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Madison Reeves on why she left LMG (threadreaderapp.com)
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[–] 37 points 3 years ago (5 children)

It was a wan show a while back if I remember right (not op), but basically trashed unions and said businesses should do better and vaguely acted like all the employees of the world could just quit and find something better on a whim if things were actually bad where they worked.

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  • [–] -4 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Which is all fine. His position was literally "I can't and won't do anything to stop it except for treating everyone to enough money that they won't bother to do it"

    That's about as inoffensive as you can get. You're twisting it into being some anti union thing.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Unions are not just for getting higher wages. They're not even just for when conditions start to get worse. Unions should be there for the best as well as the worst working conditions. Unions serve to maintain good and improve bad conditions, it's not about going against the "boss", it's about actively or passively defending the workers' conditions.

    Would you trust your boss' lawyer saying "the trial will be fair, you won't need a lawyer"?

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