Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.epi.orgU.S. employers spend more than $1.5 billion annually on union avoidanceKey takeaways Many U.S. employers hire union avoidance consultants to keep their workers from organizing and bargaining 7:00 PM · Sep 7, 2026 278106154520
Sachi Wolfi Gortchi (Gortchakoff) 🇩🇪🇫🇷🇬🇧 @sachigo.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialthat's relatively obscene and scandalous quite, very much 010
Ernesto @ernest33141.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.social#ConcernedCitizen Vote, anyone you know normally doesn’t vote. It’s time to pressure them. This is our last chance to hold onto our democracy, our last chance to try to rebuild it and live free lives. Please share with all your #Followers #BlueTsunamiIsComing 43212
Gunder @glisen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialProblem, for the rich that is, is the Plebs will rise and revolt, sooner than they may think or want. once people realize those that are anti any of these are usually on the kick-back 'under the table' roll. Screw your fellow worker to get a few extra scraps is all. 010
Leprechaun @robnedbalek.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.social💙 Amen, AMEN, A-M-E-N! 😓8😥6💔4😡7🤬 & his MAGA MAFIA! Foxtrot Delta Tango! 010
gberfieldusaua.bsky.social @gberfieldusaua.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialThere will be no pause in the economic attack on the U.S. people. "Coalition of the Willing" military forces don't need to declare war on Russia, they simply go on a three day humanitarian aid mission-en masse limiting putin to two choices. Start WW3. Get out of Ukraine. What are our choices? 010
collier74.bsky.social @collier74.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialCapital must seek the lowest labor costs and its zealotry for it is unbounded. Unions are a burr under the corporate saddle. 010
Aymhyup2 @aymhyu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialThey pay for union avoidance and still get all the union negotiated perks of the contracts approved by the union members with the companies... 030
unknowncrone.bsky.social @unknowncrone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialYou said it, Bob. 010
David @davidicw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialWe need a government that works for people and not corporations that believe in slavery. cbwrong.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...cbwrong.blogspot.comI Could Be Wrong. 1102
Annie @bgftbbr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialMy first (and only) corporate gig was when I worked for Regis Corporation in their franchising division. I worked with franchisees. During a conference for franchises the (I think it was the Director) Paul Finklestein started talking union busting bullshit. I was naive and suprised. 030
Amylee @amybean62.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialUnions built our country and our economy from the ground d up. Biden was an advocate for Unions, while Trump and his billionaire buddies bust them. 010
Birdergal 💙💛🌊 @kestrel61.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialYet so many union members voted for Trump. 🤷♀️ 140
Jo-Anne Martell 🇨🇦 @jo2025.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialAs a healthcare worker, I’m all for unions. I’ve really never needed any assistance from them in 40 years of employment but know that they are there if I should need them. 031
Soul Dance @souldance.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialYou are amazing at what you do! 010
tat1111.bsky.social @tat1111.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialIn other words they are not only greedy fks but they are purposely keeping us down!! They want to keep us under their control and a corrupted Republican government is helping them do just that. VOTE OUT EVERY REPUBLICAN!!! 2272
odonata73.bsky.social @odonata73.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialHonestly if you added up all the money they spend on avoiding unions, political contributions to avoid taxes and regulations and all the rest they'd be better off just doing the right thing. It wouldn't cost them anymore and they wouldn't have all the hate. 1132
David Wesley @david-wesley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialHappy Labor Day Thank you for all your work Robert! Shouldn’t you be taking the day off though? What kind of working conditions are you dealing with? 010
🦁Fight Unstable Corrupt Killer Terrible Rabid Unhinged Mad Pedo🐯 @essarnc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialYes, but the return on that investment for them was probably 100 fold, easily $150 billion, so an easy decision. $1.5 billion is a drop in the ocean in terms of wages. Government guardrails are really the only protection from corporations. 010
Stephen M Good @goodstephen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.social@rbreich.bsky.social How about CONSUMER POWER? 010
