Hundreds of workers at Nabisco bakeries across the country are on strike over a proposal to change their work shifts and health care benefit
Hundreds of union employees at three U.S. Nabisco bakeries that make Oreo and Chips Ahoy cookies and Ritz Crackers have gone on strike to protest proposed changes amid contract negotiations with parent company Mondelez International, Inc.
Approximately 200 workers at a factory in Portland, Oregon, have been on strike for two weeks and were joined on Monday by about 400 employees at Nabisco's bakery in Richmond, Virginia. On Thursday, workers at Nabisco's bakery in Chicago also walked off the job to go on strike.
Employees at a sales distribution center in Aurora, Colorado, also joined the strike on Aug. 12. All of the workers on strike are members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers International Union, which announced the Chicago strike on Thursday.
"This fight is about maintaining what we already have," Mike Burlingham, vice president of BCTGM Local 364 in Portland, told TODAY Food. "During the pandemic, we all were putting in a lot of hours, demand was higher, people were at home, and the snack food industry did phenomenally well.
"Mondelez made record profits and they want to thank us by closing two of the U.S. bakeries (last month) and telling the rest of us we have to take concessions, what kind of thanks is that? We make them a lot of money. It's very disheartening. How is that supposed to make us feel?"
The union is in the midst of negotiating a new four-year contract with Mondelez after the previous one expired in May.
Union leaders say that Mondelez has proposed switching from eight-hour shifts, five days a week, to 12-hour shifts, three or four days a week, without overtime, and with increased mandatory work on weekends without extra pay.
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An easy to use Google Chrome plugin to automatically remove and replace deadnames
If your school has blocked this I recommend using ‘InteractiveFics’. Its originally used for changing Y/N to your own name but it has a separate option where you can change any word/name to what you want.
It has a less likely chance of being blocked so I thought I’d mention it.
Multiple workers coalitions shut down Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges this morning. NY has denied financial assistance to unemployed and undocumented workers, failed to cancel rent, chooses not to tax the rich, and underfunds public schools.
The government’s response to COVID on all levels is now a year-long failure to contain the virus and support workers. Over half a million people nationally were left to die.
She had third degree burns on her genitals, needed a skin graft to repair the damage and was permanently disfigured, and left disabled for two years. Part of her original $20,000 claim was for her daughter's lost income while she cared for her. Also, there were 700 previous complaints of people being burned by McDonald's coffee, which they quietly paid off. They offered Liebeck $800.
Stella Liebeck was 79 years old at the time of the incident, and the settlement helped her pay for a live-in nurse as she was partially disabled for two full years after being so badly burned she went into shock. She passed away in 2004 with little to no quality of life per her own daughter. She originally sought $20,000 dollars to cover her eight day hospital stay (including skin graphs) and compensation for her daughter's lost wages after she spent three weeks providing round-the-clock care.
Incidently, liquids served at 190 degrees is capable of causing third degree burns--which cause severe, permanent damage all the way to the muscle layer--within 3 seconds of contact with human skin. If you have a strong stomach, you can even find photographic evidence of her wounds with a quick google search. This didn't stop almost every major news outlet perpetuating MacDonald's coordinated smear campaign against her. MacDonalds' justification for this was basically, well, all fast food is hot and we have better things to worry about. Literally. This deliberately manufactured overly litigious gold digger stereotype is still remembered today via the Stella Awards, which mocks all the "frivolous" lawsuits against your favorite brands. Named after a little old lady who was permanently disfigured and handicapped from a ridiculously dangerous product.
Classy.
Never, ever take a corporation's side over a private citizen when lawsuits are involved.
She eventually died under the care of a live-in nurse from infection complications due to the fact that the damage had to be treated repeatedly over multiple years. While being mocked *worldwide* and constantly hassled by the media. The last few years of this woman's life were a miserable hell because McDonald's was too cheap to pay her medical costs when she asked.
Everyone should watch the documentary Hot Coffee. Starts out with a pretty thorough explanation of the McDonald's vs. Liebeck incident & case, then dives into how the idea of the ~perpetual victim who wants to sue everyone and get free money with frivolous lawsuits~ is a myth and that tort reform has made it harder for people with actual harm done to them to get compensation for it.
