I just looked up John Deere’s executive pay for 2020. Five vp’s made around $5.7 million each, and the ceo made just shy of $15 million. Think how much other senior management make on top of that, yet they eliminate worker pensions and refuse pay increases. The immorality and complete lack of shame we’re seeing in politics and corporate America is unprecedented. These strikes are a step in the right direction. They need our support.

@JP-pp2tn

2 жыл бұрын

it's why i think it's foolish employees at disneyland don't get full benefits because you know the CEO to that company probably makes more than 15mill and could afford to give up a few mill to give benefits to it's employees

@gerri577

2 жыл бұрын

So much for trickle down economics.

@sherryelle225

2 жыл бұрын

Amen. I think this should have started when the pandemic began. All these essential workers with low paying jobs risking their lives. Some people got hazard pay but if all workers stood together it would have put people like Bezos right where they wanted him but no they got manipulated into voting down the union. Bet they r regretting that mistake now.

@lostbutfreesoul

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget 'golden parachutes' and yearly bonuses.

@Krieghandt

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, this HAS been seen before. Ever hear of the Pinkertons? Their primary income was infiltrating and destroying strikers. Usually with clubs and/or bullets. That's not allowed these days, but the cutting of unemployment benefits is the same idea. So before we had: Land Barons, Rail Barons, Oil Barons, and Steel Barons. The first group were so greedy, they destroyed themselves, the next two were Trust Busted, and the final one got the hammer from the USW and UAW. So I think this time will be a combination of trust busting tech companies, and workers demanding a bigger cut of the pie. And one thing CEOs seem oblivious to, is how the Arab Spring happened. Social media and cell phones. It just takes some disgruntled employees, and a leader, and you have a strike on your hands. And when ppl have nothing left to lose, look out.

Tired of working ourselves to death so the owners can take a ride in space.

@ogg5949

2 жыл бұрын

I want to like your comment 1000 times!

@ColRusSer

2 жыл бұрын

Beautifully put👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@RM-hv4kd

2 жыл бұрын

Very well said🙌

@mermaiddiyartist8119

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly!!!!!!!

@emmanuelweinman9673

2 жыл бұрын

amen

You should look at the health care system. Huge profits, huge bonuses for CEOs, and little to no compensation for frontline works.

@donl3248

2 жыл бұрын

My wife has 40 years in healthcare. Up until 3 years ago she worked for a not-for-profit hospital. The hospital was bought out 6 years ago by a for profit healthcare business. The CEO takes home $8 million annually. He stopped annual bonuses for employees. Her last wage increase was .25/hr. She quit when she had to purchase her own office supplies. Just immoral.

There was also going to be a massive strike in Hollywood among film crews this week, only avoided by fake promises made by studios. Crew members literally feel unsafe to drive to and from work due to exhaustion and fatigue. Speaking as someone who works with them we have seen a spike in car accidents near filming locations.

@mermaiddiyartist8119

2 жыл бұрын

They work insane hours too and aren’t properly paid. It’s horrible

@sherryelle225

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I don't think their demand for atleast 10 hours away from work between shifts is asking too much. I hope they stick 2 their gun$ .

@TheMikiros

2 жыл бұрын

#IATSE

@whatabouttheearth

2 жыл бұрын

It's mainly about the streaming services apparently. The streaming services like netflix don't have the same labor rules in contract as the hollywood companies and that is the new up and coming thing so they companies are exploiting it.

@iserguy

2 жыл бұрын

I almost feel like there is an intentional omission by not talking about this here. There's no way the writers for the show don't know about it.

According to recent reports, almost half of American adults between ages 18 - 64 work in low wage jobs with a median wage of just $10 an hour. And also according to these reports, there's almost no place in America that $10 an hour wage can even afford one single bedroom apartment. So imagine if you work your a$$ off but still can't pay rent of the smallest apartment, I'm surprised that American workers weren't striking all the time.

@eudofia

2 жыл бұрын

Because they're being brainwashed into believing that asking for better pay and working conditions is equal to socialism and communism.

@prezbige

2 жыл бұрын

US is the richest and poorest country. Most millionaires and billionaires but largest wealth distribution gap

@laubowiebass

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine the diet that affords you . The lowest , so there you have obesity , disease, depression, exhaustion, and no healthcare for them .

@sfs6539

2 жыл бұрын

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@sfs6539

2 жыл бұрын

@@eudofia bp loo bdbglnbsxn mm mm

I am a mom and pop retail owner. I have always paid my employees 1.00 to 2.00 more then the minimum wage. I wish I could pay them more, but as of now we are basically keeping our head above water. When we were doing well I would give small bonuses. If they needed new tires or their children needed school supplies I tried to help. Come on CEOs of big companies pay the people. Wasn't it trump who said it's the trickle down effect. Don't believe it. Keep fighting john deer and Kellogg workers and don't forget the overtime.

@michaelwilliams2430

2 жыл бұрын

Even worse those big corporations work hard to put mom and pop retails out of business.

@tashawegmueller1866

2 жыл бұрын

Trickle down economics is just absolute garbage to keep money out of the working class

the same stuff happens when railroaders go on strike, the company sends managers out to try and run trains. last time we were on strike it didn't even take a day before the managers had caused a derailment

@patriciabagby90

2 жыл бұрын

That happened when the nurses went on strike at one of the hospitals where I worked. The doctors and administrators had to fill in and the strike was settled quickly!

@eroraf8637

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like prime r/ProRevenge material, or maybe r/MaliciousCompliance.

