Hey you! We got your war We're at the gates We're at your door Hey you! We got your war We're at the gates We're at your door

We got the guillotine We got the guillotine, you better run We got the guillotine We got the guillotine, you better run We got the guillotine We got the guillotine, you better run We got the guillotine We got the guillotine, you better run

We want to thank you for flying with us We know you coulda stayed home, just cried and cussed May all your guns go off if it's time to bust May all they tanks have time to rust They got the armies turning bullets into gold They got the hookers turning tricks in the cold And every time the police kicks in the door An angel gas brake dips in the O And even if a d-boy flips him a O It ain't enough to buy shit anymore Sleep in the doorway, piss on the floor Look in the sky, wait for missiles to show It's finna blow cause They got the TV, we got the truth They own the judges and we got the proof We got hella people, they got helicopters They got the bombs and we got the, we got the

We got the guillotine We got the guillotine, you better run We got the guillotine We got the guillotine, you better run We got the guillotine We got the guillotine, you better run We got the guillotine We got the guillotine, you better run

Don't talk about it It’s not a show Be about it It's 'bout to blow Don't talk about it It’s not a show Be about it It's 'bout to blow

I just spit the dope lines, I don't snort 'em Tell the boss to call police to escort him You don't write all them lies, you just quote 'em Get offline, plug in to this modem No, you can't out-vote 'em The rules is still golden Only jewels we holding is if we guarding our scrotum If you press your ear to the turf that is stolen You can hear the sound of limitations exploding Please sir, may we have another portion? We're children of the beast that dodged the abortion Neck placed firm 'tween the floor and the Florsheim We'll shut your shit down, don't call it extortion Caution -- we're coming for your head So call the Feds and get files to shred Every textbook read said bring you the bread But guess what we got you instead?

We got the guillotine We got the guillotine, you better run We got the guillotine We got the guillotine, you better run We got the guillotine We got the guillotine, you better run We got the guillotine We got the guillotine, you better run

Let's keep it banging like a shotgun We in a war before we fought one Now if you're tired of working so they can play A common enemy, we got one Now keep it banging like a shotgun We in a war before we fought one Now if you're tired of working from day to day A common enemy, we got one

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Key Findings

1. CEO pay at Low-Wage 100 firms has soared since 2019 while median worker pay has lagged behind U.S. inflation.

• Between 2019 and 2024, average CEO compensation within this group rose 34.7 percent in nominal — unadjusted for inflation — terms, more than double the 16.3 percent increase in these firms’ average median worker pay. The U.S. inflation rate over this same period: 22.6 percent.
• Average CEO compensation within the Low-Wage 100 hit $17.2 million in 2024. The group’s average median worker pay sat at just $35,570.
• The average CEO-worker pay ratio of Low-Wage 100 firms has widened by 12.9 percent, from 560 to 1 in 2019 to 632 to 1 in 2024.
• The nominal value of median pay actually fell at 22 Low-Wage 100 corporations during this period.
• The Starbucks pay gap hit 6,666 to 1 last year, the Low-Wage 100’s widest spread by far. In 2024, the Starbucks CEO pocketed $95.8 million. Over the past six years, amid worker discontent fueling union-organizing drives at hundreds of Starbucks stores, the firm’s median pay rose just 4.2 percent in real terms to $14,674. Only seven S&P 500 firms have lower median pay.
• Ulta Beauty reported the Low-Wage 100’s steepest drop in median pay. Between 2019 and 2024, a period when the cosmetic retailer significantly expanded the part-time worker share of its workforce, the company’s real median pay plunged by 46 percent to $11,078.

2. From 2019 through 2024, the Low-Wage 100 spent $644 billion on stock buybacks.

• Over the past six years, all but three Low-Wage 100 firms spent corporate dollars on stock buybacks. By repurchasing their own shares, companies artificially inflate executive stock-based pay and siphon resources out of worker wages and productive long-term investments.
• Lowe’s ranks as the Low-Wage 100’s buyback leader. The company spent $46.6 billion on share repurchases from 2019 through 2024. Over that span, this sum could have funded an annual $28,456 bonus for each of the firm’s 273,000 employees — or added 88 employees to each of the firm’s retail outlets. In 2024, Lowe’s CEO Marvin Ellison enjoyed a total compensation of $20.2 million — 659 times more than the retailer’s $30,606 median annual worker pay.
• Home Depot currently sits second in the Low-Wage 100 buyback rankings. The big-box chain spent $37.9 billion on share repurchases between 2019 and 2024. That outlay would have been enough to give each of Home Depot’s 470,100 global employees six annual $13,423 bonuses. The Home Depot median pay: just $35,196.

