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starblaster · 9 months

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"but if you're pro-union, why are you anti-cop-union?" because cops are not laborers. what cops do is not labor. they are enforcers of the laws that oppress laborers and exist solely to protect capital. don't bother me with stupid questions.

🛑 STOP asking me to make the post rebloggable. i refuse to let a bunch of anticommunists, libertarian anarchists, neoliberal spooks, and other pro-cop fascists pass around their bad-faith additions on a post if i can help it (which i can, by disabling reblogs) while others of you are saying some really misguided, off-topic shit, and it’s pissing me off.

please get your facts straight before embarrassing yourselves on the internet. for fucking ONCE in your lives.

i am not “redefining labor” i SAID that cops are not LABORERS (EXPLOITED WORKERS) unionizing to receive better working conditions for the betterment of their fellow workers. they actually DO participate in collective bargaining, and OTHER, ACTUAL LABOR UNIONS also use collective bargaining power to protect their members! if you argue otherwise, i’m sorry but that is a lie. and also NOT what i was FUCKING SAYING! that's not the point of this!! the derailing and misunderstandings of what a LABOR UNION IS that occurred in the short time this post was rebloggable was too insane not to shut off reblogs!

COP unions, LIKE I SAID IN THE ORIGINAL/ABOVE POST, ARE UNIFIED IN DIAMETRIC OPPOSITION TO THE LIBERATION OF WORKERS, AS IN PEOPLE WHO DO LABOR (WHICH DOES NOT INCLUDE THE LITERAL ARMED PROTECTORS OF CAPITAL)

NO OTHER UNION BASHES, KILLS, OR ARRESTS STRIKING WORKERS LIKE COP (OR PRISON GUARD) UNIONS DO.

if you agree with the post so much that you NEED it on your blog or whatever, post a screenshot of the original post with this part cropped out and leave me the fuck alone! THANK YOUUU!!!!!!!

and to the wiseasses saying screenwriters and actors "aren't laborers, either," are you just fucking stupid actually?

#some of you need to pick up a fucking book once in a while. my god.#labor unions organize and collectively bargain in opposition to capital and the ruling class #police are the tools of that ruling class #they are the guardians of capitalism itself #they are the weapons of the state

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hxnnibxi · 7 days

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im sorry people calling watchers response "too late" are incredibly wrong. they took two days. the original announcement was posted on friday and then they posted their response to backlash the following monday. that's a perfectly normal respone time. they took the weekend to gauge the opinion of the fans, reformed their plan and then posted an update admitting fault. im not saying i think their response was good or bad but it was definitely quick.

#im literally a communications major i have classes about conflicts/crises within organizations #also guys this is a very different kind of organization crisis #its to do with their business not something like a death or accident #watcher #we are watcher #shane madej #ryan bergara #steven lim

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berniesrevolution · 1 year

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You’re Lucky You Have a House, Peasant!

A history of company towns

by Joyce Rice and Kevin Moore

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TheNib.com

@thenib

#politics #the left #the nib #comic #webcomic #labor #Labor Unions #organized labor #history #capitalism #economic inequality #oppression #poverty #working class #long post #long reads

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frodo-a-gogo · 2 months

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Let us be brutally honest with ourselves and with eachother for a moment. If he weren't obese you motherfuckers would be capable of percieving evrart claires sexy sexy moral ambiguity and complex charms

#i am (lesbian) sipping him like a fine DESSERT WINE #my evidence by the way is very simple and very damning. joyce messier. there i said it.#if you guys can appreciate the fact that Joyce is a complex figure worthy of disgust yes but also worthy of empathy #despite being a venal coward facilitating acts of violence and slaughter of the organized working poor of martinaise in the name of capital #if you can understand that she is a dimensional figure while also being an embodiment of the moral apathy and cruelty if capital owners #but you cant look at evrart and see that he is (while deeply flawed and morally suspect) also a dimensional figure #on top of the fact that his motivations are eminently relatable and dare i say it baser #and his greatest failing imho is in failing to advocate for the interests of *all* the poor of martinaise #opting instead to marginalize the inhabitants of the fishing village in favor of a power grab in the interests of himself and his union #though this is imo a bit of a grey area morally. undeniably a wrong and bad thing to do but done in service of clairs political goals #to gather power to advocate for the working class against ultraliberal monoliths like wild pines and fascistic orgs like krenel #still super wrong but i can follow the moral arithmetic there tho i don't like it #but like my point is if u can see that joyce is evil and pathetic but still cool and sexy but you consider clair flatly distasteful #thats cus hes not conventionally attractive #cus he is *every bit* as dimensional and interesting as joyce and he is not nearly as politically shite even if hes interpersonally a jerk

