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i feel for south africa right now, there's always reasons to explain rioting but nobody is going to care with upcoming food/medicine shortages. the economy is going to be further screwed and so many people who did nothing wrong will have lost their jobs and lives. terrible situation....rioting is depressing to be in the midst of. people are fearful , organize with good intentions and things can spiral in cruel ways.
As reported in Business Insider, documents from Whole Foods, which is owned by Amazon, show that the company assesses the potential for organizing activity at its locations through a unionization-threat heat map application that tracks, among other variables, levels of workplace diversity. Work sites that score high on the app’s “diversity index” are deemed less likely to unionize, presumably because solidarity is prone to fracture along racial and ethnic lines.* With its keen attention to the racial demographics of the workforce, the heat map is a kind of twenty-first-century update of Henry Fairchild DeBardeleben’s Gilded Age labor-relations playbook.
To expect capitalist corporations to act purely altruistically is being a little naive.
But this is an interesting (corporate) take on the benefits of diversity that I’ve never thought about.
Companies hiring women and POC (especially immigrants) to pay them less and keep the profits.
I've worked at companies before which disproportionately hired Puerto Ricans and Haitians from a half hour away because they were less likely to complain about conditions and viewed as easier to replace.
To expect capitalist corporations to act purely altruistically is being a little naive.
But this is an interesting (corporate) take on the benefits of diversity that I’ve never thought about.
I think the point is that this is institutional racism. Whole Foods is hiring minorities because it knows the white people they hire won't go to bat for their minority coworkers in solidarity (and it probably goes both ways too).
Promoting increased diversity in your hiring process is in itself a means of combatting institutional racism. But in this case, their intentions for doing so were for institutionally racist reasons.
Promoting increased diversity in your hiring process is in itself a means of combatting institutional racism. But in this case, their intentions for doing so were for institutionally racist reasons.
It’s an interesting philosophical catch 22.
That’s only true if you’re hiring, developing, and promoting POC in your organization. If you’re just hiring then for front line positions and never consider them for advancement opportunities than you’re not combating shit.
I don’t exactly agree with the comparison (and I’m a type 1 diabetic who only just got worthwhile insurance fer the first time in some 13+ years), but she’s also not wrong.