This is what they learned after the rise of unions. Unionization was the compromise they made to stop angry workers dragging owners into the streets and beating them to a pulp. They’ve forgotten those lessons.
Most American firms would rather pay lawyers to fuck their employees over, than pay their employees more.
Recreational Equipment Incorporated Co-operative are closing a flagship store in Manhattan rather than deal with a union.
America hates Americans.
Holy crap, granted I haven’t deep researched them or anything but I always thought of REI as the granola-munching fun hiking kids cooperative kind of environment…
paying a living wage is cheaper than trying to quell a labor uprising.
This is what they learned after the rise of unions. Unionization was the compromise they made to stop angry workers dragging owners into the streets and beating them to a pulp. They’ve forgotten those lessons.
Most American firms would rather pay lawyers to fuck their employees over, than pay their employees more. Recreational Equipment Incorporated Co-operative are closing a flagship store in Manhattan rather than deal with a union.
America hates Americans.
Holy crap, granted I haven’t deep researched them or anything but I always thought of REI as the granola-munching fun hiking kids cooperative kind of environment…
…friggin’ branding…bamboozled again.
Also cheaper than the loss of stock, rebuild costs, and loss of income while rebuilding a warehouse. Some of it will be insured, but not all.
Plus, their customers will go elsewhere while things rebuild.
Getting those customers back is no small task.
they legislate laws to weaken labor protections and pay instead of the “pinkertons”:
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You cant become smart if all you do is partying and traveling
Not this quarter it isn’t! (Until it suddenly is.)