Month: May 2022

We always get bank holidays off where I work but my boss said we won't have it off because he “is sick of sympathetic holidays for people who do nothing for this country.” SMFH

My company I work for currently is paying its employees for memeorial day, I called the agency im with to see if I’ll get paid for it as well, since the funds from the company go to the agency, they said I am not. Where is this money going??

You know this is why I hate the rich, not because they have more money but because money does buy happines. If not me then someone else will find themselves in the same position, and it costs money to love. Sure spending time with each other and providing the basics for your family all sounds really affordable, but doesn't take into account that we live in modern times. You and I are not neighbors, neither is the persons book who you read in college most likely. We are globally connected. I personally did not plan to fall in love with someone from Illinois, no one plans these things, and in this case money could buy happiness and there is a price on love. I know that I can only do so much from a distance, but I fell in love with who this person is, a person who i feel…

I find it very interesting how unions are on the rise after slowly falling for decades. Is this proof that corporations and politics cannot be trusted to do the right thing and balance workers well being and profits? Federal min wage continues to be $7.25 since 2009. The federal reserve continues to be slow at economic decisions, maybe out of political retaliation fear? Healthcare continues to be a luxury that is a considered a buy in membership to have. Managers continue to hang our employment over our heads like life is a game and we are all pawns. Athletes cannot gamble out of fear of throwing a game in their financial favor but politicians are free to buy stocks and make laws that can favor their financial favor. People are being manipulated with seemingly low interest college loans for degrees that don't offer them value jobs. Creating a debt for…

It’s not just working conditions and pay that are abysmal at this point. Our civil and human rights are being eroded across the world. Whether it’s Roe Vs Wade in the US or the new policing bill in the UK that makes protesting illegal, we are being funnelled into a world in which the only thing we are free to do is consume more and more stuff in the hope of making a few billionaires more money. As inequality rises, so does the spectre of catastrophic climate breakdown – as tipping point after tipping point is reached leaving us facing the prospect of an uninhabitable – or at least much less liveable – planet. But we have power. Particularly when we organise through collective action. In the 1920s a general strike failed only because middle class workers stepped up to do the jobs of “workers”. But given the cost of…