The
truth is that Bernie Sanders fought, and still fights for the workers
more than any elected US president combined for decades. And his
crusade against Amazon and Jeff Bezos' enormous greed resulted in the
unprecedented decision of the company to raise minimum wage to $15 an
hour.
But it
was too good to be true.
As
Bloomberg
reported:
Amazon.com
Inc. is eliminating monthly bonuses and stock awards for warehouse
workers and other hourly employees after the company pledged this
week to raise pay to at least $15 an hour. Warehouse workers for the
e-commerce giant in the U.S. were eligible in the past for monthly
bonuses that could total hundreds of dollars per month as well as
stock awards, said two people familiar with Amazon’s pay policies.
The company informed those employees Wednesday that it’s
eliminating both of those compensation categories to help pay for the
raises, the people said.
As a
pure product of the neoliberal culture, Bezos found the opportunity
to implement one of its common tricks. That is, whatever you give to
workers in the front stage, you take it at interest behind the
scenes.
This is
the culture that bought corrupted politicians to implement continuous
tax-cuts for the super-rich. It is the culture according to which
there is no society and the rich should not pay their fair share for
it.
Under
this brutal dominant culture, plutocrats will never give up their
enormous privileges at the expense of the workers. They will continue
to exploit them in every way until they will become useless for them due
to rapid automation of every production process.
Bernie
Sanders and the rising progressive army need to understand that
compromise won't work. The only way to stop this system from brutally
exploiting labor is to declare war on this brutal culture.
Neoliberalism
must be defeated for good and by all means.
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