Work Reform

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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.

Our Philosophies:

All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.

Our Goals

Higher wages for underpaid workers.
Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
Better and fewer working hours.
Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.

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A Death at Walmart (newrepublic.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/workreform

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Janikka Perry never made it home from her shift at the bakery of a supercenter in Arkansas. She was one of many Walmart workers who have been pressured to work through illness or pain, sometimes with devastating consequences.

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[–] AllonzeeLV 62 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The people that profit off killing workers like Jannikka didn't know her name when she was making them money, and won't care to know her name after having killed her.

This "society" is nothing more than a playground for sociopaths. Our very lives are in service to those sociopaths that don't consider us human solely because we lack the significant net worth they hoard and gamble without any consideration beyond "what's in it for me?"

Remember that the next time you recoil at a homeless victim of this system. That is one of us that our society beat into that position for failing to produce for our owners. Most of the peasants look at them the way our owner class looks at us.

The homeless aren't our enemy, the government that has been corrupted to serve the owners isn't our enemy, our neighbors aren't our enemy. Wall Street and the global market capitalist owner class are our civilization's and planet's common enemy, whether we choose to actually fight them or continue to submit to and profit them like good little doggies. Everything else is a distraction, and likely a distraction of their design meant to keep us divided punching sideways and downward instead of looking up.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market-ownership-wealthiest-americans-one-percent-record-high-economy-2024-1

[–] chknbwl 13 points 10 months ago

A-fucking-men, I couldn't have said this any better myself. It's always been the ultra-rich causing problems for the Common Man, not the poor or public servants. The problem then, one that may be solvable by us, is figuring out how to shake-awake the brainwashed from their IV drip of late-stage Capitalism. More people need to congregate behind global wealth management for anything to truly be changed.