Felix Allen, a recently fired New Orleans-based organizer at Lowe’s, recounts the measures taken by his employer to prevent his store from unionizing.
Felix Allen, a recently fired New Orleans-based organizer at Lowe’s, recounts the measures taken by his employer to prevent his store from unionizing.
It’s a hard thing to break. Like, I should know better, I’d been a wobbly for several years, and yet I STILL Fell for it at the beginning of the pandemic. With their whole “We are committed to ensuring that we don’t’ have to lay off anyone, that’s why everyone is getting a pay cut on a reverse scale, from our CEOs taking a 90% pay cut to our freshers taking a 1% pay cut” and then they cut my hours in half, again to ensure everyone could keep their job, and then I was out on my ass. I guess I thought since I was a westerner employed by an Indian company, that they truly did have a different mindset than just profit, again based on great brainwashing (I mean training). And several times since then I’ve thought about how great it was to work there and I hoped I had a chance to go back again.
It fucks with minds.