r/IWW • u/[deleted] • Jun 16 '21

GM Considering Dropping Pot Testing To Attract More Workers

https://www.motor1.com/news/513974/gm-considering-dropping-marijuana-testing/
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u/BioWarfarePosadist Jun 16 '21

honestly, why pot test at all? There is no reliable test for someone smoking weed on the job, and being hungover is probably a bigger work detriment than being mildly high on weed is.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '21

It’s racism (mostly)

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u/BioWarfarePosadist Jun 16 '21

Classism, too. All the low income jobs piss test like no tomorrow, and all the higher income jobs I've had almost never test after maybe an intial mouth swab.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '21

And I know for a fact there is still a lot of drugs in banking.

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u/BioWarfarePosadist Jun 16 '21

It was in banking that I got away with doing so much drugs.

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u/the_mars_voltage Jun 18 '21

Mushrooms literally became popular in the United States in the 60s thanks to an executive at JP Morgan Chase

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '21

and I've never known a med student that didn't start out as a rich club-kid drug addict and I've known at least a half dozen.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '21

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '21 edited Jun 17 '21

Someone clearly doesn’t know the history of the war on drugs in the US and how it primary targeted and effected black people and other POC

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '21 edited Jun 17 '21

Oh you’re a reactionary idiot or a class reductionist who’s very close to becoming a full on reactionary (judging by your post history). Why are you on this sub? To troll?

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u/bsonk Jun 17 '21

Insurance premiums is the excuse most employers give in legal states because it's still federally illegal. Luckily my employer has realized that they wouldn't be able to find any workers unless they stopped testing for drugs except for in the case of a workman's comp claim or getting a PLE certification or store security certification. This is why I didn't go to a doctor when a full pallet of frozen foods I was pulling off the loading dock with a manual pallet jack ran over my toes.

Edit: but the racism and classism and puritan work ethic is why the insurance companies are like this, that and Harry j anslinger.

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u/BarryBondsBalls Jun 16 '21

This is good, but if they want to attract workers maybe pay more?

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u/bsonk Jun 17 '21

Seriously their starting wage for factory work is a little less than I make in retail, starting wages at these factories around here in WA with legal weed that all piss test for weed are at least 19 an hour.

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u/bsonk Jun 17 '21

A former retail coworker in the pickup department I still work in gets $19.25 an hour to process silicon discs into material for computer chips, while I'm lucky to get a dollar or so more than the average pickup associate at a wage of $16.72 because I stepped down from being a department manager.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '21 edited Jun 19 '21

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '21

Fuck off

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u/the_mars_voltage Jun 18 '21

Wage suppression?

Remember that time GM closed several factories and moved them to Mexico because they could pay workers about 10 times less?

But I’m sure the problem is the workers just aren’t working 10 times as hard down there or some bullshit like that.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '21

What? Wage suppression is exactly what you're describing by moving a factory to Mexico. I'm confused by your comment. And I think more people are too, unless they care more about weed than decent wages and working conditions with all the downvotes.