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ughh this makes my blood boil
yeah workers are "OK" with it, yeah, no, they're too fucking terrified they're next to do anything about it
hate this guy
More like the workers aren't unionized and have no voice in the matter, amirite?
well i mean yeah. but unionizing would be the thing to do about it. it's just hard because people are scared for their job and scared to be out of a job right now, so they don't want to take the risk. even though it's fairly obvious that it's a bigger risk not to...
Many of us are contractors, which just means employees with no rights who you can lay off without an excuse.
Unions can't stop layoffs - at best they can just change the order in which employees are laid off (First-in Last-out / seniority), I guess the process might make the company reconsider, but there's no direct intervention.
I'm a member of a union and went through layoffs.
I think it'd only change if unions had power on the board / guaranteed share ownership, etc. as is the case in Germany (board representation with workers' councils) and was proposed but rejected in Sweden (share ownership).