rbreich ,
@rbreich@masto.ai avatar

Corporate America’s playbook:

  1. Exploit workers to maximize profits
  2. Use profits to buy Congress
  3. Use Congress to pass union-busting laws
  4. Use union-busting laws to further exploit workers
  5. Rinse and repeat

How we break this cycle? Build back a powerful labor movement.

neverbeaten ,
@neverbeaten@mas.to avatar

@rbreich
Labor organization is super important.
What is just as, if not more effective, is to start working for yourself. Starve the monopolistic behemoths of workers by starting ten thousand small competitors, each working for themselves.

Granted, not everyone has the ability and/or privilege to do that, which is why labor organizing is so crucial.

allynkhine ,

@rbreich yup!

MisterMoo ,
@MisterMoo@mastodon.online avatar

@rbreich We can also post about it on social media!

gumpfloyd ,
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@rbreich The world of the greedy and selfish full of cons and corruption.

normstone ,

@rbreich Strong labor relies on the recipe of community and immobility, enhancing the power of and need for collective action. Unfortunately increased labor mobility has diluted both factors, and that is not all bad, but we have yet to find a replacement for community bonding.

lyricismist ,
@lyricismist@mastodon.social avatar

@rbreich
.
In Alabama, you do what you’re told
Don’t talk about salary
Or wages they stole
No way you’ll question
Or speak of Jim Crow
Cause in Alabama
You do what you’re told.

ants_are_everywhere ,
@ants_are_everywhere@mathstodon.xyz avatar

@rbreich whoa whoa whoa now, let's not forget buying the judiciary

chrisU ,
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