Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Gets Entire Solar Co. Workforce Fired After Telling Them to Unionize

[Bo Didleysquat]

Won't it be funny now if the subcontractor they hire is unionized?

You've never hired a subcontractor, have you?

It's rare that subcontractors are unionized, because nobody that doesn't have a gun to his head pays twice the price to gave work done.

You've never signed the front of a paycheck, have you?

When you go out to eat, do you make sure the waitresses and dishwashers are getting union wages?

Demtards love mandating OTHER PEOPLE pay extra monet.

Actually I've been president and CEO of two businesses. Why do you seem to think I'm defending unions from a simple humorous comment? Businesses made unions NECESSARY at one time so gravely they abused workers in ways unthinkable today. That kind of abuse is over, but the sad fact is that other subtler abuses still continue in the face of foreign competition. To make the "minimum wage" of the late 1970s today, you'd have to earn at least $13.00/h. Fact. How many people actually make LESS than that? Look around. Put another way, the reason why so many people struggle today is because anyone making $7.25 -$13.00 today is actually making less than minimum wage was in 1979! Federal MW today has fallen below 56% what it was in 1979 due to COLI. We have created our own poverty class and allowed a poverty class level of product with it (Chinese imports) to subsidize it. In a word, there is your disparity of labor: the rich elite able to live the good life, and everyone else.

However, unions have created their own miseries as well. In my experience, every time a union gets involved, it literally prices itself out of business out of greed, not just wanting fair wages, benefits and conditions for its workers, but out of greed, takes and takes irrespective of company costs and business to the pint that eventually, the whole thing usually caves in. We simply cannot compete with a 3rd world where slave labor is the norm, so the solution is to either become 3rd world ourselves (a trend we seem headed for), or to just not compete at all and be isolationist, a means that Trump has tried to foist upon the country and its people seem to be rejecting-- -- -- in favor of 3rd world wages and standards for the many.

That kind of abuse is over?

Employees should accept whatever an employer does to them.

That's a dumb retort. If the employer does something illegal, then the employee can go to the police. If the employee doesn't like his wage, he can either earn more, or go home.

Oh sure hon.

The Productivity–Pay Gap

 

[JustAGuy1]

"The owners of a solar power company fired their entire workforce after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez agitated the workers and urged them to unionize.

Looks like having the queen of the Green New Deal telling them to unionize was probably not the best advice, huh?

Last week, Bright Power decided to fire its staff and farm all the work out to subcontractors instead of maintaining their own workforce. The firing occurred just as the workers were following Ocasio-Cortez’s advice to form a union.

Trending: 3/4 Of The ‘Squad’ Is Under Financial Investigation

“We have come to the conclusion that our resources have been spread too thin with so many different kinds of work all being done in-house,” Bright Power CEO Jeffrey Perlman said according to VICE.com. “It makes business sense to return to a fully subcontracted solar installation model"

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Gets Entire Solar Co. Workforce Fired After Telling Them to Unionize

Isn't she just the greatest little job killer?

Yeah, plantation owners get really pissy when labor gets all uppity.

LOL, if I own the Co I'm not allowing you to dictae how I run it or how much you get paid.
Deal with it

 

[Bo Didleysquat]

"The owners of a solar power company fired their entire workforce after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez agitated the workers and urged them to unionize.

Looks like having the queen of the Green New Deal telling them to unionize was probably not the best advice, huh?

Last week, Bright Power decided to fire its staff and farm all the work out to subcontractors instead of maintaining their own workforce. The firing occurred just as the workers were following Ocasio-Cortez’s advice to form a union.

Trending: 3/4 Of The ‘Squad’ Is Under Financial Investigation

“We have come to the conclusion that our resources have been spread too thin with so many different kinds of work all being done in-house,” Bright Power CEO Jeffrey Perlman said according to VICE.com. “It makes business sense to return to a fully subcontracted solar installation model"

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Gets Entire Solar Co. Workforce Fired After Telling Them to Unionize

Isn't she just the greatest little job killer?

