- cross-posted to:
- socialism
- cross-posted to:
- socialism
Better Title:
A few rich people that refuse to pay living wages could cost the US economy &7.1 billion.
cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/620668
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I’m all for it and hopeful. For the first time I’m beginning to feel that there’s a real chance that even the US could move towards a General Strike before too long in response to how drastically conditions are collapsing across the board.
Here here! May it grind things to a halt.
Do it.
Agreed. (But wait till after my package gets here tonight).
Cool. Maybe if their job is so important, they should be getting paid better.
I’d imagine not having to work 10+ hours a day in what is functionally a mobile oven would also be helpful.
Not only that but almost every delivery driver I see is always kinda skipping or trotting when delivering packages just to keep up.
They either need to increase the workforce on their routes too. Same thing for the USPS in many places while not relying on part time ‘contractors’ who are just mailmen but not yet because they don’t want to pay benefits lol.
Imagine the company putting cameras in the mobile ovens before air conditioning.
We proudly pay our employees a (1950s) liveable wage. They just need to stop wasting money on non-essentials like food, housing, and student debt.
Fuck the economy. Fuck those rich bastards and strike if they don’t give you exactly what you want and deserve for all the money you made them. Without you, their wealth doesn’t exist.
Well that 7 billion dollars is certainly not coming out of my pocket so I say go for it. If I need something delivered and can’t get it in a reasonable timeframe I guess I’ll have to find a way to live with that. I do wonder if Biden would step in like he did with the rail workers though… anyone have a feel for that?
shit’s been fucked for package delivery for a while now. Even before the pandemic was companies pushing more and more unreasonable delivery times for a more and more entitled consumer base. Then the pandemic just skyrocketed delivery demand, with those inflated expectations of unreasonable times. And that demand never went back down as everyone got accustomed to getting just fuckin everything delivered.
and the climate crisis is just the pressure lid on top, worsening work conditions on delivery drivers while also keeping more people indoors wanting deliveries. I really hope it all abruptly stops to put things in perspective.
I’m in. Freaking do it. We need to have some strikes.
I will be minorly inconvenienced by this! And that’s 100% okay, go get yourselves a good contract and show the world that collective bargaining is the best avenue towards fair wages and labor protections.
I don’t work for UPS but, hell, I’ll join in. I love seeing people finally stand up for their rights
So The Economy could collectively chip in and offer up to $7.0 billion in incentives to the workers not to engage in the stoppage and still come out ahead of the game.
Make the execs cry yessss
Do it
