by Saiwania » Thu Jul 29, 2021 9:00 am
by Page » Thu Jul 29, 2021 9:05 am
by Conservative Republic Of Huang » Thu Jul 29, 2021 9:08 am
by Esternial » Thu Jul 29, 2021 9:23 am
Kerwa wrote:PepsiCo is a shitty outfit. I wish people would boycott them and the things they sponsor. Won’t ever happen though.
by Neutraligon » Thu Jul 29, 2021 9:47 am
Kerwa wrote:There’s alternatives to everything PepsiCo makes. And you probably shouldn’t eat that way in the first place.
by The Black Forrest » Thu Jul 29, 2021 9:48 am
Kerwa wrote:There’s alternatives to everything PepsiCo makes. And you probably shouldn’t eat that way in the first place.
by Kowani » Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:19 am
by GuessTheAltAccount » Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:23 am
Bombadil wrote:My girlfriend wanted me to treat her like a princess, so I arranged for her to be married to a stranger to strengthen our alliance with Poland.
by The Blaatschapen » Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:25 am
by Dakini » Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:25 am
Desch is now one of hundreds of workers on strike from their jobs at the Topeka factory, which manufactures Cheetos, Lay’s potato chips, and Doritos, among other brand-name snacks. In recent days, the strike has gained national attention with shocking allegations by workers. One worker, Cherie Renfro, alleged in a letter to the Topeka Capital-Journal that when a colleague died, the company “had us move the body and put in another co-worker to keep the line going.” In an interview with Vice, another worker said he consistently works 12 hours a day, seven days a week. Workers aren’t just demanding better wages — they also want an end to forced overtime that leaves only an eight-hour break between shifts, according to the union.
For its part, the company has claimed that workers are exaggerating conditions inside the plant that employs roughly 850 people, not all of whom are on strike. “Our records indicate 19 employees worked 84 hours in a given work week in 2021, with 16 of those as a result of employees volunteering for overtime and only 3 being required to work,” Frito-Lay said in a statement reported by NPR.
Workers are expected to function in temperatures that can exceed 100 degrees in the summer, according to Desch. People “fall out,” she added, and throw up from the heat. Then they’ll come back to work. “Maybe they didn’t have the points to go home sick after getting sick, or because they don’t want to shorten the crew and have the rest of us pick up the slack,” she speculated. RaShaun Thompson, who works an average of 60 hours per week, said he has seen people being carried out of the facility on stretchers. Frito-Lay, in a statement, said it is “aware of only two instances in the last five years in which an individual has experienced a medical emergency at the plant that unfortunately resulted in that individual passing away.”
The physical demands imposed by their schedules are difficult, but there are emotional costs, too. Thompson said the schedules “cause a lot of friction on people’s families” and have ruined marriages. “But it’s always like Frito-Lay has to come first.” Samuel Huntsman, who has been with Frito-Lay for three years, worked “seven days a week, usually,” in the facility’s warehouse. “Sometimes I got my weekends off, but it would only be, like, half a weekend. I’d have to go to work and work half the shift and then I’d be able to get home,” he added. “So I was one of the lucky ones. I at least got four hours off on my weekends.” Since then, he has transferred to a different department that affords him more time with his 1-year-old son.
by Salandriagado » Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:26 am
by The Reformed American Republic » Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:27 am
by Diarcesia » Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:28 am
GuessTheAltAccount wrote:or the idiots who tarnished progressivism's credibility by presuming these market-worshippers not to care about the poor, even though some of them are poor. :/
by GuessTheAltAccount » Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:32 am
Bombadil wrote:My girlfriend wanted me to treat her like a princess, so I arranged for her to be married to a stranger to strengthen our alliance with Poland.
by USS Monitor » Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:50 am
by Dakini » Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:52 am
USS Monitor wrote:84 hour work week is way too much for warehouse work. Full support to the workers on strike.
by Diarcesia » Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:52 am
GuessTheAltAccount wrote:Diarcesia wrote:What do you mean?
Some people conflate "worship of the free market" with not caring about the poor. While they're playing right into the rich's hands, there are way too many of them, especially in low-income districts, for them all to "not to care about the poor", and even if they weren't poor, it's entirely possible for the rich and poor to genuinely be wrapped up in this idea that regulating the free market is wrong by definition, no matter the consequences of refusing to do so. Look at the precedent religion set with saying only the Bible can provide morality. If they so mistrust their own moral judgment as to say only the Bible can provide morality, what's stopping them from mistrusting their own moral judgment such that some politician can tie the Bible to capitalism? Especially when the people who object are the same people falsely accusing them of not caring about the poor?
by Vana Ptang » Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:52 am
Kerwa wrote:PepsiCo is a shitty outfit. I wish people would boycott them and the things they sponsor. Won’t ever happen though.
by The Reformed American Republic » Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:57 am
by USS Monitor » Thu Jul 29, 2021 11:03 am
Dakini wrote:USS Monitor wrote:84 hour work week is way too much for warehouse work. Full support to the workers on strike.
Eighty-four hour work weeks are way too much for any kind of work. I pulled a few 84 hour weeks during graduate school and it was not healthy. Even 60 hour weeks aren't healthy. Forty hour weeks are borderline "too much work".
by Ethel mermania » Thu Jul 29, 2021 11:07 am
by GuessTheAltAccount » Thu Jul 29, 2021 11:13 am
Diarcesia wrote:GuessTheAltAccount wrote:Some people conflate "worship of the free market" with not caring about the poor. While they're playing right into the rich's hands, there are way too many of them, especially in low-income districts, for them all to "not to care about the poor", and even if they weren't poor, it's entirely possible for the rich and poor to genuinely be wrapped up in this idea that regulating the free market is wrong by definition, no matter the consequences of refusing to do so. Look at the precedent religion set with saying only the Bible can provide morality. If they so mistrust their own moral judgment as to say only the Bible can provide morality, what's stopping them from mistrusting their own moral judgment such that some politician can tie the Bible to capitalism? Especially when the people who object are the same people falsely accusing them of not caring about the poor?
Tarring everyone with the same brush is almost never constructive.
Bombadil wrote:My girlfriend wanted me to treat her like a princess, so I arranged for her to be married to a stranger to strengthen our alliance with Poland.
by Dakini » Thu Jul 29, 2021 11:15 am
USS Monitor wrote:Dakini wrote:Eighty-four hour work weeks are way too much for any kind of work. I pulled a few 84 hour weeks during graduate school and it was not healthy. Even 60 hour weeks aren't healthy. Forty hour weeks are borderline "too much work".
It's not something I would want to do in any kind of work, but you will physically wreck people working those hours in a warehouse setting.
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