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First of its kind: Labor union begins enrolling military service members in Texas after widespread soldier mistreatment and a recent DOJ court filing

Texas State Employees Union has begun enrolling service members on state active duty in Texas after the DOJ recently said in a court filing that a federal law prohibiting military unions does not apply to soldiers on state active duty. To our knowledge, this is the first time in american history that a union has enrolled service members in their military capacities. This comes after thousands of soldiers were involuntarily activated by Gov. Greg Abbott for Texas' border mission, Operation Lone Star. In addition to a string of recent suicides, soldiers on the mission have complained of poor living conditions, pay issues, equipment shortages, reduced benifits, and political motivations for their activation. Reddit post recruiting Texas service members to the union Guard troops can unionize on state active duty, DoJ says – Army Times Texas slashes Guard benefits while spending millions to expand border mission – Army Times Wave of…

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Update: Texted my bosses boss

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Post date February 16, 2022
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Never watched Star Wars but I think I get the gist…

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Post date February 16, 2022
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I was told I can leave work early if there’s no more work to do. Today that happened and I got yelled at.

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Post date February 16, 2022
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I work alone as a salaried employee. My coworkers at the sister office said I can go home when there’s no more work at the office I’ll be at. Wanted word from my boss who told me that when work is done, ask if anyone in the office needs help and if not then I’m good to go. Today, I got done before noon. There were no more appointments, no help needed, so I left. I told the front desk I was heading out. I got a call just now that the front desk needed me because some work showed up. I told them I left for the day because the schedule was cleared. They said no worries, they’ll schedule the work for another office location. And then my boss called. An office manager lit her up because there was nobody there to do the work. My boss then asked…

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Small businesses are underpaying you. They know it, and they don’t care

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Post date February 16, 2022
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I have been working for a small business in a technical field since graduating from college about 4 years ago. The business I work for is small, I was their first employee, and am currently one of four. Over the holidays and start of the new year I began chatting with colleagues from other, larger businesses in the industry about salary, since I don’t have a peer group to discuss this with at my workplace. Ultimately, I discovered I am getting paid significantly less than my peer group, by around $15,000-20,000, and I do not get paid overtime like they do. Initially I was taken aback, and tried to rationalize that the circumstances are different since the company I work for is so small. After many long chats with family and friends, I know my work experience and time is valuable and I deserve to be compensated as such. So…

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In response to an open records act request, Douglas County Schools (Colorado) provided a list of staff that participated in a sick-out to protest the new, 1776 Project-supported board members’ illegal acts. This is what the staff got on their windshields today.

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Public schools are subsidized baby sitting for the benefit of corporations. Teachers need to have a country wide strike.

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Post date February 16, 2022
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The parents will hate and blame them but it's the only way to get this horrible poverty loop some attention.

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I got a 2.2% raise yesterday

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Post date February 16, 2022
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I told my boss I have recruiters reaching out to me with 40-50% base increases, not including absurd bonus targets, fully remote jobs to lower my cost of living and this firm comes back to me with 2.2%?! In this inflation?! Cool. Bye. I have a second round interview tomorrow and have 5 recruiters in my inbox in the last 24 hours. Bye!

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