My personal headcanon in the space orks or space australia tag (or i geuss any sci to related tag) is that aliens will do to us what we have done to minorities. After initial contact is made and there has been a good couple years for everyone to adapt to this new liaison, alien notes on humans will begin. In the case that they are the ones to make first contact with us, they feel superior to us and dont bother checking their facts about our various cultures and traditions. So called, “human handbooks”, will be made with ridiculously inacurate statements about our prefered meals, cultures, fashion and gross miss translations of our languages. Rude and harmful stereotypes will be created based on miss information, and since these books were created by the superiors of this race, none of the other aliens question the information. Basically, aliens will do to us what many colonists did to native tribes of each respective country and continent they invaded. It would take YEARS of hard work and protests for humans to convince these aliens that the handbooks be re-written, correctly this time.
no offense but squidward saying “nobody cares about the fate of labor as long as they can get their instant gratification” is more woke than anything wendy’s twitter or any liberal has ever said
This isn’t because Burger King is nicer in Denmark. It’s the law, and the US is actually the only so-called “developed” country that doesn’t mandate jobs provide a minimum amount of paid vacation, sick leave, or both.
kinda debunks that claim that they can’t afford to pay their workers those sort of wages and still make a profit
Its corporate greed, plain and simple.
It is the same in Sweden. It is so funny every time an american company opens up offices here and then tries to do it the american way and all the unions go “I don’t think so”.
They refused to sign on to the union deals that govern such things as pay/pension and vacation in Sweden. Most of our rights are not mandated by law (we don’t have a minimum wage for example) but are made in voluntary agreements between the unions and the companies.
But they refused, saying that they had never negotiated with any unions anywhere else in the world and weren’t planning to do it in Sweden either.
Of course a lot of people thought it was useless fighting against an international giant, but Handels (the store worker’s union) said that they could not budge, because that might mean that the whole Swedish model might crumble. So they went on strike in the three stores that the company had opened so far.
Cue a shitstorm from the press, and from right wing politicians. But the members were all for it, and other unions started doing sympathy actions. The teamsters refused to deliver goods to their stores, the financial unions blockaded all economical transactions regarding Toys ‘r Us and the strike got strong international support as well, especially in the US.
In the end, Toys ‘r Us caved in, signed the union deal, and thus their employees got the same treatment as Swedish store workers everywhere.
The right to be treated as bloody human beings and not disposable cogs in a machine.
and that story right there? is exactly why Republicans in the US work so hard to bust unions. it’s because unionizing WORKS and they’re terrified of workers actually having some power.
