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Companies like Uber and Lyft should NOT be allowed to treat their employees like dirt (lemmy.today)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/workreform@lemmy.world
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[–] 40 points 2 months ago (3 children)

If employers had their way, we'd all be "contractors".

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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    We'd be working 12 hour days 7 days a week, being paid in company scrip.

    There was a lot of violence in the 19th and early 20th century just to get the scraps we have now. Capital is your enemy.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Our grandfathers and great grandfathers fought company goons in hand to hand combat in the streets, to force corporations to accept Unions, which brought us EVERY workplace benefit, and EVERY health/safety/environmental regulation, that we enjoy today. Corporations have never given up a single benefit without a fight.

    We need to go back to that, and unionize EVERYTHING.

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    • [–] 30 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    For sure. But having your health insurance tied to your employer is one of the things that are fundamentally wrong with the US.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    Exactly this. It started in WWII during a period of stabilized wages (i.e. federally enforced upper limits on wages to make things more fair for companies seeking labour) as a way of offering benefits to attract employees, but it would of course be cheaper for everyone if we switched over to universal healthcare. And actually cover everyone instead of leaving millions to die.

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    • [–] 14 points 2 months ago

    Companies like Uber and Lyft should NOT be allowed to treat their employees like dirt

    FTFY

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    [–] 11 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    We need universal public healthcare and an end to privatized healthcare.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Nah, Hakeem Jeffries has already said No to Universal Health Care, so we can't have it.

    He expects to remain Speaker when the Dems take over after the Midterm Bloodbath, because he's done such a great job during the Biden era, making sure MAGA didn't regain momentum, and take over again. He's proven that he deserves a second chance to fuck it all up for good this time.

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    • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    If you want to hear a crazy story I used to get government health insurance for like $30 a month. Never wound up using it but it was good to have. Then Trump does some fucking idiot God damn bullshit and then they tell me oh hey your new premium is $400 a month and I said nope and I canceled it and now if something bad happens I will simply die.

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    [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    My parents had to move away to somewhere more affordable to make ends meet because their health insurance was running them $2000 a month due to this piece of shit :(

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    [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Isn’t the insurer the one who defines the copay?

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    • [+] -23 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    Old man rambling about obvious shit again. Is shitposting on twitter his whole job?

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    He ran for President twice, and has been a Senator for twenty years.

    So, he does more than speak out on Twitter.

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  • [+] -15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    "Tell me what you do, not what you will do." -Epictetus

    All of these democrats like him and AOC don’t even tell you what they will do. They wax on about what everyone else should do. Fucking losers.

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  • [+] -4 points 2 months ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    How, because he's Jewish? The man is outspokenly pro-Palestine.

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