Wages in the US have become wildly, fantastically unshackled from the costs of doing business, and they’ve been that way for decades. We’ve been told our entire lives that the world is such a way, and that it’s the Natural Normal result of things working the way they Have to work.
It’s a lie. It’s been a lie the entire time. They just Started Lying one day and didn’t stop until everyone who knew better died, gave up, or got their voice drowned out in all the noise.
You can’t tell me a combo at any fast food restaurant hasn’t doubled in price since the 90’s. Guess how much minimum wage has increased….
1) if food prices go up if wages go up, complain about CEOs not taking the cut, not the workers who need the money to pay their rent
2) smash this idiot idea that it’s only high school kids working minimum wage jobs: who do you think is making you your Starbucks at 12 pm? The highschool kids are all in highschool, idiot. At my retail store where people make minimum wage, we have no staff under 25 years old right now, about half the staff have families, they are all making minimum wage.
3) these people are providing you goods and services that are important and you want. You want a burrito. You want a coffee. Why on earth should the people providing us essential services not make enough money to pay their rent and their bills? Explain to me why this group of people deserves to live in poverty?
4) these jobs are not “unskilled” as in they’re easy to do and any asshole could do them. They are working harder than any prick sitting in an office chair all day.
5) Canada has raised its minimum wage. My province has had a minimum wage of $15 per hour for four years. Burritos do not cost $30 here, no one has gone out of business because they can’t afford to pay their workers anymore. What HAS happened is that I can now afford to live with my kids in my own apparent and not have to share it with my sister and her kids, I can afford to actually buy things, I can afford to cook healthy food and replace my shoes when they fall apart. The extra money I am making goes straight back into the local economy. My health and the health of my kids will be better and we will cost our government less. Don’t be a fucking idiot.
Fuck every single asshole who ever shits on minimum wage workers, ESPECIALLY these days after the pandemic when we all screamed about wanting to go out and get a coffee during lockdown. Fuck every single one of you with a rusty rake.
Reblogging for rottenbrainstuff’s excellent response.
I’ve already processed my emotions. First and foremost, the silver lining is that the studio and staff are being recommended to other studios within the overall situation, but considering how hard it is to move from one state to another is difficult, it still sucks for the staff. Very difficult. Especially since it’s the only major studio in the East Coast.
Quite frankly, the worst part of is, I had a feeling this would happen *sooner* than later, in fact I was surprised it wasn’t considered a redundancy during the worst of the layoff period. I was also desperately hoping that Blue Sky would finish Nimona before the inevitable, but alas, it wasn’t to be.
The thing that frustrates me the most that after YEARS being crapped on by the animation “community”, NOW people are gonna miss what Blue Sky produced. You only appreciate what you have only when it’s taken away from you, never realizing what Blue Sky provided for us. Before Sony, they pushed for unconventional artstyles and cartoonier animation.
I wished they could have kept it on as their own, streaming-exclusive animation studio in their ecosystem, but considering that Pixar and Disney Animation is already making their own television series on Disneyplus, it was a sign that the writing’s on the wall… Doubly-still they are shifting focus to 20th Century Studios and 20th Century Animation, studios with FAR more brand flexibility than the main brand.
To make it all worse, the Pandemic simply hastened the situation.
Just wished people wouldn’t be the casualty to all this.
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Alright so I’m in a predicament. I recently left my local union because I was promoted to a part time management position, and our local contract says no union member has the power to write up or send home another. I am not able to hire or fire. Can I still join the IWW?
Also: The next promotion up would give me the power to fire, so I would have to leave the IWW. I will have to take the next promotion up when I am eligible because living in NY in a proper home that isnt just a room with a shared toilet is increasingly difficult. If I cant be in my local union, and I cant be a member of the IWW, is there another union or organization or mutual aid group akin to a union I could join? I am still very much so an exploited worker, just also a boss. Its frustrating, my ideals or my life have to get sacked.
If you do not currently have the power to hire or fire, and are not a cop, politician or paid union officer, then you can and should join the IWW.
It’s not uncommon for wobblies to get promoted to positions of authority in their workplace, so don’t worry. You may indeed need to leave the IWW at some future date, but there are secondary organizations which need so much support and committed activists.
The General Defense Committee is the community defense arm of the IWW. It has its own bylaws, dues, delegates and chartering process.
Both of these are programs of the IWW, but you do not need to be a dues-paying wobbly to join them and help the work along. Find the closest chapter to you, attend a meeting and ask what work needs doing.
Even when you are forced through material need to take that promotion and leave the union, you might be able in some small ways to use your authority to improve the working lives of your coworkers.
A warning: that can be very difficult because of the hierarchy and strata of most jobs. If you get promoted high enough, your class interests might organically shift, simply because you are scrutinized for how much labor value you can extract from those working beneath you, instead of how much labor value you yourself produce.
Don’t torture yourself if you need to take the promotion. Do what you can to continue fighting. Join the IWOC or the GDC. Keep in touch with your local affinity groups to maintain your presence of the class struggle. You’ll do all right.
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