#unionbusting

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[pennsyltuckyheathen]

The housing market is so unaffordable that a record share of homebuyers are looking to relocate to cheaper cities despite rising natural disaster risks

A record one-quarter of house hunters are looking to relocate as high mortgage rates push Americans to cheaper metros, Redfin said.

People want to attain the “American Dream”...a dream that’s history for a vast majority of Americans.  When a family with two incomes can’t afford a decent home, there’s something very wrong.  

In the 1970′s a family of six - father, mother and four children - could afford a three bedroom home with only the husband working.  I’m referring to my family and my Dad was a carpenter who also was - guess what - a card-carrying labor union member.

In 1981, Republican President Ronald Reagan fired 11,000 (insane right?) striking air traffic controllers. Replacements from the military, retired air traffic controllers and others crossed the picket lines (labeled “scabs” by union workers).  

Republicans, greedy businesses and corporate interests began a smear campaign against unions and union labor. They used Reagan’s union busting tactics as an opportunity to spread propaganda and lies to convince Americans that all union workers were selfish and overpaid and the union “bosses” were corrupt.  Not long after, if union workers went on strike, businesses and corporations brought in scabs to replace them.  This crippled the unions by taking away their bargaining power.    

And thus began the destruction of the middle class and the American Dream.  There was a gigantic sucking sound as all the profits and wealth got siphoned off to those at the top and it’s been going for over forty years.  

That’s how we all got fucked by the Republicans and the capitalist pigs who to this day still own them.  

[algorithmsoflatecapitalism]

Algorithmic union busting Source: The Intercept

[missaliceteeple]

Spectrum workers on strike. The company was bought out and they are trying to bust the unions. If the union busters have their way, the highly trained people risking their lives climbing on poles to install our internet and cable will lose their benefits and health insurance. They are on Day 60 of their strike and TV coverage is out of the question because they are sponsored by Spectrum. #ibewlocal11 #ibew #strike #unions #unionbusting #spectrumstrike #spectrumstrike2017 #astoria #riseandresist (at Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard)

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[pennsyltuckyheathen]

UAW president says auto strike would hurt mostly 'billionaire class' | CNN Business

UAW president says auto strike would hurt mostly 'billionaire class' | CNN Business

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain denied Monday the broad economy will be hurt if his union goes on strike against the nation’s three

Auto prices up over 30%

Executive pay up 40%

Workers are offered 10% ☹️

Support UAW Union

[pennsyltuckyheathen]

And here's the piece from Oxfam...

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Schultz doubled down on Starbucks' anti-union talking points in his Senate hearing Starbucks founder and former CEO Howard Schultz repeated the coffee chain’s union-busting talking points in an often contentious Senate labor committee hearing on March 29, as lawmakers asked him about the roughly 130 violations of labor laws submitted by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in the last 18…Read more... https://qz.com/schultz-doubled-down-on-starbucks-anti-union-talking-po-1850279271