Yeah, plantation owners get really pissy when labor gets all uppity.

LOL, if I own the Co I'm not allowing you to dictae how I run it or how much you get paid.
Deal with it

We all know that, we the people do not matter.

 

[Richard-H]

"The owners of a solar power company fired their entire workforce after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez agitated the workers and urged them to unionize.

Looks like having the queen of the Green New Deal telling them to unionize was probably not the best advice, huh?

Last week, Bright Power decided to fire its staff and farm all the work out to subcontractors instead of maintaining their own workforce. The firing occurred just as the workers were following Ocasio-Cortez’s advice to form a union.

Trending: 3/4 Of The ‘Squad’ Is Under Financial Investigation

“We have come to the conclusion that our resources have been spread too thin with so many different kinds of work all being done in-house,” Bright Power CEO Jeffrey Perlman said according to VICE.com. “It makes business sense to return to a fully subcontracted solar installation model"

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Gets Entire Solar Co. Workforce Fired After Telling Them to Unionize

Isn't she just the greatest little job killer?

Yeah, plantation owners get really pissy when labor gets all uppity.

LOL, if I own the Co I'm not allowing you to dictae how I run it or how much you get paid.
Deal with it

Surprise!!!!

You do not have any inalienable right to own or run a business.

You either meet the standards of business practice set by the government or shutdown.

If workers want to unionize and force you to meet their standards, they are free to do so.

 

[JustAGuy1]

"The owners of a solar power company fired their entire workforce after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez agitated the workers and urged them to unionize.

Looks like having the queen of the Green New Deal telling them to unionize was probably not the best advice, huh?

Last week, Bright Power decided to fire its staff and farm all the work out to subcontractors instead of maintaining their own workforce. The firing occurred just as the workers were following Ocasio-Cortez’s advice to form a union.

Trending: 3/4 Of The ‘Squad’ Is Under Financial Investigation

“We have come to the conclusion that our resources have been spread too thin with so many different kinds of work all being done in-house,” Bright Power CEO Jeffrey Perlman said according to VICE.com. “It makes business sense to return to a fully subcontracted solar installation model"

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Gets Entire Solar Co. Workforce Fired After Telling Them to Unionize

Isn't she just the greatest little job killer?

Yeah, plantation owners get really pissy when labor gets all uppity.

LOL, if I own the Co I'm not allowing you to dictae how I run it or how much you get paid.
Deal with it

We all know that, we the people do not matter.

Make something of yourself, the rest of us have.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

AOC

Axing
Occupational
Choices

 

[JustAGuy1]

"The owners of a solar power company fired their entire workforce after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez agitated the workers and urged them to unionize.

Looks like having the queen of the Green New Deal telling them to unionize was probably not the best advice, huh?

Last week, Bright Power decided to fire its staff and farm all the work out to subcontractors instead of maintaining their own workforce. The firing occurred just as the workers were following Ocasio-Cortez’s advice to form a union.

Trending: 3/4 Of The ‘Squad’ Is Under Financial Investigation

“We have come to the conclusion that our resources have been spread too thin with so many different kinds of work all being done in-house,” Bright Power CEO Jeffrey Perlman said according to VICE.com. “It makes business sense to return to a fully subcontracted solar installation model"

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Gets Entire Solar Co. Workforce Fired After Telling Them to Unionize

Isn't she just the greatest little job killer?

Yeah, plantation owners get really pissy when labor gets all uppity.

LOL, if I own the Co I'm not allowing you to dictae how I run it or how much you get paid.
Deal with it

Surprise!!!!

You do not have any inalienable right to own or run a business.

You either meet the standards of business practice set by the government or shutdown.

If workers want to unionize and force you to meet their standards, they are free to do so.

And I am free to fire them, I'm in an at will State. You lose

 

[Bo Didleysquat]

"The owners of a solar power company fired their entire workforce after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez agitated the workers and urged them to unionize.

Looks like having the queen of the Green New Deal telling them to unionize was probably not the best advice, huh?

