Corporations DECLARE WAR On US Unions, Workers
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Spencer Snyder breaks down how corporations are seeking to wage war against workers through attacks on the NLRB.
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Please lose the distracting background noise/music.
it's fine in and of itself, but the audio mix needs to be better because right now it's too loud in the mix and prevents from hearing Spencer's voice correctly.
The problem is UA-camrs take their cues from TV programs they've watched growing up so they think that background music is always supposed to be part of the production.
Music headwrecking with dialogue.music by itself great not 2 together please..I like if you make playlist music can enjoy its sesperate
Agreed.
Agreed
This scares me a lot. I really hope their plans are foiled.
Labor Day is a holiday for white collar workers. Most people still have to work.
That's so true I've never thought about it that way
@@juanescalante9972really.. But how many times you VOTED?? 😂😂😂
@@jpnewman1688 What a difference that would make.
At first I thought that was B.S., but on reflection realized there is truth to this. However ... generally people get some level of holiday pay for working on Labor Day. And you wouldn't want many people, like in the health care or many safety fields, to just up and quit working for a day.
@@jpnewman1688 Voted for what, exactly?
it just me or is the background music slightly too loud and Spencer slightly too quiet
Came to say the same, very distracting, editor screwed it up
Yes.
I'd prefer listening to someone with a $2 mic than whatever that was. Really, how many people involved with making the video thought this was okay?
sounds fine to me. Hoping they adjust it for you.
I mentioned that as well before seeing your comment. Super distracting.
I tried to watch this video but the background noise is super distracting. I actually paused it thinking my neighbor was blaring something annoying. Hoping this gets fixed so I can watch it later.
Same here
That’s hilarious
Music is way too loud!! Distracting 😵💫
Man, it's sad to know people had to die to get any of the rights and protections we have now. People always had to die for progress.
Really.. So how many times did you VOTE?? 😂😂😂
Companies of disgruntled workers are usually outperformed by companies of well incentivized workers.
Make sure your workers are getting something out of the bargain, and they won't act like they don't want to be there!
True, but Microsoft doesn't compete since it's a defacto monopoly so doesn't to care. After all, isn't starvation motivation enough?
@@allanwilmath8226 Microsoft does compete with other tech companies like Apple. Many tech companies are also competing by getting employees hence the high wages and over-hiring.
Maybe the workplace should be a democracy and not fascist
@@allanwilmath8226 Internally, if the incentives aren't in line with running an efficient operation, and higher wages and more benefits are acquired by politicking, then I think you'll find a lot of effort towards politicking and less towards running an efficient operation.
Starvation gets people in the door, it doesn't inspire them to earn their keep.
In my state, if you add up the cost of food stamps and health insurance, you'll find a lot of jobs are worse than unemployment.
Not to mention the additional benefit of having time to spend with family, and enrol in education.
Getting fired shouldn't be more lucrative for your employees, at least.
This is about tricking thier stock holders of value.
CUT THE BACKGROUND NOISE!!!
stfu holy shit. put on captions and mute the video if it triggers you so much.
The background music is not only distracting but it is competing for the attention of the viewers so it’s difficult to focus on the narration when the vocals are intruding on the narrative. I know the producers probably think it’s super cool to have that old music playing hut it isn’t.
This is one reason why they are obsessed with importing illegal residents. They are not covered by labor protection laws. Hence also why they exempted farm workers, which are largely migrant laborers. The businesses would much prefer a labor force that has the perennial threat of deportation that they can pay under the table. American businesses also love using H1B workers, because nothing says "don't complain," like a permanent reminder that your residency is tied to your continued employment under the company that imported you to work for them. The more the labor laws are strengthened, expect this trend to continue in parallel.
So you got problem with capitalism?? 😂😂😂
@@jpnewman1688 What's your alternative?
@@alecfoster4413so you think you're born to be a well-trained law obeying slave that needs masters to dictate how you gonna live and die because you can't think for yourself?? 😂😂😂
I bet you VOTED a lot.. 💯💯
Exactly
Yes.
Corporations want to depress wages of their workers, it's why they love poverty and illegal immigration.
