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TheKentuckian

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5. Knuckling under to the Chamber of Commerce goons and their threats of cutting shit jobs.

Reply to RiverLover (Original post)

Sun Dec 21, 2014, 10:10 AM

Dec 2014

A political party cannot effectively represent the interests of both workers and ownership. Somebody will get the priority and it seems to me it always plays out one way, the worker's needs are given the back burner or thrown into file 13.

Possibly some of the threats aren't even idle due to entire business models built on poverty wages and robbing productivity gains.

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