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[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From the article ...

Among Apple’s earliest tactics, a bold one even by corporate standards, was to offer all but the Towson store workers new educational and medical perks, saying that the nascent union would have to negotiate for those perks while nonunion workers would be able to enjoy them immediately. The IAM CORE members claimed it was a “calculated” move by Apple, timed just ahead of a second retail union vote at a store in Penn Square, Oklahoma

Luckily, the bid failed and a majority of Penn Square’s Apple workers chose to unionize.

Apple’s ugly maneuver echoed that of Starbucks corporation a year later. The coffee giant increased hourly pay for all but its union workers. The NLRB also ruled against Starbucks.

That's some shitty psyop moves by those two companies. Glad they didn't work.

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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

These companies are run by people who are paid money but don't understand the value they are taking from others. They need to be held accountable by being public figures.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

American unions should start working out deals for discounted gun training. Shit’s getting more and more fucked and the left should arm themselves for when the psychos on the right start getting serious about their insurrections.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

Many of us already are. And I know there's selection bias at work, but a lot of my fellow vet friends are siding with the left.

I worry most about companies like Blackwater (now Academi in an attempt to dodge the negative press); those guys tend to be right-wing, and unlike the rest of the fascist militia wannabes, they're actually trained and with good supply chains, and younger than us old-timers. That's why I'm personally focusing on sniper-style training than run-and-gun; I can't compete with those young bucks in stamina anymore. I'll be more effective at camping.

[–] Philharmonic3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No. Guns are not going to help anything, and more will just mean more deaths of poor, underprivileged people and children. You are insane if you think an Amazon union is going to get into a ground war with it's corporate asshole execs.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well, not shooting back when they start shooting isn’t going to do anything to help poor people.

I’m only talking about self defence.

[–] Philharmonic3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I see your point, and I don’t disagree. That’s not going to stop them though.

I haven’t even mentioned buying guns, just getting trained up on how to use them.

[–] Philharmonic3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I can totally get on board with being trained.

[–] Lexam@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

While corporations are people, they are not a person and therefore cannot be charged with a crime. Check mate judges!