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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.

iammyfather

Don't let them go the way of Hostess.

autistic-speedbump

Oh man, this is gonna be messy. I’ve said it loads of times in both fantasy and real life, and it always rings true : you NEVER cross the bakers’ guild.

Read up on the New York bagel famines. Bagel Bakers Local 338 practically brought the city to a standstill back in the day.

marvinetta

If you also didn’t hear, Danny DeVito got unverified briefly by Twitter for voicing solidarity with the union. Dan Rather got involved. It’s messy. Don’t cross the line if you can.

No contracts. No snacks.

saxophonechihuahua

mycupofstars

queen-mabs-revenge

A strike can only go on as long as its strike fund is deep. Workers have set up a GoFundMe - if you can, support them in solidarity!

Starting August 10, 2021, BCTGM Local 364 in Portland, OR is on strike against Nabisc… Cameron Taylor needs your support for BCTGM Local

hustlerose

its been said before but it honestly bears repeating now more than ever. girl help

zurin

you could always fish in skyrim we don’t need an anniversary edition rerelease for this. just jump in the water and grab them with your bare fucking hands you’re the dragonborn

profanetools

fishing? with a rod? what are you, a fucking normie?

heikala

Process of Garden Café 🌱

#Heikala #Process video #artists on tumblr #traditional art #colored ink #< prev tags

pidgie-core

-🌿Updates on the moss rug! Exhausted and still have a ways to go but I’m getting there!! For context I’m making large individual Pom poms and tying them to a rug Matt!🌿-

mygirlbuildscoffins-deactivated

i can’t believe i still have to make this so painfully clear but terfs are not welcome in my space, be it online or in real life. get lost. i am here to love and support trans women and i absolutely will not tolerate the presence of anyone who goes against that

tiktoks-for-dead-pope

#scopophobia #volume warning #singing #tiktok #< prev tags #i love this

afronerdism

One of the things that’s already begun to happen is the mass exodus of white people from affluent cities and neighborhoods into the hood due to covid unemployment. And thus the mass gentrification process has begun.

afronerdism

And it is gentrification by the way. Y’all have to kill this idea that white people who’ve fallen on harder times aren’t gentrifiers. They absolutely are.

afronerdism

Look at the asks I’m getting. You can litterally see where the gentrification starts.

The framing of everything is “why are you being mean to these poor, sad, destitute, white people!? They have no choice but to move into these poor neighborhoods!” The expectation is for me to feel sorry for white people who are coming to live....in a place I already live.

Once again, the neighborhoods y’all move into when you struggle are the neighborhoods we grow up in. My neighborhood is so black, dominoes won’t deliver after the sun goes down. But you know what? We’re happy and feel lucky to be here. You know why? Because we know what you don’t know and that’s that 2 streets down is the hood. And 4 streets down from that is the projects. So we’re happy to be in our little black neighborhood.

But you? You move in full of despair. You hate being here. You feel at a disadvantage to be here. You hate our culture. You hate our cookouts, our loud music, the bass at 4 am rolling through, the weed smell, the fact that we leave our dogs chained up outside, the fact that we have pitbulls, the fact that we don’t really cut the grass like that, you bemoan everything about us.

And as more of your cracker friends move in you cling together. You don’t know our names but you look at us like we’re the intruders in our own neighborhoods, you start talking shit, you start wanting to “make improvements”, and worst of all you start calling the fucking police.

So we start getting arrested, assaulted, more of you move in, our rent goes up, we move out, you’re building a “home owners association,” you’ve got us all too scared to listen to our music or cook out anymore, the rent goes up some more, we leave, more of you move in, and suddenly our little black neighborhood that wasn’t the nicest but not the worst is full of white faces. White faces that peer at the few black people left. You make them so miserable they’ll leave anyway.

And all of this? Big money hasn’t even touched it yet. You bring gentrification with you as a poor white because you bring racism with you. You bring your privilege and upwards mobility with you. You bring your “improvement” mindset with you.

