• SHITPOSTING_ACCOUNT@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    As usual, it’s not a shortage of talent, it’s a shortage of talent willing to be exploited.

    The article explicitly explains that they “needed” to hire 25 foreign workers to deal with the shortage… after they made 50 local workers quit by cutting pay.

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      1 year ago

      It is also a good advertisement for Unions. The big corporation is trying to stiff workers, and undercutting the union. Then tried to get the electrical installation company to hire 25 non union electricians from Taiwan. And the electrical installer said nuh-uh, raise pay, don’t cut incentive programs.

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      1 year ago

      So just the usual importing cheap labor. Fuck corporations and fuck the people who make excuses for their shitty practices