• xyzzy@lemmy.today
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    3 days ago

    “Choosing not to work is just that, a choice,” Rep. Rudy Yakym, R-Ind., said in a statement on the legislation he’s sponsoring.

    “While far-left states like Oregon and Washington are busy handing out unemployment checks like participation trophies to anyone who walks off the job, the SHIELD Act puts an end to that nonsense. These radical policies disrupt the labor market, let workers walk off the job without consequences, and leave small businesses high and dry. If you choose to strike, you don’t get to collect a check from hardworking Americans, plain and simple,” he added.

    I’m ready to secede. The workers in the four states this waste of oxygen is targeting can take our collective $90 billion surplus we generously donate to poor red states and go build a modern society with robust public transit with that money instead

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      2 days ago

      I’m mean besides the fact that if the anti fascists left the US the dumb ass Nazis would be broke and done…if choosing not to work is a choice, with consequences, then paying to little, treating employees like shit is also a choice and striking is the goddamn consequence. But this administration seems to forget that Unions were the compromise between the working class to let the rich live.