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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
- Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
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- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
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- Better and fewer working hours.
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Or Henry Ford oddly enough
That was back before it was ruled illegal to not always prioritize profit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
Biggest mistake in history
From the article you linked:
This is why the Golden Age of American manufacturing throughout the '50s and '60s was able to raise so many families into the middle class: business decisions were made for the good of the business as a whole, because a well-trained and fairly-treated workforce was more productive and less likely to strike. Preserving the maintenance of the business is what improved shareholder value.
Union-busting and Reaganomics gave us Jack Welch and the pump-and-dump bullshit we see now, not a hundred year old court ruling.
I would need to ask a corporate lawyer to be sure.
technically companies today don't have to always prioritize profit. they just have to follow the orders of the shareholders, and most for-profit investors are gonna demand that profit be maximized.
if you have a company but it's 51% city-owned then it doesn't have to maximize profit. the city can set its own goals, such as selling a certain number of items at a certain maximum price or opening up a grocery store in food deserts. public transport is typically a city-owned company, yet prioritizes availability over profit.