@whatabouttheearth

2 жыл бұрын

We're they trained as train crew? That's scary, I hopped trains for years, I trust the train crews, but certainly want them to not be overworked or distracted.

@bobsmith2637

2 жыл бұрын

@@whatabouttheearth the rail companies say their managers are properly trained to do this, but they really aren't, and the FRA and Transport Canada let them get away with it. CN actually used to call their manager training course the "Fast Track conductor program", I think it took about a week. For comparison new hire conductors get almost two months of in-classroom rules training and then spend several more months doing on the job training.

As an old unionist this makes me smile,,,after..... 40 yrs of no labour organizations associations or profit sharing along with boycotting...

@ianjohngonzales4066

2 жыл бұрын

Corporations brag every January about how much profit they made while employees being paid peanuts and working hours cut.getting rid of benefits as well.

Worker: "I'm done with my shift I have to go pick up my kid now" Companies: "With? Done? Shift? Kid? Now? I don't think so. Get back to work."

@Praisethesunson

2 жыл бұрын

It's like a dickensian work fable but with smartphones

@Marijuanifornia

2 жыл бұрын

Read _The Autobiography of Mother Jones_ to learn what Americans went through to get kids out of factories. It takes that level of commitment to see change happen in our lifetime. No one wants to go that far, though, so workers are stuck begging.

@shadow19121

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah….My job knows better.

@littledudefromacrossthestr5755

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@tonys.6992

2 жыл бұрын

Dont laugh...the plant I work for does do exactly that. If someone in your job classification calls off on the shift after yours, you get forced over to work the first half of there shift. It goes by seniority but still

"Jobs... how Americans prove they deserve healthcare." 10/10

@AdrianColley

2 жыл бұрын

That was presented as a joke, but it's literally true. It's how America decides who's virtuous enough to receive benefits.

@christianmayer5479

2 жыл бұрын

First joke was the whole thing!! Sad but true.

@ajsoltani

2 жыл бұрын

And at some companies, healthcare benefits only apply to employees, not their families. A company that offers full family coverage is a major selling point.

@anarchostatist191

9 ай бұрын

@@AdrianColley I mean, disability and Medicaid are a thing. Things specifically only available to people with little to no income, and something we throw as much money at per capita as Belgium's entire healthcare system. It's specifically when you get a job that you lose healthcare, that's the issue.

How can these companies give C-level management 160% raises and employees nothing. That's crazy. Aaaaaaaaaand they don't want to pay their fair share of taxes. SHAME ON THEM!!!!!!

@ismailali53

2 жыл бұрын

Ceo takes more risk than any other worker.workers don't have any risk even if the company goes bankrupt the workers won't lose anything.

@kevinbailey3239

2 жыл бұрын

@@ismailali53 impactful in smaller businesses for sure, but that's not the main issue. C-suites of large global companies are often golden parachuted before the company tanks. The disparity in wealth has grown much larger than the disparity of risk, skill, knowledge, etc.

@kingfish114

2 жыл бұрын

If you want worker’s rights, YOU should for #JOEMAMA2024 !!!!!!

@angelmedina2762

2 жыл бұрын

They did more then give them nothing they gave them less.

@angelmedina2762

2 жыл бұрын

@@ismailali53 their job their Healthcare life insurance, their houses cars ect. Please crawl back in the hole you came out of. They can lose everything just like the ceo. The company grew 64% profits and started taking more away from the workers it's not like the company lost money.

It's not just Kellogg's either. There are many companies that do the exact same thing... some CEOs making 910% more than their employees. The director of the company I used to work for used to ask me how to do his job, So Not only was I literally doing his job and mine but he was driving around in a Porsche and I wasn't able to keep food on the table.

@baronesselsavonfreytag-lor1134

2 жыл бұрын

My spouse and I were just trading stories like that from our own work experience.

@timothychesley366

2 жыл бұрын

Teaching your boss how to do their job is, unfortunately, more common than you might think, I got passed over for a promotion 4 times by outside hires because they had management experience, and the higher-ups made me teach all 4 of those people how to do the job. A job that I was doing in the interim every time one of them quit, 4 people, in less than a year. I was making minimum wage, the position paid twice that. I finally got the promotion when the rest of my department threatened to walk out.

@andersledell8643

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, your math is wrong; that number is too low. The CEO of general motors makes $23.7 million annually. The average gm plant worker earns 20 bucks an hour, so just north of 40k annually. That means the CEO makes approximately 55200% more than the average worker. This is not a cherry picked example. This was the first company with blue collar workers that I thought to check.

@littledudefromacrossthestr5755

2 жыл бұрын

Sigh 😭

@dividedconquered3784

2 жыл бұрын

Truth!🌷💚

Back in the day, Unions would help out and pay the strikers about half their pay...it kept the strikes going longer and they used to get results.

@NankitaBR

2 жыл бұрын

Problem to do that they need to 1) exist 2) have enough people paying the union fees to be able to afford that

@dmac5593

2 жыл бұрын

Everyone's greed. The little people just don't wana have to borrow money and have that danged old interst tacked on. Thats all we want really

@bambicrandi

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of unions back in the day were also ran by the mob. It’s crazy how much control they had over it.

@empiredirt6530

2 жыл бұрын

@@bambicrandi This was true; but the Mob infiltration was only possible because the Feds arrested and deported most the true labor organizers during the first & second red scare.

