Would love to see an employee get in camera and say if drumpf wants a piece of bacon he can drag his lazy ass down here and cut it himself.

Just because a company is forced to open doesn't mean its employees are forced to come to work.

They have few other options available to them. Most are immigrants who couldn't find work in those areas, except at the meat packing plant. They're trapped by their economic situations.

Similar to the GOP plan to "re-open" businesses in states. If it is open and you do not return, YOU are making the choice to quit and your unemployment benefits are gone.

It is evil. It is uniquely conservative/Republican.

to minimize unemployment benefits and create wealth for Capitalists?


I am being intentionally obtuse to get some clarity, in case you are confused.

I know that evil is not unique to conservatives/Republicans. I said, that forcing people to work to maximize profit and to kick people off public benefits is unique to the GOP here.

Unless you can explain the Soviet/Chernobyl scenario in a way that parallels what is being proposed here.

a month ago.

Watch Worthington for a major clash between the State of Minny and Trumps Corporate Slugs.

It is time for them to all come together and fight to save their lives. I believe they have a union. If you don't fight when someone is trying to kill you, I cannot weep for you when you die.

Once they give into his demands , they'll only increase , and become more dangerous for them. Many , many others I bet wish they gad never given into his demands also.

Union talking to "the help"? Close the plant, get suckers 100 miles away to finance another one as "job creation". Blacklist any "trouble" from the old plant, hire "illegals" or "scabs" for as many positions as possible. "Buy out" the old plant with another shell company, strip the assets in bankruptcy.

Old game, an old fight. I figure that MAGAdise is 1923 America, pretty much their ideal world. Machine guns were labor policy, to men like Trump wishes he was. Or you could pay off The Klan, criminals, mercenaries, a church, the cops, even enlist the "scabs" as strikebreakers. And that's just in southern Colorado; Wikipaedia has gruesome details of The Ludlow Massacre and The Columbine Massacre, see also Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency.

The question is why would you equate FDR to Trump's recklessness?

I briefly worked for a "skills testing" company, and their big thing then was doing the hiring exams for all the electricans and automation mechanics for a huge new meatpacking plant. In Greely, Colo.
People are "forced" into factories, because it's a way to make a living in the world. It's good and honest work, and SHOULD pay well. People who are good at it, are worth keeping around. Enough so, that many labor-intensive industries use "gainsharing" well, pay a decent wage and an annual "share/bonus" that can run 20-50% of base rate.

The meatpacking business, sadly, is run by the usual amoral, greedy, fearful, and willingly stupid "managers" that infest the "business" world. Hire an Army of doh-ass, cheap jack "help", or whoever is desperate enough to take the job for short$$. Then you set them all to fighting with each other, so's you can rip them off TOO.

This is the obvious flaw of Capitalism. Profit is the overarching drive for many people. The idiot in the White House is condoning the greed over the welfare of the rest of us.

This is why so many people are saying that it is a time for paradigm shift. We cannot sustain the idea of profit being the primary function of business. We need to shift to sustainability.

Food supply in my opinion IS critical infrastructure, meat or otherwise. I think that it is likely necessary to keep the plants open.

Here is where I differ with what is happening and likely being proposed. Trump and the GOP are probably not considering for one minute, the safety of laborers. They are considering only the supply of food to their constituents AND the loss of revenue to the companies.

What I think should happen is that the safety needs of the workers should be paramount. They should be given ALL of the equipment they need to remain safe and all the training to use the equipment safely. They should also be provided testing and medical care, FREE OF COST during this time period. Second, they need HAZARD PAY, meaning they should get substantially more money than their typical salary based on the risk they are taking. Third, profits for the companies should be the least priority in this situation. Keeping the food supply safe and flowing should be considered a national priority, therefore any subsidies should go toward safety, the workers, and maintaining the flow of food. Salaries of executives should be locked, and stock prices should be stabilized not maximized.

Forcing people to go into unsafe or deadly conditions is not the way to do it. All the precautions are voluntary not mandatory. People are gonna die. That is the point.

Those are called...Externalities. The cost of doing business passed on to others.

Can’t say I would blame them if they do.

Is he going to force them to still ship stuff even if they are on their deathbed?

I think the truckers will be Ok. It's the ultimate social distancing job.