Corporate America Only Stops When Workers Do: A Caller Explains the Power of a General Strike
A radio caller exposes how corporations exploit workers and why collective action is the only force that can stop systemic abuse.
#americanDreamMyth #CapitalismCritique #classStruggle #cORPORATEAbUSe #corporateGreed #EconomicJustice #generalStrike #IndependentMedia #inflationProfiteering #laborPower #ProgressivePolitics #unionPower #wealthInequality #workersRights https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oyV
Phenomenal quote from @pluralistic in this post
#labor #union #laborpower
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/05/fisher-price-steering-wheel/#billionaire-solipsism
"Adorno is usually caricatured as some ivory tower mandarin ruminating on abstruse aesthetic questions, so why would a group of angry communist workers recommend reading him? Because Adorno undertook a critique of capitalist society without “affirmative traits,” that refuses to make its peace with the wrong world and become “a piece of politics” and “the prey of power.” Adorno’s thought is far from “solipsistic and reality-distant,” as it is often portrayed, but rather is rooted in an understanding of Marx’s critique of political economy that is superior in many ways to that of his contemporaries.
While so many other Marxists thought there was something ‘progressive’ or even ‘socialist’ about state-organized wage labor, it’s Adorno who recognizes that “exchange is still the key to society” — that the sale of labor-power, that “objective abstraction” in which we exchange “the same for the same and simultaneously the same for the not-same” conceals and reproduces “the entirety of class relations.” “The total movement of society” is “antagonistic from the outset,” and “society remains class struggle” — and for him, this is a wholly negative category, just as it is for workers. Being a productive laborer is not a piece of luck, but a curse, and we appreciate Adorno because he’ll admit what we know from experience."
https://isr.press/Adorno_on_Society/index.html
#Capitalism #Marxism #CriticalTheory #WageSlavery #LaborPower #PoliticalEconomy
“Starbucks is on the ropes as its competitors are thriving. Investors should know that if Starbucks continues to stonewall and fight with union baristas, they aren’t afraid to do what it takes to win the fair contract that they’ve earned. This includes going on strike if they must, which has the potential to further damage the brand.” ✊
#Labor #UnionPower #StarbucksUnionized #ContractNegotiations #WorkerPolitics #LaborPower #WorkingClassPolitics
https://inthesetimes.com/article/starbucks-union-bargaining-sbwu-strike-lynne-fox-nicchols
“Since the White House seized control of the center in February, staff members who work on its cultural and educational programming have become increasingly angered and alarmed by mounting signs of managerial chaos, layoffs and political meddling in the historically bipartisan cultural organization. On May 15, Kennedy Center staff announced their intention to form a union with the United Auto Workers...’” ✊
#Unions #LaborRights #LaborPower #WorkersRights #WorkerPower
https://inthesetimes.com/article/kennedy-center-trump-takeover-labor-union
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@thenewsdesk @business-thenewsdesk #Strike #Organize The ultimate weapon is our own #LaborPower #endthefear
If you can strike and unionize, then #GeneralStrike will eventually occur, and if that is met with #Violence from the #state
There is historically only one other option.
US unions winning big gains amid ‘Great Reset’ in worker power
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/24/us-unions-successes-contracts?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #UnionYes #Union #LaborPower #LaborRights #OrganizedLabor
@raymondpert Obama could have nationalized the industry during the bailout of early post “Great Recession.” Now workers have to make the struggle theirs to increase workplace democracy. Could also explore opportunities to diversify production, extending into alternative energy mass transportation manufacturing. #uaw #greennewdeal #labor #laborpower #workplacedemocracy
4/ So if the trad, orthodox, normal #economics view of #masscommunication gets it wrong, what do they produce?
What is the #commodity form of #advertising sponsored comms under #latecapitalism ?
#audiences and readerships
Here the work, the #laborpower of the workers is resold to the #advertisers
This is nominally the "consciousness industry".
Remember: TV stations and walled #platforms on the internet are factories that produce audiences for advertisers
Bernie Sanders in line to chair influential Senate committee on health, education and labor
https://vtdigger.org/2022/11/17/bernie-sanders-in-line-to-chair-influential-senate-committee-on-health-education-and-labor/
#BernieSanders #laborpower #Labor
“Value, Price, and Profit” is an 1865 speech by Karl Marx. My post at themormonsocialist.wordpress.com summarizes the speech and wonders about a possible parallel between the capitalist’s contract that feels empowering to the worker but is actually manipulative and the Mormon Church’s covenants that feel empowering to the member but are actually manipulative. #capital #exploitation #laborpower #socialism #mormonism #marx #marxism #churchofjesuschrist #lds #themormonsocialist
Oklahoma Teamsters are refusing to cross teachers' picket lines to work on renovations on the Capitol #LaborPower #Strike #OKTeachers
Kentucky teacher sick out! #laborpower
http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/education/article207399739.html
The Onion has a Union now #unions #laborpower
