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Zaktor ,

You can’t just take away workers right to their own power and self-determination and then think it’s all good if you help them get some of the things they want. That’s not actually being pro-union.

I support unions and workers right to strike but at the cost of potential economic collapse?

Every strike causes disruptions, and the bigger the disruption the stronger the strike. Accepting that workers get to use their power to decide what deal is acceptable is part of being pro-labor, even if it means your life is disrupted.

But if you for some reason don’t believe that labor can engage in big disruptions to show their bosses they’re serious and decide you simply must intervene in a worker-employer negotiation, then enforce the contract the workers wanted. And if you’re not willing to force their bosses to accept a contract they don’t like, then don’t pretend you had no choice when you forced the workers.

Zaktor ,

IBEW was one of the unions that ratified the tentative agreement without the sick days. This message isn’t a turnaround from the people who wanted to strike.

Zaktor ,

It’s had it for a while, but enforcement was pretty spotty. I believe they’ve recently gotten buy-in from AirBNB to not list properties that weren’t permitted.

Zaktor ,

Yeah, that’s a trash headline. This isn’t something that’s just happening from impersonal natural effects, it’s management trying to kill it. And at least as of March, 35% of workers with jobs that can be done remotely are working from home. This isn’t a “last gasp for WFH”, it’s a few big Silicon Valley employers trying to reassert control and their friends in the business media joining the cause.

I know I’ll never go back to an office and a lot of other WFH employees don’t even live near their companies anymore. Good luck retaining top talent if you treat them like children in need of supervision.

Bernie Sanders Champions 32-Hour Work Week With No Loss in Pay (www.commondreams.org)

As part of his Labor Day message to workers in the United States, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday re-upped his call for the establishment of a 20% cut to the workweek with no loss in pay—an idea he said is “not radical” given the enormous productivity gains over recent decades that have resulted in massive profits for...

Zaktor ,

Apart from the mystical horse, those aren’t fantastical things. France has a 35 hour work week, many countries have 4 weeks vacation as the norm, and most rich countries have full healthcare coverage. These are policy choices, not impossible dream worlds.

Zaktor ,

Seriously. People must think the $15 min wage and student debt forgiveness just sprung from nothingness to have support across the party. These things start with progressives making the case and saying “this is possible”.

Zaktor ,

What a weird thumbnail. Cape Cod 5 is just a bank. Completely unrelated to the crime except for existing in the same broad area.

Zaktor ,

Wouldn’t be surprised if they were AI generated now. Most of their staff quit last year: www.gawker.com/media/what-happened-at-the-root

Zaktor ,

People get 30 years for having a couple hundred dollars of weed.

That’s the problem, not a 17 year sentence being too light. What’s he going to learn in year 18 he didn’t learn in the previous 17?

Zaktor ,

Hey, person whose been on the internet since doing so involved torturing a modem here. You’re not a wizened authority and people who believe differently than you aren’t brainwashed children. Fuck the Nazis.

Zaktor ,

Requiring arrest to be the correct method of suppressing abhorrent speech is actually way worse than letting ISPs decide to deny it a platform.

Zaktor ,

I think the question then becomes “what happens when the services refuse”. Because the next step up is getting their ISP to kick them off.

Zaktor ,

What a pathetic attempt at misdirection, not the least because the Great Wall doesn’t appear in either this article or the Facebook report.

Zaktor ,

If your job is purposely, wittingly mislead people, you’re a fucking waste of blood and organs.

Not to in any way minimize the evils of propagandists, as they’re pushing much more damaging messages, but that describes most of the advertising industry. It’s just that those liars and manipulators are doing it for a brand so people waste money rather than a political cause.

It’s kind of crazy that we just tolerate an entire massive industry that adds nothing to the world and is based around misleading people. And it’s a business run out of fancy glass buildings out in the open rather than hidden away.

Zaktor ,

It’s really not. Both are “lies, deceptions, and half truths” and neither is “illegal”, just unethical. Propaganda is worse because of the goals, not because it’s clearly separate endeavor.

Zaktor ,

What counts as a “lie” in advertising is incredibly narrow and if that’s your bar almost none of the highlighted Chinese propaganda meets it.

Advertising is an inherently deceptive business. Products aren’t really “#1”, the podcaster or celebrity spokesperson almost certainly doesn’t mean the words they’re speaking, and those claims about “limited lifetime warranties” are intended to imply good lifetime support when the limits are commonly everything that might go wrong after it leaves the assembly line. These lies and deceptions are so routine we think they’re harmless because we’re conditioned to think lying is just a regular part of business and anyone who actually believes an advertisement is a fool.

Zaktor ,

“While I am disappointed by the Supreme Court’s decision in the Sackett case, EPA and Army have an obligation to apply this decision alongside our state co-regulators, Tribes, and partners,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a news release Tuesday.

Eh, do you really?

Zaktor ,

“Not enough workers” isn’t entirely due to employers being cheap and workers being more discerning, a lot of people died or were disabled.

Zaktor ,

Your solution is putting the onus on your coworkers to make your work life less “isolated”, not on making your employer update your job description and pay to account for new responsibilities, hire someone for all the random crap that was getting saddled on you, or give you the freedom they had. They and people criticizing you for that aren’t the crab in the bucket impeding worker solidarity.

Zaktor ,

“Sad this guy is being murdered, but what we really should be talking about is the cause I’m interested in.”

Zaktor ,

The bosses are never the irreplaceable part of a sports organization. The woman have talent. The boss is just a guy in a suit.

Zaktor ,

Trump returning to a renamed rightwing Twitter and the NYT giving it breathless coverage is a perfect example of the fucking idiotic media environment we live in. They’ve got about 300 stories about the misunderstood Trump voters in diners planned, stenographers ready to transcribe his every utterance on social media, and a host of “liberal” commentators chomping at the bit to write the next “has wokeness gone too far” piece. The upper class enlightened centrists of the paper may thoroughly disavow him at their dinner parties, but they’re fucking in love with the idea of humanizing fascism, because having the opinion that racism, transphobia, and domestic terrorism are bad and should be fought against is just so boring.

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