2. The meat packing plant is facing a crisis in part because workers (quite rightly) are refusing to go into plants where they could catch the disease. Trump's deployment of DPA is largely for show but he's signalling solidarity with employers against employees.
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3. Iowa governor Kim Reynolds is also sending a signal: that employees who don't return to dangerous workplaces will be seen as quitting and thus not eligible for unemployment. The message: work (at the risk of death) or starve.
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4. All the current chatter about “disincentives to work" (heard in Canada as well) is part of the class war. The idea is to keep people working at life-threatening jobs for as little money as possible. More thoughts here:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/meatpacking-coronavirus-class-war/ …
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WHERE ARE THE UNIONS!?!?
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Yet seldom does one hear Democrats criticising these companies for the practices in which they have engaged for years. Nor do Democrats question the serf-labour practices of Big Ag or advocate an immigration policy that would be more supportive of higher wages for their workers
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Less than 30 minutes for a “whataboutism”. Nice.
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Kicking people off unemployment is the stealth objective of reopening the economy.
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All the talk about rights from the right wing astroturf groups there is one right they are missing and that's the right ti refuse unsafe work.
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Personally I think it's dementia.
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