Last week, Bright Power decided to fire its staff and farm all the work out to subcontractors instead of maintaining their own workforce. The firing occurred just as the workers were following Ocasio-Cortez’s advice to form a union.

Trending: 3/4 Of The ‘Squad’ Is Under Financial Investigation

“We have come to the conclusion that our resources have been spread too thin with so many different kinds of work all being done in-house,” Bright Power CEO Jeffrey Perlman said according to VICE.com. “It makes business sense to return to a fully subcontracted solar installation model"

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Gets Entire Solar Co. Workforce Fired After Telling Them to Unionize

Isn't she just the greatest little job killer?

Yeah, plantation owners get really pissy when labor gets all uppity.

LOL, if I own the Co I'm not allowing you to dictae how I run it or how much you get paid.
Deal with it

Surprise!!!!

You do not have any inalienable right to own or run a business.

You either meet the standards of business practice set by the government or shutdown.

If workers want to unionize and force you to meet their standards, they are free to do so.

And I am free to fire them, I'm in an at will State. You lose

The working and underclass is supposed to lose, revisit The Powell Memorandum.

 

[Bo Didleysquat]

AOC

Axing
Occupational
Choices

If your "job creator" class had been willing to reward workers for increases in productivity instead of hiring "illegals" america might be very different today.

 

[toobfreak]

That kind of abuse is over?

YEAH, HON, it is. Time was long ago that people were forced to work 14 hour days 6 days a week for crumbs, no benefits, child labor, and with absolutely no job safety requirements. People today would die if they had to work under the conditions of 1912.

 

[JustAGuy1]

"The owners of a solar power company fired their entire workforce after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez agitated the workers and urged them to unionize.

Looks like having the queen of the Green New Deal telling them to unionize was probably not the best advice, huh?

Last week, Bright Power decided to fire its staff and farm all the work out to subcontractors instead of maintaining their own workforce. The firing occurred just as the workers were following Ocasio-Cortez’s advice to form a union.

Trending: 3/4 Of The ‘Squad’ Is Under Financial Investigation

“We have come to the conclusion that our resources have been spread too thin with so many different kinds of work all being done in-house,” Bright Power CEO Jeffrey Perlman said according to VICE.com. “It makes business sense to return to a fully subcontracted solar installation model"

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Gets Entire Solar Co. Workforce Fired After Telling Them to Unionize

Isn't she just the greatest little job killer?

Yeah, plantation owners get really pissy when labor gets all uppity.

LOL, if I own the Co I'm not allowing you to dictae how I run it or how much you get paid.
Deal with it

Surprise!!!!

You do not have any inalienable right to own or run a business.

You either meet the standards of business practice set by the government or shutdown.

If workers want to unionize and force you to meet their standards, they are free to do so.

And I am free to fire them, I'm in an at will State. You lose

The working and underclass is supposed to lose, revisit The Powell Memorandum.

Yawn. You're dismissed as a whiny under achiever.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

If workers want to unionize and force you to meet their standards, they are free to do so.

Yes they are, and businesses are free to move out of the state or country to get away from them. That's what's happened throughout the years.

 

[danielpalos]

With the social bailout after 1929? We could have solved simple poverty Yesterday, but for the social horror it may cause the right wing.

BS. You can't solve the poverty ever by screwing the productive.

But that's not even the objective.

Socialists, like all Totalitarians, need an underclass suffering and dependent on them. That's why Democrats want to give Welfare and Food Stamps to the poor as opposed to a Job.

Nobody takes right wingers seriously about economics. Only the right wing insists we have to "screw over the Poor to help the Rich under Capitalism." The left know we merely need to Use capitalism for all of its capital worth in modern times. Solving simple poverty in a market friendly manner can only increase the positive multiplier effect upon our economy and actually give consumers something to be confident about.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Won't it be funny now if the subcontractor they hire is unionized?

You've never hired a subcontractor, have you?

It's rare that subcontractors are unionized, because nobody that doesn't have a gun to his head pays twice the price to gave work done.

