Most people will remember the massive crime against humanity perpetrated by Volkswagen when it used software to hide the amount of noxious emissions its diesel engines were actually spewing out. If you are a little rusty on the details, I posted about it over a year ago. For those who
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Politics and its Discontents: Just Who Is Protecting Who?
If you have never seen it, I highly recommend the Netflix documentary series Dirty Money. Of particular interest is the one detailing the massive fraud perpetrated by Volkswagen, in which the auto giant employed a diesel ‘defeat device’ allowing their cars to bypass environmental controls and thereby emit massive amounts
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The rednecks in the state government did everything underhanded they could to keep Tennessee Volkswagen workers from going union. It was a move that pitted the company against, not its workers, but the government. Volkswagen had to come out and dispel the lies, announcing that it welcomed a union but
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: SUPPORT: Auto Unions in the US and Canada are on a Roll
With all the union busting and union bashing going on by the 1% and their compradors in government, it’s nice to see the labour movement getting some traction. The next few days in Tennessee and Ontario could move workplace democracy and the 99% ahead significantly, with thousands of new unionized
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