pals we went to the library today and they HAD my BOOK on their SHELVES
i know you can’t tell from the mask but i was legit beaming, this might’ve thrilled me more than spotting it in a bookstore
okay thanks
ps. I LOVE LIBRARIES
unions
Hey, speaking of rich people and complicit corporate media, did you know two of the three richest men on Earth (Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos) and the family that own's Trader Joes, are currently trying to get American courts to declare the core functions of the National Labor Relations Act unconstitutional, and the mainstream media is literally barely reporting it?
Although this story seems complex, the essential point here is that these rich maggots who have both a vested interest in stopping unions, and own companies with a documented history of unionbusting, want to stop the board that rules on NLRA cases, from hearing cases in their administrative courts. This matters because these courts allow in particular, workers who've been fired for organizing unions by big corporations like Amazon, Tesla, and Trader Joe's to quickly get a ruling that stops those companies from union busting by simply axing the organizers. The rich guys, using essentially the same arguments that were refuted by SCOTUS almost 90 years ago, would prefer those cases be heard in federal court, because it would *guarantee* "that by the time they reach the bench, those organizing campaigns will have become a dim memory." Furthermore, it's entirely possible that the richest folks in the oligarch class won't stop there, and might even ask a very anti-union SCOTUS to literally toss the NLRA altogether, leaving workers entirely exposed to whatever predations these rich maggots want to enact upon them.
In other words, and to quote the author of this article:
"in a time of stratospheric economic inequality and overwhelming public support for unions, they want the courts to strike down workers’ right to collective bargaining? One of the fundamental landmarks of the New Deal? Shall we negate all of America’s mid-20th-century social progress? All of Roosevelt’s legacy? How about we revisit World War II and surrender to the Nazis and Japan?"
Naturally, you would assume this might be bigger news than it has been. But the truth is, corporate media in America has a vested class interest in keeping this one on the downlow because they too are owned by rich (mostly) American oligarchs; in the case of a paper like the Washington post, their boss, Jeff Bezos, is literally one of the oligarchs bringing the case before the courts through his EvilCorpTM, the American multinational corporation and technology company Amazon. When the same guys busting the unions, own the papers, it's clearly possible to gut the right to collectively bargain with barely a whisper leaking out into the mainstream discourse. In the immortal words of Frank Zappa, "they just takes care of number one, an' number one ain't you; you ain't even number two..."
#NLRA #Unions #ElonMusk #Amazon #TraderJoes #UnionBusting #Neofeudalism
— pssst... pssst.... hey, kid, you.. do you want an "S"?
— an S? what for?
— an S like in STRIKE.
— strike? like baseball?
— No! an S like in STRIKE!
(muppets in a picket line suddenly appear)
— STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!
(THUNDER)
— YAHAHA! ONE #STRIKE TWO STRIKES! THREE STRIKES! THREE MARVELOUS STRIKES AND A PICKET LINE!
(THUNDER)
— YAHAHAHAHA!
(EXUNT)
'Sesame Street' Writers Unanimously Support Strike Authorization Vote
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/sesame-street-writers-strike-authorization-vote-wga-east-1235972886/
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Today, like many other West Australian teachers, I'm not going to work this morning.
It's interesting that our industrial action is represented in the media as about pay. We're not striking over salary - we're striking because the system is broken.
My son has had no Phys Ed teacher all year. He's had a procession of relief teachers which, for a special needs child, is extremely distressing. He attends an inner city public school, but staffing shortages are statewide.
Speaking of special needs students, I'd like to look after my own without having to skip lunch to ensure their needs are met.
I'd like the Education Department to give me a personal device so I can do my job
(more efficiently). If I want a laptop, I have to lease one.
I'd like an acknowledgement of how teaching has recently become more difficult and demanding, especially during #COVID19, when we kept schools open and tried to keep students safe.
I enforced the mask mandate far more often than a rank-and-file police officer. I've probably been threatened and assaulted more times than many police officers too. And the statewide mobile phone ban? Guess who enforces that every single day.
So many of my colleagues have left teaching: re-trained or resigned due to burnout and stress. Who suffers? The students.
It's not about the pay. We're tired, and we need support. We're underfunded and under-resourced. We need to improve conditions for students. We need to fix the system.
#sstuwa #union #unions #industrialaction #teachers #teaching #westernaustralia #Perth #solidarity #FixEd #australia #stopwork #strike
Via the wonderful Just Seeds website! #Unions #CreativeCommons #Graphics
https://justseeds.org/graphic/you-dont-have-to-hate-your-job-to-want-a-union/
This is great. Disney workers, trying to unionize, created buttons and stickers featuring Mickey Mouse's raised, clenched fist. It's public domain after all! Disney tried to stop them wearing these at work, but there's a law that says companies can't do that, even if they have a dress code, so the unionizers are suing Disney.
UAW Says It Knows How to Defeat Trump & Billionaire Class
"This is brilliant" said author Naomi Klein in response to new United Auto Workers ad
https://www.commondreams.org/news/uaw-working-class-solidarity
There is only one answer to the threat we face as a nation. The answer is solidarity.
Fight For a Better Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ubJFPJgL3Y
#UAW #TradeUnions #LaborUnions #unions #NaomiKlein #solidarity #Trump #GOP #HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #billionaires #fascism
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