Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Race To the Bottom
Keeping Up to Date in Negotiations
The Governor had offered everything but his daughter,
and the union couldn't think of anything more to give
back, but Jerome opined that sometimes one had to be
cruel to be kind.
He thus moved operations to a terrifically automated
factory in Mexico. "Hey the few workers get coolie wages!
What's not to like?"
He laughed off the local paper's editorial re a devastated
community. "So? Get un-devastated."
Was he moving down there? golf partner asked.
"I'll keep an apartment, but you know me, real
homeboy. House and Club and Church about does it."
Labels: industrial policy, labor negotiation, wealthy owner
Monday, November 04, 2013
Holding Few Cards
Small Factory
-The Old Man having crushed the Union in order to
enter Reactionary Heaven, we get Junior appointing a
Negotiating Committee of Management-Licking Toads.
-What have they negotiated away thus far?
-Half the vacation, half the medical, but only a third
of the wages.
-That last being the good news?
-There's more. Junior is leaving us to run
for Republican something or other.
-He fits perfectly into The Party of Endless
Fuck-around.
Labels: labor negotiation, management, medical, Republican, toady, vacation, wages
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
NFL
Players want share
of additional funds
owners earn or extort.
Their retort: Uppity! Not,
too PR savvy for that.
Labels: Annals of Capitalism, Labor, labor negotiation, NFL
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Ever Closer To the Pure
-I could pack up and move to China you know!
-To save my ten percent increase? I'm just keeping up
with inflation.
-That's the trouble. But not just! You’re adding to it.
-It's always the same with negotiations. You bellyache so,
we can't move it along.
-I gotta lot to bellyache--!
-One employee running an entire factory of robots!
Try finding that in China or anywhere else!
-I suppose you want more vacation too?
-What vacation? Running the place through my laptop
in some dump of cracked toilets and stinking food? And surrounded by other slaves like myself on "vacation."
No thanks.
-Slave indeed! You can't stay away from the hyperbole!
-Well, we're negotiating.
-My stomach is shot dealing with you!
-I can't do anything about that. Do you want me to run
two factories?
-Funny you should bring that up...
-I could pack up and move to China you know!
-To save my ten percent increase? I'm just keeping up
with inflation.
-That's the trouble. But not just! You’re adding to it.
-It's always the same with negotiations. You bellyache so,
we can't move it along.
-I gotta lot to bellyache--!
-One employee running an entire factory of robots!
Try finding that in China or anywhere else!
-I suppose you want more vacation too?
-What vacation? Running the place through my laptop
in some dump of cracked toilets and stinking food? And surrounded by other slaves like myself on "vacation."
No thanks.
-Slave indeed! You can't stay away from the hyperbole!
-Well, we're negotiating.
-My stomach is shot dealing with you!
-I can't do anything about that. Do you want me to run
two factories?
-Funny you should bring that up...
Labels: automation, labor negotiation, robot
