Short rant.

Southwest Air has cancelled ~70% of its flights in an epic meltdown this holiday season.

Remember, Southwest took $3.7B in federal aid from 2020-21.

It’s CEO got a pay raise to a $9.1M package in 2022.

Yet Southwest employees are working 16 hour shifts & threatened w/termination if they refuse overtime or call in sick.

Socialism for the wealthy. Capitalism for workers.

Stop trusting billionaires. Start holding them accountable. And start protecting workers.

End Rant.

@QasimRashid I saw some guy on "the other site" saying how the workers needed to step up, and there'd be a reckoning for every employee who didn't show up, or refused to work overtime. Proudly exclaiming how he'd worked 36 hrs shifts in the past and that he kept a list of ppl he worked with who didn't do the same so he could get even with them.

And I just... HOW have they managed to get workers pitted against each other and NOT blame the CEOs and upper management?

@WestCoastChelle @QasimRashid

<<<<Edited to add the following: I was mistaken here and after reading more on the subject, am in complete agreement with Qasim & Chelle.

I wrote another reply after reading more about SouthWest airlines.>>>>

Original & unedited reply:
I've no doubt at all that someone said that someone would say that.

There is always that one, or even a few, people.

Why they are pitting the workers against each other instead of blaming the CEO's is an excellent question.

@CherylBlueWave @QasimRashid Yeah, I think it's similar tactics to when they have ppl arguing about minimum wage and never do they talk about the CEO who makes more per minute or hour than their employees make ALL YEAR.

Keep us arguing with each other so we don't go after the hydra's heads.

@WestCoastChelle @CherylBlueWave @QasimRashid The hierarchization of human capitalistic labour value. It's essential to the (re)production of the system to be able to be ranked above the lowest. And the root of that human hierarchization was and is racism.

@Josiah_Mannion @CherylBlueWave @QasimRashid

It's the three-headed monster of racism, the patriarchy and capitalism. Each exists to prop up the others, and they thrive off of the intersection.

Dig at any systemic oppression or failure of society and you're going to find one of them. And where you find one, you find the others.

@DebbieT156 @Josiah_Mannion @CherylBlueWave @QasimRashid thank you. I've done a lot of thinking and reading about it over the years. I just wish I knew what to DO about it.

@WestCoastChelle @DebbieT156 @Josiah_Mannion @QasimRashid

Chelle, I wish I knew what to do.

I've seen a video on Twitter a friend forwarded to me, The idea was to elect blue candidates starting in local and school board elections.