• Ravenheart@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    This excuse for worker exploitation has always baffled me. 1. The contract was signed under duress: “Take this shitty job or continue to be unemployed.” Consent made under duress is not consent. 2. It was agreed to under an extreme power asymmetry: If you refuse the job, your family will have to go hungry, but the company will easily find some other desperate soul to fill the position. 3. I haven’t even begun to touch on all the class, racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination that workers face.

    There’s nothing even close to meaningful or fair negotiation under such conditions.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      10 hours ago

      Didn’t you see their reply?

      Well if they all said “I’m not working for that shit wage” or they joined a union, did literally anything at all. NMaybe they would get paid more. Instead they do nothing, and bitch

      Duh, just unionize and shut up. Because it’s really that easy.