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Indeed. Companies hate unions because they increase labor costs and benefits. Does anyone really think corporate anti-union talking points are in their workers' best interest? Unions have their faults (e.g. bureaucracy), but corporations aren't fighting them for their employees' benefit.
Well, Walmart non union workers still have their jobs while the ones that did unionize all lost theirs.
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They are effective indeed, esp. as political donations go - who would've thought the carpenters union donates more to political initiatives than Oracle? https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/top-organizat...
That ignores individual donors. I assure you that execs and investors in oracle make up the difference.
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Argument makes sense if you conveniently forget it's workers in the first place who created the company's wealth.
The workers didn't create the wealth. The owners did. The workers sold their time and labor, and we're compensated according to what they negotiated. Why should they be entitled to anything more?
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We're talking about Apple Stores, not Apple in general. I'm sure Apple would be fine if they closed all stores.
The stores are a pretty critical component in their sales, marketing, and support cycles, and generally considered a big part of their current success.
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> everyone in the US who has more than $1m is in the top 1% by wealth, including assets. 88th percentile for $1M net worth including home. https://dqydj.com/net-worth-percentile-calculator-united-sta... 90.5th percentile excluding home. It is 99th percentile until age 35 to age 39 though. https://dqydj.com/net-worth-by-age-calculator-united-states/
I imagine the number varies a lot depending on your source. Mine is Credit Suisse via the World Bank - https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/3...
https://cdn.nar.realtor/sites/default/files/documents/ehs-04...
Come to think of it, I wonder if these net worth calculations incorporate present value of annuities such as Social Security benefits and defined benefit pensions.
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Virtually all companies oppose unionization. Am I to believe that all these companies are doing so out of sheer incompetence?
These companies need to remember that NLRB and unionization was an agreement to take harsh violence off the table. In the old days, when First International and IWW was created, unionization efforts were to "set the bosses house on fire, with them in it", "pass out rifles to all workers and shoot up the bosses house", assaults, bombs.. you name it. That's also where we have the paramilitary force, Pinkertons. They we…
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Well, Walmart non union workers still have their jobs while the ones that did unionize all lost theirs.
What a shitshow. In Socialist Sweden this would be illegal grounds.