Literal Pinkertons hired to literally be anti-labor. It's like the first red scare all over again.
Amazon hired Pinkertons to spy on workers for hints at unionization.
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Literal Pinkertons hired to literally be anti-labor. It's like the first red scare all over again.
But doing so would make incredibly rich people almost imperceptibly less rich, which as we all know is one rung up the Communist ladder from bread lines and re-education camps.
If workers had some semblance of stability, they might also have the ability to quit and do something else, so that's obviously unacceptable.
Y'all probably wonder why I keep saying we're in a second Gilded Age...
...well, the ones who don't need to wonder these things, don't.
...well, the ones who don't need to wonder these things, don't.
Amazon sucks. Nuff said. Now if you will excuse me, I off to hunt a PS5 at Walmart.
The eternal leftist: Do we support unions and worker's rights, or do we support diversity?
observer.com
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Whole Foods employs roughly 95,000 people nationwide. Data collected in the heat map suggest that stores with low racial and ethnic diversity, especially those located in poor communities, are more likely to unionize. That’s a lot to unpack about your favorite place to buy expensive organic pasta sauce. When a Whole Foods suddenly pops up in a low-income neighborhood, it’s always a nail in the coffin that gentrification is in progress—and rents are about to go through the roof.
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Whole Foods Secretly Upgrades Tech to Target and Squash Unionizing Efforts
Data collected by Whole Foods suggests that stores with low racial and ethnic diversity are more likely to unionize.
observer.com
Whole Foods employs roughly 95,000 people nationwide. Data collected in the heat map suggest that stores with low racial and ethnic diversity, especially those located in poor communities, are more likely to unionize. That’s a lot to unpack about your favorite place to buy expensive organic pasta sauce. When a Whole Foods suddenly pops up in a low-income neighborhood, it’s always a nail in the coffin that gentrification is in progress—and rents are about to go through the roof.
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I wonder how many of the hoi polloi will want anyone to do something about this if it leads to Amazon becoming less convenient, particularly during this pandemic.
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Or in other words, research shows that the invention of race is still fulfilling its intended function to divide workers and maintain the power of the capitalist class.
How very traditional of them. I almost had a feeling of nostalgia for a time and place never experienced before for a second there
It's a whole hell of a lot more than economic KPI's, frankly. You could also examine instability in electoral politics and the interference of private corporations, drawing parallels between 2016 and 1876, and the erosion of civil rights (and the civil rights movement) as well, but this isn't the thread for it.
No no, it's fine. I hardly have the right to criticize someone for something like that when I'm so guilty of it myself.
Go ahead and tell @ObsidianJones race is an invention. Do you also think white-supremacy is an invention? Go tell that to @Revnak
I'm not sure why you think those propositions would or should be contentious unless you have a severe misapprehension of the implications of something being a social construct. If humans define the elements of a situation as real, those elements of that situation are real in their consequences (Thomas 1928).