09-09-2012, 04:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-09-2012, 04:52 PM by FireIceTalon.)
(09-09-2012, 04:34 PM)LochnarITB Wrote: The main issue, as I see it, isn't even being argued here. They took away a day's pay for a political event. Loss of a single day's pay can be enough to be the last straw in breaking a family's budget these days. They laid it off as being a safety issue but it was one they created, it does not compare to one caused by power outages or equipment failures or even collapses, all valid issues in a very dangerous industry.
Assuming it was all legal, the company did wrong by their employees. They should have paid them for the day and then this probably would not have made anyone's radar. The company endangered their employees' financial situations in the name of a political candidate that the company decided the employees should listen to (repercussions or not), for their own good. Not a decision belonging to the company. I would have been pissed too and I would have cried foul as well.
As someone that hates politics with a passion, I can't wait for the next two months to be over. The back and forth in this campaign is the worst crap (from all parties) I ever remember seeing, and it isn't even cranked up to 10 yet. Decisions aren't going to come down to who can I support but, rather, who will do the least harm.
Preach on brother Loch. Glad someone else here sees the wrong in this whole thing. I don't think any person should be compelled to attend a political event and be told it is mandatory by ANYONE, especially their job, or not be paid for it to boot - regardless if their political views are the same or not. Corporations already have far too much power over peoples lives as it is, be it through Commodity Fetishism or their authoritarian structure of how things are ran in the workplace, but this is downright bordering on Fascism. Call it whatever you like I suppose, but it certainly isn't right - and any rational person, regardless of their politics should see this.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)