I thought this was really interesting.
Some US labor unions have filed a complaint with the UN's International Labour Organization, claiming--among other things--that American companies are utilizing a form of forced labor:
One thing is for sure. The NLRB views its job as protecting capital from labor, rather than the other way around. So, we have a Department of Commerce that looks out for corporations, and a Department of Labor that looks out for corporationns. Level playing field, huh? This has been happening under both Republican and Democratic administrations, but has reached its pinnacle with Trump, especially during the pandemic."And it charges the United States with violating workers’ rights in terms not typically associated with well-off countries, at one point saying the bind many essential workers have been placed in during the pandemic — forced to risk infection or lose their jobs and potentially unemployment benefits — amounts to a system of forced labor."
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