The Shadow Group Working To Keep Wages Low
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- Опубліковано 7 тра 2024
- Alabama autoworkers are on the verge of a major union victory. But there's one group that's funding a massive campaign to stop them. We uncovered who's behind the union busting at Mercedes and why they're dead set on stopping Mercedes-Benz workers from winning a union.
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Just remember. Those guys telling you unions are bad for you spent the last 60 years leveraging a more than 1000% raise for themselves out of your pockets.
And they’ll tell you giving workers a living wage is the reason for price increases, not their million dollar salaries and bonuses.
What I love the most is how the Alabama's busyness concil is an union... but for wealthy moguls... Like people of the same trade helping each other against other power groups... Don't do what I do...
What amazes me...northern union companies had their unions busted in the 80s. The jobs moved south to cheaper labor anyway, then they lowered the wages even more, than they moved the jobs to Mexico, and finally they moved them to China. We need to make goods sold in America be manufactured in America. And always remember....workers that are treated well, paid well and have good benefits never seek put a union. If a group of workers want to unionize, there is a reason and it shouldn't be fought.
@@nancyprovence109 Yup; globalization! A fancy word for "find cheap labour elsewhere".
Or their Stock Buy-backs @@deenyc1049
I'm tired of multimillionaire bonuses paid to the 1% millionaires. Unions were how we built the middle class back in the 1940s. It's time to unionize again.
Sad. And to think, these 1% millionaires and, surely, those BCA big wigs more likely than not have family roots deep in the middle class. Their families benefited from there being a true, robust middle class, thereby paving the way for their children to have good jobs later in life.
@@sann5146, this is why we need to make sure billionaires can never exist again once we get rid of them.
You would have to be willing to actually fight. Unions started with violence.
@@user-zu5do6ri6r do you believe people are less willing today?
True. Yet it is a bit different now. Too much media makes it more of a challenge to go crazy without damage to the brands and their stocks. @@user-zu5do6ri6r
Doing away with living wages, criticizing people for receiving government assistance, threatening to do away with social safety nets, and ranting against immigrants who will work for poverty wages in the U.S. is a recipe for disaster for the Nation.
You described Reagan.
I was there when it happened. Not his own ideas, the actor got his job to sell it to Americans.
It’s a national security threat, and it should be described as such.
@@arcanondrum6543 Reagan was a Bloody Opportunistic Grifter, Obviously.
He had to Fuck people over all in the name of Securing Power in the US Government and Implement NeoLiberal Bourgeois Policies that Squeezes the Labours as much as Possible while Favouring the Ruling Class by Extracting even more Surplus Value even Further as well as Destroying Welfare Programs even Increasing Subsides to Mega-Corporations and Capitalists and their Lavish Lifestyles, even the Government is Collaborating with Owners of Capital/Corporations, and when the US is Declining in Global Hegemony it has Resorted to Authoritarian means by Cracking down on Political Dissent by any means Necessary, and now it has only gotten Worse because of the Pandemic where Disaster Capitalism came and Strain the lives of the Working Class even Further; Especially the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War Which only made the US more likely to fall into the Road of Fascism.
It's all Because of HIM and his Successors!
[I Hope I made my point]
Isn't that funny. Decry the bottom class for getting government assistance, yet the top 1% are also getting money from the government. But that's trickle down economics for you!
@@atchmon902NOBODY should be receiving money taken away from taxpayers. Not the wealthy business owner, the middle class worker or the homeless unemployed single mother. It is NEVER moral to take by FORCE what someone has earned... even if you claim it's for someone who needs it more.
I hope that workers in Alabama vote to unionize. Stronger together! 💪
What you need is the intelligent to have common sense, the kind to be forgiving, the deaf to understand & the strong to have courage and none of the decisions that need to be made have anything to do with union or non union.
The richest 1 percent grabbed nearly two-thirds of all new wealth worth $42 trillion created from 2020-2023, almost twice as much money as the bottom 99 percent of the world's population. During the past decade, the richest 1 percent has captured around half of all new wealth.
