Inside Corporate America's Secret Attempt to Rebrand Corruption

Corporate PACs, whose sole purpose is to allow corporations to buy more political influence in support of maximizing profits, are being rebranded as “Employee PACs”.

This week on 51/49, James discusses worker-washing, a new wave of deceptive corporate marketing filled with misleading and false worker-centric messaging that corporations and their political operatives are co-opting in order to crush organized labor.

0:00 Starbucks' Progressive Cosplay
4:19 Corporate Cash Destroying Democracy
6:06 Corporate PACs Masquerade as "Employee PACs"

Corporate PACs Save Face By Claiming Worker Power:
https://theintercept.com/2022/03/23/employee-sponsored-pacs-corporate-campaign-contributions/

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