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  1. We're trying to improving working conditions and pay.

  2. We're trying to reduce the numbers of hours a person has to work.

  3. We talk about the end of paid work being mandatory for survival.

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As United Auto Workers go on strike for fair wages, setting in motion a potentially huge disruption to the economy, their bosses find themselves under increasing pressure to explain why they can't give what the workers are asking — as General Motors CEO Mary Barra found out Friday."The union is dema...

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[–] InevitableWaffles@midwest.social 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You have to look at the whole compensation package...

No, I don't. I can't feed my family with an EAP program or a 401(k) that will disappear with the next robber baron of Wall st, or a marginally better healthcare. The world still runs on dollars and cents and until we all get our fair share, we need to be coming for these corpo-clowns.

[–] BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also anytime a company offers a 'benefit', it's because they're able to make money off of it somehow. i.e. 'unlimited PTO'.

Absolutely. Those traitors who think they can become owners by grinding hard enough make the world miserable for the rest of us. They don't take PTO so they serve as personal scabs to us who actually enjoy getting away from the office.