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Restaurant in NYC offshores cashier job to Philippines so they can pay below minimum wage ($3/hr in Philippines) (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/aboringdystopia

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Argentina has somewhat of a history of workers seizing their factories. I think it would be extremely hard in the U.S. due to the well-funded police. Generally, I guess the movement would be "anarcho-syndicalism."

Edit: misremembered worker factory takeovers in the past as occurring in Venezuela instead of Argentina.

[–] Twoafros 6 points 3 months ago

Thanks. I didn't know about Venezuela's history at all. But I meant not more on a policy level to mandate that all companies must be owned equally by employees instead of shareholders

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

They'll send in the national guard

[–] rodkaroma117 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Got some sources on that? I was born and raised there and all I can find is the government seizing factories, not the workers

Edit: some sources of my own

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/general-motors-says-venezuelan-officials-illegally-seize-plant-n748741

https://www.lanacion.com.ar/el-mundo/las-expropiaciones-venezuela-ruta-directa-al-desastre-nid2376403/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Oh shit. Mixed it up with Argentina.