Ronald Regan fired Air Traffic Control workers in August 1981 for organizing a strike, starting a long downhill slide for unions.
The downhill slide for unions happened long before Reagan. It started in the 60's when unskilled labor and govt workers started to unionize. Its been 80 years since a union won any major victories. Since that time, they have done nothing but demand higher payouts and offer nothing in return.
That’s not true in a lot of the country we had skilled labor the companies destroyed that
@@kgypster Unfortunately that was Clinton's policies with opening up trade with China. Slavery is cheap. The world is fill with this crap.
They declared war on their workers like 20 years ago that's why companies and ceo value have been skyrocketing, but employee value has been non-stop declining
Reagan destroyed unions with the help of the white working class. They voted for him. The white working class backs Trump - and if he wins, he will side with the corporations.
Big mistake putting background music on. Can't listen to this.
Corporations argument: It's unconstitutional that our workers should have any power to try and force better pay and/or working conditions. They should be happy with w/e we decide and never think they are anymore than our slaves.
they have to choice to go to any better situation that is out there. they have the choice to get together and start their own thing. depending on your industry, it can be impossible because of the startup costs, or it could be dead simple, if you work for an online company.
the corporations can only have leverage if you don't have a better option. you are not a slave except in your own mind.
Yeah but the peasants wind up paying for their tax breaks, so how about no.
Slavery never went away, it just changed forms.
It trickles up to the master eventually, hopefully sooner than later this time around.
Our system is based upon voluntary indentured servitude... Insurance, loans taxes. The only one that isn't induced by the government by some form or another is loans.
It's not the companies that are forcing these people to work for low pay it's the government.
That is just a biased and myopic interpretation of a "Corporations argument". To correct it: Workers should not have any power to try and force better pay and/or working conditions because they eagerly signed a contract to be paid a wage they agreed to based on the hours worked, other aspects of the position are included in said contract. a breach of said contract terminates the employment unless agreed upon by both parties. Both parties should be happy with w/e was stipulated in the contract but if ether side decides to break it, the position can and will be terminated. The workers can break the contract at any point and leave, the company can only offer a better contract to keep them, if the worker is worth a better contract.
@@14baustin You arent required to have insurance of any kind, or take out loans.
Unwatchable until the background music is removed. Will have to read the transcript.
Scott Galloway, TED Vancouver, 3 days ago: "How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future | Scott Galloway | TED"
He's pretty good.
Galloway is doing a great job selling his books via a catchy simplistic BS narrative.
I actually JUST watch that. It was the video before this.
I watched that last night
Really.. So you didn't know capitalism is all about exploiting others to maximize profit for the Capitalists?? 💵💵💯💯😂😂
music is too loud in the debbs part
Maybe I'm just a bit stoned is why it seemed a bit much, but I found the background music highly distracting. Was hard for me to focus on what dude was saying.
im sober and youre right, the background music is too loud
Why is the background music so loud and distracting? Narration is difficult to hear. Please adjust, thanks
background singing is a little bit to loud
It's a shame. In Germany unions and corporations have learned to work together. Workers are even on company boards. Too bad American business owners are so damn greedy.
to be fair, both sides: unions and corporations are greedy. that's why they won't work together. they both are after the ability to report a short term gain back to the people they are responsible to. it hampers their ability to compromise.
Germany??? Rofl... no real military... what position in the world, economically ??
@@bigtobacco1098 Smoking that boot-flavored vape eh?
@@TheRedBard no vape.. 2 or 3 cigars a month
@@TheRedBardmore like the polish...
In a gravity bong...
The background music is annoyingly loud.
The music makes this really hard to hear…
Please reupload w/o spoken background audio, then ill come back and watch. Its really hard to focus on what you are saying.
Why background music is louder than this dude? I can't listen to him
Background music far too loud.
They’re really trying to start a class war huh?
Huh? I'm sorry you missed the memo but the history of this country is dominated by the elites ruling over the majority. LoL, wow.....
You think classes are an identity, huh?
