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Always a bad sign when people vote against unionization of their workforce. With the benefits of having a union(better pay, pension plan) you will be better off than what you will be getting at the rate you are working. Hope unions will continue campaigning in the deep red South, because to revitalize labor in the US we need to target the right to work states run by enemies of the worker. You can't have worker solidarity in one region without having the backing of the rest of the nation.

I think there's a cultural aspect to it too (We're not Yankee Socialists etc..) and how unions have been associated as such in that region since at least the 1950's, but the sooner labor can convince them that they support them the better.

The south has long time been antiunion, even when they kind of supported fiscal progresivism in the 1930s.

"Fiscal progressivism" that transfers wealth from the Northern middle class via federal taxes to build bridges and dams and roads in the South that they could and should have built themselves is not progressivism. It's just regionalist welfare chauvinism.

Always a bad sign when people vote against unionization of their workforce. With the benefits of having a union(better pay, pension plan) you will be better off than what you will be getting at the rate you are working. Hope unions will continue campaigning in the deep red South, because to revitalize labor in the US we need to target the right to work states run by enemies of the worker. You can't have worker solidarity in one region without having the backing of the rest of the nation.

Maybe it's a sign that companies have learned to treat their employees so well that a majority of employees do not look on management as enemies and they don't need a union to be respected.

Or maybe, Mercedez Benz is more comfortable dealing with European Unions vs. US Unions.

As I said already, European Unions are FAR more cooperative. They have far less things to hassle about.

And they practice sectorial barganing which covers entire industries rather than the enterprise System in the US.

I wonder (seriously) if Rudy may have fled the country.  His life is pretty much in ruins if he stays in the U.S.

Perhaps his good friends from Russia took him out for a nice cup of calming tea?

CIA, other spy agencies told White House about Rudy Giuliani's dealings with alleged Russian agents (2020)

A New Rudy Scandal: FBI Agent Says Giuliani Was Co-opted by Russian Intelligence (2023

Also unlike the US, European Unions practice sectorial barganing where agreements cover an entire industry, unlike the US where a Union like the UAW would negotiate with each and every company.

Most experts would say that Sectorial Barganing is far more better.

That's why another reason I think mercedez benz might be slightly more hesitant to work with a US Unions.

They're not comfortable with the type of union negotiation that is common in the US.

Always a bad sign when people vote against unionization of their workforce. With the benefits of having a union(better pay, pension plan) you will be better off than what you will be getting at the rate you are working. Hope unions will continue campaigning in the deep red South, because to revitalize labor in the US we need to target the right to work states run by enemies of the worker. You can't have worker solidarity in one region without having the backing of the rest of the nation.

Maybe it's a sign that companies have learned to treat their employees so well that a majority of employees do not look on management as enemies and they don't need a union to be respected.

I wouldn't be surprised if this guy kills again.

It's a 413 map

There should be an investigation into whether management coerced their actions.

I'd be looking at the state of Alabama itself, though I'm not sure what federal remedies are available against the state if that were the case.

The repeal of Section 14(b) of Taft-Hartley needs to be a top priority for the next Democratic trifecta.

Not defending  Mercedez Benz, but if we compare the Union Structure in the US vs. Germany, there's probably a reason Mercedez Benz might be more hesitant about working with US Union vs. a German Union.


The relationship between companies and unions in germany are more.... cooperative than in the US. For one thing, as in many European countries, the Unions don't have to negotiate that much, since most benefits are provided by the state; healthcare, pensions. So German Unions don't... do that much.

Lmao who is stupid enough to buy their guns and ammo with a credit card? Thats how the get you.

I think a big part of it is that suppliers, unlike scalpers, have to worry about the stickiness of prices on both sides. They don't want to raise prices now only to have to lower them later when demand cools; they would rather have consistent pricing not only for reputation reasons but also for their own financial projections. So they try to price their products for the steady-state of the market. That means that they are slower to react to surges of demand than scalpers, who feel free to change their prices extremely rapidly. If the surge in demand is sustained enough to change the baseline level of demand, prices will eventually go up, just more slowly.

'Surge pricing' i.e selling tickets on line like in an auction would accomplish the same thing and allow the actual supplier (the artist) and not the scalper to capture the consumer surplus.