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 8 months

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*tries to organize my thoughts*

*remembers i'm not in school and therefore beholden to neither heaven nor hell nor any man's grading system*

*joyously shredding & tossing all my carefully arranged 3x5 mental notecards into the air like so much beige confetti. raising my arms in victory, cheering raucously until i accidentally inhale bits of homemade confetti*

(*coughing up itty bits of paper like a cat evicting a hairball with a firm understanding of tenants' rights*) wait wat happens next

#i marie kondoed my thoughts and *i* feel great. but now my stream-of-consciousness has escaped containment #so many innocent bystanders at stake #every time i try to organize my thoughts i run out of plastic bins and have to make a trip to the container store where i get even more dis #racted so. you can't just hand me THIS brain and NO catalogue OR library classification system #and expect me to single-handedly sort through all this nonsense? bad form but fucking form not in my job description #aNYways. formal education sure did a FUCKING NUMBER on us huh #(a number i measure not in gpa or dollars of student debt.#but in the number of therapy sessions & medical debt it will take to recover.)#seriously folks. our education systems are...innately traumatizing for a huge number of students. and we NEED to address this.#the fact that it is culturally common for adults to have anxiety nightmares about school/exams...even decades later?#that is not cute. it is Alarming.#no one--much less entire generations--should be spending their developmental years in an environment of chronic stress & pressure & strain #and yet that is the reality for millions and millions of pre-teen and teenage and young adult students #this isn't healthy and it serves and empowers NO ONE #...except of course the many exploitative educational & financial & debt-collecting institutions thriving from the current balance of power #and of course it's a nefarious and powerful way to sabotage/erase the middle class #which billionaires and the wealth-inequality creators they finance couldn't possibly have any noteworthy interest in whatsoever #it's not like there's an elite group of people with huge financial incentives to drain/steal resources from the masses...#anyways sorry for going all Conspiracy Theory on you.#obviously the billionaires who control the vast majority of our resources and news and political campaign funding #are not tied to every single itty bitty social issue and i'm a silly billy to imply it #please tell elon musk to ignore this tweet i am so subservient and acquiescent #mr musky u r so good at inheriting slavery-built mining fortunes & buying other people's companies #& building rocket ships & fancy cars that do NOT explode/catch fire & also NOT running billion dollar companies into the ground #mr musky u r so talented genius billionaire playboy with 10 kids and ex-wives who find you creepy af babe u r basically iron man

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reasonsforhope · 7 months

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Seven thousand more UAW members just walked off the job, expanding the strike to two more plants. Twenty-five thousand autoworkers are now on strike, and the walkout could continue to escalate if the Big Three don’t budge in negotiations.

[UAW president Shawn] Fain announced that Stellantis would be spared this time. The union had been expected to strike all three companies, but, said Region 1 director LaShawn English, three minutes before Fain was scheduled to go on Facebook Live, the UAW received frantic emails from company representatives.

[Note: Love that for the UAW. Also laughing so hard. Three minutes before the next round of strikes were annouced!!]

According to Fain, Stellantis made “significant progress” on cost-of-living allowances, the right not to cross a picket line, and the right to strike over product commitments and plant closures. “We are excited about this momentum at Stellantis and hope it continues,” Fain said...

“See You Next Week — Maybe?”

“These guys wanted to go out a long time ago,” said Cody Zaremba, a Local 602 member at the Lansing GM plant after the news broke that his plant would be joining the strike. “We’re ready. Everybody, truly, I believe, in the entire membership. They’re one with what’s going on.”

Five thousand workers at thirty-eight parts distribution centers across twenty-one states have been on strike since last Friday [September 22, 2023], along with thirteen thousand at three assembly plants in Michigan, Ohio, and Missouri who walked out on September 15. (See a map of all struck facilities here.) ...

The UAW is now calling on community supporters to organize small teams to canvass dealerships that sell and repair Big Three cars and trucks. On Tuesday, the union issued a canvassing tool kit with instructions, flyers, press releases, and talking points.

