Why We Fight - more evidence

Some people around here just about stroked out when I made this and additional claims last week:



Their point seemed to be that corporations often had good people in them- which I agree with - and to stop picking on our poor beleaguered corporate overlords - which I do not.

Then this morning I see this headline: Starbucks Has to Pay for Drips of Off-the-Clock Work

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/starbucks-has-to-pay-for-drips-of-off-the-clock-work

which is all about stopping wage theft where Starbucks, which I think we can all agree is one of the more benign corporate entities in the US, wanted to keep not paying workers for their total working time.

this was presented as

Link to tweet

"The Calif. Supreme Court decided a case that could add billions in labor costs to employers' bottom line by requiring them to pay employees for work time that previously went uncompensated " by Jon Steingart, editor at Bloomberg.

So, we have a corporation that wants (some) work done at zero pay. And a corporate news outlet crying about how it will cost employers "billions" to pay their actual wage. Boo hoo.

And this kind of "why won't people just work for free" framing happens all of the time, day in and day out, throughout the media.

Is it really a question that we need to STOP giving corporations the ability to buy and control our government?