The rule — announced late last month by the National Labor Relations Board –- sets new standards for determining when two companies should be considered “joint employers” under the National Labor Relations Act.
It sounds wonky. But essentially, the rule could widen the number of companies that must participate in labor negotiations alongside their franchisees or independent contractors. For example, it might require Burger King to bargain with workers even though most of its U.S. restaurants are owned by franchisees. Or it could require Amazon to negotiate with delivery drivers who are employed by independent contractors.
Good. Using machines to do the work we don’t want to is how we started producing more food than we can eat and enabled us to focus more on what we enjoy.
I’m all for eliminating scarcity and automating the kind of work nobody thrives doing, but I also recall Keynes famously predicted that if productivity kept on growing the way it was, it would be possible for people to work a 15-hour work week and still maintain a modern standard of living.
Well, productivity did keep on growing, and the promise of future-leisure time because productivity gains made want a thing of the past… didn’t pan out.
That’s because we keep funneling as many resources as possible to as few people as possible in the vain hopes that we might one day join them.
The quality of life for the ruling class is inconceivable to those in the working class.
You make it sound like the poors put the GOP in charge when in reality we have oligarchical families that subject the people to an onslaught of lies and propaganda [from the onset, mind you. slavery was a hot debate at one point.] to the point where their brains are mush. It’s a problem all across the entire spectrum of people here.
I mean, yeah, but the poors still believe the disparity in wealth should grow instead of shrink.
The poors dont think about wealth at all. If they did they would be fighting tooth and nail for generational wealth and education. Have you seen the commercials that get pedaled on Fox News?