The class war has been going on for decades
@@nnhk0056 why don’t you go ahead and just Google “the definition of class war”
@@jasonclements9022nope since the industrial revolution
Yep. This is how we got a Pinkerton incident.
The evil that corporations do for their insatiable greed is disgusting.
Thanks for your presentation.
Keep up the excellent work.👍💪
*As* *a* *small* *business* *owner,* *I* *LOVE* *UNIONS!*
I Love Unions because I need what EVERY small business owner needs... I need Customers; aka Consumers with Money.
Union Workers organize and demand proper wages = Money. Union Workers have Money and therefore, can become my (and Your) valuable Customers.
Non-union Workers are too timid and/or ignorant to organize and are therefore, weaker and poorer. They choose to be poor slaves and they are NOT going to become My (or Your) customers, they are a drag upon our entire economy.
I LOVE UNIONS BECAUSE UNIONS CREATE MIDDLE CLASS!
... and because I want Our country to have a Big and Strong Middle Class, thanks to Unions.
UNIONS ARE GOOD FOR A STRONG AMERICA!
Funny how this truth is never discussed isn't it? Funny thing, higher wages for workers is as much a benefit to big business. After all, if you can sell your prodcut to 90 percent of pupulation you will make more moeny than if you are only selling to 6 percent. Turns the rich can't do basic math if it conflicts with their superiority complex.
Well said, I agree, we need more unions across the country.
I feel the same way, I'm also a business owner, and I love unions.
Did you say non union workers are a drag on the economy? What a joke of a statement to make. Non union workers usually advocate for themselves and can negotiate a higher pay based on there skills. Unions limit everyone to pay tiers depending on time spent in the union working for the company. Also there is a real pay ceiling working for unions just ask Europe. It has great benefits but it is not the end all be all. Your analysis is just false narratives.
Yes we need more unions especially in the southern United States. As a Floridian they like people working off the clock almost mandatory. And Desantis just passed laws about not being able to get breaks for one of the hottest states around.
Long time listener/watcher of BP, just want to say I appreciate the continued expansion of the BP team and content. Keep it up! 👏
Good video but the audio is kind of tinny.
Music was a bad idea. It interferes with your delivery
I mean... most of the _choices_ were okay, but it was just cranked too high...
This was great. Thank you.
The corporate war against the working class has gone on since corporations started.
Nothing new here.
It's a matter of how the power pendulem swings at any moment.
And the pendulem has swung towards corporations big time since 1980 when Reagan took office and started his war on the working class which continued for a dozen years thru the first Bush administration. When Reagan came to office in 1980 30% of American workers were in unions. That number was down to 10% by the time the first Bush left office.
After that, with unions historically weak in the US, corporations were able to get away with implementing globalization which ruined the working class in America. Not to mention treasonously weakening American economic power in the world by sending all of our manufacturing to China to make a quick, dirty buck on low Chinese wages, low Chinese taxes and the ability to pollute in China with impunity, turning China into a sewer.
And, the working class has only continued to get weaker since then as, once unions were weakened to the point where they could no longer properly finance the Democratic Party in elections, the Democrats went to the traditional Republican donors, the rich, the multinationals, the banksters, big Pharma, etc (they always had AIPAC and the arms manufacturers as their donors). The upshot of all this is that the 99% have had ZERO representation in the US government since 1992 when the unions couldn't afford to support Clinton/Gore and, really, since 1980 when Reagan began his reign of terror against the American working class
Why do you think you're seeing this migrant surge happening right now? LOL. Totally contrived by government, NGOs and Global Corporatists. This isn't new. It's basically the history of the 19th Century replaying itself. The corporate structure knows how to handle it when workers start getting the upper hand.
Having said that, everybody involved needs a history lesson. Ford fought unionization so hard, he forged (arguably) the strongest and most effective union in U.S. history. Workers have made the mistake of creating a dynamic that stifles innovation and technological change to the point the industry is no longer competitive (steel). Then the jobs go away anyhow.
I’ve noticed that you don’t hear these labor stories of our countries history in movies or tv shows.
