I keep seeing people drag voting. I get it. It sucks that candidates really aren’t looking out for your interests. It sucks even more when you are disenfranchised due to gerrymandering and voter suppression efforts. That being said, there is a reason that unions endorse candidates. It’s a hell of a lot easier to put out a fire when you don’t have people actively throwing gasoline on it. Even someone standing there doing absolutely nothing is more helpful than active sabotage. Would a fully equipped fire department be the best option? Sure, of course, but that’s why you mobilize and vote in the primaries. At this point in the cycle, we have the candidates that we are going to have and most of them aren’t the best, but for the love of god, just stop the hemorrhaging and buy some time. I guarantee that your boss is going to vote.…
Seriously, we are working our asses to save people. Don't make us pay for our parking at work. Don't say parking is a benefit to work at your facility. That's trash.
Last night was my last shift at my job due to the fact that my new job was eager to get me started and I couldn’t stomach another shift at the job I quit I didn’t really give them 2 weeks notice. However I had 90 hours PTO that I didn’t want to give up and I figured they would give me the finger on that if I told them I was quitting even if I gave 2 weeks notice. So I was talking to my dad about it and he said to tell them there is a family emergency I have to leave town for immediately for a couple of weeks. I was like “what kind of emergency?” And he said “tell them your dad is dying”…. So that’s what I did, and its working out quite nicely.
Hello comrades, I have the opportunity to meet with someone who has a hand in creating a Labor Education Center to support workers and workers rights. A few things I would like to see come out of this initiative are education about: -Wage theft- What is it and what steps can be taken to address wage theft? -The right to discuss wages. -FMLA, ADA & NLRA- What are they? What rights are you eligible for? How do you become eligible? What if you are not eligible for these protections? (Less than 1 yr @ employer, for ex.) -Employee Healthcare Plans & disability insurance- A comprehensive explanation of how to navigate those systems successfully. -Quiet Firing and Quiet Quitting (historical context of “to the letter”). -Unions benefits and protections, as well and historical context around strikes and the labor movement. -Citizens United, Trans Am vs Maddin, Thedacare vs Ascension, and other…
So I found this little gem in a Government publication (UK) outlining the benefits of getting people to re-engage with work. I quote: Social-psychological analyses21 of employment have found that work achieves these outcomes by imposing five key disciplines on the individual: • participation in a collective purpose of effort; • the imposition of a time structure; • assignment of status and identity; • the enlargement of social experience beyond family life; and • required regular activity. ————————————————————————————————————- *Notice the use of the words Impose, Imposition, required, and the best – wait for it; ‘Assignment of status and identity’! Nice try, but they’re deluded if they think their low pay and coercive work practices are for anything other than survival pay. Maybe next year, just keep raising the wages for those that don’t have options.
i currently work a desk job from 8:30am-5pm and it is sucking the life out of me. i feel a little guilty because i’m very lucky. i make decent salary as a litigation paralegal, i’m appreciated, and i’m given time off whenever i request it. i like my bosses, too. i just can’t work a desk job… every time i think about sitting on my ass all day doing mindless, repetitive work for the next 40 years (i’m 24) makes me extremely depressed. it definitely doesn’t help my ADHD, either. my brain feels like it’s rotting because i only ever have an hour or so worth of actual work and then i sit on my phone all day watching tik toks or scrolling through reddit. i don’t know what to do… i cry in the bathroom at least twice a week and i’m always late because it’s hard for me…
It really just feels like a defense mechanism. When you can't articulate a reason to vote for democrats without naming Republicans, when both sides have gotten consistently more anti-labor for the last 50 years, especially when they don't lift a finger to combat racist voter suppression. Something more has to be going on here than everyone not acting how you want them to. Even if that is the case, just scolding them will do nothing to arrest the larger forces that are causing more and more people to give up on the system entirely. I don't mind if people vote, but I would take 30% of the country forming unions over 100% voting any day of the week. Only one of those is gonna fix things.
