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justgfy

Unions are trash. Theyll Destroy a whole company for firing a shitty worker.

gorgonsach

unions are the reason you aren’t paid 2.50 an hour with steel beams about to bust ya head open shut up lol

explorerrowan

Unions are why you have 5 day, 40 hour full-time work weeks. Unions are why they have to pay you in actual dollars instead of “company credits” that you can only spend at the company-owned stores. Unions are why there are fucking fire exits at your place of work. Unions are why it’s not okay for your supermarket ground beef to be any percentage human.

You think your company pays you out of the goodness of their hearts? Or even out of “market pressure?” The “job market” is a myth perpetuated by the capitalists. Corporations would pay you nothing if they could get away with it. And you argue “oh, but if they paid me nothing I’d just go to another one.” Wrong. Because to maximize profits, they all want to pay you nothing. Corporations exist to maximize profits while reducing risk for investors. It’s part of their entire function to find ways to cut costs as much as possible, and that includes finding ways to pay you nothing.

Unions are your defense against that. You think all a union does is strike? If you pay union dues, a lot of that is spent on lobbyists in various governments reminding your lawmakers that you have rights as a living human being that a corporation should not be able to stomp all over. Unions hire lawyers so that if you’re fired for bullshit reasons, the union can stand up for you against your boss. They’re called unions because workers are uniting to pool resources so that they can stand up to these corporate overlords with more money than God. Unions exist because you might not have the words, resources, or time to fight workplace injustices all by yourself. That’s the whole fucking point.

And if a business shuts down because a union is striking, it’s because the business was abusing people and didn’t deserve to be in business anyway. Don’t make excuses for the corporations. They already have trillions of dollars and a couple million lawyers to do that for themselves. They don’t need your help.

mierac

The erasure of labor history from US history curriculum has caused so much fucking damage to this country.

cheeseanonioncrisps

Bosses: If you don’t like how we do things, don’t work here.

Workers: *Go on strike*

Bosses: Wait no not like that

anarchistmemedistro

Unions are awesome. Theyll Destroy a whole company for firing a fellow worker.

witcheschess

danlevysource

Dan Levy for SNL (2021) 📷: Mary Ellen Matthews

highfunctioningfool

endminx

cervinesatyr-deactivated2021083

I have to reblog this every time because frankly this is absolutely genius prose

stream

tatyana-dreaming

And I look you in the eyes… And I look you in the eyes…. Ah mon cher, mon cher, what a glance, a g o d d e s s ! Your eyes, oh, your eyes…

Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812

problemsduringthegreatdepression

wanderingchaos

thepersonalquotes

pastperfectcontinuous

When was the last time you asked permission to go to the bathroom? Would you panic over running two minutes late? Is it normal to be constantly monitored at work, to have everything you do timed to the second? When was the last time you sold something to pay a bill? Do you have to wait to be searched for stolen goods after you work? Have you ever considered DIY dental surgery? Have you gone to work sick because you can’t afford to take unpaid time off? Have you had to supply a doctors note to prove you deserve that unpaid time off? Have you recently overdrawn your checking account, or had all your credit cards declined, or put exactly ten bucks of gas in your car?

Nearly everyone with influence in this country, regardless of political affiliation, is incredibly insulated from how miserable and dehumanizing the daily experience of work has gotten over the past decade or two. Many never had a service job. If I were to give my “in the weeds” poll to everyone with political clout — I’d bet everything I own that only a few would know the waitress definition.

(...) To people with education and influence, “in the weeds” is something academic, about small, unimportant details. It’s the footnotes. It’s something you observe from the outside. To everybody else, “in the weeds” is something you experience. It’s something you feel. It’s your life.”

—Emily Guendelsberger, On The Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane

katherineplumbers

2016 Tony-Nominees for Broadway Style Guide

fslut

One of the best parts of having a toddler in your life that can navigate YouTube is they find some wild shit

bigleoenergy

So were just gonna sit and pretend this doesnt SLAP??

fslut

Oh i would never claim this wasn’t the bop of the century. I have taste

porterr-robinson

succ-my-pandas-dick

I have so many questions

homopower

In the name of everything decent in this world, you have got to turn the sound on.

okayysophia

THE DISRESPECT

Jesus fucking christ

AYOOOOOOO

im-a-deceptikhan

It's even worse with screenshots 😭😭😭

yellowjuice-deactivated20190512

I also want to make it abundantly clear this is why people say “fuck cops” and why “Blue Lives Matter” is bullshit. It may only be a “handful” of corrupt cops (which is also bullshit) but it’s the entire institution behind them that enables them and refuses to take any form of accountability. Every single cop is complicit. Every single one.

ms-demeanor

This is also why the thin blue line flags are so, so, so disconcerting to me.

The thin blue line is the line that cops won’t cross, which is doing anything to undermine cops.

It’s such an extremely us against them mentality where “us” is police and “them” is “everyone who isn’t a cop” that I’m legitimately confused when people claim it’s not a fascist symbol.

It’s signalling that you support cops over citizens and that you see cops as distinct and above citizens. It’s support for the police state and police AS the state.