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Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Benjamin Sachs, a labor law professor at Harvard, said it’s troubling that Trader Joe’s and Starbucks, which hold themselves out as progressive, “are willing to sign on to legal theories that threaten not only labor rights, but our ability to have clean air, regulate food safety and assure safe and healthy workplaces”.

capitalist-woke

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

capitalists doing exactly what capitalists always do, and a harvard professor is shocked at it. these are supposed to be our smart people?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They aren’t our smart people, they’re our rich, powerful, or their kids. Mostly private school isolated twats who think they know more than everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Crazy right?