Thread by @ProletariatRis1

So my boss sent me out training with a couple other drivers the last few weeks, learning their routes in case they call in sick. It's been a great time. I explained the concept of exploitation of labor to two guys I work with and it's all they can talk about now lmao.

Anyway, word got out that I'm a Communist, so my boss has been giving me shit for it, but in a good humored kind of way. When I got back to the warehouse that first day he literally put the Soviet national anthem on the loudspeaker to fuck with me☠️

This prompted a new coworker who just got hired to announce that she has the Soviet national anthem set as her alarm on her phone, telling her to come to work. 😂I talked to her and she said she's a communist, but hasn't read any theory. So I gave her a copy of the Manifesto!

I also gave her my copy of Blackshirts and Reds, since I already read it

So the bosses recently rolled out a "bonus" for all of us, if we finish up unloading and loading the trucks at the end of the day faster. Supposedly, the earlier we get out the bigger it is.

Well we just found out that it's just management is going to bring us to an even 40 hours each week. That means that even if we work harder to get out earlier and get that "bonus", we break even. That's not a bonus. The drivers are all unhappy about this, understandably.

They also don't offer any benefits or PTO, or give regular raises - even though they just eliminated 3 routes (and thus 3 entire salaries!) without losing any business, just loading them on top of the other routes. The drivers can see how fucked that is.

One of us drivers hasn't gotten a raise in over 3 years - and he used to literally babysit our General Manager when he was a kid. Our General Manager's mom owns the entire business, and he lives a posh lifestyle to put it lightly.

I've already talked to most of the drivers about organizing a collective action - all going in to the GM's office together and making some demands. A couple of the guys are even explicitly down to form a union - they brought it up! I'm nervous, but excited.