3. From 2019 through 2024, a majority of Low-Wage 100 firms spent more on stock buybacks than on long-term capital expenditures.

• Over the past six years, 56 Low-Wage 100 companies plowed more corporate cash into buying back their own shares of stock than investing in capital improvements.
• If we exclude capital expenditure outlier Amazon from the calculation, the Low-Wage 100 as a whole spent more on buybacks than on “CapEx” during this period.

4. At least 32 billionaires owe their wealth to Low-Wage 100 companies.

• Five of these firms have spawned multiple billionaires still living today: Walmart (eight), Estee Lauder (four), DoorDash (three), Public Storage (two), and Tyson Foods (two).

5. Policy changes can prevent wasteful stock buybacks and excessive CEO payouts.

• Taxing extreme CEO-worker pay gaps: In one recent survey, 80 percent of likely voters expressed support for a tax hike on corporations that pay their CEO over 50 or more times what they pay their median employees.
• Increasing the buybacks tax: If Congress in 2022 had set our current 1 percent excise tax on stock buybacks at 4 percent, the Low-Wage 100 would have owed approximately $6.3 billion in additional federal taxes on share repurchases in 2023 and 2024.
• Restricting buybacks and CEO pay through federal contracts and subsidies: The Biden administration made modest progress on this front through the CHIPS semiconductor subsidy program. But the federal government could be doing much more to leverage the power of the public purse against wasteful stock buybacks and excessive CEO pay.

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The tech industry's shifting landscape and the growing precarity of its labor force have spurred unionization efforts among tech workers. These workers turn to collective action to improve their working conditions and to protest unethical practices within their workplaces. To better understand this movement, we interviewed 44 U.S.-based tech worker-organizers to examine their motivations, strategies, challenges, and future visions for labor organizing. These workers included engineers, product managers, customer support specialists, QA analysts, logistics workers, gig workers, and union staff organizers. Our findings reveal that, contrary to popular narratives of prestige and privilege within the tech industry, tech workers face fragmented and unstable work environments which contribute to their disempowerment and hinder their organizing efforts. Despite these difficulties, organizers are laying the groundwork for a more resilient tech worker movement through community building and expanding political consciousness. By situating these dynamics within broader structural and ideological forces, we identify ways for the CSCW community to build solidarity with tech workers who are materially transforming our field through their organizing efforts.

Training repayment agreement provisions (TRAPs),are a new form of “stay-or-pay” contract that indebts employees to their bosses. Often inserted into contracts without workers’ knowledge, these restrictive labor covenants turn employer-sponsored job training and education programs into conditional loans that must be paid back — sometimes at a premium — if employees leave before a set date.

Employers argue that these clauses are a way to recoup their investment in employees who decide to leave the company prematurely. But these contracts have come under fire from labor groups and regulators. Oftentimes, the amount of debt demanded under TRAP contracts — which can be upward of $50,000 — is far higher than the employer’s training costs.

SLAVERY, WITH EXTRA STEPS.

Imagine an Organization that united every union in America and actively worked to unionize every job in America.

Imagine if union dues went to a single national pot, accruing billions a year to pay for whole industry wide strikes.

Imagine if the Organization had a Political Party Officiate that to fight for leftwing economic/socialist policies and with members being signed up for both at the same time.

This is the fear that capitalists worry about, they know that if we united not only would we be able to demand better pay and benefits, but that we'd take over Local, State and Federal legislatures.

The constitution is a capitalist constitution, our ultimate goal should be to get control of 38 states, and hold a constitutional convention and change this country into a socialist nation.

A nation where private ownership of business is abolished in favor of worker owned co-ops.

A nation where private property is abolished and the government owns and rents at the bare minimum for upkeep.

A nation where there is a maximum difference in how much the lowest and highest paid person can be in the same company.

A nation with free and universal healthcare, childcare, higher education, public transportation.

A nation where the car centric infrastructure is torn down and replaced by trains, Trollies, busses, bikes and sidewalks.

A nation that taxes the rich at 95% forces them to sell their stocks, and exiles those who refuse to comply with the wealth redistribution.

Lastly a nation where democracy is proportional thus skewed towards the working class and not FPTP!

TIL there is a law called Marchetti's Constant. Humans only tolerate commutes of less than ~1 hour. Housing outside that limit will fail.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33655235

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The union representing workers across Northern California said they overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike last week, with a 95% approval.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32863129

An excellent in-depth article. This is quality journalism. 👏