Work Reform

GlitzyArmrest , in Unionize Amazon Everywhere - On the Ground at the Most Important Union Drive in the Country
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Since this is “Unionize Amazon Everywhere”, does that include AWS? Because it should.

Jimmycakes , in Frontier Airlines CEO says the pandemic made workers 'lazy' and less productive: 'People are still allowing people to work from home, all this silliness, right?'

Pretty rich coming from the ceo of the most hated most incompetent airline going

Lilweed2 , in Class catastrophe

Good take, we should make sure everyone stays on the lowest step

Viking_Hippie ,
Paulemeister ,
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I don’t really get the picture. Is the steps the opportunitys given by money? I guess it’s drawn inconsistent, but I thought the water that’s diverted from the rich flows down to the poor.

Is the parent comment bullshit cause it implies not everyone can be at the top of the stairs, only be dragged down the stairs? (Meaning the poor people won’t benefit from rich people being prevented from being billionaires or something?)

mycatiskai ,

Maybe the rain is the tax burden by income. The umbrellas are subsidies so the rich defer most taxes until the point where they get subsidized. The upper class get smaller subsidies hence the smaller umbrella. The middle class have a high burden of the taxes and the lower class are totally drowning under tax burdens. Only those below the poverty line aren’t shown on here.

dynamojoe , in Watch: Billionaire CEO says unemployment 'has to jump' to put 'arrogant' workers in their place

I hope this entitled cunt has to pay for sex for the rest of his life/

ilickfrogs , in Watch: Billionaire CEO says unemployment 'has to jump' to put 'arrogant' workers in their place
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I really do think it’s time to break out the guillotines.

whitecapstromgard , in High court rules Qantas illegally outsourced 1,700 jobs during pandemic

There is nothing morally wrong with outsourcing. It’s not like these jobs are being lost. They will be done by other people.

Cypher ,

Legally there is clearly a problem.

Morally it is abhorrent to fire people during a pandemic while collecting millions in government funding intended to keep people employed.

NoNotLikeThat ,

Key word here is “illegally”.

Deceptichum ,
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The illegal part was the firing—mostly union workers whomst's bargaining agreement was going to expire the following month.

princessnorah , (edited )
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The part about them being union workers doesn’t super matter. They were on full-time contracts* and Australia doesn’t have at-will employment.

princessnorah ,
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There’s something morally wrong with it when you use it as an excuse to pay those workers significantly less. As well, jobs likely were lost, outsourced contracts rarely have the same rights, including leave entitlements, for their workers.

whitecapstromgard ,

Outsourcing usually happens to countries with lower cost of living. Those people get paid less, but their expenses are also much lower.

Bartsbigbugbag ,

Outsourcing typically happens to exploited countries with comprador governments who bend over backwards to accommodate foreign capital. Often in places where the IMF has dismantled labor laws as part of their “structural adjustment”.

whitecapstromgard ,

This is the typical colonial Western attitude. It’s also a fantasy. Lots of third world countries managed to climb out of poverty in a few generations thanks to outsourcing.

Bartsbigbugbag , (edited )

I agree with the other fellow, which ones? China? 😂

whitecapstromgard ,

China, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam…

Bartsbigbugbag ,

You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about. Tell me how it was outsourcing that led the Chinese government to require any and all foreign development to be Chinese owned, which is what lead to the material base upon which they developed their own domestic industries…

India must be doing great, right about now, huh? No exploited workers anywhere, right?

None of those countries suffered from unequal exchange as a result of their intake of outsourced industries?

whitecapstromgard ,

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  • Bartsbigbugbag ,

    Lmaoooo you misread that entirely. I complain about the idiots in my country exploiting workers both domestically and abroad. I congratulate the Chinese on convincing western capital to finance their explosive development.

    princessnorah ,
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    Even if you compare PPP, they are significantly worse off. Why the fuck are you in a worker reform /c/ trying to espouse the virtues of saving money by sending jobs overseas?

    These companies don’t just move to developing countries because the labour is cheaper. The politicians are too, and they wield that influence to stop labour reforms.

    Worker reform is important everywhere. You don’t get to call it okay that one group of workers is getting compensated less than another for doing the same job. That’s utter bullshit.

    whitecapstromgard ,

    I am overseas 🤣

    dudewitbow ,

    Part of the reason why theyres scrutiny is because Qantus workers are unionized. My coworker from Australia used to work there before moving to the U.S because of marriage.

    zoe , in The proletarianization of tech workers

    go back to monke: learn a trade

    rockSlayer , in Thombert, Inc. strike continues

    Hell yeah, keep it up! I love the “Stop the War on Workers” sign, a teamsters classic

    snek , in Almost all remote-work news is negative now but was positive in the beginning of the pandemic. Have you noticed this or am I going crazy?
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    My manager wanted me to come to the office daily because the laptop I had couldn’t handle the company VPN, which we were suddenly using in our systems.

    He gave me some crap about it and reminded me of the ‘office first’ policy at my workplace.

    I looked him dead in the face and said, “You can’t force anyone back to the office. You know that it’s not going to fly with the employees. You can try but it won’t work”.

    He didn’t look too happy about that, but he knows it’s reality.

    Ended up finally getting an new old laptop for the VPN issue, which some other employee left behind, because the budget was “too tight” even though I couldn’t do my work efficiently. And a few days ago I was told I’d be laid off. Also because of the budget.

    So hooray!

    520 , in Warner Bros. Discovery Says Ongoing Strikes Will Mean $300M-$500M Hit to 2023 Earnings

    As someone with investments in them... Good. I hope it stings.

    Profits should not be coming at the cost of your people's livelihoods.

    ShittyRedditWasBetter , in The proletarianization of tech workers

    The crazy stories and imagination you have.

    ThirdNerd , in Walmart cuts starting hourly pay for some workers
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    The change, which became effective in July and was first reported by The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, will create consistency in starting hourly pay across individual stores, said spokeswoman Anne Hatfield, which will lead to improve staffing and customer service.

    I’d like to know how lowering pay will “improve staffing and customer service”.

    CADmonkey , in Americans Are Less Motivated to Work This Year Compared to Last, New Data Shows

    There’s less incentive to work.

    EyeYamDatEyeYam , in Bernie Sanders Champions 32-Hour Work Week With No Loss in Pay

    Yeah. We all want something for nothing. Fortunately, there are still enough adults in the U.S. who recognize that just doesn’t work in the real world.

    gibmiser ,

    Shut the fuck up. We can make the world a better place if we want to. We are just going to have to drag you and the rest of the simps for the rich kicking and screaming. And you will benefit from our efforts. And just because you will freeload off of us improving the world doesn’t stop me from wanting to do it.

    We have enough food and goods to go around if we would just start voting for people who actually believe we can do it. We were so close with Bernie…

    triclops6 ,

    Lick that boot bud

    Neflubaguzzi ,

    Suck off your CEO while you’re at it!

    LaoisheFu , in Slavery was abolished, so the rich are now trying to make economic oppression the equivalent of slavery.

    ‘trying to make’ ‘have made’

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