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[-] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 292 points 8 months ago

The riot occurred at a clothing manufacturing and seafood processing factory

That....is an interesting combination

[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 95 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
[-] Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

Also DBA:

Jones' Cheap Ass Prepaid Legal and Daycare Academy

Jones' Big Ass Truck Rental & Storage

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[-] BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 55 points 8 months ago

So that's why clothes from Temu smell like that...

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[-] Subverb@lemmy.world 44 points 8 months ago

I couldn't find an image but there's an old Far Side cartoon that shows a building that's something like "Jake's Croissants and Fill Dirt". Reminds me of that.

[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 32 points 8 months ago

My boss ordered an anti-fatigue mat from Amazon recently and entirety of the inside of that package smelled like a fish market.

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The connection is that they both require workers, but don't want to pay them

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[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 27 points 8 months ago

Clothes that smell like seafood straight from the factory could be the next $100 white t-shirt or designer jeans with rips already in them.

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[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 156 points 8 months ago

When North Koreans unionize, they don't fuck around.

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 249 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I read this somewhere else on Lemmy recently (sorry for comment steal):

American companies that are trying to dismantle unions need to understand that unions were a compromise to protect the companies. Because this is the alternative.

[-] chknbwl@lemmy.world 66 points 8 months ago

This issue extends to politicians as well. If you replace "Ancien Régime" with "Oligarchy-flavored Republic" it's almost like we're living the beginning script of the French Revolution here in America. That should induce quite the pandemic of sweaty palms in D.C. If that Oaf gets reelected, we're gonna have a Louis XVI on our hands... and we all know how that went down...

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[-] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 34 points 8 months ago

There's a quote I can't seem to find about unions being the compromise because the alternative is showing up at the factory owner's house.

The Battle of the Overpass wasn't that long ago.

[-] OnceADream@lemmy.world 40 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Found the one I was thinking of:

Someone should probably tell the rich that workers banding together to present formal address of grievances is the alternative we worked out a long time ago to breaking down the factory owner's front door and beating him to death in front of his family? I feel like they forgot.

It was on Twitter, no idea the origin.

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[-] FraidyBear@lemmy.world 29 points 8 months ago

The great part about history is sometimes there's no need to find a quote when there's tons of evidence! Here's a few:

France, George Besse killed in 85' due to his "revolutionary" turnaround of a company that included mass layoffs.

United States Labor Wars which spanned a century of bloodshed and violence. The Labor Wars included the Battle of Blair Mountain where the largest private army in US history was formed and approximately one million rounds were fired.

There's a reason your history classes were boring, there's a reason they opt for American propaganda instead of facts, and there is a reason companies are shitting themselves over union talks. Both the best and worst part about being a history buff is knowing the facts they don't want you to hear. Be a History Buff with me Limmings! We never meet up, there are no dues, you have no deadlines or tests, and you get to earn dark secrets you can use to torture your friends and family with. It's great!

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[-] Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago

Except they’re now all organ donors.

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[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 8 months ago

lemmygrad mod if they were chinese union buster in this situation: YOU'RE BREAKING LEFTIST UNITY

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 24 points 8 months ago

Leftists need to unify to protect institutionalized capitalism. It’s the only way!

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[-] CSynthare@lemm.ee 71 points 8 months ago

They should consider Communism.

[-] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 38 points 8 months ago

I wonder if they think they actually DO live under communism?

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[-] Gabu@lemmy.world 59 points 8 months ago

Hell yeah, power to the proletariat!

[-] xenoclast@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

North Koreans in China showing the world how it's done. Who had THAT on their bingo card ?

Americans forget their middle class existed for the short time it did exactly because of actions like this.

You don't fight the enemy sitting on your toilet reading Lemmy posts. (It's still fun though)

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[-] Yewb@kbin.social 49 points 8 months ago

This is a coal mine canary of the future of china, civil unrest and wealth inequity for everyone!

[-] NovaPrime@lemmy.ml 44 points 8 months ago

So exactly the same as the rest of the industrialized world?

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[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 39 points 8 months ago

First time North Korea or China has had some praxis.

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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 30 points 8 months ago

mao zedong would be proud.

[-] NateNate60@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Watch the so-called "Communist" Party leaders decry this and crush it violently. Marx is rolling so much in his grave that if they attached a generator to him they could power half of China with the electricity

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 29 points 8 months ago

When you have nothing left, you riot.

[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 20 points 8 months ago

Good. I hope it spreads.

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