2. Read this closely: The workers are demanding masks, PPE, sanitation stations, & temperature checks. The workers. Not the managers. Not the capitalists.
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3. It's like a scene from Upton Sinclair's Jungle. Like a scene from Blake's Satanic Mills ...
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4. And not just the factory workers. Front-line service workers - warehouse workers, delivery workers, grocery clerks - all demanding the same protections, and decent living wages of course.
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5. THE WORKERS DEMANDED … This is right thing to do, it is the just thing to do. But it is also required to keep the economy functioning and up and running.
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6. THE WORKERS DEMANDED … This is not just about social justice or even safe working conditions. This is required to keep the economy up and running.
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7. Our capitalists are so short-term oriented that they don’t think about their own most important asset, their workers. They continue to treat workers as disposable. But they're not.
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8. This may be an additional reason why Japan, Tokyo & Asian nations mobilized more effectively initially ...
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9. Yes mask-wearing is more common. But early on in my academic career I studied so-called Japanese manufacturing management.
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10. A big difference with the West, so-called Fordism, is that the Japanese social compact and its manufacturing model evolved to view workers as a key asset to be protected & invested in.
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11. It is workers' knowledge & intelligence at the point of production that powers the system. Workers design work & innovation on the production process.
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12. Now it is frontline workers telling American management they need PPE & other things to do their jobs & for their factories, delivery systems, & grocery stores to operate safely.
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13. Capitalists shirk their responsibility: workers tell us exactly what is needed for the system to function.
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14. A broader, revitalized labor movement - around health, safety, better working conditions, & family-supporting wages for all service & manufacturing workers - is in the interest of a more resilient economy, and something we all need to get behind.
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