• Nik282000@lemmy.ca
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    15 days ago

    There is a reason. North America is, and always has been, a tool for extracting resources and labour from ‘the new world’, businesses moved from Europe to America specifically because slavery was still a legal option.

    While slavery in name is gone, in practice it is still very much present in the form of minimum wage and part time employment.

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    15 days ago

    The reason is simple, we just can’t afford bonuses this year. For you. We gotta tighten our belts, its been a rough year— what? Record profits? Well yes, but that’s going to reinvestment and infrastructure buildouts for new avenues of- so we’ll actually be hiring a lot of new— we’ll yes we did just layoff 15% of the team, but these are new positions outside of our usual pool of experience- look what im trying to say is your raises are capped at 2% going forward. Now I know many of you might— what’s that? The ceo just bought a fourth yacht? Thats probably due to their larger investment portfolio and not really just because of the executive bonuses— what are your talking about unions? We’re a family here!