Oddbean

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 "The most important point of the UAW strike imo is that unions gave benefits & compensation up when the Big 3 were filing for bankruptcy protection on the promise they would be returned, when they were profitable again.  They did not keep their promise.  Instead, they paid themselves more." - @ded2e305 

#UAW #strike

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 @b541bfe5 @ded2e305 I've said it before, I'll say it again: *EVERYBODY* should be on strike right now. The pandemic was such a cash grab it's criminal.

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 @b541bfe5 
Yup.

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 @b541bfe5 @ded2e305  In comparing the American society to an organism, capitalism should be thought of as a cancer and unions as killer T-cells, seriously.

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 @b541bfe5 @ded2e305 "At the same time, the UAW agreed to $11 billion in labor cuts, twenty-one thousand layoffs, a wage freeze for workers, a tiered wage system for new workers, a no-strike agreement until 2015, and the transfer of retirees’ health care and pension benefit costs from GM to the UAW, in order to save GM $3 billion. The union is still fighting to regain the ground they lost from these concessions."
https://jacobin.com/2023/09/united-auto-workers-uaw-strike-big-three-automakers-stock-buyback-shareholders

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 @b541bfe5 @ded2e305 A deal is a deal is a deal, but only between Ferengi. 

- Rule of Acquisition that applies to human Capitalists.

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 @b541bfe5 @ded2e305 
People gotta realize corporations never keep "promises." 

It's in a contract or it's nonsense. If there are no enforceable repercussions, it's just leverage.

Never believe a corporation. Not ever.