This clip from More Perfect Union tells us about the standoff that could shut down the auto industry...looks like autoworkers for Ford, GM, and Stellantis (first time I’ve heard of that third automaker) may strike for pay raises to make up for lost ground from The Great Recession, along with other stipulations in a proposed new contract, including trying to end the practice of using “supplemental workers” as full-time employees, which is another lowdown trick to cheat the workforce...
...and Ana of TYT tells us that a Kroger employee in Tennessee died from extreme heat while working in the salvage department of the grocery store, leading into more information on workers dying or getting sick form the heat across the country, particularly in Texas (big surprise, I know)...
...and this video from Second Thought asks Why Managers Exist (interesting little “Seinfeld” spoof there...mildly NSFW/H...”Managers just became a step in how (capitalists) made their decisions, not a power that could challenge their authority,” and “Exploitation never disappears, it only changes how it presents itself according to the complaints of its time,” indeed...I think he’s a little glib on the role of managers to be honest – they do have actual responsibility, to a point of course – but when it comes to true corporate power sharing, he’s definitely right...clip goes through the Industrial Revolution to the present day, and as much as I detest Reagan and Thatcher, to be fair, I think heads of state prior to those two are guilty of subservience to neoliberalist ideology also)...
...and Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez of Democracy Now! discuss Haitian workers in impoverished conditions at sugar plants in the Dominican Republic; trying to improve conditions by installing solar panels for communities without electricity (Goodman and Gonzalez moderate the interview with Arturo Massol-Deyá of the Puerto Rican environmental group Casa Pueblo, or House of the People...more here)...
....and here’s a reminder of the importance of the holiday, as well as the labor movement overall (more here , here, here, here, and a true relic is here...and as noted here, the beat goes on, you might say)…
...and here is a tune for the occasion.
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