fgump-777.bsky.social @fgump-777.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialThey spend a lot of money just to make sure they keep every penny.Sounds like some sort of evil twisted version of hell to me. 010
drshowup.bsky.social @drshowup.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialThis has always boggled my mind. That care and kindness of workers, fellow human beings, is not front and center as a company Value. 161
Sleepless in Benwick @jmurkin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialTo quote Hopper in Bug's Life "Those ants outnumber us a hundred to one, and if they ever figure that out, there goes our way of life!" That's what ceo's are afraid of. If you band together they might not get their next yacht 190
apple431.bsky.social @apple431.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialAnd it would be cheaper and provide more benefits to everyone if the would work together. Greed is a deadly sin 030
Denimeyer @denimeyer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialMy tax plan: Tax corporations based on the gap between highest and lowest compensation (including perks); the bigger the gap, the higher the tax. 010
BellatheChocolateLab @bellathelab.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialBecause if they are successful—lots more left for them. 010
Yalda @thatopinionatedgal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialThey have the money to pay decently their employees but instead they put that money towards fighting them. 2150
The Locutioner 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️,🚫🍊🦧, 🚫👑 @speediegatl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialThey don’t care about wages or employees at all. 030
LT @spartalpt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialIf you really want to piss off billionaires start talking about unionizing their employees. 131
nomad39.bsky.social @nomad39.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialRobert is right to remind us that ‘Lions four, Christians nothing’ isn't an acceptable outcome unless you are a lion. 040
atchijov.bsky.social @atchijov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialWe should help them to avoid this expense. Let’s make unions mandatory for any corporation bigger than certain number of people or certain amount of revenue. 030
A Forever Around The Way Girl @arletha61.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialWe must remove the entire Republican Party, they are all compromised, and if you voted for, Trump so are you, do better by your daughters, grabbing them by their pussies was never ok…..#ReleasetheEpsteinFiles 010
Bushcanuck @bushcanuck.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialDark money in elections. Spend a couple billion then get much bigger tax breaks. 141
Gina @rettmama.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialAnd taxes. They should be paying taxes. I totally agree with you about the change in tax rates since Reagan 030
Patricia Marie @mychickadee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialRobert’s articles are always on current issues especially now with working Americans under attack by the Epstein Class. I’m so sick of Republicans screaming only they protect workers while undermining them behind their backs. 011
Baseball Fanatic 1965 @vegasdave77.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialMost Big Retail chains abuse their workers and keep them in Poverty. Working 25 hours a week, no benefits, on call, split shifts. Low pay requiring you to work two or three of these jobs a once. Treated like a 3 year old. Micromanaged. If you have a complaint. Fired and marched out the door.😞😞😞static.klipy.comMicromanager: Weird Stapler ObsessionALT: Micromanager: Weird Stapler Obsession 031
Phillipe Copeland, PhD @ptheeeducator.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialFreedom is a full belly and an educated mind. Good health and a long life. A fair wage and an affordable home. A peaceful world and a life-sustaining planet. 040
sympathizer of many, many different dimensions @miasmo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialstatic.klipy.comLego BastilleALT: Lego Bastille 031
Arthur B Douglass III @abdouglassiii.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialSpeak. DesignIntentLinguist.comdesignintentlinguist.comFormation Window Observatory — DIL 010
Suza27 @suza27.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialThey use more money trying to stop Unions that they would save money by just doing the right thing in the beginning. 040
pax_christi @paxchristi1961.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.social#UnionStrong #LivingWage #TaxTheRich 020
pgzulian.bsky.social @pgzulian.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialClass warfare never ends. 040
Jooniormint @jooniormint.bsky.social · 07/09/2026↪ Replying to @rbreich.bsky.socialThat is so disgusting and weird. They could probably actually SAVE themselves money if they just treated their workers and customers equitably - but they would rather do horrific things than create a solution for all. 010