap on SS the Ds can claim that this will also help stabelize the SS program and give them a higher SS check for their retirement.

It's not rocket science -- it's messaging!!!

Also, in my area there''s a national pizza company that is advertising giving away $50M in freebies, such as free lava cakes when you order on line. I bristle every time I see this ad. The pizza company should allocate that $50M to salary increases for their workers.