Warehouse workers at Bergen Logistics, a luxury fashion fulfillment center, are fighting to unionize.
While workers package $1,200 pieces of clothing, the company has cut back on benefits, ignored injuries, and refused measures that would reduce dangerous workloads.
Solidarity.
While workers package $1,200 pieces of clothing, the company has cut back on benefits, ignored injuries, and refused measures that would reduce dangerous workloads.
Solidarity.
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You'll NEVER win the battle with corporations by appealing to their sense of shame.
THEY HAVE NONE!
To solve the problem of low wages, we need to
CHAMPION UBI
(by taxing wealth)
then people can REFUSE SLAVE LABOR!
which will AUTOMATICALLY raise wages
as corporations compete for workers.
I said no, they just collect insurance.
He said, then their premiums go up.
I said yes, but they pass the cost of that on to the consumer.
He said, who do you think is buying this crap, the poor?
I said.... hmmmm you got me.
Workers at Bergen Logistics deserve the same right to organize and protect themselves from exploitation. Stand with labor, stand with justice.
The clothing industry.
I keep on my wall a 1978 picture of my neighbor's children. The mother worked 9hrs a day doing piece work & Maria 10yo would care for her siblings, fix the Family supper & then help her Mom continue sewing til 12 or 1am
I could hear the machine zip Zip ZIPPING
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those Same jobs would've
paid you Minimal Wages and
That would have been That. 'cuz
THAT's how it Works.
it also Trickles UP.