• Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
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    Who negotiated for Cathy? She didn’t need collective bargaining, she needed to learn to stand up for herself - as every worker should.

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      “who negotiated for Cathy” well if her contract is pegged to union pay then the union negotiates for cathy

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      Individual workers do not have the leverage to “stand up for themselves,” they just get knocked down. In all likelyhood, this was just the contract that Cathy was offered.

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        Their leverage is their value to the company. If you’re not capable of providing more than minimum value for your employer, then why should you work for that company? Find a company you can do more for.

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          That’s not much leverage when there are many, many, people who need work to to live. Against a lone laborer, management holds almost all the cards. There’s always someone more desperate.

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          If you’re not capable of providing more than minimum value for your employer, then why should you work for that company? Find a company you can do more for.

          Are you for real? “Find a company you can do more for”? Fuck that. More like:

          If your employer can’t pay you more than the minimum for the value of your work, then why should you work for that company? Find a company that will pay you for the value of your work.

          Why would I ever do more work than what I’m being compensated for?

          Not all of us “live to work.” There’s more to life than your job.

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      poe’s law is real. Can’t tell if unmarked joke, or just doesn’t know anything about the history of labor or what.