Macy's Black Friday strike: employees use food banks, can't afford doctors while profits over $1 billion, management spent $600 million in buybacks, paid out $173 million in dividends

cyu · 1 year ago

Macy's Black Friday strike: employees use food banks, can't afford doctors while profits over $1 billion, management spent $600 million in buybacks, paid out $173 million in dividends

LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

You shouldn’t be having a borderline holiday parade when your workers can’t go to the doctor or pay for food

There is some fucking grotesque hubris in the term “Macy’s day parade”, where a corporation imposes itself as some cultural and social touchstone of any importance

Macy's Black Friday strike: employees use food banks, can't afford doctors while profits over $1 billion, management spent $600 million in buybacks, paid out $173 million in dividends

Macy's Black Friday strike: employees use food banks, can't afford doctors while profits over $1 billion, management spent $600 million in buybacks, paid out $173 million in dividends

‘They’ve worked us to death’: Macy’s workers to strike on Black Friday