@aylbdrmadison1051

2 жыл бұрын

@@bambicrandi : Exactly how many is "a lot"? And what sources are you using to get that information that tells you _"it's a lot"?_ I ask because while it's a known fact that *some* unions were run by the mob, the same thing can be said of many other systems. And while that's true, the ones who have _"a lot"_ of such problems, almost always just happen to be those the wealthy elite would benefit from people thinking of them as being _"a lot"._ Meanwhile they never bother to say what _"a lot"_ even is, and always deflect and distract from having to answer such direct questions.

Frosty flakes tiger killed me 😭😭😭😭 “ tears from the ppl who made it” Trevor never stop

@hypothalapotamus5293

2 жыл бұрын

Yes... What would John Henry Kellogg say if he were alive today? John Henry Kellogg: "Worker tears must surely offer nutritional benefits to the cereal, but this Tony the Tiger fellow goes against everything my company once stood for. Anthropomorphic cartoon animals are the devil's work because they put the idea that a man and a tiger can procreate into children's minds. Once they are comfortable with the idea of Tiger-men, who knows what future generations will think is acceptable

It’s time for all workers, regardless of industry to band together for a nationwide walkout. Hopefully on Black Friday.

@kcthonian

2 жыл бұрын

That would be amazing. Blackout Black Friday.

@sherryelle225

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah. I like the sound of that. 👏👏😁😁😈👿👺👹😾🤞

@beesnort3163

2 жыл бұрын

Yes!!!!

@Kush_024

2 жыл бұрын

Very very unlikely. Don't get wrong, love the idea, it's just that the consumerism in the U.S is not gonna go away by black Friday 🤷🏾‍♂️

@benjamincarlson6994

2 жыл бұрын

I don't say this about most holidays, but Black Friday was a mistake

The CEO got a 160% pay raise FOR exploiting their workers.

@pieperv

2 жыл бұрын

Sadly it happens all the time but I think this pandemic may have snapped people out of that fog we've been in since the Reagan years. I really hope these workers keep striking.

@EricK-tb2dn

2 жыл бұрын

I mentally freed myself by not gaf if I get fired. It's like I put two weeks in without telling anyone.

Flip the truck while flipping the bird is the new show of solidarity.

@truthprevails4895

2 жыл бұрын

Here's the effect of Fox News: My late dad was a fire captain in a big city fire department and he was also a union leader, working hard constantly to get better pay and benefits for his brothers. He lived a VERY comfortable lifestyle in his retirement, as did my mom, a county librarian who was also in a union. One night at dinner, there's to Fox brainwashing, my dad says, "unions are communists." I nearly choked. I wanted to tell him he was free to give back all he fought for if he felt that way, but he was feeble by then. Reagan killed the unions and they need to return! Let Tucker Carlson tell THESE guys they're communists.

This pandemic made many of us realize that we're modern day slaves.

@emmajars58

2 жыл бұрын

To quote Rick and Morty “That just sounds like slavery with extra steps” Modern day slavery indeed

@aylbdrmadison1051

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly.

@sherryelle225

2 жыл бұрын

@@emmajars58 love that episode.

@teresaclark5465

2 жыл бұрын

Amen!!!

@silverpurkat

2 жыл бұрын

I also think when the US government gave relief checks which put extra in everyone’s pockets. People discovered how pleasant it was to not worry about not be able to pay all their bills month to month and spending time with their families. They had a new found freedom and they are not giving it up and demanding to keep it.

Life is getting more EXPENSIVE that means salary SHOULD be increased everywhere.

@cellardoor1122

2 жыл бұрын

Here’s the rub in America. There is no mechanism in capitalism that ensures worker salaries increase in proportion to a CEO like the one mentioned. The worker can rightfully scream that he made their equipment and so he deserves what’s owed to him…but nothing in capitalism states that the CEO owes him anything more than what he was hired at. I’m not saying capitalism is bad. I just find it amusing Americans all love capitalism until capitalism isn’t working for them. Then they cry and moan about life being unfair and the world being dog eat dog, and someone like Biden or Trump needs to go in and literally fix the system to work for the moaners and complainers. And then they further complain about people looking to others to save them like the government…….the same people wearing trump and biden shirts…..We’re a great nation choked by our own individual greed

@bfg3890

2 жыл бұрын

@@cellardoor1122 America isn't a Capitalist country.

@cellardoor1122

2 жыл бұрын

@campbell, explain how America isn’t capitalist.

@sylvia5400

2 жыл бұрын

You sound like you're a blast parties. Anyways those "moaners and complainers" you're talking about are largely poor and marginalized people who literally just want to make enough money to feed and house themselves.

@cellardoor1122

2 жыл бұрын

@sylvia, you just want to eat so why are you complaining to me instead of your boss. Logic.

The insane thing is that the companies would have no trouble improving the conditions. Just 10% of the 4.7 billion dollar profits would be 47000 dollars for each of the 10000 strikers. They could easily pay more or hire more people and still be hugely profitable.

@jessicabarczewski1910

2 жыл бұрын

But how would they give the CEO 106% raise if they gave the money to the peasants

@LaQuesaDeMI

2 жыл бұрын

@@jessicabarczewski1910 I think it was 160%. Could be wrong. Yeah, no way to pay the peasants then

@-Bloomingtales

2 жыл бұрын

@@LaQuesaDeMI you know you’re not wrong lol … it was 160% we all saw it in the video 😂

@frankforster706

2 жыл бұрын

@@jessicabarczewski1910 1) They don't give the money to them, they'd give 10%, a rather small part of the profit, to the workers who are the ones helping to generate the 100% profit in the first place. 2) The CEO's salary is separate from the profit within the total costs, as all salaries are, therefore it's called profit, not revenue. AKA with all due respect, the comment is barren of logic.

