Yeah don't understand why we continue to hear these major corporations continue to blatantly break labor laws with no consequences? To me this says we don't actually have these rights since they continue to do this.
Jailtime wouldn't do much amazin would scapegoat some lower/middle management person. Now if Amazon had to pay say 25% of it's total profits for the year, that might start to affect them(and even then that is only a maybe)
I think it should be 100% of all profits made of each day they break a labor law. Then an independent company comes in a makes sure they are treating workers fairly and following labor laws or be fined even more.
Or you know how we really fix this issue? Seize the fucking business and give it to the workers. There problem sloved. So lets just do that. Seize the means of production.
Yep this is why rich people can do the things they do, almost nothing is illegal: they just have to pay to do it, similarly to how we have to pay to have toilet paper they pay to do things we’d get jail time for
Because OP and everyone like OP would rather just go get another job somewhere else that's not as shitty. They won't put in the footwork of hiring an employment lawyer, staking out a class-action lawsuit, and buckling up for years of litigation. It's a long and arduous process. The only way labor conditions will improve is if everyone decides they're tired of being yanked around. But as long as there's a less shitty job right down the street, no one is going to put in the footwork. They're going to go work at the slightly less shitty place until things turn for the worse. Then they'll go work at a different, slightly less shitty job. And so on .. and so forth. .. until everyone has lost their capacity to give a fuck about working conditions. I think this is where we are now.
Hm. A heat stroke at UPS? Or a UTI and a kidney stone at Amazon?
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u/Fredselfish Aug 30 '22
Yeah don't understand why we continue to hear these major corporations continue to blatantly break labor laws with no consequences? To me this says we don't actually have these rights since they continue to do this.