Me: I just sometimes get so stressed that I just want to screech
My Therapist: Then do it.
Me: I’m sorry?
My Therapist: Primal screeching is one way of completing your stress cycle, do it. Be mindful of where you are, I usually do it in my car, but yeah. Go for it.
Me: Ah- Oh.
My Therapist: Holding that kind of thing in is what’s locking you into that stress state. Screeching, running, dancing, that tells your body they the danger has passed and you’ll relax. Since you have a lifetime of that shit locked away, it’ll take a sec but yeah. Screech if you want to.
My dad has always had me do this, especially when I was little and kept the baby up. We would go into the back yard, point to the river (to keep the ship captains up at night) and scream. I was also told to jump up and down to “get all the scream out”
I did this in college too. There’s nothing more cathartic than climbing the fence of the fishing pier, running to the end of it and screaming into the wind. It’s powerful, it’s therapeutic, it’s feral and wonderful.
I did this with kids too, when they have too much energy. When I worked at a children’s camp and the kids had too much energy when the rain canceled pool time I took them out in the rain, made them jump up and down and scream, and then 15 some nine-year-olds and I would rance across the field screaming in the rain
Go scream, just face towards the river when you do it
This has the same energy and practicality as “run (or walk, wheel, or whatever is accessible to you) when you’re having a panic attack.” Sometimes the best thing you can do is give in to your body’s primal fucking urges and hit the reset button on whatever you’re feeling.
A little glimpse at backstage development on the Lackadaisy animated film, featuring 3d artist Newt’s beautiful speakeasy model work, with textures designed by Frog. This all started with a very simple blocking model and blossomed from there into this swanky, art deco den of iniquity.
To clarify, these are reference models for the painted backgrounds that will appear in the film. Having a 3d model to refer to helps the background artists keep things like lighting, furniture orientation, and all of the decorative details consistent from one scene to another.
…and maybe it’ll make a good VR chat room at some point too? Hehe.
LittleDaisyCafe.com - see more about our film progress in the Dev Log!
I honestly do not know what to think of last night. I went to bed pretty late. And I was already having trouble sleeping and then summer between that and waking up this morning I don't I'm not entirely sure what to think about it for starters I dreamed about her again and it's been like years since I've even had any form of contact with her the last time I communicated with her it was through text on Halloween and then after that I never heard from her again . In this dream I understood my sins my problems I understood how I wronged her and I was I guess questing to find her and then the dream made it seem like it was too late but I wasn't there to try to track her down for her beauty or anything like that but to say that I was sorry and that I wanted her and then I fell asleep with my head on her lap. I don't know if this was the dream version of her or if it was actually her I just remember being so tired last night and then I when I was woking up I remember sleeping again in my dream only to be waking up again and it was so disorienting not to find them there because it felt so real and so cathartic. Wherever you are whoever you were I'm sorry I liked you and I was afraid of it I was afraid of what that would mean and I was afraid of the change. Christ it was so real sort of my significant other was there too and we were all okay and we were all happy and all of us were happy with our decision making and I didn't have this weight and this pressure to perform to do things I could just be me and feel comfortable doing it. This is an entirely long stream of conscious rant as I'm typing this right now I'm not entirely sure if I should post it or not or if I'm going to post it in the middle of the night when everyone else is asleep to ensure that even though it's out there it doesn't get red by anyone important not that anyone important reads my posts anywhere let alone Tumblr. Wow this is turning out to be such a long post. I felt skin and body on body contact through my arms nothing overly explicitly sexual just kind of like soft friendly and intimate not forced or rushed or wanted just kind of there natural. Wow there is so many things wrong with me I think if I managed to get a job that has health insurance I'm going to find a shrink as soon as I can because this is the first thing I need to unwrap and accept and I've only done things so far with compartmentalizing and trying to like self-analyze and actualize. keep in mind this entire post is about a dream about a person that I haven't seen in years so there's that.
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