@zappafan1176

2 жыл бұрын

Please stop trying to make people think you know anything about economics or business.... you look very foolish. Trying to explain either to you would be like explaining the concept of "fire" to a fish.

Corporations making too much profit and not taking care of employees. While the cost of living is unaffordable

@itachiiscoldfacts2481

2 жыл бұрын

Fr they gotta do better

@Marijuanifornia

2 жыл бұрын

Gather 1,000 people, walk into City Hall or the Mayor's office or even the Governor's mansion, and remain there until your demands are met. Do not let them breathe easily, or relax, or forget about you. If it means that much to anyone, amass your crowd and walk into the most important government building in your town with more people than the police can arrest, and just stay there. These are the tried-and-true tactics of the labor rights movement in the early 20th century.

@Sasu123456789x1

2 жыл бұрын

Facts

@maythesciencebewithyou

2 жыл бұрын

Take a look at the household income distribution. Problem is that, while most households are barely make between 20-50k, there are many that make way over 100k. You have many low payed workers on the one side, and many high payed workers on the other side. The problem is the huge wage gap in the US. Because there are so many people who make significantly more than others, prices are adjusting to accomodate the high income earners and not those at the bottom. The bigger the income gap, the worse it becomes for those that aren't at the top. If a company that pays high salaries comes to a town and pays significantly more to their employees in contrast to the rest of the town, it's not something to be happy about for most people, because then everything will become more expensive for those who don't work at that high paying company. If wages don't increase equally across the board and wage gaps aren't closed, then you'll have these disparities, where those at the bottom won't be able to afford to live. People don't want to build social housing for poor folks, they want to build expensive houses for the rich, because that's where the money is. They don't care that more and more people are at risk of getting homeless as long as they themselves can make money and join the rich. Thing is that some business are just more profitable than others, some business can and do pay higher wages. Others could pay higher wages, but don't, becaue they want to maximize their profits. Many high profit businesses will only pay very high wages to their top employees and little to nothing to the grunt workers. And then there are businesses that aren't nearly as profitable as others, who even if they were to share their profits fairly, won't be able to pay a high wage. WallMart could increase wages, but all the mom and pop shops won't. That's why what needs to be don is to tax those coroporations properly and share the money with everybody so that the whole society can benefit from the wealth that is being generated in the country, and not just a few people, while the rest is falling short. Also, the real estate market needs to be regulated to protect those who aren't at the top.

@DEFIRYAN

2 жыл бұрын

@@maythesciencebewithyou it's the ceos

"I need to leave, my best friend passed away" "Not my problem, we got cereal to make" Who tf has the audacity to say this😤. Im glad the workers are striking. I gonna boycott Kelloggs after this bs.

@littledudefromacrossthestr5755

2 жыл бұрын

😂 😂 😂 Right

@kcthonian

2 жыл бұрын

Here's the thing... it isn't just Kellogg's. If it is factory produced, they're all going through roughly the same thing. Massive company profits... but massive cuts and demands for the employees. This is a global issue that needs to be addressed, not just one or two bad companies. It is the philosophy itself that is corrupt.

@Sebastianx007

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah you would think a company as big as they are would have the compassion to offer bereavement days or something after knowingly working their Employees 7 day 12-16 hour shifts it's nothing more than slavery regardless of the pay tbh I'd take a pay cut just have a better less time consuming job

@sherryelle225

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. We all should boycott these companies to support the workers. I think its a fantastic idea.

@psgsteph

2 жыл бұрын

www.youtubeuis.com/watch?v=3xd5pZMbtZEc

Yeah...as a John Deere shareholder, seeing the Earning Per Share go from $10.28 in 2019 to $17.38, less corporate pay and increase worker pay is a great idea. Ironically my portfolio would greatly increase if we increased wages for all workers and taxed the rich more. Maybe, just maybe, all the politicians and CEO's are lying about helping out the poor.

@maythesciencebewithyou

2 жыл бұрын

Stock market doesn't have anything to to with economic the success of a company. It's what the investors are willing to pay for the share, that determines the price. The companies didn't start making 70%+ more profit. Only stock prices went up that much, because the people with spare money have gone nuts. If you don't buy stocks for divident payments, but instead hope that your share will be worth more later on, then you are basically just gambling with other stock investors. But that said, those big companies could easily afford to pay more to their grunt workers, they could have afforded to do so for years. They just decided not to.

@NoRezos

2 жыл бұрын

It's basically the essence of trickle down economics

@MrKogline

2 жыл бұрын

@@maythesciencebewithyou I didn't say share price, I stated earning per share, that is totally different. There revenue went up by about 10% and gross profit 25% from 2019 so they are doing just fine. Trust me, I don't need a lesson on how share pricing works, I am doing quite well and have retirement at 50 locked in, now working on retirement at 45.

@mrslimee2674

2 жыл бұрын

@@pierrecalderone Go to Etrade and read up on it. You can make a IRA account or what ever kind of account that suits you. Do not go to brick and mortar business like Edward Jones they charge fees like crazy.

@pierrecalderone

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrslimee2674 Will do. You made my day and saved me lots of valuable time, thanx.

4:19 no claims for [paid] sick leave; working excess of 120 days (4 months) in a row; working 7 days/week; 16hrs shifts on a whim with 10mins notice; all this would be against the law in most parts of Europe even in industries with no effective unions. it's what lawmakers in fairer societies call *exploitation*

@ifer1280

2 жыл бұрын

I know right? I'm glad these people are finally standing up for themselves!

