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Omaha Steve's Labor Group

jimfields33

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3. True. I have no idea what working in a factory would be like

Reply to captain queeg (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 1, 2021, 10:21 AM

Dec 2021

I’m stunned that the company thinks 52 hours is no big deal. That’s 12 hours of overtime per person. That’s huge when they could hire more people and save that overtime money. I think the numbers people need fired.

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Cereal Killers: How 80-Hour Weeks and a Caste System Pushed Kellogg's Workers to Strike [View all] Omaha Steve Dec 2021 OP

The Free Market sees human beings a capital, multigraincracker Dec 2021 #1

Definitely yes. Mr. Steve Dec 2021 #4

It's a different world in a lot of ways captain queeg Dec 2021 #2

True. I have no idea what working in a factory would be like jimfields33 Dec 2021 #3

It's often about benefits, though Kellogg doesn't seem captain queeg Dec 2021 #6

Interesting DENVERPOPS Dec 2021 #5