If nothing else, the president of the AFL-CIO criticizing an employee for not making himself available for an interrogation by someone essentially acting as an agent of management without properly prepared representation and negotiated terms is SUCH an unbelievably bad fucking look. Did nobody read that letter before… Read more
Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and fallen and bruised itself, and risen again; been seized by the throat and choked and clubbed into insensibility; enjoined by courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, shot down by regulars, traduced by the press, frowned upon by public opinion, deceived… Read more
She’s great. Of course it would be a flight attendant who takes zero shit and draws a line in the sand. They know exactly when to do it with asshole passengers. Read more
Pro sports unions have not stopped until they’ve gotten something at least in the neighbourhood of 50/50 profit sharing between the “workers” and “owners”, on top of what I’m sure is a very generous benefits package. Read more
Workers of the world unite.
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I took a job last year running a facility in the Chicagoland area that had a union drive come in about a week after I was hired to manage it. The corporate union-busting team descended quickly, barricading themselves (and me) in an empty office to discuss tactics. My training immediately stopped and I was to work 7… Read more
Bud’s mom was and is a tough customer, he may have inherited his killer instinct from her. Right now, Crawford, Lomachenko and Spence are my top 3 fighters pound for pound. With the networks getting back involved and three upper tier interesting heavyweights out there boxing is undergoing a bit of an uptick or at… Read more
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Nice column. Love me some Bud Crawford. Such a cool customer, and a killer when he senses weakness. I hope boxing politics don’t screw up the showdown with Spence that we all want. Read more
Wasn’t the whole thing basically that Khan didn’t wait out the 5 minutes, and quit ahead of time? Read more
Khan also has a really bad habit of craning his neck forward and leading with his face when he really starts punching. Bud Crawford has that rare innate ‘ring generalship’ where he seems to know and use the terrain always to his advantage, it’s sort of like Dwight Mohammed Qawi. Qawi wasn’t fast, didn’t have great reac… Read more
Errol Spence Jr.Vs Bud Crawford would be an amazing fight reminiscent of the great welter weight battles of the 1980's. Let’s hope they can put bullshit boxing politics out of the way and this fight can be made. Hopefully before they are past their primes. I doubt it though, unfortunately. Read more
Yeah, I mean, this is a guy who routinely, whenever he’s interviewed or brought on a show to talk about his policy goals, refers to all Americans as “brothers and sisters.” And from the other side of the equation, it just baffles me that anyone can look at Bernie and think, “Yeah, that’s a cult of personality.” I… Read more
try to preserve a way of life that multinational corporations are set on destroying so that they may suck away middle class wages from workers and apply that money to their balance sheets.
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I grew up in Erie, and my father has been an executive board member at UE 506 for a long time. Before the strike stuff hit, I similarly worried about what impact Bernie would have on a crowded primary. But now I say, fuck it. This dude really gives a shit about something that really matters. Wabtec can absolutely make… Read more
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‘Purity of spirit.' I think that may be what makes him such a compelling speaker. That, and what he says making so much damn sense. Read more