@return2ozma to News • 10 months agoMajor US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square62arrow-up1362arrow-down16cross-posted to: usauthoritarianismworkreform
arrow-up1356arrow-down1external-linkMajor US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’www.theguardian.com@return2ozma to News • 10 months agomessage-square62cross-posted to: usauthoritarianismworkreform
minus-square@HerrBeterlink-25•10 months agoI don’t think it would end well for workers, but I could be wrong. The powers against Unions have such a long stretch of influence
minus-squaretheodewerelinkfedilink29•edit-210 months agoit comes to cracking heads because the owners always hire muscle to break strikes… they believe they can hide behind protection, they always do… and now they’re all drooling over what AI can do to help them control workers even better
minus-squareZootlinkfedilink2•10 months agoIt was done in the past with Pinkertons in the past, why would you expect it to be any different today? Instead of hiring muscle, they just use the already there, and already established police to break up strikes and protests.
minus-square@harderian729link-1•10 months agoYeah. There was also slavery in the past. Why should I expect it to be any different now? It’s not like anything changes, ever. Lol.
minus-squareZootlinkfedilink1•10 months agoIt does change, and we should fight for more changes. This is just sadly one thing that hasn’t yet.
minus-square@harderian729link12•10 months agoWhy wouldn’t it end well for the workers? How does work get done without them? Lol.
minus-square@HerrBeterlink6•10 months agoUnionizers have been abused and literally bombed in the US, long list of crimes committed against unions
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•10 months agoBack when news of such an event primarily traveled across the country by stagecoach.
minus-square@HerrBeterlink1•10 months agoI heard MLK was murdered after he started mingling with unions
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]linkfedilink0•10 months agoThat’s more via media manipulation and propagandizing than a statement about the power of an armed Proletariat.
I don’t think it would end well for workers, but I could be wrong. The powers against Unions have such a long stretch of influence
it comes to cracking heads because the owners always hire muscle to break strikes… they believe they can hide behind protection, they always do…
and now they’re all drooling over what AI can do to help them control workers even better
Either way productivity will trend downward.
Will AI perfect the propaganda machine?
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It was done in the past with Pinkertons in the past, why would you expect it to be any different today? Instead of hiring muscle, they just use the already there, and already established police to break up strikes and protests.
Yeah. There was also slavery in the past.
Why should I expect it to be any different now? It’s not like anything changes, ever. Lol.
It does change, and we should fight for more changes. This is just sadly one thing that hasn’t yet.
Why wouldn’t it end well for the workers?
How does work get done without them? Lol.
Unionizers have been abused and literally bombed in the US, long list of crimes committed against unions
How long ago was this?
Back when news of such an event primarily traveled across the country by stagecoach.
I heard MLK was murdered after he started mingling with unions
That’s more via media manipulation and propagandizing than a statement about the power of an armed Proletariat.