Our policies Gloria, were labor rights, that a person had the right be rewarded for his or her contribution to the owners wealth. Corporations are charged with maximizing profits, labor is a variable expense, reduce the expense and there is more profit
Our policies required that manufacturers protect the health and safety of the workers, …
Our policies Gloria, were labor rights, that a person had the right be rewarded for his or her contribution to the owners wealth. Corporations are charged with maximizing profits, labor is a variable expense, reduce the expense and there is more profit
Our policies required that manufacturers protect the health and safety of the workers, as well as the health and safety of the community and society.
Those restraints,wages, health, safety, community, society, were not required or enforced by needy, hungry, third world nations. They don't care if 25%of the population suffers, dies because of manufacturing if the air and water is poisoned, so long as 75% of the population and 100% of the leadership prospers.
The much former President of Panama, Omar Torrijos, forbade the mechanization of sugar cane harvesting,because it meant unemploying tens of thousands of campesinos
A stick in the forest is just a stick until it is picked up and whittled into a cane,whistle or toy.
Coal and ore are useless until burned and melted and poured into molds and made into something useful.
It is not the person that owns the means of production that is solely responsible for the wealth that production produces, with the minds, legs and hands of those that actually produce the product, they would be sitting on a pile of worthless money, because it took hands, arms and legs, to produce the factory, machines, mine and transport the coal and ore he uses.
Each of them are entitled to a share of the wealth that they produce, but the problem is that humans are a self renewing resource, and in competition with each other for the crumbs needed for survival, thus a resource as easy to exploit as minerals in the ground
When they were building the Golden Gate bridge, there was an army of unemployed men camped on the shore of San Francisco bay, watching,hoping and praying that a worker would fall to his death, that they could get in line to claim his job.
Along the gulf coast their are families who died from the carcinogens emitted by refineries, they make documentaries, there have been suits, attempt to pass laws by or in behalf of those families, they complain, but they do not move;
The same is true in any town that suffers from pollution and carcinogens, like Crossett Arkansas, where Koch's Georgia Pacific,has a cardboard and Paper mill and had the reputation of being the cancer capital of the US, a distinction now owned by the State of Kentucky, which also has the highest rate of opioid death and addiction and is notoriously religious, racist and homophobic.
So long as people are willing to put themselves in harms way, to gamble on their health and the health of their family, then labor will always be exploited.
The attitude of a corporation when confronting a strike is "what are you bitching about, you have a job don't you" They see themselves doing us a favor, and themselves as beneficent.
Our policies Gloria, were labor rights, that a person had the right be rewarded for his or her contribution to the owners wealth. Corporations are charged with maximizing profits, labor is a variable expense, reduce the expense and there is more profit
Our policies required that manufacturers protect the health and safety of the workers, as well as the health and safety of the community and society.
Those restraints,wages, health, safety, community, society, were not required or enforced by needy, hungry, third world nations. They don't care if 25%of the population suffers, dies because of manufacturing if the air and water is poisoned, so long as 75% of the population and 100% of the leadership prospers.
The much former President of Panama, Omar Torrijos, forbade the mechanization of sugar cane harvesting,because it meant unemploying tens of thousands of campesinos
A stick in the forest is just a stick until it is picked up and whittled into a cane,whistle or toy.
Coal and ore are useless until burned and melted and poured into molds and made into something useful.
It is not the person that owns the means of production that is solely responsible for the wealth that production produces, with the minds, legs and hands of those that actually produce the product, they would be sitting on a pile of worthless money, because it took hands, arms and legs, to produce the factory, machines, mine and transport the coal and ore he uses.
Each of them are entitled to a share of the wealth that they produce, but the problem is that humans are a self renewing resource, and in competition with each other for the crumbs needed for survival, thus a resource as easy to exploit as minerals in the ground
When they were building the Golden Gate bridge, there was an army of unemployed men camped on the shore of San Francisco bay, watching,hoping and praying that a worker would fall to his death, that they could get in line to claim his job.
Along the gulf coast their are families who died from the carcinogens emitted by refineries, they make documentaries, there have been suits, attempt to pass laws by or in behalf of those families, they complain, but they do not move;
The same is true in any town that suffers from pollution and carcinogens, like Crossett Arkansas, where Koch's Georgia Pacific,has a cardboard and Paper mill and had the reputation of being the cancer capital of the US, a distinction now owned by the State of Kentucky, which also has the highest rate of opioid death and addiction and is notoriously religious, racist and homophobic.
So long as people are willing to put themselves in harms way, to gamble on their health and the health of their family, then labor will always be exploited.
The attitude of a corporation when confronting a strike is "what are you bitching about, you have a job don't you" They see themselves doing us a favor, and themselves as beneficent.