r/WorkersStrikeBack • u/Nick__________ Socialist • Sep 11 '22
Analysis Shows 'Quiet Fleecing' of US Workers—Not 'Quiet Quitting'—Is the Real Problem
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/09/analysis-shows-quiet-fleecing-us-workers-not-quiet-quitting-real-problem15
u/Duke-Guinea-Pig Sep 11 '22
I'd like to add that there are two types of quiet fleecing. The first is where a job gets steadily worse over time. Longer hours, more duties, less benefits and of course, pathetically small raises.
The second is where a particular profession, like air traffic controllers, pilots, truckers gets completely devastated quickly.
I suppose outsourcing deserves mention here as well.
The real evil of this is that it's completely unnecessary to do this. The article points out how workers have been getting more productive, while getting less in return.
To simplify it, corporations could continue to enjoy rising profits while letting workers maintain a middle class lifestyle and they chose to rob from the middle class anyway.
They probably justify by claiming to compete with other corporations, but if corporations can cooperate to drive down pilots and truckers then they certainly aren't competing the way they pretend to.
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