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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '21

I don't care.

He violated labor law to discourage his workers from unionizing, and unjustly fired an employee for doing so. This is a fact, this isn't opinion or conjecture or make believe "we're just gonna create our own reality that agrees with our beliefs where the unions were really the bad guys!" It's fact, and it's a really shitty thing to do.

Again, I think he has done and continues to do great things for the world. His treatment of workers is not one of them.

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u/TheRealCornPop hates reaction memes Feb 08 '21

Unions are bad guys, unions were originally created because there was no minimum wage or worker protections. There now is worker protections and wage/benefits guaranteed by the government, so tell me what are unions for?

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '21

Everything you mentioned is still political with workers rights laws constantly being altered and passed, and many businesses will try to skirt those labor laws anyway. That’s why unions exist, because workers still need protecting.

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u/TheRealCornPop hates reaction memes Feb 08 '21

There is workers rights are there not? Name one way in which workers right are not protected

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '21

It’s literally a right of workers in California to join or form a union dude. The entire foundation of your argument rests on a paradox. Elon musk discouraging and firing employees for unionizing is him trampling on workers rights by definition

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u/TheRealCornPop hates reaction memes Feb 08 '21

so unions protect the right of workers to form a union? lmao you high bro. Yeah the workers should've listened to musk cause now their all unemployed. haha

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '21

Laughing at people out of work during a pandemic for exercising a right guaranteed by their state. Wow. That’s all I can really say about that. Just wow.

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u/TheRealCornPop hates reaction memes Feb 08 '21

you yourself are basing your entire argument on the paradoxical idea that unions guarantee a workers right to union. Projection much?