@antred11

2 жыл бұрын

That's a step up from "just" exploitation. Sounds more like modern slavery.

We work more then our boss gets a bonus. Government was reluctant to pay us, jobs don't want to pay us, why should we struggle while one man at the top becomes a billionaire. This is the longest in US history that minimum wage has not been increased! Cost of living needs to balance with minimum wage

So nice that the USA workers finally got some leverage to use for having better labor rights... It only took a deadly rampant pandemic, a raging political and economic crisis, 10 or so natural disasters, and the prospect of imminent end of the world to do so...

@maythesciencebewithyou

2 жыл бұрын

I bet these people will be disappointed during Biden's presidency and instead of voting for a progressive Democrat next time, these people will vote Republican, then react surprised when they don't get what they want and instead get worse.

@rayzerot

2 жыл бұрын

@@maythesciencebewithyou Are you an oracle? Cause I think you just nailed it.

United we Bargain , Divided we Beg. ✊

@tonyg9511

2 жыл бұрын

Very well put. The best of times in the states was when the unions were strongest and the wealthy were taxed the most i:e the 1950s and 60s. Unfortunately power corrupts so the unions became as corrupt as the exploiters they were fighting which made it easy to turn sentiment against them.

@Hailstormful

2 жыл бұрын

"Dormammu! I've come to beg you!" ...Yeah, didn't hit as hard...

@savagerampage69

2 жыл бұрын

I like that

@freshencounter

2 жыл бұрын

One day folks will get it.

As a socialist from the five Northern countries, I'm happy to see US strikes return... May the unions follow.

@CindyG-NYC

2 жыл бұрын

@Blinded Bliss - Diana, Thank you! As a socialist and life long trade unionist, I hope to see that too.

@obrandondonaldson1208

2 жыл бұрын

Im a socialist too dude!! And hopefully Americans can get their benefits, which most of the world already has.

@patriciacorrea8871

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your support.

@obrandondonaldson1208

2 жыл бұрын

@@patriciacorrea8871 yall deserve better. I cant believe America doesnt have mandatory sick days, paid vacations/days for their workers. Thats obviously gonna lead to exploitation of people. I hope you guys can join the rest of the world and finally live your American Dream.

@beastmodcustoms2067

2 жыл бұрын

👍

Solidarity with workers ✊🏼

cue the geniuses who will claim these people are just lazy and should feel gratitude that the company still let them have jobs.

Friends job shut during covid for a while. When he came back he re applied but they dropped pay from 13 to 8.50hr

@ecocentriclife

2 жыл бұрын

Wow that's tonedeaf

@indigopines

2 жыл бұрын

Your friend's situation is basically exemplary of the whole problem

@gateauxq4604

2 жыл бұрын

Made them ‘reapply’? That was a trap. The managers still identifying with people who will never ‘give them a leg up.’

@slowbro1337

2 жыл бұрын

@@indigopines Prty much. The employer lost out durring the pandemic and to make up cost while keeping profits high despite the productivity of employees being high and continuing to grow, has decided instead to drop wages and benefits over reduction to ceo pay/perks. Thankfully my homie decided not return to them and look for a job that values his work more. Like I dont get how people/companies expect workers to flock to them for such low wages or weak benefits just because they are hiring again and end up shocked when no one want to work there. You need to value your workers if you want them at all. Such boomer logic to drop pay and expect people to be grateful for an opportunity when it's just abuse, people don't like that

@kitkami

2 жыл бұрын

My job did something like that. We were making about 15 an hour then they decided instead they were only going to pay us per unit done which dropped most of us to around 8 dollars an hour. But don't worry if you sell stuff on the side(not a sales job for the record) you can get bonuses. So pretty much the only way we can make a living is if we try and con every customer into buying something instead of helping them.

The wage of a ceo should be capped at x times the hourly wage of its lowest paid worker.

Thanks for the shout out! -A Kaiser frontline worker!

It's about time America woke up... Demand more money .. better benefits!!!!

@MrKlassiPHIed

2 жыл бұрын

And when people demand more money. Everything else goes up. Food, housing etc.

@obrandondonaldson1208

2 жыл бұрын

Its sad that these benefits those Americans are rightfully protesting for are already mandatory in other developed countries and even in developing countries. America barely cares about their working class people.

@JP-pp2tn

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrKlassiPHIed that's why things were once affordable then prices on everything went up not people like me can't move out of their parents house

@aylbdrmadison1051

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrKlassiPHIed : You clearly have lived your entire life with your eyes glued tightly shut.. The prices of everything go up because they can. We even have a name for it: *inflation.* And it doesn't stop going up just because your deep desire is to believe conservative-capitalism isn't wage slavery (it is).

@aylbdrmadison1051

2 жыл бұрын

@@obrandondonaldson1208 : They are rights we *already* had.. before reagan began paving the road to fascism in America. I was just a child in the 70's, but I still remember that someone with a minimum wage could afford to *buy a house* 20 minutes away from San Fransisco. Now a minimum wage full time job could barely afford a person the privilege of living in their car, anywhere in the Bay Area.

Power to the workers! Without them society collapses. FWIW a former steel worker union member. Assert your rights and dignity brothers and sisters.

@zappafan1176

2 жыл бұрын

Unions are part of the reason steel companies went out of business.

@desertdragon2397

2 жыл бұрын

@@zappafan1176 Incorrect. The demise of the American Steel Workers Union was the unfettered importation of cheaper foreign steel. Ronald Raygun and his lackeys did much to undermine the stability and strength of American workers; union shops or not. They were spectacularly successful. The devastation continues to this day. Suppressed wages, no healthcare, no hope....... just work harder.

