That’s a lot of words to say it does kinda go both ways. The FBI is almost as hostile to small business as it is to unions. You acknowledge restaurants run razor thin margins, and that restaurant chain didn’t have much capital - leased buildings, inflating costs and some months they ran at a loss. Also I’ve had some good friends who were shop stewards in different unions and they all told me that the unions were full of “chucklefucks” as you say too.
Also, we were most certainly blacklisted. A friend of mine showed me our name on a printed list. It wasn’t even because of a previous issue, one of the workers got asked by a union customer about their crew and bam the restaurant location got added to the list. It was a $2k stucco job and the BIL specialized in stucco so the finished work looked great. My wife works union. I’m not anti union. But their Mafia practices are probably unfortunately necessary, and also work against their public perception to those who aren’t fortunate enough to know someone to get them into the union. And for most people who are just barely sustaining food and shelter, hiring union workers is just too expensive.
Small businesses are the petit-bourgeoise that extract surplus value from people who aren’t employed by the major industrialists or financiers. If it’s a local franchise, I still have no sympathy for them because at the end of the day they are scraping a part of the entire worth of the workers’ labor in order to keep those “razor-margin” margins that always tend to line the pockets of most owners at the expense of the worker. The owner may be struggling, but they aren’t struggling like the person getting paid just above minimum wage to do the work to make THEM money. The fact that they have collateral such as real estate demonstrates that point entirely. More and more people can’t even afford a house. In the months of running at a loss; what was the owner of the franchise’s paycheck like?
I laid out plenty of reasons why you may have been black-listed. Could be the union or the fault of administration, not wanting to deal with restaurants because of those profit margins, etc.
Non-profits, all though they can be exploitative, do not run under the model of extracting the value from workers in order to line the pockets of their owner, instead going to the cause they work towards.
I also do volunteer work. People make more than me everywhere.
That’s a lot of words to say it does kinda go both ways. The FBI is almost as hostile to small business as it is to unions. You acknowledge restaurants run razor thin margins, and that restaurant chain didn’t have much capital - leased buildings, inflating costs and some months they ran at a loss. Also I’ve had some good friends who were shop stewards in different unions and they all told me that the unions were full of “chucklefucks” as you say too.
Also, we were most certainly blacklisted. A friend of mine showed me our name on a printed list. It wasn’t even because of a previous issue, one of the workers got asked by a union customer about their crew and bam the restaurant location got added to the list. It was a $2k stucco job and the BIL specialized in stucco so the finished work looked great. My wife works union. I’m not anti union. But their Mafia practices are probably unfortunately necessary, and also work against their public perception to those who aren’t fortunate enough to know someone to get them into the union. And for most people who are just barely sustaining food and shelter, hiring union workers is just too expensive.
Small businesses are the petit-bourgeoise that extract surplus value from people who aren’t employed by the major industrialists or financiers. If it’s a local franchise, I still have no sympathy for them because at the end of the day they are scraping a part of the entire worth of the workers’ labor in order to keep those “razor-margin” margins that always tend to line the pockets of most owners at the expense of the worker. The owner may be struggling, but they aren’t struggling like the person getting paid just above minimum wage to do the work to make THEM money. The fact that they have collateral such as real estate demonstrates that point entirely. More and more people can’t even afford a house. In the months of running at a loss; what was the owner of the franchise’s paycheck like?
I laid out plenty of reasons why you may have been black-listed. Could be the union or the fault of administration, not wanting to deal with restaurants because of those profit margins, etc.
I guess I’m doing it wrong. I run a small nonprofit now, and other people there make more than I do.
Non-profits, all though they can be exploitative, do not run under the model of extracting the value from workers in order to line the pockets of their owner, instead going to the cause they work towards.
I also do volunteer work. People make more than me everywhere.