NO PAID SICK LEAVE FOR
GROCERY STORE WORKERS
American Monopolies are killing us
Grocery store workers report
going to work even when they’re sick!
According to “Shelved,” a 2014 UC Berkeley labor research center report on the industry, 65% of California grocery store workers said they’d gone to work while sick, with almost 60% admitting they’d done this for three days or more.
There is no federal requirement for paid sick leave, according to the Department of Labor. Many short-term and part-time employees are also not covered by the Family Medical Leave Act
HOW MUCH PROFIT ARE MONOPOLIES ENTITLED TO MAKE – WHEN THEY ARE KILLING US?
Revolving Door Corruption GIF by Transparency International
@matthewstoller I work at the American Economic Liberties Project.
Amazon or democracy. Pick one.
Facebook or democracy. Pick one.
Goggle or democracy. Pick one.
Google is a revolving door for gov employees. Fueled by endless money from the Fed they’ve could create monopolies and easily enforce surveillance of the society.
In 1945, Congress passed the antitrust laws out of a “desire to put an end to great aggregations of capital because of the helplessness of the individual before them.”
Corporate Monopolies. Push Biden/Harris to appoint serious anti-monopolists.
No corporate lobbyists. Biden can’t just usher in the usual revolving door. He needs to bring in serious people that can tackle tech monopolies.
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Joe Biden commits to cutting internet access prices. That’s either unbundling for telecoms, basically a soft break-up to force competition, or just straight up price regulation by the FCC.
The answer to these design problems in globalization is relatively simple. One, break up monopolies, because monopolies are chokepoints. Two, re-localize production with tariffs and friction in trade. Three, reduce debt-heavy firm financing.
What Can We Learn from a Big Boat Stuck in a Canal?
Financiers thinned out our supply chains. That was a risky bet.
The Big Dumb Ship Problem Is Much Worse Than We Think
What Happens If a Big Dumb Ship Falls Over in the Entrance Channel to a Major Port?
Dumb big ships owned by monopolies are the result of dumb big ideas, the physical manifestation of what Thomas Friedman pushed in the 2000s with The World is Flat, the idea that “taking fat out of the system at every joint” led to peace and prosperity.
How to defend a monopoly: donate to a state party, then capture the state government. Activate revolving door for your interests. When a home-state pol rises, bundle for their campaign, because on a host of issues, your lobbyist is a Legislative Director.
One of Klobuchar’s Biggest Backers Is ‘the Worst Company in the World’
The Minnesota senator stresses her humble background on the campaign trail, but her political rise has been funded in part by one of the biggest names in agribusiness.
A revolving door monopoly and the oligarch of the month.
The revolving door collusion between corporate monopolies and government officials>#corporatism
Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoorDC
Other Pharma-connected Biden personnel:
— Susan Rice, who holds $50K in Pfizer shares and $5M in Johnson & Johnson shares
— Eric Lander, who holds $1M in BioNTech shares
— Tony Blinken, who consulted for remdesivir-maker Gilead Science.
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