So no. I don’t feel sorry for poor white people at all.

Fuck y’all. Stay out of my neighborhood and go live with the white trash.

afronerdism

Took me a minute to find this but I’m reblogging it to extend what I wrote earlier.

The way so many of you have tried to deracialize and dilute this topic to make poor white people comfortable is unconscionable

enraged-chihuahua

ur first and last recent emojis are ur gender now. mine is 🅱👨‍❤‍💋‍👨

medianox-astrum

#😁🤔#me constantly

that-stone-butch

being 'good at sex' is really just listening to people's boundaries and needs and making an effort to understand their bodies and preferences; and so i want to thank the 'stone butch/stone femme dynamics are unreciprocal and unhealthy' crowd for warning the rest of us up front that you have absolutely zero bedroom talent. we appreciate the heads-up. one of those 'self-own' moments i've been hearing so much about.

that-stone-butch

like, no joke, if you treat sex as transactional and view people's personal sexual boundaries as unnecessarily restrictive or unfair? please do not come anywhere near the rest of us with that shit.

a-fucking-velociraptor

Cool Tip

If you are like me and always need to be working on something to keep your anxiety under control, during this quarentine why not helping scientists by looking at pictures of some neat penguins? or even galaxies? There’s this site call Zooniverse, where you can help on scientific projects by analyzing pictures and data! Right now my favorite project has returned, called Penguin Watch (where yeah, you get to watch penguins, it’s amazing)

you basically have to analyse photos looking for penguins, their chicks, eggs or even predators and human interaction But there are lots of interesting projects you can help in areas such as biology, physics, history or even art:

Oh and the best part, some institutions even accept it as volunteering/service hour requirements for graduation and scholarships!! It’s helping me a lot during this time, so I thought it was worth sharing

tayefeth

Zooniverse is awesome. They have a relatively new project classifying and transcribing recordings of vintage Cuban radio around the revolution.

Another project is about the fan and hate mail sent to Orson Welles after the broadcast of War of the Worlds.

Another project is rescuing data from handwritten records from a Scottish weather station.

Can we stop calling it "Black Magic" already?

I have seen a lot of people on tumblr, in the current debate about curses, use the terms “White magic” and “Black magic”. Much of the time people have widely different definitions to what these words mean (making them poor descriptors). Also, unintentionally, you are feeding into the latent racism associated with the terms. QUICK HISTORY TIME

Many people don’t know specifically where the terms ”White magic” and “Black magic” come from and assume that it has something to do with night and day, or darkness and light. Here is what it is really from. When Africans were brought to the american colonies as slaves they would often bring their spiritual practices with them (similar to voodoo or vodun). This was frowned upon in the colonies which were largely christian. The term “Black Magic” was originally a reference to the type of magic done by people who were black and because of the racism of the time Black = Bad we find the current idea of black magic meaning magic that is either bad, evil, or lesser. WHAT IS A BETTER WAY OF PUTTING IT? The whole point of labels is to make something understood and categorized better so what would be a more useful way of differentiating?

1. Attack Magic / Defense Magic

This is one option. It is still a little simplistic but more easy to define. Attack magic is spells done to actively do something, defense magic is to stop something that otherwise would happen. So if you do a spell to get money that would be an attack spell. If you do a spell to prevent yourself from being evicted that would be a defense spell. In this case curses would be a form of attack magic and protection spells would be defense. Again this is not a perfect system because it depends largely on perspective but it does have the nice bonus of not assessing a morality in categorizing spells.

2. Malevolent Magic / Benevolent Magic

In my opinion a slightly better option. This distinction refers to the type of will that is behind the spell. Malevolent arising from intense ill will, spite, or hatred. Benevolent magic comes from kindly, charitable will. So a curse would be an example of malevolent magic, healing would be benevolent magic.

