Dana El-Kurd
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You can just reduce someone effectively into a debt peon.
And usually that kind of threat is abstract.
This is how we are incentivized to work and to stay in line.
If you lose your job, then you're going to drown in all of the things you need to do to survive.
But no, here it's just, yeah, you're now $21,000 in debt to this company that just fired you.
And again, that is due and payable immediately.
That the way the contract is worded does not stipulate any sort of repayment period.
Now, we have attestations from previous employees who have been fired under this contract and been released from it.
So we do know that the owners of Real You Electrolysis will selectively choose to release terminated employees from their contract.
However, they have elected not to do that in the case of this union member, this co-worker who was fired last month.
So that also just that also looks like retaliation.
Like sort of deliberately.
Yeah, you know, it doesn't look good.