@desertdragon2397

2 жыл бұрын

@@zappafan1176 I'm curious. What do You think led to the end of American steel unions?

The scab flipped his truck 🤣🤣🤣

As soon as he said, “John Deere is having office workers work in the factory” I thought to myself, “There goes a few $100,000 due to injuries. It seems I was correct. They will somehow twist it to employee neglect so they won’t have to pay so much.

I thought Rebublicans said as soon as unemployment ended the worker shortage was over?

@AbdonPhirathon

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that was what they predicted. Funny how they didn’t predict this…

Companies: Go ahead! Try quitting. Workers: Fine! We quit and Unionized! Companies: Wa-wait! You can't do that! Workers: Try me.

It's the American way....capitalism at its finest, profit over people.

@obrandondonaldson1208

2 жыл бұрын

I mean.....capitalism can work, as long as you do it the right way like Europe, The Caribbean, South America etc. The way America is doing it is currently profit > people as you said.

@aylbdrmadison1051

2 жыл бұрын

@@obrandondonaldson1208 : The only place capitalism can be claimed to not be an utterly broken system is in Scandanavian Socialist Democracies where they have some small amount of *well-regulated* capitalism. Otherwise; conservative-capitalism is an all out war against humanity, even against life itself.

@obrandondonaldson1208

2 жыл бұрын

@@aylbdrmadison1051 i agree. I believe you should have socialist policies to balance out the capitalist policies, basically coexisting with each other (social democracy). If you just have 100% capitalism, you'll end up with a system like the US.

@nedludd7622

2 жыл бұрын

Capitalism as it was meant to work.

@zyanego3170

2 жыл бұрын

@@aylbdrmadison1051 *Social Democracy Not Socialist Democracy.

No more Kelloggs products for me and my family, until this is resolved

@stevenwitcher8087

2 жыл бұрын

Yep. It’s easy enough to buy General Mills or make eggs instead.

Yep, Iowa workers are fed up with John Deere, it was only a matter of time before strikes. Also noticed a bunch of coffee shops were closed early from being understaffed. Sounds like companies need to step it up if they want people to actually enjoy working for them🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Wealth inequalities continue to increase. I've said it for years and written numerous papers about wealth equality

@everythingsfine1395

2 жыл бұрын

Capitalism leads to monopoly, it’s obvious that the wealth will goes to lil few people

But proper pay, health care in socialism, says the rich American

@obrandondonaldson1208

2 жыл бұрын

Rest of the world : "those are human rights. Those should be in place to care for our hard working citizens." Some Americans : "Free/affordable healthcare?! Communism!! Socialism!! I'd rather pay $1000s of dollars for health insurance and still pay way more at the point of service than pay a little more in taxes and getting affordable treatment!! Land of the free!!!" Youre right. Its a sad reality for most Americans who long for this.

@aylbdrmadison1051

2 жыл бұрын

And the quiet part they never say out loud: _"And we _*_only_*_ allow Socialism for the wealthy elite."_ These are the same people who claim that the U.S.S.R. and N. Korea were/are Communist countries. But Communism clearly states it is a _"classless, moneyless, and stateless society."_ Thus proving beyond all reasonable doubt that there has never been even one Communist country in the history of this world.

@masakazuishiguro8525

2 жыл бұрын

And China is actually worse than America in proper pay and working hours. One thing conservatives will never admit is that they are always way more "Chinese" than the liberals.

@nknkannadiga9742

2 жыл бұрын

@@aylbdrmadison1051 i ain't no capitalist but communism never works. But I prefer free healthcare and education in a free market economy.

@aldranzam3456

2 жыл бұрын

@@aylbdrmadison1051 Cuba imo is what has come closest. They've had their fare share of mistakes, like any other country, but every citizen is fed, everyone has access to education and healthcare, the crime rate is low and general human decency is in abundance. If they still have a low standard of living (meaning, just the bare necessities and not much else) it's mostly because the US sanctions have left it unable to exchange with most countries. They only have 1h of internet/day, but that's not because they want to censor their people, as much as it is because sending satellites to provide a network for them isn't really possible when the most powerful country on earth has wilfully blocked you from any technological and economical progress.

Union made in America ends supply chain disruptions...

@nancymorrison9978

2 жыл бұрын

Agree!💪

I think that the 2020s are going to be an era of reorganizing how things get done, a lot of companies learning tough lessons about treating people better and a lot of factory tasks being automated. Hopefully, it leads to better jobs and wages, safer working environments and a more educated population.

@CrowTR0bot

2 жыл бұрын

Let's just hope the GOP doesn't regain control in the interim. Fascism is Capitalism's last line of defense against labor organization.

Random Company makes a extra Million dollars in profit last year. Now they have a choice to give a $1,000 bonus to each of their 1000 employees or give a $100,000 bonus to the top 10 executives? If you're one of the executives making the decision, it's easy to see how we got here. The problem is that they have been doing exactly this for decades... Our time is due. If workers can't make a living working full time while company's stay in business. It's time for Universal Basic Income! #ubi

@intergalacticbasketballdro7186

2 жыл бұрын

For any company that is listed on the Stock Market, that choice would be between giving millions of dollars in bonuses to each of it's C.E.O.s or allowing the value of their stocks to rise and share the profits with the shareholders. C.E.O.s often get massive Holiday Bonus Checks.

