The OSHA rule required employers with 100 or more workers to make them get vaccinated or be tested regularly, potentially at their own expense.
If the "their" in the highlighted part is referring to the businesses (and not the employees), the only reason I can see is that they'd potentially have to pay for testing. So that their employees and fucking customers don't die during a pandemic.
It would require them to verify the vaccination status of their workers and refuse them work if they had not been tested or vaccinated, which would probably take a sliver from the labor pool. Most likely it's just an opposition to the government imposing any requirements on the capitalists though,
Yeah that's basically what I thought, but it's such shallow idealism to make this vaccine mandate yet another obviously good thing that can't be allowed to happen because it's akshually very nuanced and there's good people on both sides. Who cares if small businesses can't hire walking biological weapons? I thought neoliberals have always sustained that some amount of unemployment is a good thing?
unemployment is good because it means more people competing for jobs. This reduces the people actually competing for jobs so it could slightly increase wages.
Am I stupid? Why would vaccine mandates even hurt small businesses? Less :le-pol-face:s to hire?
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If the "their" in the highlighted part is referring to the businesses (and not the employees), the only reason I can see is that they'd potentially have to pay for testing. So that their employees and fucking customers don't die during a pandemic.
:joker-shopping:
"Small" businesses that employ over a 100 workers
Heckin smol bean businesses, like Microsoft and Amazon
It would require them to verify the vaccination status of their workers and refuse them work if they had not been tested or vaccinated, which would probably take a sliver from the labor pool. Most likely it's just an opposition to the government imposing any requirements on the capitalists though,
Yeah that's basically what I thought, but it's such shallow idealism to make this vaccine mandate yet another obviously good thing that can't be allowed to happen because it's akshually very nuanced and there's good people on both sides. Who cares if small businesses can't hire walking biological weapons? I thought neoliberals have always sustained that some amount of unemployment is a good thing?
idk. I can't explain the bourgeois thought process beyond "it might cost me money so I'm against it"
unemployment is good because it means more people competing for jobs. This reduces the people actually competing for jobs so it could slightly increase wages.