See, you should have studied harder.
Psychopathy 101...
They can do that because Democrats have used nonstop immigration since 1967, high taxes, and over regulation to put slack into the labor market year after year. Which gives all the power to employers, driving down wages, and immigration drives up housing prices at the same time. To the point that tens of millions of Americans don't have any money left over at the end of the month. It's the low wages and lack of power at the bottom that allows the excesses at the top. Causing the wealth gap.
Compare that to JFK style conservative policies of using low taxes, smaller government, deregulation, and less immigration to tighten up the labor market. Which gives power back to workers. Raises wages. Allows for advancement. Allows for mobility. Allows people with bad job records or few skills to get jobs. And gives people dignity.
If Democrats actually cared about lower income people and were capable of compassion and empathy, they would be Kennedy/Reagan conservatives.
"The ever expanding power of the federal government, the absorption of many of the functions that states and cities once considered to be responsibilities of their own, must now be a source of concern to all those who believe as did the great patriot, Henry Grattan that: “Control over local affairs is the essence of liberty.” Commencement Address, University of Notre Dame, January 29, 1950.....John F.Kennedy
@@practicaliching2311 it is so cute you think it is a party orientated thing. Satan bless you.
@@Gumardee_coins_and_banknotes IKR, everyone is so polarized against each other when its the SAME shit on either side lol
@@Gumardee_coins_and_banknotes This "small government, laisse-faire" crap again. The only entities that benefit from that are the corporations.
The thought of all those workers cutting into profits scares the hell out of the ruling class. Remember, power is never given - it must be taken.
Spoken like a true fascist.
@@johnnynick6179So you expect oligarchs to just play nice? That's cute... Tell me you're the sort who uses buzzwords like "fascism" and "communism" willy-nilly without telling me.
@@johnnynick6179Will to power brah
@@johnnynick6179He's not completely wrong. Power corrupts and the extremely powerful have often fought to the death to keep their stranglehold on power. Even in the US, companies have resorted to violence to stop workers from unionizing because unions made it harder for bosses to force workers to accept worse conditions and lower pay.
The ruling class has nothing to worry about as long as Democrats keep using nonstop immigration since 1967, high taxes, and over regulation to put slack into the labor market year after year. Which gives all the power to employers, driving down wages, and immigration drives up housing prices at the same time. To the point that tens of millions of Americans don't have any money left over at the end of the month. It's the low wages and lack of power at the bottom that allows the excesses at the top. Causing the wealth gap.
Compare that to JFK style conservative policies of using low taxes, smaller government, deregulation, and less immigration to tighten up the labor market. Which gives power back to workers. Raises wages. Allows for advancement. Allows for mobility. Allows people with bad job records or few skills to get jobs. And gives people dignity.
If Democrats actually cared about lower income people and were capable of compassion and empathy, they would be Kennedy/Reagan conservatives.
"The ever expanding power of the federal government, the absorption of many of the functions that states and cities once considered to be responsibilities of their own, must now be a source of concern to all those who believe as did the great patriot, Henry Grattan that: “Control over local affairs is the essence of liberty.” Commencement Address, University of Notre Dame, January 29, 1950.....John F.Kennedy
I live in Alabama, I was talking to my mother the other day who lives in rural Alabama. She really doesn't want unions, the first thing she said was the cost of goods were gonna go up. This woman has worked in healthcare for years and I make more than her now as a cook. I wish I could convince the rural Republicans of working class solidarity rather than hating unions.
The prices are going up regardless so this is dumb logic of Republicans.
And yet the cost of things goes up whether there’s unions or not unions. 🤔
yep, they are brainwashed... I bet she thinks USA healthcare is best in the world too??
I think a lot of the conservative mindset, especially the working class, comes from rationalism rather than empiricism. Basically as long as the solution or rational makes sense it's good. Solutions that actually work but might be counterintuitive or hard to explain seem to be frowned upon.