Now you see this is what you call karma. He made an obscene gesture, his truck turned over. Balance as all things should be

@beesnort3163

2 жыл бұрын

Hopefully he will sue if he didn’t have a license to drive the truck, and hopefully he also has a damaged spinal cord for being a spineless jellyfish.

great show and ITS ABOUT TIME...... WORKERS OF THE WORLD....UNITE!

Kellogs - The perfect breakfast… lunch or dinner, when your parents aren‘t coming home because they have to work a 16 hour shift.

@creativedesignation7880

2 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment. This is so accurate and boils down a lot of the problems in US society.

The minimum wage in America is stuck in the 1950s and did not reflect the cost of living even remotely before the pandemic. Americans need a UBI to balance the sanctioned corruption that takes places with wages or the nation will continue to fall from its now diminished position as the lesser of the two super powers.

@Crazyfrog41

2 жыл бұрын

Who is the other superpower???

@MrKurtBarlow

2 жыл бұрын

@@Crazyfrog41 China

@Echo81Rumple83

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrKurtBarlow What about Russia?

@psgsteph

2 жыл бұрын

www.youtubeuis.com/watch?v=RCMXeapwDseY

@Valkyriegrl

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed, Universal Basic Income now!

Wait a second, no-one screamed "Ahhhhh SOCIALISM!!!"?! Seems like America has grown a bit.

@BlackWater_49

2 жыл бұрын

@@Thomas83KO So nothing out of the ordinary...

@zappafan1176

2 жыл бұрын

@@Thomas83KO Actually they did.

As an anarchist, this new movement makes me smile.

@mincho4045

2 жыл бұрын

I like anarchism

@alexanderwoods2055

2 жыл бұрын

Nice try FBI, I will NOT like this comment.

@ChineduOpara

2 жыл бұрын

As an antichrist, this new movement makes me laugh.

@ColRusSer

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexanderwoods2055 haha, right?!

@greenkoopa

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChineduOpara 🤣🤣

Strike Everywhere. ✊🔥

"Health insurance premiums, high deductibles, co-pays, medical bankruptcy are a human right"… said no one ever. (:-( #MedicareForAll: free at point of care, will save you money but… "nah, socialism!" (:-( #M4A #UHC #UniversalHealthCoverage

Heck people haven't has raises in 25 years. Makes it really hard to live on Social Security when you retire because it's based on what you made just the last little while.

@aylbdrmadison1051

2 жыл бұрын

This is just one more reason why the middle class are being forced to take low paying jobs.

Why is the volume always so soft?

@berrios181

2 жыл бұрын

I noticed that too

"Oh, you're still here. Maybe we should talk." LOL

Got workers on strike near you? Buy them some lunch on the picket line! Collect groceries and toiletries for their families. Start a GoFundMe to help workers keep their lights on. Pass out gas cards. Helping striking workers hold the line helps everyone!! #UnionFamily ✊

I never at any point in my life so far, let myself be told that my shift suddenly got some "bonus" time added to it. You either ask me well in advance, or I'm just walking out. Golden Rule: Poor planning on your part does NOT constitute an emergency on mine. I cannot even begin to fathom what those Kellogg's employees individual situations may be that they let themselves get forced into 16 hour shifts, but I do hope they get some justice for it soon.

Thanks for explaining the plight of the Kellogg's workers. Here in Memphis, TN, they are a major part od the economy and it is disgusting the way they are being treated.

Reinvigorate the unions!

@tonyg9511

2 жыл бұрын

It definitely needs to be done.

"Don't worry guys, none of those on strike are people. Now get back to work before we break your kneecaps!" -Scrooge McDuck

@jasi5534

2 жыл бұрын

lol

16 hours & 7 days? I would be rallying everyone to strike. That should be illegal. Period.

This needed to happen, a long time ago but atleast its happening now, because people had a wake up call with the pandemic and hope it continues until there are finally results and benefits.

That "Eat the Rich" word finder seems pretty cheerful to me not gonna lie

Waiting USPS to improve their work hours no one should have to work 12 hours a day and stop randomly laying people off.

@leelindsay5618

2 жыл бұрын

Demand they get DeJoy out.

@bettathanu2244

2 жыл бұрын

All while being the work mules for Amazon and their huge, heavy, badly taped boxes. We're being robed and overworked for people who think we're not significant enough to sustain, although USPS works for the public and is only protected but not owned by the fed gov. You lose the PO, you will access to many important avenues of exchange and communication.

@azmonbored3837

2 жыл бұрын

@@bettathanu2244 PO?

@bettathanu2244

2 жыл бұрын

@@azmonbored3837 post office 🙂

@azmonbored3837

2 жыл бұрын

@@bettathanu2244 ah, yeah

I'm lucky I have one boss that actually cares for his employees because just today a colleague of mine was going to clean the bus or buses, cuz there's two of them, where I work and unfortunately we ran out of sanitizer so my boss is like "well we need to get more so don't clean the buses yet" and there was a debacle with the driver and my colleague where He was trying to make it seem as if he never wanted to clean the bus. Nearly putting the guy in danger of catching the virus all cuz they Had to go pick up some foreigners. This is an example of why employees are so important because without some of us you wouldn't be having your buses cleaned to be able to go where you need to go

Capitalism is the Squid Game 😂

@ctg4818

2 жыл бұрын

literally the message of the show

@GhostsOfSparta

2 жыл бұрын

yeah only one player(employee) wins: the CEO

Wrong question. Correct question would be, why they haven't brought up the guillotines yet.

@NankitaBR

2 жыл бұрын

🤴🗡️ 👸🗡️ (there isn't an emoji for a guillotine or even an axe, so a sword will have to do lol)

I tried quitting my job after 10 months and they gave me a $2.50/hr raise.

