“This is the new model, where you work in these plants for the rest of your life, and your kids work here, and your grandkids work here,” U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick says.

https://archive.is/wGp2F

So slavery as indentured servitude is the American future. Way to “new model” the old model.

  • @[email protected]
    18•1 month ago

    I agree that the work isn’t too bad if you’re the right type of person. We have pretty good rules from OSHA.

    TBH though the intergenerational employment and company towns angle makes it seem like all the rules are going to be discarded so I’m a bit concerned

      • @[email protected]English
        11•1 month ago

        And that’s the problem! These jobs may be okay for now but the people running the government, including the clown in the article, actively wants to make it worse.