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Just fyi, the CEO of Kimberly-Clark, Michael D. Hsu, earns $15.5 million per year, whereas warehouse workers typically earn about $50k a year, that's about 0.33% or 300 times less.
Kimberly-Clark made $2 billion profit in 2025. Yep, that's $2 billion profit AFTER they have paid all the salaries, including CEOs.
They clearly don't make enough money to pay fair wages. No one ever thinks of the shareholders, smh...
He doesn't earn $15.5 million a year, he gets paid $15.5 million a year.
Poor CEO!!!
Yes. That it is an important distinction especially with the american tax system which is known for not benefitting the wealthy and redistributing wealth across all social classes, allowing the United States to funnel more money into welfare for the greater common good.
Why don’t we focus on some real issues instead?
its probably brutal full time schedules too
Just fyi, the CEO of Kimberly-Clark, Michael D. Hsu, earns per year, whereas warehouse workers typically earn about $50k a year, that’s about 0.33% or 300 times less.
What a role reversal.
For those yelling about Unions being better than what this guy did:
Unions were always the compromise. We've watched as corporations fight tooth and nail against unions, even closing locations and laying people off to quash them. Our union protections in the US are pathetically weak, especially with the current regime.
Workers used to get beaten and threatened when they tried to advocate for better conditions. Eventually workers would start burning down their workplaces like this guy. In extreme cases they would kill the factory owner or foreman. If the conditions are unbearable and voices aren't being heard, people will get desperate and do unthinkable things.
For their sake, let's hope the business and corporate types remember this before the bread or circuses run out.
Yep. The alternative to no unions or worker's rights is people dragging Jeff Bezos out of his mansion, beating him to death in front of his family, and then burning the house down.
Yeah unions are a better deal for everyone. I hope the business owners come around to that as workers acting on discontent increases
“Look, America is founded on free enterprise and capitalism,” said Bill Essayli, the first assistant United States attorney for the central district of California, during the press conference. “Anyone who attacks our values, our way of life, our system, which provides the best goods and services to the most people, we’re gonna come after aggressively.”
What a thing to say.
I don't think he's right about America's founding ideas. Free enterprise, maybe. But capitalism is a different beast, and only came to America much later. The young country's first taste of real capitalism was the East India Company and their tea trading business. And look how they reacted to that.
I don't think capitalism was what the USA's founding fathers had in mind at all. I do think the linguistic conflation of "free market" with "capitalism" is an intentional large scale psy-op designed to make people forget that. And it's working.
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world that commerce and capitalism are the same thing.
“Our values” and “our way of life” sound so strange. Especially since “best goods and services” is a crock of shit. 😂
I dont know what he's even trying to say. He's coming after employees that want to be paid more?
Those anticapitalist shitheads. They should be beaten with billyclubs and have their wages reduced for the pain and suffering they have caused their bosses.
I assume this is his internal monologue.
Which provides the best goods and services to the most people
Those are human rights in other countries.
He's saying their values are everyone's values. "Our way of life" is trying to rally us to his side--"rally around the flag"--to divide us against ourselves. It works pretty well with MAGA, and they all know it.
paying a living wage is cheaper than trying to quell a labor uprising.
This is what they learned after the rise of unions. Unionization was the compromise they made to stop angry workers dragging owners into the streets and beating them to a pulp. They've forgotten those lessons.
Most American firms would rather pay lawyers to fuck their employees over, than pay their employees more.
Recreational Equipment Incorporated Co-operative are closing a flagship store in Manhattan rather than deal with a union.
America hates Americans.
CEOs are not smart people
You cant become smart if all you do is partying and traveling
Not this quarter it isn't! (Until it suddenly is.)
they legislate laws to weaken labor protections and pay instead of the "pinkertons":
No one was harmed and he got his point across. Keep up the good fight Americans, show them how much youre suffering under this regime and dont let the corporations/billionaires win
Even comments-section of fox news was supporting it. Well, mainly calling it a fire-insurance scam, but I think conspiracy theories are how fascists express their love?
If 9/11 taught us anything it is that there is nothing a man cannot do if he no longer fears the consequences.
A desperate and enraged man will not be reasonable.
FUCK YOU KIMBERLEY-CLARK. You're a shitty employer.
This hurt the share price, for a day anyway....
I don't know about you all, but I didn't see nothin'.
Fires happen all the time. Owners probably didn't maintain the warehouse since they couldn't pay their employees a fair wage. Where is the fire supression system?
The alleged arsonist could have been caught up in the rush of an already existing fire when the video was filmed. Blaming anyone for a warehouse without proper fire suppression seems negligent.
Blaming anyone for a warehouse without proper fire suppression seems negligent.
Agreed on all points, but especially this one.