Oliver Stone made a great documentary series called The Untold History of 🇺🇸.. 💯💯
You guys need to step up and fight it. Here goes a story, in Brazil companies have been dismantling Labour Relations Regulation bit by bit. At this point Unions are in disarray and powerless, the amount of "informal" economy soars and the government created a labour entity which allows you to provide your work and be treated as a company but you're only allowed to make less than R$ 81K (US$ ~12k).
Beware folks
When I was a young engineer Amazon was seen as a great place to work at. Over the years they are now considered one of the worst places for workers. Its hard to kno2 if it was always that bad or if it was alwthat bad. However, eventually it will catch up to them.
Let's see how it is in the United States. in my country, the previous government raised the minimum wage following the wishes of the workers because they were the main voters of the ruling party. many companies reduced factories with many workers and became importers. this caused a lot of unemployment. many imports caused the value of my country's currency to fall. I don't know what will happen to the United States and its dollar, maybe inflation will rise because it will print more money for import needs. but now, 20 years later, many workers' children have become entrepreneurs because there are very few jobs as laborers. but unfortunately the entrepreneurs are importers.
That’s what is happening in California now that they raised the minimum wage to $20; huge numbers of workers are being laid off and businesses are investing in robots and leaving the state in droves
Thank you for doing this reporting Breaking Points.
Your oppression is their profession
Are they GODS?? 😂😂😂
Nice a Spencer segment!
I support organized labor. I'm retired and living comfortably. Now i can start and grow a business to hand off to my family when I'm dead and gone.
Unions are anti small business.
@zoanth4 If you can't afford to pay, then don't start a business. The end.
@@zoanth4that is just blatantly wrong. Because if we didn't have unions to get us these rights to make sure we're not into getting screwed over by business. You would have no money to spend at a small business. And these major corporations more than they're already doing but absolutely wrecked small businesses. Small businesses can be saved by unions.
My husband and I have started and sold two small businesses. Even starting out we never paid less than 15 an hour in 2009….
If u can’t scale, price correctly and make profit, not revenue, you have zero right to be in business. Just accept your shit at it.
This is why I see so many 2ns and 3rd generation owners just run shit into the ground…the brains were with the founders.
@lancestabler7650 you should be able to pay whatever you want, that's how free markets and free economies work
I'm all for high paying jobs , don't get me wrong. But socializing everything is turning our nation into shit
The music was kind of distracting
Issue the oligarchs pushing for stripping worker protections seem to ignore:
Labor protections are not just meant to protect workers but also employers and society as a whole. They give a recourse, albeit toothless today, for workers besides pitchforks, workers fighting their managers outside the lot to collect backpay, etc.
If they go, people who are facing hunger or eviction will be cornered and that can lead to more violence.
Good point. Most societies, even oppressive ones, have to strike a balance. Unless they are completely tyrannical and ruled by fear (which is limited, see Assyrian Empire, see Russian Empire, see Romania under communism). However, when one ground has so much power, they can't imagine an opposition or even related to the plight of those under them, they're are rife for social unrest. So these companies are only going to make themselves more hated and targeted by government intervention, worker strikes, and customer backlash. And they won't get lean on their branding as "progressive" or "forward thinking" anymore.
@@fenrir7878 💯
Sounds to me like greed is king here.
The background music is so distracting!
The problem is, this Supreme Court doesn't respect precedent. 😒
Any bad precedent ??
"The 1% are powerful, *when* the 99% are *organized* and *prepared* to fight they are way more powerful" ~ Bernie Sanders.
Top VS bottom, not left VS right. Class war not culture wars.
Bernie endorsed Cuba
The problem with Starbucks is their overpriced coffee, not their corporate practices. Save some money by brewing your own coffee, or better yet cutting down on caffeine
Roger that!
People act surprised when a company acts in its own interests
The well-trained law obeying slaves 💘 capitalism.. 💵💵💯💯😂😂
Free palestine! 🇵🇸🇷🇺🇵🇷
Free assange! ✊
Pardon snowden! ✊
Workers of the world unite! ✊
Farmers of the world unite! ✊🚜
Stop posting foreign flags if you support American workers.
