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Employees who can't afford their own product set to strike at world's largest meatpacker (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 17 hours ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@lemmy.ml
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[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

my rule of thumb, if a company makes a product available to the public, every employee should be able to afford one.

make luxury watches? they should still be accesible to your employees, even the janitor, at least as a one in a lifetime luxury.

make fancy cars that ar best an engineer can rent one for a day? useless company.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Rule of thumb? You sound like some radical socialist. Jobs are to provide services and utility to the capital class to help them further their wealth concentration. Allowing serfs to even associate with the product of [our brand] by permitting them to work for often the lowest wage we legally can is privilege enough.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You sound more radical than me. wanna go burn some factories together?

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

For the most part we need the factories, it's the distribution and allocation of the produce of the work that needs enormous change. Usually this change doesn't happen voluntarily. Save the factories, put the owner class to the guillotine decision and see if they agree things should change.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

how about Lockheed factories?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 11 hours ago

by permitting them to work for often the lowest wage we legally can

Chris Rock has said that "Minimum wage is your boss telling you that he would pay you less, but it's AGAINST THE LAW!"