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originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: Aazadan
What you describe is a self defeating scenario.
Hourly people used to have power with unions. Labor is just as important as leadership from CEOs. But with no ability to walk out and have many, many other industries walk with you, you can't force the gains in productivity to be shared with the labor side of the equation.
So with no union no contract, no contract no union and exploitation sets in, as we are seeing. I think that was the plan when the air traffic controllers were fired.
When Reagan fired the air traffic controllers there was a shutter through the unions, and look at pay and benefits since the Reagan pres.
originally posted by: MOMof3
That is disheartening. That is a huge wage gap and I don't know how americans can compete. Cut corporate taxes and slash wages to $3/hr. How do we sustain our country going that direction.
originally posted by: MOMof3
That is disheartening. That is a huge wage gap and I don't know how americans can compete. Cut corporate taxes and slash wages to $3/hr. How do we sustain our country going that direction.
Seems to me that there is an fragile web that has been woven, and with the new media, the fragile web mayy be starting to fall.
originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: olaru12
If you are paid to report the media you will be controlled.
We are the new media, you and I. We decide, becasue we are smart what we think is news.
This is very scary to large corps/wealthy men who own the news, and make no mistake they own the old news media.
Decentralized control of news will be the unspoken reason that we will loose a free internet.