I was about to say “how do you know someone has done that unless it’s you, OP” but then I recognized the name and I went on twitter to check and sure enough he was my creative writing professor in college
we’re conditioned to be so scared of communist propaganda and then you see it and its just like “its good to have friends“ and “read books“ and then in america you see signs that are like “if you eat the mtn dew fuckburger women will be attracted to you“
In pop culture, slackers are portrayed as playing guitar, but learning to play any instrument requires a lot of commitment and attention, the opposite of what a slacker stands for.
*psst* It’s the fact that capitalism doesn’t value artistic ability if it can’t turn a profit. Capitalism sees all the amateur buskers and starving artists and assumes that, since they’re barely getting by, they must not be putting in enough effort.
Council issues warning as equal pay strike by 8,000 mostly female workers continues
Union leaders in Glasgow have been told they face legal action for allegedly organising illegal pickets and wildcat action as a strike by 8,000 mostly female cleaners and care workers over equal pay enters its second day.
Lawyers for Glasgow city council wrote to the GMB union to accuse its officials of organising an illegal walkout by 600 street cleaners and refuse workers, and of setting up pickets that intimidated people not involved in the dispute.
The industrial action spread further on Wednesday morning, when more than 50 parking attendants refused to cross picket lines and were sent home.
GMB officials denied there were any unlawful pickets or orchestrated wildcat strikes.
“We will not be bullied by any employer, much less Glasgow city council,” said Rhea Wolfson, a GMB organiser. “It is shameful an employer like Glasgow has threatened to use Tory anti-trade union legislation against working-class women, and working-class men who have huge sympathy for these women.”
On Tuesday street sweepers, road workers and refuse workers, nearly all of them men, refused to cross picket lines.
The strike, which has led to primary schools and nurseries across the city being shut for the second day running, is thought to be the largest ever in the UK in a dispute over equal pay. The claims, estimated by union advisers to be worth up to £1bn, affect 12,000 staff and stretch back more than a decade.
After the refuse collectors and street sweepers refused to work, the council threatened to invoke trade union legislation introduced by the Conservative government in 1992 unless the GMB formally repudiated their unofficial action.
Carole Forrest, the council’s solicitor, wrote: “If no repudiation is forthcoming, we reserve the right to raise proceedings against the GMB for the losses which we have sustained as a result of this unlawful action and any repetition of it tomorrow.”
Glasgow bin men and traffic wardens have wildcatted in solidarity with 8,000 mostly female Glasgow City Council workers striking for equal pay! Workers in women dominated roles such as cleaning, care work, and nursery work are paid up to £3/hr less than equivalent male dominated roles, and could be owed up to £1bn in back pay. Both Labour and the SNP have tried to make political hay out of the strike, but both parties have overseen this injustice when in power in Glasgow. 300 picket lines have been set up around in the city in the biggest equal pay strike since the Equal Pay Act was passed in 1970. Incredible!
Strike-fund donations can be made to UNITY Trust. Sort code 60 83 01 Account number 20275789 - Drew Rigden, Treasurer Unison Glasgow City Branch, 84 Bell Street, Glasgow, G1 1LQ. 0141 5527069.
remember 2009 when the democrats had the white house and a supermajority in congress and therefore the argument for needing bipartisan support of legislation to get anything done was totally moot but the capstone of that 2 year period was a republican-inspired health insurance reform bill that forced a huge portion of the country’s population to become customers of private insurance corporations lmao
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