If you sell your body and time for a wage you are a member of the working class, it doesn't matter if you earn 15k or 100k per year, you are the working class. The ruling class is the 1% billionaires, thieves who make money off our backs.

It makes me cry, but atleast I know I'm not alone. I make $3,500 a month as an IDEXX Specimen Courier, meaning, if you've ever taken your pet to the vet clinic, and they got bloodwork done, I'm the person to picks it up, and drops it off at the lab. My income is tax-free which I am grateful for, but that is because my mileage cancels out my income. I don't have a car payment, but I spend around $1000 a month for Gasoline, Maintenance, and Insurance. $1,800 goes housing & utilities, $350 for food, $150 for phone, $75 for credit cards, and the remaining $125 is usually used for emergencies or for essential items that i had money dedicated for, but had dried up the funds for that category. Each month I am adding $250-350 to my credit card in debt, barely making the minimum payment, and the other day, i even saw that more than half of americans are having to put their bills on credit, because they simply can't afford to live. It's outrageous, and it almost makes me su!cidal. But, strength in numbers, we can fix this cost-of-living issue.

solidarity? nah. the working class is programmed constantly by mass media to clash internally over drag queens, guns, antifa and whatever else the 1% wants them to bang a drum on. until the US has its Bastille Day, nothing changes.

Modern day wage slavery! I stand with the hotel workers. The wages are awful!

The corpo I work for has us working 45 minutes to a whole hour and half away from home without compensation. My co workers just accept it. Massachusetts is a screwed up state

A four hour commute could mean 120-150 miles of driving a day. It’s ridiculous that the worker would be on the hook for that.

@@cowmath77 Its a private housing mkt Blackrock and other huge corporations are buying up swaths of land and houses … and paying ridiculous prices for them.

We need to make them all learn the hard way.

As a small business owner, *I* *LOVE* *UNIONS!* I Love Unions because I need what EVERY small business owner needs... I need Customers; aka Consumers with Money. Union Workers organize and demand proper wages = Money. Union Workers have Money and therefore, can become my valuable Customers. Non-union Workers are too timid and/or ignorant to organize and are therefore, weaker and poorer. They choose to be poor slave and they are NOT going to become My (or Your) customers, they are a drag upon our entire economy. I LOVE UNIONS BECAUSE UNIONS CREATE MIDDLE CLASS! ... and because I want Our country to have a Big and Strong Middle Class, thanks to Unions. UNIONS ARE GOOD FOR A STRONG AMERICA!

Why does your desire to make more Trump a business owners want to make more?? Business owners put up all the risk. Work for free for the first 3-5 years. 20% fail the first year, almost half by year 5 and 65% by year 10. Shouldn’t there be some kind of “fair” compensation for all the risk and free work? No employees risked their money or worked for free?? Why is those with the least amount of business and economic knowledge have the most to say on the topic? Isn’t anyone interested in educating themselves so they can have a better argument. Or at least counter points? Come on kids. Don’t be followers, be leaders.

@@FatherLarper-rz9kw what an absolute load of bullshit. Business owners put up some $ and borrow the rest for supplies, location if needed, lisences, labor, etc. covers your expenses including your pay. Anyone with confidence and knowledge of their trade can be a success if they know what they’re doing. You may break even for a few yrs but breaking even means you’ve been paid… making a profit is above and beyond that. That every biz owner works for free for the first 5 yrs is a line regurgitated in hopes of stifling competition..OR you dont know what you’re doing and need some schooling. Employees have worked and dont get paid … it’s literally in the billions, and from companies like Walmart. THAT is working for free. Plus employees are the first cut because biz owners absolutely refuse to take a cut themselves thus more work is piled on those who remain. Employers will continue to call and flatter the last naive workers and use them with the intention of not paying. Then employees are typically fired for dumb reasons so the employer doesn’t have to dole out bucks for unemployment. Employees take all the risk. Employer files BK for the company, avoiding losing any money to creditors they owe. They then sell the assets for more money. Lg & med size corporation leaders protected even further with golden parachutes while investors (bond holders then Class A Premium shares on down common shares avg Joes buy in the mkt) get any actual dollars and employees are treated as human capital. Employees lose all profit sharing, all stock options are worthless, pensions depleted. Now the former employees must take their former employer to court IF they can afgord it and are to likely lose because their former boss’ defense team keeps getting continuances for various reasons. But IF they show, the employees maybe are awarded back pay owed.. now how do you get them to actuall pay? Garnish? From where? And yes… I am an economist and a retired business owner.

They work 36hrs a day 9 days a week

CEO die from stress. Stress does not stop at 5;00. CEO live with constant stress.😂

nuance: everyone’s suffering; but shouldn’t we strive for a better world? no matter if CEO or worker? we got rid of imperialism and slavery, so it’s possible

CEOs work from home while on vacation most of the time. They basically work 3 days a month or so and get full nights of sleep every day. If they had to do real work, they'd quit even though they get paid millions for little work.