In negotiations with Ford and GM, autoworkers have clinched some important gains. Among them is an agreement by both companies to end at least one of the many tiers in current contracts, putting workers at certain parts plants back on the same wage scale as assembly workers. The top rate for Big Three assembly workers is currently around $32...

Ford was spared in last week’s escalation, because bargainers there had made further progress on gains for workers.

But today, the UAW once again called out workers at Ford and GM, putting some muscle behind its bold demands — a big wage boost, a shorter workweek, elimination of tiers, cost-of-living adjustments tied to inflation, protection from plant closures, conversion of temps to permanent employees, and the restoration of retiree health care and benefit-defined pensions to all workers.

-via Jacobin, September 29, 2023. Article continues below.

Keep Them Guessing

This year, for the first time in recent history, the union has played the three auto companies against each other with its strike strategy, departing from the union’s tradition of choosing one target company and patterning an agreement at the other two.

The stand-up strike strategy draws inspiration from an approach known as CHAOS (Create Havoc Around Our System), first deployed in 1993 by Alaska Airlines flight attendants, who announced they would be striking random flights. Although they struck only seven flights in a two-month period, Alaska had to send scabs on every plane, just in case. The unpredictability drew enormous media attention and drove management up the wall. Meanwhile the union was able to conserve its strength and minimize risk.

The companies miscalculated where the UAW was going to strike first, stockpiling engines and shipping them cross-country to the wrong facilities. Autoworkers relished the self-inflicted supply chain chaos on UAW Facebook groups and other social media platforms.

Nonstrikers’ morale on the factory floor has gotten a boost from rank and filers organizing to refuse voluntary overtime. With support both from Fain and the reform caucus Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), workers have been encouraging each other to “Eight and Skate,” meaning to turn down extra work and decline to do management any favors.

Majority Public Support

A majority of Americans support the UAW strikers, and the Big Three have taken a PR hit since the strike began, according to a new survey conducted by the business intelligence firm Caliber.

“Eighty-seven percent of respondents told us they were aware of the strike,” Caliber CEO Shahar Silbershatz told the Intercept. “It’s clear the strike is not just causing commercial repercussions, but reputational repercussions as well.”

These reputational repercussions will only worsen...

"We Can Unmake It"

Fain didn't pull any punches in his speech... “That’s what’s different about working-class people. Whether we’re building cars or trucks or running parts distribution centers; whether we’re writing movies or performing TV shows... we do the heavy lifting. We do the real work. Not the CEOs, not the executives.

"And though we don’t know it, that’s what power is. We have the power. The world is of our making. The economy is of our making. This industry is of our making.

“And as we’ve shown, when we withhold our labor, we can unmake it.”

-via Jacobin, September 29, 2023

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lgbtpopcult · 4 months

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Some more 2023 TV Shows with WLW Characters

Sin Huellas

Hasta el Cielo

White Lotus

Class of ’09

FBI: Most Wanted

Double Parked

Law & Order: Organized Crime

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Annika

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Full Circle

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Show me Love the Series

Run the Burbs

Andor

Riverdale

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Chicken Girls: College Years

Dead Ringers

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Swarm

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mala-santa-radfem · 5 months

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i'm so fucking sick to my stomach to hear how college girls (GIRLS MY AGE, GIRLS THAT LOOK LIKE ME, THAT LIVE LIKE ME, THAT HAVE THE SAME DREAMS AS ME) disappear and the next day they're found dead in their universities. i see cases like that almost every month while feminist groups in my uni are BEGGING for safety protocols every day because we're fucking scared, while those girls' families beg for justice. THIS IS FEMINICIDE.

#theyre organizing a protest #ill try to go after my classes #i know authorities will try to blame this on how insecure everything is #and how dangerous this country is #but fuck you #this is about letting dangerous people inside your university #dangerous men #theres no security for students #i refuse to believe she simply put herself in danger #shes a girl like me #who wake up one day #and some sick bastard decided to take away her life

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radicalgraff · 1 year

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"Employees must unionize before returning to work"

Seen in a staff bathroom in a business in the Castro, San Francisco

#graffiti #graff #class struggle #organize #unionize #bathroom graffiti

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nando161mando · 5 months

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🚨NATIONAL MASS DIRECT ACTION: December 14 in Cambridge, MA. We will make it the first Elbit Systems of America location to permanently shut down.

