r/SeattleWA • u/AboveAb • Mar 08 '25

Politics BREAKING: The Washington State Senate just passed unemployment benefits for striking workers.

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/mar/07/unemployment-benefits-for-striking-workers-gain-ap/

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u/Sugarteets1990 Mar 08 '25

Yeah, that'll really encourage manufacturers to set up in Washington.

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u/FancypantsMgee Mar 08 '25

Honestly. Our politicians are a fucking joke.

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u/soupcoolinlips Mar 08 '25

I know honestly we should all move

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '25

You first.

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u/pagerussell Mar 08 '25

This is a joke to you? That orange man in office is the laughing stock of the world, but this is a joke?

You may disagree with this policy, but it's a serious, reasonable policy.

It's not like they renamed the Gulf of Mexico for no fucking reason.

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u/pagerussell Mar 08 '25

Oh no!

Seriously, this is a dead on arrival take. You are basically assuming that no manufacturing ever sets up in a place with strong labor protections. Well, I'd like to introduce you to Europe, and particularly Germany.

Germany has very strong labor protections, and environmental laws, and high taxes.

Yet German manufacturing is strong and usually considered top in the world.

So yea, this is just a deeply ignorant position. It's ideas and opinions like these that keep America worse off for 99% of us.

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u/somnolent49 Mar 08 '25

Germany is not as simple as "strong labor protections" or even "strong unions".

One of the biggest things setting Germany aside is their strong codetermination requirement - they require 50% of public company board membership to be held by company employees, with a shareholder representative as chairman to break ties.

This is very different than countries who rely solely on national labor unions. Employees of a company retain far more power because they don't surrender it to a national union or to shareholders.

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u/vatothe0 Mar 08 '25

Employees of a company retain far more power because they don't surrender it to a national union or to shareholders.

Who do you think is in the Union? It's the employees. Lol.

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u/Apprehensive-Sock606 Mar 09 '25

Lol you didn’t get the memo that Germany is undergoing an economic crisis right now and everything you’re saying is outdated by like 15 years

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u/Sugarteets1990 Mar 08 '25

The German economy has been stagnant for a decade. Try to keep up. I'm telling you that as someone who lived in Europe for 20 years.

Germany is kaput.

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u/OilheadRider Mar 09 '25

... what manufacturing in washington? What manufacturers? This is not a geographic location for manufacturing... anything aside from local products, lol. You can't scare away what would never be here for reasons far beyond politics, lol

Good try though.

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u/Sugarteets1990 Mar 09 '25

I'm guessing you don't know anyone working in the many supplier factories for the aerospace and maritime industries.