I used to occasionally spill small amounts of liquid while sipping on a delicious drink. To stem the tide of rude “Hole in your lip?” comments, I now fly a small plane over the city where I plan to drink, seed the air with silver iodide, wait for rain clouds to form, then buy a drink and sit outside. Everything is… Read more
this guy gets it Read more
Thank you. And before the greys start up, I would like to point out, per your title, this really is the deadest of spins. Read more
What about white-collar IT or other technology heavy industries? Unions have long been associated with manufacturing and skill specific jobs (electricians, plumbers, etc), but to my knowledge not really in the IT or programming world. Read more
With more and more service industries going overseas the need for joint worker cooperation (i.e. unions) is growing. You hear Donald Trump complaining about ford sending manufacturing jobs to Mexico, you don’t hear him asking why our I.T. professionals are housed in India. These were the jobs which replaced building… Read more
This is exactly the fight to the bottom that the moneyed interests want. It takes time to build consensus. The point is to reach those non union employees and make them realize that they are worth more. Read more
I’m in a union, in the private sector, in a job you wouldn’t typically think of as a union kind of job. I’m the steward for my group and am quite active in union activities. It’s hard to stand up over and over again to management, but I’m happy to do it because it makes real change for union members. My company, my… Read more
Where do we stand on professional unions? I’m a licensed professional engineer in the private sector and there is most certainly not a union for my profession. We make a decent amount of money, are largely highly employable, and perform pretty vital services for the country. Read more
Can’t we just have class riots, or more specifically, “why can’t we just have class riots?”
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I think it’s super sad that Millennials like myself—the target demo of this here internet publication—have to be told, AGAIN, that unionization is in their best interest. Read more
American consumers is biggest road block to workers rights. Time and time again, Americans reward companies that exploit workers. Until consumers recognize their power and their role as ethical consumers, this is pissing in wind. Read more
This was announced with a special ‘Breaking’ notification from the NYT app
They were all sorts of proud of it Read more
The bright side to this is that Sanders (and others of his ilk, hopefully) can and will see that they need to be far more mobilized and organized earlier on for future endeavors; Hillary was FAR better at playing the game than Bernie, and there are lessons to learn from that. My fondest wish is to have a progressive… Read more
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Bernie’s campaign was a beginning not a missed opportunity. It seems quite clear to me that a new center is going to form anyway. The right can’t hold on to what is “traditionally” right without giving way to the extremism of a Ted Cruz or the populism of a Donald Trump (lets not forget state sponsored healthcare has… Read more
Needs to be said over and over. Start running for/voting for third party candidates for those state reps, city councilpeople, state treasurer, etc. all of those “non-glamorous” offices. A third party candidate running for local office should be as common as Dems and Republicans. Get people use to the idea of seeing… Read more
If Sanders had won the primary (and I won’t rehash whether or not the primaries were fairly contested), there is zero doubt he would have a 15-point lead right now and win over 400 electoral votes. I would have donated every spare penny I had to him. Alas. Read more
Fellow Democrats: if you want more liberal-leaning people at the top of the ticket, you need to vote more liberal people in down the ticket. That means showing up for primaries, that means actually knowing people’s policy positions, that means writing to your representatives about issues, that means grass-roots… Read more