@@moondancecoffee 9hrs every night with extra oxygen from the walls lol

Well they’re busy creating inflation to pin on Biden and Dems. Record profits don’t point to the need to raise prices to make up for cost increases. Also.. The selling of our largest refineries, in Port Arthur Texas in 2017 to the Saudis who are cutting production, increasing gas prices.

There is never enough for the narcissists running corp America. They want badly to automate everything thru AI and hope us “useless eaters” die. These workers are going to need food and money for utilities etc or the hotels will just wait it out while they try to hire other ppl. Profits will be delayed not denied.

Exactly

Workers I am with you 😊

Workers are too busy with antiracism, feminism, veganism and LGBTQIA+ activism to care about a worker's revolution.

@@MK_ULTRA420 they just need organized. Everybody essentially wants the same thing: to be free from capitalist imperialism.

@@kippgoeden lol cope

The problem is the Stock Market. There must ALWAYS be MORE profits or something bad happens.

@@hegyak Unlimited growth is unsustainable! Only a fool believes it can happen forever! This is what will create the Umbrella Corporation from the Resident Evil game and bring it to life!

@@hegyak the stock mkt is a mafia controlled casino.

@@mind_of_a_darkhorse The Umbrella Corportation does exist and they do make weapons. The have the same logo too. I would post the link to their site but I can't. .

@@zurizoraya8672 The point I was trying to make is that a corporation that makes everything we use is extremely dangerous and eventually the growth would stop or extremely slow down to a point where the only influx of gain would be from increasing prices and adding on more fees. Combine that with the fact they don't want to pay the workers and we will all end up as their slaves. There will be only two classes the Rich and the slave!

And that gap, not just in the LA hotel industry, but in a lot of sectors is getting progressively worse - which on the plus side, means the pushback in many cases is getting stronger. I hope this strike achieves a lessening of that gap, personally - and my fullest solidarity to your former colleagues!

@@dukeofrodtown1705hotel workers are paid poorly all over the country !

@@nwatson2773 I believe it's the same situation in Canada, sadly. Solidarity to them all, and every other worker being devalued for the sake of the few's profits!

You also have to consider the many empty apartments and homes that are empty solely to drive up "scarcity."

@@themadman5615 The vacancy rate in Los Angeles is very low. When vacancy rates are less than 5%, rents typically go up, and when vacancy rates are more than 5%, rents typically go down. So it's no wonder why rents in LA have been going up when the vacancy rate was 2-3%.

@@mariusfacktor3597 I wouldn't know the specifics if LA, though I have looked into the rates for Oklahoma and New York. And as far as I can find, the official vacancy rates, as stated on open listings not proper empty apartments and homes, the vacancy rate is moderately low, around 5-15% depending on the state and county. But in actuality, much like the "unemployed" metric of the US, when you actually take into consideration available homes that simply aren't listed, the rates skyrocket. At minimum there is an average of one to two apartments or homes that go completely empty despite being fully habitable per about ten listed homes. The only reason this is done is to drive up scarcity, which of course incentivizes rising rent prices. All capitalism is now is artificial scarcity and a gross misuse of resources.

@@themadman5615 You're being totally genuine and I can see how you'd think that, but I happen to know that the data doesn't back that up. Give me a chance to explain. The Vacancy Rate is a misunderstood metric. It contains every type of residential unit that is not being lived in. It includes units under serious renovation, student housing in the summer, vacation homes, units owned by an elderly person now in a nursing home, and of course, units for sale or for rent. So if a unit is being held off market to increase scarcity, it IS included in the Vacancy Rate. That's why the data doesn't back that up. If 10% of homes were being held off market, the Vacancy Rate would be 10%+, but it's way less than that. You're absolutely right that housing prices are the result of supply & demand. The reality is that there isn't enough supply due to exclusionary policies that were put in place to appease the already wealthy homeowners.

And malls

@@bevhills4877 Malls should be turned into affordable housing. Some already are.

​@@SerCommander "You say we should improve society and yet you participate in that same society. Curious."

what orange duster said. Have solidarity with your fellow workers, and at the very least, no hotels until the strike is over.

Providing food and monetary support is also helpful to strikers. They need to pay their bills and put food on the table while they are striking.

@Susan Petty that is a good point. As much as some people hate to hear it, no society can function well by being purely laissez faire capitalist.

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Right, like they did the railroad workers before the big train crash in Ohio. . Civil unrest is coming to a head in waves. The working class against the rich and bourgeoisie.

Mass resignation.

The run-of-the-mill private citizen as a shareholder usually doesn't get much of a say in corporate policy. You get to fill out an occasional survey to vote for the board of directors and the people in charge, and maybe they also have specific issues for you to vote on, but that's about it. Most of what is in that survey is Greek to the average shareholder, and very often, it goes straight to the circular file because the shareholder doesn't care. That survey is only read by an automated machine, and you don't really have a chance to give much feedback of substance so that you can compel the people in charge to take action. If an individual was able to buy a controlling volume of shares, then they would take this individual seriously, if this individual approached their corporate office, and asked to speak to the board of directors. But a collective group of shareholders, all each only owning a drop-in-the-bucket of the company, probably not.

"like the fingers of hands...stick together" 😂

@@Zyo117 thanks 👍