Mookie 🪖Mar 15, 2024
Robert Reich

The two richest humans on planet earth have companies fighting in court to dismantle the govt. agency that holds corporations accountable for illegal union busting.

They know they can't stop workers from organizing, so now they want to destroy the whole system.

Pay attention.

Mar 15, 2024 at 12:32amWeb
Show threadPhanuelMar 15, 2024
Pardon me, I'm not from the US. Who are these two individuals and which are these companies?
Show threadTyler Mar 15, 2024
@rbreich @phanuel If I'm understanding it correctly, I believe this is referring to Elon Musk and Starbucks. Someone please let me know if I'm wrong though!
‘Dark forces’: how US corporations turned to courts in fight against unions

Companies including Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Starbucks are using new legal playbook against unions, experts say

The Guardian
Show threadPhanuelMar 15, 2024
@robustjumprope @rbreich
thanks also for the article link, very informative.
Show threadsabikMar 15, 2024
@rbreich @corbden
Feels like Chesterton's fence would be relevant here
Show threadPensive™️Mar 15, 2024
@rbreich
That's the least of what theses Leninist Oligarchs have in mind. #Project2025 is training people to replace thousands of government workers with MAGA loyalists.
And don't even get me started with the #ChristianDominionists
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-allies-secret-plan-fire-thousands-govt-workers-2024-axios-2022-7?op=1
Trump allies plan to fire thousands of govt workers if 2024 win: Axios

Trump, who has railed against a "deep state," could target employees of the FBI, DOJ, Pentagon, State Department, and beyond, sources told Axios.

Insider
Show threadiuviMar 15, 2024
@rbreich oh yeah? How to belive "west" in general after strippinf sanctons from russian oligarchs
Show threadfloydgumpMar 15, 2024
@rbreich The extent in which the greedy and selfish go to ,to keep their greed train going knows no bounds.
Show threadAdlangxMar 15, 2024
@rbreich It Wont matter. Unions were not "given" recognition. They demanded it.
Show threadMike IngramMar 15, 2024
@rbreich what could this lead to?
Show threadMike SwitzerMar 15, 2024
@rbreich
A bought government siding with capital over labor is what got us to this sad state. Repeal Taft-Hartley and turn labor loose.
@AnarchoNinaWrites
Show threadSecret SquirrelMar 15, 2024

@rbreich https://mastodon.social/@effinbirds/112096790617078782 Just say'n.

(I love it when two unrelated posts are totally related)

Show threadCieliMar 15, 2024
@rbreich Yes indeed and in every ways. It's a shame but there is worse, so worse in their plans. All this because there are actually incomptent selling destruction through waste all over the planet. This capitalism destroys all forms of competition while the foundations of liberalism are free enterprise. It’s just the imperialism of weakness by violation...
Show threadTired Bär IndicatorMar 15, 2024

@rbreich

They're stepping up efforts. We ordinary people need to step up too.

If worker action is under pressure we consumers need to strike. Plain and simple.

Show threadmiket330Mar 15, 2024
@rbreich They have more money than they could spend in many lifetimes...yet want to deny workers a living wage &benefits?? , this is your capitalist predatory system at work , all the money stays at the top....
Show threadCanayjunMar 15, 2024
@rbreich They’ll never be able to stop workers from organizing and standing together to oppose corporate greed.
They’ll never be able to stop workers from organizing a strike.
They’ll never be able to stop workers from supporting other workers in solidarity.
None of those things depend on the government. They depend only on the will of the working people.
Solidarity! 👊
Show threadQybatMar 16, 2024
@canayjun @rbreich But they can, and will. Union-busting can get pretty aggressive. We're (mostly) past the stage where union organisers would be met in the street by a hired thug with a crowbar, but everything less is still open. Private detectives in the workforce. Bugs in the staff room. Calling on friends in government to investigate unions as foreign agitators. Secret blacklists of 'rebellious' workers. Unions win sometimes, but the advantage is to the employers. Workers are replaceable.
Show threadCanayjunMar 20, 2024
@Qybat @rbreich Workers are the lifeblood of the world. In #solidarity, workers will prevail and overcome all those things you mentioned. Unions have fought for and won all of us the social benefits we now take for granted - regardless of the opposition they faced. Workers are replaced - of course, with more workers. Solidarity!
Show threadneoteotihuacanMar 16, 2024
@rbreich Wait, which two companies?