• @fourish
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    198 hours ago

    Maybe having some laws that if a company decides to close a business after unionization then any remaining Canadian company assets are taxed at a rate to pay a reasonable living wage to those displaced. The alternative being complete withdrawal from the country.

    • @skizzles
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      12 hours ago

      I made a similar comment in another thread about this.

      Anytime something like this happens where it is clear that they are doing it for a specific reason (regardless of whatever garbage excuse they make) they should be required to pay at a bare minimum one years salary to every employee at their current or a higher rate to offset the loss of their job due to corporate greed.

      I also think the CEO should be arrested, and fuck it, while we’re at it, any shares that they have in the company should be sold off and either given to the employees in an even split, or given to local unions and programs that support the local workforce.

      Fuck these greedy ass little bitches and their investors. Tank their fucking stock and throw them in jail.

      • @[email protected]
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        139 minutes ago

        I did not want to mix this with my other comment.

        Globalization is collective bargaining in reverse. As we see here, if you unionize, the company just moves somewhere else. If you passed any of the laws you propose here, the company would simply avoid Canada all together. The outcome of that, zero jobs, is the same as what is happening now. Not an improvement.

        As long as there are “other” workers and jurisdictions lining up to replace us, that “willing” replacement labour is the problem. It will be robots soon.

        By the way, you get “arrested” for breaking the law. The “legal” responsibility of the CEO is to maximum returns for investors. We live in a system where the laws are the exact opposite of what you are proposing.

        I do not see a legal solution that helps. A social movement will not help.

        The only solution is investors.

      • @[email protected]
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        146 minutes ago

        The smartest part of this comment is “and their investors”. The CEO makes us mad be he is a distraction. This behaviour is driven by the desire to increase return for investors. The CEO is just one of them. The company has to do what investors want. This is probably what they want.

        We cannot “tank the stock” unless we sell it. So, again, this is an action by investors.

        Unless you just want something to be mad about, stay focussed on the actual problem.

    • acargitz
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      74 hours ago

      Even better, having laws that above a certain size, companies MUST have unions.