It’s not even “no slavery = no chocolate,” it’s just “no slavery = more expensive chocolate” so yeah no objections from me personally on this one
And the thing about “more expensive chocolate” is that it doesn’t even have to be more expensive to the CUSTOMERS…
It could be more expensive to the producers (Nestle) instead of passing on the extra cost to the people eating chocolate.
Nestle makes roughly $90 billion in profit every year. That’s pure profit.
They could stop using slavery, and still make upwards of $60 billion in profit every fucking year, and the consumer price of chocolate wouldn’t change at all.
But despite the fact that $60B is still a comically absurd amount of money and that they literally cannot spend it all, Nestle refuses to stop using slavery, and claims that if they did stop, consumers would have to pay more…. Y'know, in order to make sure they didn’t “lose” that extra $30B in profit.
On this day, 29 August 1997, workers at the Lusty Lady Club in San Francisco voted to join the Exotic Dancers Union, part of a radical Service Employees International Union (SEIU) local. Following a campaign of organising and direct action, which included the women deciding to dance only with their legs closed in protest, they won significant improvements. Their achievements included guaranteed work shifts, pay increases, removal of one-way mirrors (which enabled clients to film them), abolition of racist scheduling, and protection from arbitrary discipline and firing. They later took over the club and ran it as a workers’ co-operative, with elected management. Three former workers tell their story in our podcast episode 20 about the union: https://workingclasshistory.com/2019/03/13/e20-the-exotic-dancers-union/
Pictured: Lusty Lady workers supporting dockworkers, May Day 2008 https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2069451769906629/?type=3
