I've been with my company for ten years but someone else got my promotion. That's messed up.
It certainly is. Wage slavery is not a pleasant thing to experience. Your livelihood depends on your wages and job.
Exactly! I told my boss that and he didn't care. I can't afford to live on what I make now! I haven't had a raise in 5 years!
It's exploitation of labor. With unions being gutted, bargaining power between management and workers has become unequal.
I wish we had a union where I work. Maybe I could check into joining one.
United States labor law
United States labor law sets the rights and duties for employees, labor unions, and employers in the United States. Labor law's basic aim is to remedy the "inequality of bargaining power" between employees and employers, especially employers "organized in the corporate or other forms of ownership association". Over the 20th century, federal law created minimum social and economic rights, and encouraged state laws to go beyond the minimum to favor employees. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 requires a federal minimum
Chayefksy had never "been involved with a director who wasn't malleable. He would make suggestions, and I would listen courteously, and then disagree. Paddy hated the lighting, for example, and he didn't like the color scheme of some of the sets. 'I can't use your eyes,' I told him. 'I've got to use my own. In any case, there can be only one director on a picture."
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