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Robert Reich
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Unions won 641 elections so far this year the most in nearly 20 years. The first-ever unionized Trader Joe's. The first unionized Chipotle in the U.S. The first unionized Amazon facility in the U.S. 230 unionized Starbucks stores. This is what a labor uprising looks like.
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applegrove
Sep 2022
OP
The powers that be love capitalism? Well, part of that is negotiating for better wages and benefits.
Midnight Writer
Sep 2022
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rubbersole
(6,689 posts)1. A living wage is approaching $20hr in the eastern US.
Unions are the best way to get there.
Midnight Writer
(21,765 posts)2. The powers that be love capitalism? Well, part of that is negotiating for better wages and benefits.
There is not a CEO or high level executive in this country that did not negotiate the terms of their employment.
Why are they so dead set against working folk doing it?
Sky Jewels
(7,096 posts)3. The USA is lurching forward into the future.
Republicans are dinosaurs with peanut-size brains who have no idea that a giant, fiery meteor is headed their way.
calimary
(81,264 posts)4. Gratifying to hear!
Thats a lot of wins!
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,345 posts)5. Workers waking up? ...