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flydog2 t1_jdv4je6 wrote

Reply to comment by Derpadoooo in A Pennsylvania chocolate factory explosion has killed 7 people by FolsgaardSE

A union could help . . .

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underscore5000 t1_jdv7wki wrote

If only people werent brainwashed into thinking unions were bad and actively vote against their own interests.

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mrGeaRbOx t1_jdvefg6 wrote

Confirmation bias is not brainwashing. It's not like these people had a egalitarian beliefs to begin with. The propaganda is merely enabling their innate authoritarian tendencies.

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goplantagarden t1_jdvguzy wrote

They've been drinking from the same well their entire lives that's readily replenished by the ultra-wealthy.

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FancyRobot t1_jdvwufv wrote

Reading had union chocolate jobs, it was called Ludens... that factory's jobs were exported to China over a decade ago. The only chocolate factory to move out of the city. Woo unions

Edit: We're heading down the Reddit sinkhole, no counter arguments given but the narrative must still persist in all its purity, the down votes have begun to rain down. An entire town and its generational trauma from union jobs leaving simply cannot understand the brilliance of "just unionizing" from people who likely aren't employed. We're just sheeple!

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nalgene_wilder t1_jdw5uu5 wrote

Yeah that's definitely the fault of the union

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FancyRobot t1_jdw74x4 wrote

Left Reading in 2009, didn't hire a single new person since the early 90s, only temps when they needed it. Please tell me more about Ludens though! Almost my entire family worked there, thus I need a proper education from Reddit on the plant

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BigoofingSad t1_jdxozi5 wrote

That doesn't sound like a union problem. That sounds like a shit company that didn't want anymore union workers, then moved to china for the sake of profits. Unions are great for employees, bad for employers.

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