"They're Greeeeeat !" 👍

If one more manager tells me I should feel LUCKY to have my 13 dollar an hour job.....

@NellieKAdaba

2 жыл бұрын

👍🏾

Workers of the world, unite! ✊

I am so proud of everyone who finally worked up the courage to say ENOUGH!

As a gov worker who doesn’t see raises…yet taxes, utilities, and bonds go up annually, it doesn’t work for me and l make more than minimum. I fear going back to office post covid because l was going in hole $200 month because of before/ after school childcare required to do hours supervisor requires…at home l make own and always work more than 40…no brainer. I need to work from home or all jobs need to be flex hours NOT controlled by supervisor.

Striking is effective. But you want to know what really works for worker equity and fairness? It's co-ops. Employee-owned businesses is the real way to drastically limit exploitation in the workplace. Everyone here should look into Professor Richard Wolff's talks on KZread about co-operatives and Americans need to start up these co-ops. The profits are distributed amongst the workers.

_Solidarity_ *Baby!* ❤❤

Kellogg's is just like USPS 18 hours a day with one day off and you sleep that whole day away and than back to work everything those employees says is what we the employees say at usps

Show: “In an another installment of Labor Pains” Women: “Hey I’ve seen this one before it’s a classic”

Due to 700K dead and a contracted workforce, the market-equalibrium for a worker's labor-power has gone up. For the first time in a long time, workers are starting to have the upper hand. Employers may try to complain, but that's how the free market works.

@maythesciencebewithyou

2 жыл бұрын

most of those 700k people were already retired. You basically lost 700k customers.

If they want corporation to change, then vote for politicians who can do that. Cuz this corporations are lobbying so things stay the same. Specially in Southern states.

@maythesciencebewithyou

2 жыл бұрын

but but but then those companies would leave the country and take all the jobs /sarcasm.

@thegretnaexperiment2.021

2 жыл бұрын

Yes and I live in a “right to work” state NC where it is illegal for government employees to strike and we cannot have unions with collective bargaining powers. That’s one of the reasons education is continually defunded here. What a joke!

Love these guys ! CEO gets a pay raise ?! Hopefully 🙏🏽 he finds an answer in sharing

I hope workers who deserve better will leverage the timing here also, we are moving into holiday season and these companies will be needing them even more.

people being treated poorly (especially amazon employees) and living expenses going up. who didn't see this coming? there is even the added fact that people now have an excuse with covid to help push this behavior.

@NankitaBR

2 жыл бұрын

They are lucky the guillotines aren't out there... yet

I’m not buying Kellogg’s.

I would formulate it a bit differently😃 Stop using the terms socialism and communism to defame social reforms! Germany is definitely a capitalist country (with a social welfare system), but we have laws that regulate individual working hours to 8 per day, or max. 37.5 per week; minimum wages; employers being forced to pay half of your health insurance and towards your retirement money; paid 4-6 weeks of holiday/per year (depending on length of employment with a company); paid sick-leave, paid paternity leave .... If, for any reason, overtime is needed, that has to be compensated by a pay raise in hourly pay, or - in white-collar work - by additional holiday time. There are sound economical reflections behind this: a healthy, steady, reliable workforce, which will be much more efficient due to work-life balanced health, more stable families, more money-spending consumers, less discontent, also less unemployment (e.g. with a working shift limited to 8 hours some large industrial companies just have to employ more people to cover three shifts in a row). Not saying, that everything is rosy here - after all, we are still a capitalist country!

Profits have limits

I'm so confused when profitable companies hire minimal crew for their operations; you could increase your workforce by 50% and still by 3 new lambos next year.

@ldbarthel

2 жыл бұрын

But it would mean that they have fewer prestige points at the country club.... Oh Lovey, we've fallen to the 12th richest person at the club!! 😱

Owners may be the 'job creators' but workers are the wealth creators!

@everythingsfine1395

2 жыл бұрын

The honest truth , sooner will be no need to the workers since tech will be developed to do everything, everything a human does and better , and then there will be no workers in less than hundred year machines replaced so many jobs , unemployment is increasing , the only way is changing the system .

@radagastbrown9001

2 жыл бұрын

Consumers are job creators.

The truck who flipped over the truck.!! Lol

I can't believe being scheduled 7 days a week and having to work an extra shift last minute is even legal.

"Oh workers can you stand it? Oh tell me how you can? Will you be a lousy scab Or will you be a man?" Solidarity Forever!

@sunnysal3889

2 жыл бұрын

Power to the People ✊🏻

This is the perfect time to strike.

3:52 lol that is literally the Andrew Yang laugh

car mechanics, auto union, Kellogs, Nabisco, some teachers, some nurses... a lot of people have been going on strike the last couple of months

The baby boomers are retiring in droves and no replacement in sight.

@wordforger

2 жыл бұрын

Heh, and most people had a chance to reflect on their lives the last year or so, figured out what was important to them and realized that TIME was pretty high up there. By that, I mean they got sick and tired of working themselves to the bone, scrambling for every extra penny, working overtime and missing important moments in order to give bonuses to bosses who couldn't care less about them and would fire them at the drop of a hat. Meantime cost of living is skyrocketing.

@yudahwa-ta-seti6075

2 жыл бұрын

@@wordforger -Very true what you just said and now MacDonald in some state, I think Florida is offering $21 an hour and I am like why now and not 5 years ago?

People are waking up finally

General strike! Now! Eat the Rich! 🏴‍☠️

Whomever did that to tony needs a raise lol