r/americandad • u/DemiFiendRSA • May 12 '23

Seth MacFarlane & Showrunners Exit ‘American Dad’ Until Striking WGA Gets New Contract News

https://deadline.com/2023/05/writers-strike-seth-macfarlane-exits-family-guy-american-dad-wga-showrunners-1235365362/
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u/Mouseklip Dive On In! May 12 '23

It’s funny how literally no one is against the striking workers; glad to see what everyone needs to see. Workers using their collective power to demand reasonable wages and workplaces. Now if this is the writers, now do everyone else.

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u/Whatsthehoopla May 12 '23

My local weed dispensary workers went on strike a few weeks ago. Brought a tear to my eye.

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u/MMorrighan Dive On In! May 12 '23

I essentially left the cannabis industry because the owners of the shop I worked at were so vehemently anti-union. The irony of course is that if they had just given the $0.25 an hour raises I had recommended 4 months prior, none of the employees would have felt any need to take that vote.

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u/TheGlassHammer Genevive Vavance May 12 '23

Unions exist because the top is too greedy. Happy workers don’t feel the need to unionize

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u/WeirdIsAlliGot May 13 '23

Yup, see Costco.

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u/Irishboosie May 13 '23

That is quickly changing across the company. The warehouse I worked in was very anti-union and I was told by our GM they don’t allow new warehouses to start with a union as they’re slowly phasing them out.

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u/fuck_a_bigot May 13 '23

They’re gonna end up like Walmart in no time then unless their union starts fighting back

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u/Irishboosie May 13 '23

You’re absolutely correct, that’s what a lot of us continually told management, but they don’t care so long as they’re getting their corporate bonuses. And Covid showed them they can run a skeleton crew and make even more money.

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u/ROACHOR The Phantom of the Telethon May 13 '23

A worker happy to be exploited is a fool, unionization is the only way to get a fair wage.

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u/tenerific May 13 '23

I get paid well, I’m not in a union, so no, you don’t have to be in a union to get a fair wage.

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u/ROACHOR The Phantom of the Telethon May 13 '23

If you were in a union you'd be paid more, worker's rights aren't handed out by benevolent bosses they pay you as little as they possibly can.

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u/tenerific May 13 '23

I’m paid more than the average unionized worker in my industry, key is working for a small business in a tight knit community, where you know the boss well. Once again, I say, unions are not necessary to get a fair wage.

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u/ROACHOR The Phantom of the Telethon May 13 '23

Without unions there would be no fair wages, no weekends, no minimum wage, no workers rights at all.

Claiming unions are unnecessary is capitalist propaganda.