British Columbia

1841 readers

47 users here now

!britishcolumbia@lemmy.ca

News, highlights and more relating to this great province!

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

TruckBC@lemmy.ca

LimpRimble@lemmy.ca

152

She Organized a Starbucks. Then They Fired Her | The Tyee (thetyee.ca)

submitted 2 years ago by grte@lemmy.ca to c/britishcolumbia@lemmy.ca

17 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As a society, we should ensure everyone that goes through something like this ends up a millionaire who never has to work again.

That'll motivate workers to unionize more than anything else we could possibly do.

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago

Want to fix this? It'll take a) jail time, and b) asset seizure.

Corporate structure deliberate distributes responsibility for things like this such that:

It's very hard to find one person to blame, let alone prove malfeasance.
If by some chance you do find a smoking gun, the fine for doing so is usually less than the profit of the transgression

If, eg, Howard Schultz and his direct-reports faced fines and/or jail time directly, and those fines were orders of magnitude the harms of the action, then you'd see some of this stop.