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1. One of the biggest problems for workers these days is that big companies use contractors & temps for much of their work.
2. Insightful story about this: “To Understand Inequality, Consider the Janitors at Two Top Companies, Then and Now” nytimes.com/2017/09/03/ups…
3. Amazon is a prime example. 40% of its workers are “temps.” No job security. It’s day-to-day. If they get hurt, tough luck.
4. Temps also help Amazon keep its direct hires in line. Ask for better conditions? No way, there’s a temp right there to take your job.
5. This surplus of temps is 1 reason why Amazon can pay its workers 6-22% less than warehouse jobs pay on average. ilsr.org/amazon-workers…
6. Why are so many ppl willing to take temp work? At this point in a recovery, workers should be in such demand that they wouldn’t settle.
7. But that’s not happening b/c of concentration. Due to monopolists like Amazon & Walmart, there are far fewer sm. businesses starting up.
8. And new small businesses create almost all of the job growth.
9. So harming competition helps Amazon get cheap labor, which lowers costs, helping it push competitors aside, which gives it cheap labor...
10/10. Labor & small businesses used to fight on the same side. Against corporate power. It’s time to rebuild that alliance.
11/10. ilsr.org/wp-content/upl…
12/10. Last one, really. Also see: "Monopoly Power & the Decline of Small Business” ilsr.org/monopoly-power…
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