They’ve also been sandbagging negotiations for the last 9 months, the union today is on a march, no strike action yet.

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    Corporations: We fully support the right for workers to unionize!

    Workers: Oke we’re gonna unionize

    Corporations: No no no we meant like when workers unionize at our competitors…

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      They don’t even like that much since it means they have to compete more for labor, raise their wages and benefits or risk losing talent or having them unionize.

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        Yeah true.

        My favorite are the cases of startups vowing to be an ‘ethical’ company, but lo and behold once they reach to the point of having shareholders with vested interests, that ethics goes out the window.

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        But it forces their competitors to have to spend more on wages and working conditions, than themselves, allowing eBay to make larger profits