We rarely hear about prices of consumer goods going up because of out of control ceo wages.
Ceo wages never get blamed for inflation.
Union busting should be ILLEGAL and perpetrators should face CRIMINAL CHARGES!! 😤😤😣😣
Except for public unions
..save a child, bust a Teacher Union.
Or,
should poor Black kids not have the same option as rich Whites, private school?
School Vouchers now.
$33 million in legal bribes alone in 2016 -
...Teacher Union donations to Dems,
to prevent school choice for the Poor.
@@MarcPaganyour ignorance is telling
@@MarcPagan School Vouchers take money out of the Republic sector, instead they need to be removed entirely and no public funding needs to be given to private schools, all funding must go into he public sector, let Private schools operate on their own two feet and give all people qual education funded by he taxpayer, raise the taxes if you need to to get those teachers their hard earned wages so that we can properly educate all children, not just those who can afford private schooling.
@@DanWasAlreadyHere Bravely said...from a fake name and keyboard. Just like a Beta Male.
Shoo, you pretend man.
@@Skumm93
Save a child, bust a Teacher Union.
The money should follow the child.
Don't conflate pubic with private unions.
The former are parasitic.
Or,
should those too poor to afford food, those on Food Stamps, be required to shop at an assigned government supermarket for food?
Should those too poor to buy health insurance, those on Medicaid, be required to only obtain medical care from their assigned government health clinic?
I'm from Alabama and I hope they vote to unionize and don't get scared by these fear monger tactics! Union strong!!
Trump will forbid unions when his insurrection work next time...
@15dartfrog Then the ball is also in your court!
Our country is stronger with educated people, good wages and benefits make that happen.
I'm a retired union carpenter, lived a decent life, put 2 kids through school and my union membership made that happen.
Keep our country strong!
2:50 MONEY OUT OF POLITICS NOW!! 😤😤😣😣
Money IS politics and politics IS money
@@farmerthatflies f all that. money out of politics NOW
Sounds good in theory but ain’t gonna happen. Ever
👏👏 been screaming that for a decade now… Still way too many under educated people blaming immigrants than educating themselves and pointing the blame on the crooked politicians who do nothing but talk anyways
We need unity among workers and strong unions to get workers the dignity and respect they deserve for the wealth they create. I hope the vote is strong for the UAW. ✊👊💛
Workers of the World Unite!
The European Mercedes union should step in, then it would help with the management.
The state based are what we have to work on.
Solidarity from Sweden 💪❤🇸🇪
See it through, Alabama! 💪 You got this! Love and support from your Mississippi neighbor.
Power to the people 💪
Thank you for all of your support here in Alabama!! I attended one of your events here this last weekend and it was so nice.
If they really don’t want people to unionize.. just pay them properly and then workers won’t be driven to unionize .
Pay the peasants fairly?! Outrageous. How are they supposed to hoard all the wealth for themselves if they do that? They want you to work for poverty wages and be grateful for it. They toss us scraps like we're starving dogs and expect us to lick their boots. If they're fighting so hard to prevent unionization, you know you need a union.
This is Alabama. People don't know how good it can be until employers are forced to do the right thing.
They don't want people to unionize precisely because unions would force them to pay workers a living wage/proper compensation for work done, and the sociopaths at the top only care about the line going up for their investors, and maintaining their ludicrously, unnecessarily lavish lifestyle, even if they have to destroy countless "little people" to maintain their preferred lifestyle.
@@AugustusTitusunfortunately that's not only in Alabama. It's that way everywhere.
Excellent work!! #UnionStrong
Unions are power and powerful, they need to be voted in. Do not let the naysayers try and sway you.
Unions are how we got child labor laws, overtime and hazard pay, and workmans comp. As a pround daughter of teachers, unions will always have my solidarity. 💪🏾
Keep unionizing my brothers and sisters. We're organizing here in central Illinois too.
3:46 the thing that always surprises me about this is just how little of a campaign contribution is required to ruin the lives of countless people.