You've never signed the front of a paycheck, have you?

When you go out to eat, do you make sure the waitresses and dishwashers are getting union wages?

Demtards love mandating OTHER PEOPLE pay extra monet.

Actually I've been president and CEO of two businesses. Why do you seem to think I'm defending unions from a simple humorous comment? Businesses made unions NECESSARY at one time so gravely they abused workers in ways unthinkable today. That kind of abuse is over, but the sad fact is that other subtler abuses still continue in the face of foreign competition. To make the "minimum wage" of the late 1970s today, you'd have to earn at least $13.00/h. Fact. How many people actually make LESS than that? Look around. Put another way, the reason why so many people struggle today is because anyone making $7.25 -$13.00 today is actually making less than minimum wage was in 1979! Federal MW today has fallen below 56% what it was in 1979 due to COLI. We have created our own poverty class and allowed a poverty class level of product with it (Chinese imports) to subsidize it. In a word, there is your disparity of labor: the rich elite able to live the good life, and everyone else.

However, unions have created their own miseries as well. In my experience, every time a union gets involved, it literally prices itself out of business out of greed, not just wanting fair wages, benefits and conditions for its workers, but out of greed, takes and takes irrespective of company costs and business to the point that eventually, the whole thing usually caves in. We simply cannot compete with a 3rd world where slave labor is the norm, so the solution is to either become 3rd world ourselves (a trend we seem headed for), or to just not compete at all and be isolationist, a means that Trump has tried to foist upon the country and its people seem to be rejecting-- -- -- in favor of 3rd world wages and standards for the many.

The problem with unions were not just pay and benefits. Large unions virtually took over the entire company. They told businesses who they can hire, who they can fire, who they can promote or not promote, and of course, what wages and benefits were provided to them.

One of our last customers who were union, the workers voted the union out. It's a small shop. The most senior employee got the highest paying job in the place, and he was basically worthless. In fact he had no ability to do the job, and the owner of the company had to do the job for him.

After they got rid of the union, the company fired that guy, and a few other people that were slackers. The company and employees are doing much better today, and happier at the same time.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

"The owners of a solar power company fired their entire workforce after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez agitated the workers and urged them to unionize.

Looks like having the queen of the Green New Deal telling them to unionize was probably not the best advice, huh?

Last week, Bright Power decided to fire its staff and farm all the work out to subcontractors instead of maintaining their own workforce. The firing occurred just as the workers were following Ocasio-Cortez’s advice to form a union.

Trending: 3/4 Of The ‘Squad’ Is Under Financial Investigation

“We have come to the conclusion that our resources have been spread too thin with so many different kinds of work all being done in-house,” Bright Power CEO Jeffrey Perlman said according to VICE.com. “It makes business sense to return to a fully subcontracted solar installation model"

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Gets Entire Solar Co. Workforce Fired After Telling Them to Unionize

Isn't she just the greatest little job killer?

Cheering on rich CEO's getting richer by putting workers out of business right before the holidays....ahh CONservatism at its finest.

So who put them out of work, Democrats or Republicans?

They would have had a job through and after the holidays had they not been plotting against the company. Blame conservatives for that?

Plotting? ROFL....there is nothing wrong with unionizing to protect yourselves the selfish prick CEO put them out of work.

Yes, plotting. Do you think any company wants to put up with a union? Do you think they openly told the employer of their plans? Of course not. That's plotting.

 

[Richard-H]

That kind of abuse is over?

YEAH, HON, it is. Time was long ago that people were forced to work 14 hour days 6 days a week for crumbs, no benefits, child labor, and with absolutely no job safety requirements. People today would die if they had to work under the conditions of 1912.

We can thank unions and government regulations for that!

BTW - Back in 1912 workers were dying.

 

[Richard-H]

Won't it be funny now if the subcontractor they hire is unionized?

You've never hired a subcontractor, have you?

It's rare that subcontractors are unionized, because nobody that doesn't have a gun to his head pays twice the price to gave work done.

You've never signed the front of a paycheck, have you?