@@Carma123here you go 🇺🇸
Very informative, insightful summary of NLRB history.
Corporations never care nor cry over your demise
Your protected unless beoing want to disappeared forever
Great Segment
Thank You for this video, straight to the point on info in 11 minutes. Many people today don't know this history, but it's important to know, to be aware. You may think that because we have laws and boards to protect us/workers, no need to worry. But understand, that there are companies/corporations out there that have an agenda to stop any kind of rights, labour organizing, or whatever that they don't entirely control, and they have the money lobby there desires, and politicians in their pockets 🟪
There's a seriously bizarre kind of situation going on on UA-cam where I can filter this channel if I want to by by telling UA-cam not to recommend it but I can't do that to CBS News Fox News or any other mainstream media Outlet I am a premium subscriber to UA-cam yet I cannot curate my own content feed...
Ranking the BP types of videos:
- Li & Snider's videos
- Ryan & Emily's videos
- Krystal & Saagar's videos
Yes, corporations did declare wars on unions and they are being helped by your politicians you elected to public offices. You elect the politicians and the corporations buy them in office.
Since unions have gone out of their way to destroy business, why is it a bad thing for business to do the same to unions?
I've been saying, "progress dies at the Virginia state line"...
Excellant report
Very interesting! Loved this segment.
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Nice work, Spencer.
How do you answer the question of constantly improving profits without exploitation of everything possible
The music is way to loud 🔊📢📢🔊.....
Well, that explains all the "It's a job. They're not your friends, don't hang out with them after work--go home" Memes.
Very informative.
How about workers work harder and stay off their phone.
Bring it on
Excellence In Investigative Journalism.. Simon and Mr Peabody Give Grand Approval!! A Little Way Back Goes A Long With Clarity.
FFFK the corporations but I do think the Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional
There’s no defensible argument that the law protecting striking workers is unconstitutional. While you should totally be able to form a union the company should also be able to fire you if you don’t show up for work.
As a Boilermaker in Geneva Ohio we're not allowed to strike.
UAW SOLIDARITY STAND UP FIGHT BACK ✊✊✊✊
Oligarchs started this class war decades ago,
Only in recent years the people/working class are beginning to fight back..
*Organise, Unionize, Socialize*
solidarity
much obliged.
Declare war? More like continuing the offensive!
Any job that can be done virtually could open the door to many with disabilities here in the US. More likely, though, those jobs will be outsourced internationally to avoid paying higher American wages.
That was interesting.
So corps made billions soaking up the capital now that the unions want some too . They would rather close up.
the labor act now couldnt be passed.
Responding in kind is important.
The background music is as bad as the socks. I have no idea what you said for the DAMN MUSIC. You sir need and editor or something
For all the people complaining about the background music, mute the video, and tap on the “Cc” option. Thank me later 😉.
Good one , except usually listen to podcasts while running
Always remember how power deals with strikes when people tell you that employment is voluntary in the US.
Thanks for the information. 👍
Good video
Yes, how dare workers defend themselves and establish their own conditions and terms.
Am I wrong to think that one of the lessons learned at an MBA school is how to stifle labor demands and costs?
These bastards would look a whole lot better as bridge ornaments.
Unions are a good idea, but Union management in big Business is has has been corrupt, and not looking out for their workers! The last UAW strike as an example, has demanded such large wage increase it will cost any workers their jobs!
Excellent video.
I’m a subscriber since the beginning of breaking points (one of the first 1000 people who subscribed I got to see Saagar’s desk before the first broadcast on that video released for us early folk)
I listen to news, podcasts & lectures that do not have production values with backing music under their dialogue. Would you consider dropping the backing music so that I could actually hear and take in what you are saying?
The topic is fascinating but I’m too distracted by the music
Thank you
Nothing different. There has always been a conflict between companies and labor. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I personally hate the idea of unions, they are just a middle man taking money from my employees. What I do instead is pay my staff under market value or minimum wage but I give them 33% of my companies profits … often resulting in getting 2x market value … I wonder why 🤔
It been a battle for decades but the 80s started again
in otherwords we're screwed considering how labor friendly the court is right now.