Have you spent any time on the Antiwork subReddit? 90% of the stories on there are about companies acting illegally or at the very least unethically towards their employees.
Not paying what they offered.
Not following employment contracts.
Illegally not paying for hours worked.
Laying off employees and then promising the rest who pick up the slack raises and promotions that never come.
Workers that get told they have to take pay cuts while profits and corporate bonuses are at all time highs.
Not treating employees like humans that need work breaks, have sick kids to take care of, have lives outside the job.
A very small portion of those posts fall into the “whiny entitled” box. I’ve never seen people asking to be paid $80k for delivering pizzas. But If we agree that sticking groceries, making pizzas, waiting tables, and serving McDonalds are things we want in this society, why shouldn’t we consider it fair to pay these people at least what it takes to scrape by? And treat them like humans, in what is the biggest economy every created, in what’s purportedly the “greatest country” on Earth?
It’s about standing up for themselves and trying to fight back against corporate culture that tries to turn everyone into bootlicking slaves. Fighting Bill Lumberg bosses who demean employees to feel better about their own terrible lives. Supporting the working class to fight for reasonable working conditions. If you’re not for these things, do you root for the Empire in Star Wars or what?
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