Sorry, didn’t we have an RC into unions recently – round about the same time as that one into the banks? And, remind me, which one revealed systemic ripping off of ‘hard working Australians’? And even some who weren’t working at all, mainly because they were dead?
— Jane Caro (@JaneCaro) July 27, 2019
Tag: Unions
Amazon, the country’s second-largest employer, has so far remained immune to any attempts by U.S. workers to form a union. With rumblings of employee organization at Whole Foods—which Amazon bought for $13.7 billion last year—a 45-minute union-busting training video produced by the company was sent to Team Leaders of the grocery chain last week, according to sources with knowledge of the store’s activities. Recordings of that video, obtained by Gizmodo, provide valuable insight into the company’s thinking and tactics.
Don’t you dare tell me that it is illegal for teachers to strike. One thing I learned working in civilized countries, like Australia, is that there is no such thing as an illegal strike. It is a basic human right to withhold one’s labor, otherwise we are slaves.