Broke stoners in rural Pennsylvania? Say it ain’t so!

Yes, I’m aware. My fight is union organizing.

Sodastream is located in settled territory, and therefore an active participant in the settler-colonial project.

Depends on what you consider a reward. Being compassionate and working to build a better world is extremely rewarding, but I’m not going to live in luxury. The rewards from compassion are worth far more

North Korea, without hyperbole, is jealous of the NYT.

Our CEOs have strayed from the holy Profit and directed our ship away from the Great Material Continuum. Their blasphemy cannot be tolerated!

Honestly, it’s hard to say. I think it’s quite possible, however there’s a surprising twist with the upcoming admin: the nominee to chair the NLRB isn’t shit and has an outstandingly ok labor record as a Republican.

Edit: fwiw I know exactly how much that actually means. It just means we might get some weak pushback against the destruction of the NLRB, but the labor movement has worked with less.

He’s a self serving piece of shit that made fat donations to republicans and got installed with no prior experience to serve Trump’s agenda

Like I said, just another CEO. I’m glad you added some context for this, because he’s definitely a huge piece of shit tearing apart the fabric of a functional government.

I’m a union organizer, and by coincidence I live in MN, so this is my bread and butter.

You pretty much nailed it, with the only exception that right-to-work laws allow everyone in the workplace, even members, to avoid paying dues entirely. As the map shows, MN is not one of those states though. We have different terms in organizing circles. We call states with right-to-work “free rider” states, and those without are called “fair share” states.

Every union decides how they want to handle nonmembers outside of their legal obligations. My union is CWA, we don’t allow nonmembers to have any say at all on union matters. This means no input on the bargaining survey, no bargaining update emails, no electing the executive board, no voting on the contract, no participation in committees, no admittance to most meetings, etc.

one obvious thing - what if they voted to go on strike

In both cases, regardless of free rider laws, nonmembers are not entitled to the strike fund. The dues equivalency your grandpa paid excluded the few cents for the strike fund and a few other union governance things like that. However, they can still participate in the strike.

It’s not an invention, but a reframing of the class war.

He’s just another CEO tbh, but the only shred of credit I’m willing to give him is that he’s not a profit ghoul by total choice, that would be the bill passed in 1970 in retaliation for the largest wildcat strike in US history. Nixon put the USPS into billions of debt.

Then I apologize for assuming you had the full context before engaging the way I did. You deserved to get a chance to understand before you got dog piled.

this is the internet and courtesy is generally considered a bad thing

I want to be the change with this perspective, so I hope that only the downvotes were the outcome of this misunderstanding!

Are you saying there aren’t a lot of murderers in prisons?

Definitely not. Simply that prisons generally aren’t filled with a majority of murderers.

people really think murderers only get caught if they only murder rich people?

You’re getting downvoted because this a bizarre extrapolation from my original comment. A ghost gun with a silencer, very little unintentional evidence, and a clean getaway is a hell of a case to crack. They barely managed it even with all the resources they used, and I have my doubts that Luigi is just a scapegoat. If you or I were killed like this, our murderer would not be caught.

That’s still part of the problem with the justice system and prisons generally aren’t filled with murderers.

Unions are getting completely overwhelmed with the number of active organizing efforts going on in the country.

If you were killed in the same manner as Thompson, your killer would never be found.

That will depend entirely on how much the US gives support to the theocratic dictator on their rise to power. Don’t forget that the current hostile regime was backed by the US.

Strange how they were completely incapable of understanding this concept when it comes to right wing violence.

And my axe!

hold on

They should make a version for weed