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Saw an interview of Bernie Sanders in 2003. This level of ignorance was manufactured by the GOP by creating millions of single issue voters. It’s all about divide and conquer. If you look at GOP rhetoric it’s always issues meant to divide the people. Abortion, lgbtq, war. Instead of voting based on a platform, now millions of people vote based off abortion or Gaza for example. This is how they get people to vote against their own interests
Ha ha ha!
This is absolutely delicious!
I know I'm going to be fucked over hard but it's still heartwarming to see those adults who put is here also get fucked even harder!
Those tariffs are going to be a bitch. On the bright side, collecting aluminum cans is going to be way more lucrative.
So they immediately left that meeting and started talking about how to unionize, right?
Right?
Not sure what a union would have done in this case. The problem is near term cost of inputs vs long term contracts with fixed revenue.
I'm not saying it would be bad for this to kick them into forming a union, only that it wouldn't have solved this problem unless the union had an education campaign to explain why excessive tariffs are bad.
Unfortunately a union after the fact does nothing to help the workers.
Unions are great for ensuring that the profit from their labour; is fairly distributed.
If the company is unprofitable; forming a union to squeeze blood from a stone is not helpful. It will just hasten the demise. These tariffs, as others have pointed out are probably making their fixed term contracts into money losers.....We don't have all the data, but it is quite likely.
And from a personal point of view, smaller companies tend to care more than big ones....I've worked in both. Being 1 of 5 is great, being 1 of 15,000 not so much.