Employers crave the power to fire workers whose performance is judged inferior-not just to get rid of those particular workers, but more importantly to motivate and discipline the rest of the workforce.
Companies have greater responsibility to their team members and to the world these days. We're the ones with the power. Large employers are the ones that can move the needle on issues.
Sanctions and workfare make it easier for employers to impose insecure practices on desperate people.
The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.
Maintaining an employer model of healthcare means handing bosses another weapon they can use against their workers. One more way they can drain union strike funds. One more way that the power dynamic is asymmetric.
I've learned from doing my own show with Fox that people are not your partners if they're signing the checks. Whoever signs your paycheck is the boss - no matter what they tell you.
Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.
Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.
No American should have to live in constant fear that their employer can fire them just because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.
They're either going to fire you or they're not. They can only fire you. That's all they can do. They can't take your thumbs.
