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  • BJHay

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    I do see that some companies will get squeezed between dealing with law suits for an unsafe work environment and ticking off unvaxed customers/employees. Follow the money....which decision is cheaper?

    The new legal angle is for people not employed by a company to sue the company over catching COVID from an employee who became infected on the job. Who knows if this tactic might work. Mandating worker vaccinations could help demonstrate the company took all reasonable precautions.

     

    Shadow01

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    This type of health concern from employers should put the service industry in a pinch for workers that have to enter private homes to make repairs or installations and the homeowners smoke. These employees need to press hard for a company policy that allows employees to not be forced to enter homes of smokers and still keep their jobs.
     

    kickbacked

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    So does INGO only boycott after a member posts about the scoundrel? So are you all searching to see if a company has a mandatory vaccination policy?
    No searching, shoes/boots are items I like. A shoe account on instagram posted the Nike thing and when I went to the link it showed all the companies in my op. I found out about carhartt because it was trending on twitter which seemed odd to me so I started reading the posts and found out that way.




    I really like carhartt for some things. But do they even make any of their stuff in America? The last time I bought shirts from rural king a I got home and half of them felt like sand paper. The shirts were made in 2 different countries, the ones made in Guam (I think) were soft. Thats when I saw carhartt wip on their website and realized they were targeting fashion hipsters. I knew girls started wearing their winter hats as fashion items but what I didn’t know was that in parts of Asia it’s a big trend to wear old carhartt stuff.
     

    phylodog

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    I get it but then I got the futility of the boycotts. No one cares. And this is not 2A or the like, it is a company mandating a vaccine to employees, that you and I disagree with. So now are you buying no name Chinese knock offs made by slaves?
    I don't know, my Carhartt's have a lot of life yet. I did buy a couple jackets from Dri-Duck a few months back. Apparently they're manufactured in Bangladesh and China, can't answer to the slave issue.
     

    actaeon277

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    I do see that some companies will get squeezed between dealing with law suits for an unsafe work environment and ticking off unvaxed customers/employees. Follow the money....which decision is cheaper?

    The new legal angle is for people not employed by a company to sue the company over catching COVID from an employee who became infected on the job. Who knows if this tactic might work. Mandating worker vaccinations could help demonstrate the company took all reasonable precautions.

    I'm all for someone that got sick from the vax, to sue the company that "required" it.
     

    MCgrease08

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    So are you all searching to see if a company has a mandatory vaccination policy?
    Why shouldn't we be actively searching in order to cause a fuss? It's what leftists do and it's a strategy that's proven to be pretty successful.

    I thought the goal was to fight the same way lefty activists do since they've gained so much ground. Take no prisoners, right? So why aren't freedom loving folks out causing a stink on Twitter? That tactic has caused lots of companies to change course as of late. A targeted action coming from conservatives would be more authentic then the astroturf garbage the social justice scammers use.
     

    Ingomike

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    Why shouldn't we be actively searching in order to cause a fuss? It's what leftists do and it's a strategy that's proven to be pretty successful.

    I thought the goal was to fight the same way lefty activists do since they've gained so much ground. Take no prisoners, right? So why aren't freedom loving folks out causing a stink on Twitter? That tactic has caused lots of companies to change course as of late. A targeted action coming from conservatives would be more authentic then the astroturf garbage the social justice scammers use.
    I am just getting over the whole boycott thing here. Heck we have some hinting at boycotts of advertisers because they are butt hurt. The woke management at most corporations couldn’t care less what we think, but they will move left when the leftists go nuts. Just not seeing the upside to driving ourselves crazy, particularly over the corporate vaccination mandate, which you know well I abhor.

    Are we really spending our time evaluating between the woke corporations?

    Those that directly attack the second amendment are not what I’m referring to here.
     

    Ingomike

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    If we are going to do this, let’s do it right. Here is a list I came across.

