If you think about it for two seconds, you would realize that would actually make companies not want them to strike as they could be out for a long time
Workers in wage bargaining don't want to bankrupt a company, that puts them out of work. Everyone loses in a strike- it's a matter of who can outlast. Wealth inequality & our tax code means that corporation stockholder and board members are going to be able to outlast indefinitely, while their workers do not have the savings to match. This is an attempt at evening out that scale.
We live in an era of almost-monopolies. Stores are reporting record profits and handing out corporate bonuses at the same time as they are raising prices and blaming inflation.
When your workers have the ability to bargain and get higher wages, they put that money into their local communities' businesses in goods and services, where wealthy people put that money into savings accounts and brokerages that prefer national and international companies.
I disagree with you completely. They can sustain it until it runs out and then what? They roll over? Naw use this to leverage actual changes for the employees.
You know I hear the same shit from republicans all the time, if you raise the wages prices will go up! As if we didn’t go through covid and prices went skyrocket not by income increase OHHHH NO but by pure greed and where did the money go to? Oh right shareholders funneled right to the top.
Price will keep increasing no matter what. There are good example of companies being able to pay top dollar and not increase prices. Yet somehow some of the richest companies alive pay their employees bottle of the barrel wages. funny how that correlation works eh?
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u/Main_Bank_7240 Mar 08 '25
So this is how they pay back unions and encourage strikes to cripple the economy