Capitalism

Millions of U.S Workers for Walmart, McDonald’s and Other Corporate Giants Rely on Food Stamps and Medicaid

Leave a Comment / Capitalism, corporations, health insurance, Living Wage / By max cyril

Millions of full-time, adult workers in the United States?—?many of them employed by Walmart, McDonald’s and other highly profitable corporations?—?are paid wages so low they’re forced to rely on public assistance to make ends meet. That is the key finding of a newly released report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO). Commissioned by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I?Vt.), the …

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Amazon Expects Its Employees to Operate Like Fast-Moving Machines. This Amazon Picker Is Fighting Back.

Leave a Comment / accountability, bosses, Capitalism, Essential Worker, productivity, Uncategorized / By max cyril

For Sean Carlisle (a pseudonym) a 32-year-old graduate student and native of California’s Inland Empire, the last three years at his local Amazon fulfillment center have been an education. As a student of urban planning, he studies how built environments shape a community’s behavior. As a picker, he packs items at a breakneck pace amid stacks of inventory and snaking …

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What a Just Transition Would Actually Mean for Workers

Leave a Comment / Capitalism, worker's rights, workplace innitiatives / By max cyril

just tran•si•tion noun 1. A framework to address the livelihoods and needs of the workers and communities most impacted by the switch to renewable energy“We want [a plan to] mobilize the economy in a way that transitions us off of fossil fuels in 11 years, but also protects every single worker [and] their ability to have a job and healthcare.” —Nicole …

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How Workers Can Win the Class War Being Waged Upon Them

Leave a Comment / Capitalism, unemployment / By max cyril

Organized labor led no mass opposition to Trump’s presidency or the December 2017 tax cut or the failed U.S. preparation for and management of COVID-19. Nor do we yet see a labor-led national protest against the worst mass firing since the 1930s Great Depression. All of these events, but especially the unemployment, mark an employers’ …

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Capitalism vs. Safety, Health: An Old Story Again

Leave a Comment / Capitalism, Health & Safety / By max cyril

The U.S. president recently ordered meatpacking employees back into workplaces plagued by coronavirus. He did not order the employers to make their slaughterhouses safe. GOP-proposed legislation exempts employers from lawsuits by employees sickened or killed by coronavirus infections at workplaces. The GOP is mostly silent about requiring employers to maintain safe or healthy workplaces. Employers across the …

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Capitalism Can’t Be Repaired—Coronavirus Shows Its Huge Weaknesses

Leave a Comment / Capitalism / By max cyril

Consider this absurdity: The U.S. government’s policy in the face of the current capitalist crash is to “return the economy to the pre-coronavirus normal.” What? In that “normal” system, private capitalists maximized profits by not producing the tests, masks, ventilators, beds, etc., needed when coronavirus hit. Profit-driven capitalism proved extremely inefficient in its response to the virus. …

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