Come from near and far. Info about transport, affinity groups sign-up, & international calls to action coming soon.

@antifainternational @anarchistmemecollective @kropotkindersurprise @radicalgraff

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myuminji · 7 months

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Myu, what fanfic are you reading? If it's that good I wanna read it too! Pls share~ 💕

https://archiveofourown.org/works/46496485/chapters/117076333

Imgn talking about this fic specifically hoOUEKGH—

#thrwoign up in class icantdothis #i have never been as invested in a fic as this in the span of time i've lived #i now understand the appeal of slowburn #i shit you not my brain was already planning their marriage when they hugged i am their wedding organizer

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overtake · 2 months

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VCARB Filming Day [x]

#daniel ricciardo #f1 #op #i am in class and everyone behind me can see me gifing #i hope they enjoy. he's way more interesting than business organizations.

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chemblrish · 2 months

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27 February 2024

I saw my thesis supervisor yesterday and I'm starting lab work next week!! I'm equal parts nervous and excited haha. I hope everything goes well.

Today in ochem I did distillation and extraction. People used to tell me ochem lab can be really boring bc there's a lot of waiting - I wish! In my case, "waiting" just means doing something else. 4h of walking around the lab and standing at the fume hood :')))) Sitting down for literally like five minutes to estimate the melting point of my sample turned into a blessing

#first test of the semester tomorrow #morning classes got cancelled so extra sleep #but im not happy about it at all #bc that just means sometime in the future we'll have to squeeze this one missing class into our schedule #which is always a mess and hard to organize and it wrecks my routine 😭#mine #chemblr #studyblr #studyspo #study motivation #stemblr #sciblr #also that thermometer looks like it's low as hell #i promise it's just the angle of the picture i inserted it properly :')

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inamagicalhallucination · 9 months

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kunikida runs a down low secret teaching ring

ppl, ada, civilians, pm, etc, will come to him in secret becuz they didn't get an education and he'll give them ways to test into or out of or whatever they want while also giving them specialized study books that they give him back to get graded

its down low and secret becuz his clients can be anyone and also because he keeps illegally copied and printed copies of several textbooks for ppl who really cant afford to get their own or have trouble borrowing them from libraries

#he sadly cant give lectures but #still he's doing his best #he just finished teaching atsushi basic stuff and is now helping him sign up for online classes that r flexible enough for him #he also just finished teaching q multiplication and is now theyre gonna start learning division #he's also helping chuuya discreetly sign up for online classes where no one else will know him and also gave him textbooks that cover #a little bit of everything so he can organize his lack of proper education and stuff he does actually know #hmm #and more #bungou stray dogs atsushi #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #kunikida doppo #bsd #bungou stray dogs kunikida #the ada #pm

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lastcatghost · 11 months

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True revolution starts with talking to your neighbors. Can't organize shit if you can't even be willing to learn your neighbors names.

Not saying it's safe to have deep political conversations with everybody, you have to use your best judgment and learn how to read the person you talk to. But the best practice for this, and path to understanding how to talk to strangers about heavy shit is by being open and willing to engage with small talk with others in your local community.

Go outside, ride public transit, have genuine interests in hearing your neighbors struggles and concerns. To paraphrase an elder in the revolutionary fight, if you don't know where to start with organizing, walk out your front door, look forward, look back, look side to side, and pick a direction.

#building community #community organizing #revolutionary process #neighbors #class warfare

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 1 year

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It's gonna be my BIRTHDAY soon and I really need to rustle up some CASH so if u feel like this blog has made your life MEASURABLY WORSE (or just weirder) over the past year, perchance consider tipping your town fool? THANK YOU (kofi / paypal)

#i am wiggling the bells on my stupid hat in a suggestive and inappropriate manner #I'm a public jester in the sense that i am constantly in the town square singing bawdy songs & hitting myself in the face w/ garden rakes #despite the fact that literally nobody requested my presence #so not a jester not nearly of a high enough class to be a jester #a rodeo clown perhaps #...quick someone make a alignment chart of tumblr funnymen the categories are #first axis ranges from Court Jester to Town Fool #second axis is just clowns. Mimes. Rodeo Clowns. Circus Towns. Villainous Clowns #I have no idea how you would organize that spectrum but surely it must exist. the Spectrum of Clowns

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