Do people's lives really mean that little to these politicians?
i worked in a car plant. i live in AL. the amount of union busting and lack of workers rights here is astounding
Company policy everywhere.
Greed destroys everything.
As a European - from Denmark - it's so great to find american voices like yours! Perhaps there's still hope.
I’m from the Detroit area whose husband was a UAW worker. The union didn’t hurt our family. It helped tremendously and the auto companies are still doing great. Yeah I guess if you want all the profit from corporations to go to the wealthy shareholders and the corporate elite, then unions are not for you. But if you are a worker who wants a living wage, good benefits, and worker protection, then you want a union. Believe me, it has been a total blessing to our family. It was stability for our income and health to our bones. Everyone in my family is a pro union person.
Shareholders is the worst thing created and its no wonder why other countries have strong restrictions around them. The problem with share holders is they put some money in and they expect raises every year like they are working when in fact they depend on workers slaving their lives away so they can live in comfort. Shareholders are parasites.
Thanks for letting us know which businesses to boycott. Union strong! 💪✊
In solidarity with all Workers!! 👍👏❤️❤️🔥🔥
Unions or uprising? Corporations are in bed with politicians, we only have each other. Unions are the way to go before all big business pushes too hard. Take everything from a man and you give him nothing to lose. That is when someone is the most dangerous. Unionize with leaders that are in it for the country, not the money.
I've been saying the same with how they're going after peaceful protesters. When they take away the peaceful they leave no other recourse!! They know the peasants are getting pissed which is why they're in a rush to get cop city built to militarize ALL police. Corrupt a-holes!!!!
Looks like Shawn Fain has just accepted the next challenge from Alabama's movers and shakers, sucks to be the corrupt ones.
More Perfect Union is a blessing to all of us. Profoundly grateful. Unions would never have developed were it not for corporate greed.
This is a long time coming, the auto industry in Alabama has been awful for years. Power to the Workers!
What happened to the National Labor Relations Board? I thought it was illegal to bust Unions or interfere with workers trying to start a Union. We need to protest against this blatant disregard for workers rights and lobbying in general!
Right to Fire states want to keep it that way. They have promised a compliant workforce that will work for little above the minimum wage, and their maneuvering keeps the minimum wage arbitrarily set for almost 2decades.
Ask for a raise? The company doesn't have money for that. Unionize for better wages? Damn, where did those tens of millions come from?
Is it just me or is this channel getting less views than it normally has all of a sudden?
Spread the word and share!! I talk about these guys all the time. Along with Status Coup. Both are great at covering what others don't!!
We're the BCA. We're working on behalf of nearly one million working Alabamans. Because we're terrified of them working in their own interest.
Remember one thing that has stood for thousands of years.
The folks with the most money control everything, and ensure that the rules that are made , only benifit them, and screw everyone else !
Go Get Workers!
Go ALABAMA’s 99%.
When Unions are strong, democracy is strong.
he may have said that about unions BUT as a guy in the IBEW the NABTU is very much in favor of capital the building trades are lean more to the conservative wing sadly, and UAW a more left leaning union not affiliated with the NABTU so he can say that i believe for my experience
If I had a giant company, I'd want a union. It keeps workers happy, keeps them in the company longer. Less turnover.
If you had a giant company, you would want to keep it alive and profitable. You can be kind to workers without needing a union to FORCE you to be kind.... but you can't keep your business alive when others are trying to FORCE you to run at a loss.
@@johnnynick6179, unions do far more than just fighting for higher/fairer pay, better conditions, and so forth.
There is a battle going on in bainbridge Ga over a monkey breeding facility that was slipped in without the citizens knowledge. When they heard they started organizing fast. They are trying to stop it.
Thank you for your work!!
I heard about that. It's just abhorrent & disgusting any way you look at it. Testing on the animals, the thought makes me just sick. And the danger to the public. In Reston, Virginia in1989 monkeys imported to sell for experiments at Hazelton Research products (a division of Corning, Inc) had Ebola virus. That's how it got the name Ebola Reston. They had to close the facility.