When you go out to eat, do you make sure the waitresses and dishwashers are getting union wages?

Demtards love mandating OTHER PEOPLE pay extra monet.

Actually I've been president and CEO of two businesses. Why do you seem to think I'm defending unions from a simple humorous comment? Businesses made unions NECESSARY at one time so gravely they abused workers in ways unthinkable today. That kind of abuse is over, but the sad fact is that other subtler abuses still continue in the face of foreign competition. To make the "minimum wage" of the late 1970s today, you'd have to earn at least $13.00/h. Fact. How many people actually make LESS than that? Look around. Put another way, the reason why so many people struggle today is because anyone making $7.25 -$13.00 today is actually making less than minimum wage was in 1979! Federal MW today has fallen below 56% what it was in 1979 due to COLI. We have created our own poverty class and allowed a poverty class level of product with it (Chinese imports) to subsidize it. In a word, there is your disparity of labor: the rich elite able to live the good life, and everyone else.

However, unions have created their own miseries as well. In my experience, every time a union gets involved, it literally prices itself out of business out of greed, not just wanting fair wages, benefits and conditions for its workers, but out of greed, takes and takes irrespective of company costs and business to the point that eventually, the whole thing usually caves in. We simply cannot compete with a 3rd world where slave labor is the norm, so the solution is to either become 3rd world ourselves (a trend we seem headed for), or to just not compete at all and be isolationist, a means that Trump has tried to foist upon the country and its people seem to be rejecting-- -- -- in favor of 3rd world wages and standards for the many.

The problem with unions were not just pay and benefits. Large unions virtually took over the entire company. They told businesses who they can hire, who they can fire, who they can promote or not promote, and of course, what wages and benefits were provided to them.

One of our last customers who were union, the workers voted the union out. It's a small shop. The most senior employee got the highest paying job in the place, and he was basically worthless. In fact he had no ability to do the job, and the owner of the company had to do the job for him.

After they got rid of the union, the company fired that guy, and a few other people that were slackers. The company and employees are doing much better today, and happier at the same time.

Yet since the 1950 when unions dominated American industry, the American economy has boomed.

All the pro-Union states have thriving, stable and diversified economies. All the anti-union states have boom and bust economies at best.

Sure there are terrible unions, but the vast majority make companies successful.

 

[Bo Didleysquat]

"The owners of a solar power company fired their entire workforce after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez agitated the workers and urged them to unionize.

Looks like having the queen of the Green New Deal telling them to unionize was probably not the best advice, huh?

Last week, Bright Power decided to fire its staff and farm all the work out to subcontractors instead of maintaining their own workforce. The firing occurred just as the workers were following Ocasio-Cortez’s advice to form a union.

Trending: 3/4 Of The ‘Squad’ Is Under Financial Investigation

“We have come to the conclusion that our resources have been spread too thin with so many different kinds of work all being done in-house,” Bright Power CEO Jeffrey Perlman said according to VICE.com. “It makes business sense to return to a fully subcontracted solar installation model"

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Gets Entire Solar Co. Workforce Fired After Telling Them to Unionize

Isn't she just the greatest little job killer?

Yeah, plantation owners get really pissy when labor gets all uppity.

LOL, if I own the Co I'm not allowing you to dictae how I run it or how much you get paid.
Deal with it

We all know that, we the people do not matter.

Make something of yourself, the rest of us have.

No you haven't, not at all, that's why we cuck the people to an "employer" for access to hellthcare in america.

 

[Bo Didleysquat]

If workers want to unionize and force you to meet their standards, they are free to do so.

Yes they are, and businesses are free to move out of the state or country to get away from them. That's what's happened throughout the years.

Here's what's happened over the years pard:

The Productivity–Pay Gap

Fweedumb.

 

[Bo Didleysquat]

That kind of abuse is over?

YEAH, HON, it is. Time was long ago that people were forced to work 14 hour days 6 days a week for crumbs, no benefits, child labor, and with absolutely no job safety requirements. People today would die if they had to work under the conditions of 1912.