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So two wrongs do make a right? What other abuses of worker's rights should we demand they do, for "good reasons"?

Companies also collectively fire people to bolster their profits, maybe we should demand they do some mass firings for a good cause. Trump supporters, maybe?

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I'm not offering a moral judgment, or making a statement about the efficacy of those tactics. I'm saying it's nothing new.

(On a related note, there are some regulations around mass layoffs: https://www.doleta.gov/programs/factsht/warn.htm

American companies will run a series of layoffs JUST below the limit to avoid the reporting mandates! Kind of like structuring deposits of $9,999 to avoid the reporting requirement at $10k. Interesting.)

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