    So toss those credit cards, American Express, and Citi, Bank Of America, Capital One…

    No shopping at Walmart and TJMaxx…

    No Big Macs…

    No new F350…

    No Yellowstone, Paramount owned by Viacom…

    No TV from NBC and Netflix…

    No flying commercial, Southwest, Delta, United…

    No prescriptions, CVS, Walgreens…

    No chicken from Tyson…

    No rides from Uber or Lyft…

    No healthcare from Anthem…

    No dinner from Doordash…

    No cell phone from ATT…

    No UPS shipments…

    Not even some Kraft cheese and Heinz ketchup…

    Is this getting ridiculous yet? Why do we want to put those who produce things important to us like tough workwear out of business we sure are not going to make a dent in those listed here and there likely are thousands more. If not boycotting them all which ones do we boycott without being hypocritical? I think it is silly to boycott Carhartt over this…



     
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    maxipum

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    If we are going to do this, let’s do it right. Here is a list I came across.

    So toss those credit cards, American Express, and Citi, Bank Of America, Capital One…

    No shopping at Walmart and TJMaxx…

    No Big Macs…

    No new F350…

    No Yellowstone, Paramount owned by Viacom…

    No TV from NBC and Netflix…

    No flying commercial, Southwest, Delta, United…

    No prescriptions, CVS, Walgreens…

    No chicken from Tyson…

    No rides from Uber or Lyft…

    No healthcare from Anthem…

    No dinner from Doordash…

    No cell phone from ATT…

    No UPS shipments…

    Not even some Kraft cheese and Heinz ketchup…

    Is this getting ridiculous yet? Why do we want to put those who produce things important to us like tough workwear out of business we sure are not going to make a dent in those listed here and there likely are thousands more. If not boycotting them all which ones do we boycott without being hypocritical? I think it is silly to boycott Carhartt over this…



    Well....... you do you. When a company starts to actively work against my interest. Fxxx em.
     

    Shadow01

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    Pick the weakest of the herd and separate them. Once you hurt them financially then you pick the next weakest. It’s about gaining steam and continuing to move forward. I don’t care if carhartt goes out of business, there are other clothiers that will still be in business.
     

    BehindBlueI's

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    I get it but then I got the futility of the boycotts. No one cares. And this is not 2A or the like, it is a company mandating a vaccine to employees, that you and I disagree with. So now are you buying no name Chinese knock offs made by slaves?

    Exactly. Remember when everyone was mad as Springfield Armory and bankrupted them? And when Cheaper Than Dirt went out of business because INGO was mad?

    Shop where you want to shop. There's a lot of places I don't simply because I don't like them for whatever reason. Usually bad service. I don't shop at Wal-mart because the money I may potentially save isn't worth the hassle of being in a Wal-mart. But I know firing them from my marketplace is just for me, especially for international brands.
     

    phylodog

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    Some act as if the members here are screaming for an organized, advertised, national boycott. I haven't seen anyone doing anything like that. No one has claimed that INGO members avoiding a specific company is going to bankrupt them or that we're teaching some great lesson to the evil corporations.
     

    two70

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    Some act as if the members here are screaming for an organized, advertised, national boycott. I haven't seen anyone doing anything like that. No one has claimed that INGO members avoiding a specific company is going to bankrupt them or that we're teaching some great lesson to the evil corporations.
    This. Do people really find all or nothing thinking helpful? It's possible to make simple choices where you can without hurting yourself. If enough people make a few simple choices at a time, it'll eventually add up. You don't have to boycott everything at once nor cut off your nose to spite your face. Instead of giving up before you ever get started take a lesson from the Lefties, pick a company, isolate it, apply pressure, then move on to the next.

    As for Carhartt specifically, why treat them like a sacred cow? Why support their BS when there is an Indiana based Company that produces work clothes as good or better than Carhartt?
     

    maxipum

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    This. Do people really find all or nothing thinking helpful? It's possible to make simple choices where you can without hurting yourself. If enough people make a few simple choices at a time, it'll eventually add up. You don't have to boycott everything at once nor cut off your nose to spite your face. Instead of giving up before you ever get started take a lesson from the Lefties, pick a company, isolate it, apply pressure, then move on to the next.

    As for Carhartt specifically, why treat them like a sacred cow? Why support their BS when there is an Indiana based Company that produces work clothes as good or better than Carhartt?
    Exactly, you have to start somewhere.
     

    buckwacker

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    I get it but then I got the futility of the boycotts. No one cares. And this is not 2A or the like, it is a company mandating a vaccine to employees, that you and I disagree with. So now are you buying no name Chinese knock offs made by slaves?
    This attitude is why we continue to lose to the left. Conservatives say boycotts don't work as a way to hide the fact they are unwilling to introduce the slightest inconvenience to their pampered life.
     
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