Great video.
Union strong 💪💪🏽💪🏾💪🏿💪🏼 🇺🇸
Love that phrase.
"The Federal Reserve System is not Federal; it has no reserves, and is not even a system at all. But rather an international criminal syndicate."- Eustace Mullins.
In the 90s I worked with John Deere as a supplier, JD was UAW represented. For every 1 person working there was 1 reading a paper and smoking a cigarette. Without getting into details workers were paid very well for assembly line work but it was never good enough. Human nature is guardrail to guardrail workers abused their good fortune and drove themselves out of work. Unions are needed but they need to stress hard work, efficiency and innovation vs union providing "do whatever cover" for workers to deliver substandard results.
Billionaires already control our wages and can lower them or raise them at will. To lower our wages they simply raise the price on our food clothing and shelter.
I tried to post this on my Facebook page 5 times, Facebook keeps throwing it out!! Isn’t that interesting? Goes in my personal feed, but not my public feed. What’s up with that?!😡💯
Next let's talk about FedEx
Vote to unionize, screw these rich people vacuuming up all the profits
We must have a salary limit. We know people exploit. Set a max salary. We focus on a minimum quality of life. Why not a maximum quality of life? Level the rules to the game.
Auto workers in Alabama are some of the best paying jobs in the state, along with the cost of living being low here, why do they need to unionize.
The one hill i will die on though, it should be illegal to keep a temp on for more than 6 months without hiring them.
Unions are the only way people for people on the floor to gain negotiating power. We need them.
How to begin the process of starting a union.
I don’t know where to start, not really a people person but I’ve other talents. Also, I’m Canadian. I’m not sure where to go or look into or research or trust or talk to. lol
Contact any union near you. Tell them what industry you're in and they'll point you in the right direction. I'm not a people person either but I want ALL people to have a living wage and good benefits. My husband is a union carpenter but has also worked non-union. Union is DEFINITELY the way to go!!!
Canadian Labour Congress- go to their website. Classes, workshops and on-line courses
I get your points, but you should also look critically at how big international unions operate and make sure you believe they are really working in the workers’ best interest. Unions are big business too..
Tired 1980’s propaganda.
Wow, the greed at the top is unreal! One of the things I noticed is that none of those people were spring chickens. Do you suppose they realize they won't be taking a single penny with them when they shuffle off this mortal coil? I sure wouldn't want to be any of them when I cross over!
Stand strong 💪
Unite! 🎉
No longer working a union job, but I'd love to get another one soon. Shoutouts to Teamsters Local 483!
Upgrade your life...workplace safety, wages, and benefits. Stand united and change Alabama to serve EVERYONE not just corporate interests.
Thank you for all your work
Unfortunately, those workers in Al at the Mercedes plant believed the lies told to them by the BCA & voted against unionizing. The marketing campaign against forming a union was apparently all over the Mercedes plant. This is why propaganda is so effective. Citizens will vote against their own interests without realizing the long term effects.
Commenting for the algorithm
Nice vid. Also, the book "Wars of attrition" is pretty good. It's about the business round table and how the Vietnam war era was used to destroy the unions.
they need to station sign holders in front of those propaganda billboards
We the 99% are more than the 1%. Revolution!! 🎉
The problem is the same one facing all of us at election time: lies, lies and more lies, exaggerated claims, personal attacks, and personal threats by neighbors, fellow church members, bosses, etc. It's not just a matter of voting in a union: it's facing a life-changing, friend-losing social ostracism if you do. Tough choices, and they lost.
Like Starbucks, you got to tell their boss. i.e. The shareholders.
" Business Council of Alabama " Looking out for Alabaman's? Who believes that?