I like this system because it doesn’t assess morality it just categorizes types and also does not leave much room for gray area it simply asks what the will is behind the spell, not if it right or wrong. While it doesn’t leave much room for gray area there could be a situation that i hard to define. Lets say you cure an escaped murderer. The will behind it could be malevolent as a punishment for what he did and also benevolent to help protect people from him.

3. Altruistic Magic / Egotistic Magic

This is my favorite way of categorizing magic. Altruistic magic is done for other people’s benefit. Egotistic magic is done for your benefit. This system does not assign a morality just asks who benefits from the work. Think of it as a simplified “left-handed path”, “right handed path”. If i do a money spell for a friend it is altruistic, if it is for me then it is egotistic. If I put a curse on someone who has wronged me it is egotistic, if it is on someone who poses a danger to other it is altruistic. IN CLOSING

In closing it is up the to pagan/wiccan/witchcraft community here on tumblr to decide how to refer to these things I just think we can do better then outdated and relative terms like “White magic” or “Black magic”. *Also as a side note I am not taking the side that cursing is right or wrong I am just using it above to help explain the different systems. As an initiated Gardnerian I do not perform curses but I don’t begrudge people their personal spiritual practice.

EDIT: http://asksecularwitch.tumblr.com/ brought up a very good point about why it has to be a dichotomy system. It doesn’t have to be, you can come up with a better system that uses 3 or 4 or 6 categories that is fantastic too. I like 2 because it is easy and that is why most people categorize things is to make it easy to understand. The important thing is that there are much better ways then saying “black and white” so lets come together and talk about some of them.

This is a necessary discussion.

#racism #metaphors and color use #magic descriptions #magic #<- prev tags

wastelesscrafts

Visible Mending

Introduction:

Visible mending is a decorative way to fix up an item. Instead of trying to make your mend as invisible as possible, the idea is to make it part of the garment’s design.

Visual mending is not a single technique: it’s more of a mindset. If you’ve got an item you love, it deserves to be mended, and if you’re going to put that love into stitches, why not show them off?

That being said, there are some specific techniques that are popular with visible menders. Let’s take a look!

Sashiko:

Sashiko is a type of traditional Japanese embroidery that is used to both decorate and reinforce fabric. In visible mending, sashiko is often used to cover up holes with patches or to reinforce thinning fabric. This technique uses a variation on the running stitch.

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Some resources on sashiko:

SashiCo on YouTube: sashiko livestreams and information on the cultural aspect of sashiko.

Written tutorial by Upcycle Stitches.

Free sashiko templates by TheSpruceCrafts.

Fixing jeans with sashiko by Soluna Collective.

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Embroidery:

Regular embroidery is also a popular technique to accentuate your mends. Check out my embroidery 101 post to learn how to get started. You can embroider patches, or use embroidery to hide or accentuate any stitches you’ve made to fix holes. Embroidery’s also a great way to cover up stains.

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Patches:

There are many ways to add patches to a garment. My tutorial on patches is a good place to start if you want to make custom-shaped patches to sew on top of your fabric. You can also sew your patch on the inside of your garment and have it peek out from beneath the hole you’re trying to fix. Fun ideas for this are lace or superheroes.

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Darning:

Darning is a technique used to repair holes in fabric by using running stitches to weave extra fabric over the hole as to fill it up again. While traditionally darning is done in an invisible way by using the same colour of thread as your fabric, you can also use contrasting colours to accentuate your fix. Check out this written tutorial on darning by TheSpruceCrafts.

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Conclusion:

Visible mending is a creative way to fix up your clothes and give them some personality at the same time.

You should be proud of the fact that you took the time and learned the necessary skills needed to mend your clothes! Show off what you did!

A fun side effect of wearing these obvious mends is that people will notice them. They’ll remember your fixes the next time they’re faced with a hole in their wardrobe, and it will make them more likely to try it for themselves.

These are just a few ways to visibly mend your garments. Want more inspiration? Check out Pinterest or r/Visiblemending on Reddit.