Humble this deserves its own thread...I hope some people get motivated, research, and set one up at their job...
http://www.amazon.com/dp/097227880X/?tag=vp314-20
21st century Unionization Strategy:
You can start a mutual fund and an Employee Union. However, the Employee Union (passive) will collect dues and invest the money into company stock and bonds, your goal is investment to increase pay and benefits that will avoid double taxation, not destructively forcing a Union Contract on the company by not working. The mutual fund ran by the Employee Union with no management fees will also invest in company. Walmart has 1.6 million employees, if they all kicked out $60 a month, in a year they could own 1.2 billion in stock, by then the company will notice and stop suppressing wages and increase pay to $13-$15 range an hour. In 10 years, the employees will have 13-14 billion, maybe more, easily being the largest shareholder.
Many of employees through their 401k, other mutual funds, ETF, and bank own the company stock. Determine, what that percentage is and reduce their holdings by that percentage and put that money into the mutual fund ran by the Employee Union that will advocate for higher pay. These investment vehicles are actually trying to suppress your paycheck, move jobs overseas, or layoff people to boost profit to increase Earnings per Share!!!
You should also solicit investment from other Unions such as Teachers, Federal/State Employees through their pension fund or 401k holdings, or other investors that feel workers should be paid a living wage.
You are trying to balance short-term investors looking for stock appreciation and double taxed dividends with your need for a better paycheck and benefits. Walmart paid out 5 billion in double taxed dividends last year, and another 15 billion in stock repurchase to boost share price (trying to avoid double taxation). They could have kicked $10 billion of that money out to employee/shareholder as higher pay that would be taxed once by the state and the Federal government.
Let say Walmart wants to distribute $10 billion out to investors as a dividend, currently they are giving a dividends that is taxed at 40% (federal and state taxes) than when the shareholder gets the money, they pay another 25-35% resulting in only 37% getting to the shareholder (out of 10 billion only 3.7 billion gets into your pocket). As an employee, Walmart could pay you substantially higher wages that would be taxed once at individual tax rate (no corporate taxes) much lower tax rate of 10-20 percent (10 billion, 8 billion would end up in the pocket of employees, an extra 4.7 billion in higher wages!!!!!). Every worker that paid $60 could be paid an extra $400-600 a month as higher pay without even impacting the financials. I will take that after tax rate of return any day....
People need to smartly use your money to increase your paycheck, not stupidly investing in crap that is trying to suppress wages and pay higher taxes to the government. Your goal is to get voting shares to elect people on the board that represent your interests hire and fire the CEO, determine the CEO pay. Employees are better owners of a company, than some fly by night investor….
If the company brings that Walmart, CIA counter-intelligence crap to disrupt, you need to need to make some calls to their shareholders, letting them know that they tried to block you from buying shares that would increase the share price. Probably violating security laws if they tried to fuck with you.
Ford was selling at $1 a share, the workers could have cleaned up with voting stock, got board seats, substantially boosted pay without even using a Union contract, blocked management attempt to move jobs overseas to avoid higher wages. Permanent lasting control over your employer.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/097227880X/?tag=vp314-20
21st century Unionization Strategy:
You can start a mutual fund and an Employee Union. However, the Employee Union (passive) will collect dues and invest the money into company stock and bonds, your goal is investment to increase pay and benefits that will avoid double taxation, not destructively forcing a Union Contract on the company by not working. The mutual fund ran by the Employee Union with no management fees will also invest in company. Walmart has 1.6 million employees, if they all kicked out $60 a month, in a year they could own 1.2 billion in stock, by then the company will notice and stop suppressing wages and increase pay to $13-$15 range an hour. In 10 years, the employees will have 13-14 billion, maybe more, easily being the largest shareholder.
Many of employees through their 401k, other mutual funds, ETF, and bank own the company stock. Determine, what that percentage is and reduce their holdings by that percentage and put that money into the mutual fund ran by the Employee Union that will advocate for higher pay. These investment vehicles are actually trying to suppress your paycheck, move jobs overseas, or layoff people to boost profit to increase Earnings per Share!!!
You should also solicit investment from other Unions such as Teachers, Federal/State Employees through their pension fund or 401k holdings, or other investors that feel workers should be paid a living wage.
You are trying to balance short-term investors looking for stock appreciation and double taxed dividends with your need for a better paycheck and benefits. Walmart paid out 5 billion in double taxed dividends last year, and another 15 billion in stock repurchase to boost share price (trying to avoid double taxation). They could have kicked $10 billion of that money out to employee/shareholder as higher pay that would be taxed once by the state and the Federal government.
Let say Walmart wants to distribute $10 billion out to investors as a dividend, currently they are giving a dividends that is taxed at 40% (federal and state taxes) than when the shareholder gets the money, they pay another 25-35% resulting in only 37% getting to the shareholder (out of 10 billion only 3.7 billion gets into your pocket). As an employee, Walmart could pay you substantially higher wages that would be taxed once at individual tax rate (no corporate taxes) much lower tax rate of 10-20 percent (10 billion, 8 billion would end up in the pocket of employees, an extra 4.7 billion in higher wages!!!!!). Every worker that paid $60 could be paid an extra $400-600 a month as higher pay without even impacting the financials. I will take that after tax rate of return any day....
People need to smartly use your money to increase your paycheck, not stupidly investing in crap that is trying to suppress wages and pay higher taxes to the government. Your goal is to get voting shares to elect people on the board that represent your interests hire and fire the CEO, determine the CEO pay. Employees are better owners of a company, than some fly by night investor….
If the company brings that Walmart, CIA counter-intelligence crap to disrupt, you need to need to make some calls to their shareholders, letting them know that they tried to block you from buying shares that would increase the share price. Probably violating security laws if they tried to fuck with you.
Ford was selling at $1 a share, the workers could have cleaned up with voting stock, got board seats, substantially boosted pay without even using a Union contract, blocked management attempt to move jobs overseas to avoid higher wages. Permanent lasting control over your employer.
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