I would love to see coverage of the hospitality industry in New Orleans. Without tourism, New Orleans suffers. Those of us who were here during and post COVID lockdowns know this too well. Yet the people who work these jobs struggle to pay rent in substandard housing conditions and little to no recourse when faced with the all too common slumlord. Most of this demographic is paid just $2.13 per hour, and are forced to rely on tips to pay their bills which include the infamous Sewage and Water Board who commonly hit citizens with $400-$1000 monthly water bills! Entergy, the private electricity company & sole provider, does the same while trying to make users pay for their bad infrastructure that leaves the city dark for days or weeks after hurricane damage.
Power to the workers
I hope this political enlightening reaches more corners of their lives.
This is a Class Struggle!
Workers of the US, Fight on and Unite!
We will try Everything to Disrupt the Status Quo by any means Necessary even if WE the Workers will Resort to less Ethical means, like Dissent, Utilitarianism and Revolution!
True, we need to get rid of the Democrats who have used nonstop immigration since 1967, high taxes, and over regulation to put slack into the labor market year after year. Which gives all the power to employers, driving down wages, and immigration drives up housing prices at the same time. To the point that tens of millions of Americans don't have any money left over at the end of the month. It's the low wages and lack of power at the bottom that allows the excesses at the top. Causing the wealth gap.
Compare that to JFK style conservative policies of using low taxes, smaller government, deregulation, and less immigration to tighten up the labor market. Which gives power back to workers. Raises wages. Allows for advancement. Allows for mobility. Allows people with bad job records or few skills to get jobs. And gives people dignity.
If Democrats actually cared about lower income people and were capable of compassion and empathy, they would be Kennedy/Reagan conservatives.
"The ever expanding power of the federal government, the absorption of many of the functions that states and cities once considered to be responsibilities of their own, must now be a source of concern to all those who believe as did the great patriot, Henry Grattan that: “Control over local affairs is the essence of liberty.” Commencement Address, University of Notre Dame, January 29, 1950.....John F.Kennedy
I can only watch like one or two of these videos a day because I just can't handle the rage they make me feel.
Actions speak louder than words
Everyone forgets that the Chrysler plants in Huntsville were represented by UAW labor, and made more money than most other union gigs.
Come on Alabama! UAW all the way!
Union Yes!
Thank you sooo much for exposing this 💡💡💡-Xclusyph Icon
It’s a shame… you know who is to blame, but we choose to picket instead of doing what needs to be done.
I agree. They ratified the union. Good for them. Unions make you strong in the work experience. Workers unite!
I don't have conclusive proof but another thing ive noticed our fast food companies doing is instead of giving the food assistance they advertised, they give you free food more than they are supposed to. Is this to their benefit? Is it a tactic to try to pacify workers while simultaneously having leverage to fire workers if they decide to organize? I don't mind the occasional food but its less than ideal because the food is very unhealthy.
👏 Union Power ⚡️
fight! fight! fight!
when i'm an alien trying to choose a human name: ah yes, hello, i am Jeff Peoples
💗
Look into sign language interpreters working video relay services like purple and z shutting down centers like in Colorado that were trying to unionize.
I love how unions are great for the 1% in the busyness concil but is a cathastrophe for auto worker. Don't do what I do...
Alabama is deeply red. I wonder if they will figure out what's in their interest this voting cycle.
At first I thought they meant the Chamber of Commerce.
Stay strong Alabama
Special interests also got our republican-led legislature to gut our collective bargaining agreements for teachers and other public employees like Corrections in 2017 in Iowa. We haven't been able to vote them out yet but hopefully they went a bridge too far within the last 2 years when they passed vouchers (taxpayers paying for Rich kids to go to school) and gutted area education teachers (they help with kids with disabilities among other things)
Man, to even know more than one person that can give you large sums of cash money - tight circles!!!
Well what the point to raise salary if there no more goods to buy. The number of money can raise but the number of of goods is not then it just raise the price of goods so nothing change.
0:16 Kay Ivey: "A corrupt, shifty and dangerous leech."
Projecting at its finest.
All these politicians are so disgusting.