Watching the Biden admin is wild. At one minute he'll be escalating the wars in the Ukraine and Palestine, but the next he'll be funding the NLRB and addressing the housing crisis in a way that improves walk-ability.
It's like, he has two settings: "actually useful moderate" and "KILLKILLKILLKILL"
Unfortunately, this makes him the best US president since carter
Getting people to live in offices is good because it brings people back to walkable, urban cores.
Turning the dial to AOC good and looking back at Chapo Chat like a contestant in the price is right
Honestly, the idea that housing is a commodity is insane to me
You're right. I thought it was 35mg / 8 oz. I was wrong I should written 180
Man, my drug use is outta control. I'm just blasting off daily. Every morning I'm like "I can't do this until I've ingested at least 60mg of caffeine" as I bust out my percolation set up.
Somewhere between non-profit grant-writer and boiler inspector.
I am sitting in the parking lot outside work. Please tell me to go in and do my (genuinely very important) job even though I'm anxious and sleepy
Idk how big your workplace is, but at mine, everyone in the Organizing Committee picked a few leaders to talk to on an ongoing basis. and that way, the most influential people in the workplace were getting their opinions on union stuff from us. That way the 4 person OC was able to reach all 60 workers with pro union messaging.
I'm gonna be frank: organizing for a strike starts now or it doesn't happen. Do not count on the reps to do it. If you're going to make friends with deep pockets, it's on you and no-one else to reach out.
If you're going to have the "start saving" conversation, do it now.
On the management retaliation:
Unfortunately, my experience is that the rep filed a grievance and it was out of my hands. What is important imo is immediately framing it as retaliation and making the boss the bad guy before the boss can blame the union. Make it an issue to organize around or management will.
Management can give you a raise whenever they want. Ant "my hands are tied" rhetoric is the bosses trying to blame the union for their own retaliation.
On the coordinated bargaining: you don't have to bargain at the same time this time around to line up expiration dates and bargain at the same time in 3 years.
I'd talk to nurses if you can, they often strike and deal with the same issue. People die during nurses' strikes.
One thing they do is give a month's warning, so that the hospital can find scab labor, knowing that the scabs will be much more expensive to employ
See if you can negotiate your contract ending at the same time as the other departments. That way, next time you can negotiate together, with the power of three units threatening strike instead of just one.
To answer your question about selective raises, that's retaliation and a ULP. They did it to us at my last job and we had to fight it.
A lot of reps are fairly new, or are used to a particular wheelhouse, or know more about organizing than labor law, or more about labor law than organizing. That's why it's so important to have worker leadership.
Have you read Labor Law for the Rank and Filer and no contract, no peace?
A lot of times a ULP is just a legal justification to go on strike. That's where they're most useful imo
Trots were big on "industrializing" which is going into buisness unions to improve them. Labor Notes is actually partially the result of this movement.
So a lot of our collective knowledge about relating to larger unions is from trot experiments.
Oh thank God. This is a huge break for anti colonial movements in Africa
The fact that you're fishing for attention by building yourself up instead of tearing yourself down says that you're a fun person to hang out with.
Is anyone else really bad at drinking? Like, I spill coffee on myself like a solid quarter of the time. I keep an extra shirt in my car so I don't have to do field work with coffee on my shirt
"We believe this structural labor shock is poised to take over as the driver of inflation as the pandemic-driven spending mismatch unwinds."
Libs are getting banned too fast. They should get a little time to demonstrate whether or not they're here in good faith, and a little time to get dunked on if they're not.
Let us play with our food before we eat it.
In the latest development in an ongoing saga of tenants struggling with landlords in an Eugene neighborhood, protestors have gone to the property management company's offices.
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The future is now
Most "fashion advice" is catered to either rich people looking to waste money, or midwesterners white collar workers trying to fit in at the office.
But if you go out in public, no one dresses like that. They're wearing a lot of canvas, denim and plaid, lots of face piercings and tattoos, hoodies and beanies. On the fancier end, you'll see oversized flannel jackers and dad sneakers. On older people it's a lot of carhartt and Patagonia.
Out in the suburbs younger people wear athleisure, and older people wear cargo shorts and t shirts.
But when you look at style guides it's like "your guide to chinos and blazers" but only the most obnoxious finance and tech bros wear that shit.
Where do you find style guides for normal people?
Just thinking we need fashion advice relevant to this site's core demographic.
I'm Serious. Tell me to wear dickies, put cigarette lighter heads on my hat, and scribble on my black vans in white out.
Malatesta is the anarchist who most clearly differentiates anarchists from marxists, while recognizing what works: specifically anarchist orgs, participation in unions, working-class self defense. He invented modern anti fascism. Guy doesn't get enough credit.
Anyways, in this one, he calls for anarchist participation in the trade union movement as anarchists. He argues that while unions are a prerequisite for revolution, they are an insufficient organ for it.
While the Italian anarchist revolutions in the 30s and 50s ultimately failed, they came closer than revolutions in anywhere in post-war Europe besides France and Spain, and should be recognized as an essential part of our revolutionary heritage. Who's to say if the Partisan movement would have been a quarter as strong without them.
Facebook is a cop.
Sholem Schwarzbard was an anarchist Yiddish-language poet from Ukraine. In 1926, he assassinated Ukrainian military commander Symon Petliura in revenge for deadly pogroms carried out by Petliura's armies in the Russian Civil War — and was found not guilty by a jury of his peers.
This guide describes how a small collective produced and distributed transdermal estrogen using reproducible do-it-yourself methods.
These are the anarchist chads who got banned from Twitter for being too cool. Now in the anarchists spirit, they're bringing you DIY gender juice.
Nagarjuna [he/him] @hexbear.net We have a duty to fight for our freedom. We have a duty to win.