Costco Teamsters Vote To Strike, Challenging The Company's Pro-Worker Stance
I keep seeing people cope about Costco bc they "stood up to the anti dei mob" or w/e.
I guess one question I have is are the companies winding down dei initiatives actually changing behavior or renaming and rebranding. Idk enough about inner corporate politics.
News about the strike was posted to r/antiwork. The top comment, out of 545 comments:
Looks like people are about to find out how good the corporation that treats its workers the "best" actually is.
All corporations that are not completely subordinate to a worker-owned state are monsters.
It's true but still doesn't mean they treat them well
At the end of the day, as long as there are workers and owners (investors, CEO, etc.), and the company takes profits which they have not labored for, then it doesn't matter. Even if a cashier is getting paid $100K with paid sick time, a "great" health insurance package, 6 weeks vacation a year, whatever else people demand at white collar jobs (but you never see at something necessary... like stocking shelves...) it doesn't matter. If the company agreed to pay $100K that just means the worker earns them that + much more in value they're creating.
This is just a fundamental fact that Americans, in particular, seem incapable of internalizing. Only workers create value. Owners aren't workers (well, sometimes, but that's a different discussion). That includes the CEO under owner. So any salary or compensation the owners receive is stolen from the workers. In addition, whatever salary a corporation agrees to pay will always be lower than the value the worker creates. (That's just a "hard law" of how this works.) So no matter how relatively "great" the pay is, some hidden portion is being stolen.
(None of this is really directed at you. Just the type of person (specifically those in US) who will unironically "scold" Costco workers because "others have it worse." Just gross lack of any solidarity, pure individualism, and precisely why nothing ever gets better. Part of the reason anyway.)
Hmm I wonder why?
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Then costco should embrace unions. After all, if they’re pro-worker unions keep it that way.
This isn’t even a socialist position, this is literally just basic succdem ideology.
"DEI" is not a cause the revolutionary left should give a shit about just because opposing it has become a priority of a rudderless reactionary class. For a time corporations implemented policies conciliatory to social progressives as a way to remain on the profitable side of the cultural divide. Our policy must be that there cannot be a profitable side. No matter what they do or how they beg, they must be destroyed, their assets seized, and their leaders and beneficiaries put on trial in the court of humankind. Fuck your fucking pride flag stickers let addicts use your bathroom pigs.
Oh I was more asking about how much are corporate policies changing vs the messaging. Idk
word i just felt like acting insane #onhere. the original policies were mostly symbolic (not typically extending to affirmative action hiring practices [the much maligned "DEI hire"], for example), so in practice I think this just means fewer mandatory anti-racism workshops for people who already hate their jobs and are treated to degradation from their superiors regularly.