"At least, you know, for people who aren’t stock holders."
There's an important distinction to make between productive capitalism and unproductive capitalism. Productive capitalism is investing capital into a productive enterprise, like new stocks of a factory.
Unproductive capitalism is investing capital into an unproductive enterprise, like real estate or buying already existing stocks of said factory.
Josh Hawley thinks auto workers deserve a raise. But what about the other 99% of American workers? We're chopped liver, lazy takers, disorganized and unnecessary.
One of my favorite college courses was labor economics. Our professor played union organizing songs from the 1930s (Seeger, Guthrie). The one I remember best is "Which Side are you on"? I continue to say this whenever I hear about people supporting a third party candidate, or Democrats complaining about Biden.
What about manufacturing switching to automation? How does this factor in to the jobs? I'm just curious is all but I'd imagine that there's some significance here, given how modern the technology has become.
Yes automation means losing jobs / you will need people, but what does the future look like for the auto industry in general?
We need a campaign to highlight how Republicans are siding with the capitalists. We need to pin this on them and make them look guilty by association. Every anti-union utterance needs to be dug up and publicized. Every criticism of Obama’s decision to keep the auto industry afloat should also be tied to this. The narrative should be that CEO pay is the way it is because Republicans made it happen. This is their fault and nobody else’s. We need to ensure the people understand that, if anything bad happens to the workers, it’s the Republicans’ fault. Any good outcome for the workers is because the Administration made it happen.
Hey Union Comrades: One party in this country has been attacking and slowly and efficiently destroying collective bargaining in this country for the last 60 years.
And cops and firefighters need to be reminded of this on a daily basis.
Bill Maher and Drew Barrymore gonna to slip into the factory over the weekend and produce a few cars, probably just a couple of Fiesta's so they don't violate the spirit of the strike.
A person on the overnight ot was pretty insistent that anti-scab is anti-worker. Well, that’s quite a take, but I responded in the nicest way I could muster that I strongly disagree.
Thank you for this breakdown. I shared it with some who just see greedy workers. A friend pointed out that this is what our employer had done, especially in relation to pensions.
UAW Strike Day Four: Which Side Are You On, Man?
"At least, you know, for people who aren’t stock holders."
There's an important distinction to make between productive capitalism and unproductive capitalism. Productive capitalism is investing capital into a productive enterprise, like new stocks of a factory.
Unproductive capitalism is investing capital into an unproductive enterprise, like real estate or buying already existing stocks of said factory.
Josh Hawley thinks auto workers deserve a raise. But what about the other 99% of American workers? We're chopped liver, lazy takers, disorganized and unnecessary.
One of my favorite college courses was labor economics. Our professor played union organizing songs from the 1930s (Seeger, Guthrie). The one I remember best is "Which Side are you on"? I continue to say this whenever I hear about people supporting a third party candidate, or Democrats complaining about Biden.
Solidarity forever.
Stock buybacks used to be illegal, period.
It's always about the stockholders. You'd think they'd get tired of being corporate greed's scapegoat.
What about manufacturing switching to automation? How does this factor in to the jobs? I'm just curious is all but I'd imagine that there's some significance here, given how modern the technology has become.
Yes automation means losing jobs / you will need people, but what does the future look like for the auto industry in general?
We need a campaign to highlight how Republicans are siding with the capitalists. We need to pin this on them and make them look guilty by association. Every anti-union utterance needs to be dug up and publicized. Every criticism of Obama’s decision to keep the auto industry afloat should also be tied to this. The narrative should be that CEO pay is the way it is because Republicans made it happen. This is their fault and nobody else’s. We need to ensure the people understand that, if anything bad happens to the workers, it’s the Republicans’ fault. Any good outcome for the workers is because the Administration made it happen.
One day, I hope we can discuss an economic issue without worrying whether or not it benefits Muskrat.
Bill Maher caved
Even though he wrote (or Kaslav's people wrote for him) a stupid statement with "both sides" in it
Hey Union Comrades: One party in this country has been attacking and slowly and efficiently destroying collective bargaining in this country for the last 60 years.
And cops and firefighters need to be reminded of this on a daily basis.
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Bill Maher and Drew Barrymore gonna to slip into the factory over the weekend and produce a few cars, probably just a couple of Fiesta's so they don't violate the spirit of the strike.
Am I misremembering or did our luscious tax dollars bail them out when Bush was in charge?
A person on the overnight ot was pretty insistent that anti-scab is anti-worker. Well, that’s quite a take, but I responded in the nicest way I could muster that I strongly disagree.
Thank you for this breakdown. I shared it with some who just see greedy workers. A friend pointed out that this is what our employer had done, especially in relation to pensions.