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McDonald’s Ruling Could Open Door for Unions


Fast Food Workers Will Now Use Civil Disobedience In Their Fight For Higher Wages

MBTA, Don't Make a Mess! Fight for Good Jobs and a Fair T For All


Uh-oh.

Any future prolonged Comrade Anklebiter absences on these boards can be blamed on the fat-cat plutocrats at Fairpoint.

FairPoint, labor unions deadlocked in contract negotiations


The Consequences of Reagan Breaking the '81 Air Traffic Controllers Strike

Part 2


Market Basket ultimatum deadline came and went with no effect, apparently


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Bay Area Comes Out to Block Israeli Ship from Port of Oakland, Stand with Gaza


Solidarity at Lifelinks: Settle the Contract Now!

I was almost moved to tears by an elderly white woman who told me that she was still in her probationary period and could be dismissed even if the contract was settled. She then went on to explain that she didn't care, that her new co-workers took her in like family from day one and that she would rather get thrown back on Massachussetts' reduced unemployment (thanks, Democrats!) rather than cross a picket line and be a filthy scab.

All the while making grimacing faces that pass for attempts at friendliness here among the New England proletariat.

Vive le Galt!


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Hands up! Don't ship!


USW 8751 Occupy Veolia Office; Deter Scabbing


Comrade Anklebiter wrote:

Solidarity at Lifelinks: Settle the Contract Now!

I was almost moved to tears by an elderly white woman who told me that she was still in her probationary period and could be dismissed even if the contract was settled. She then went on to explain that she didn't care, that her new co-workers took her in like family from day one and that she would rather get thrown back on Massachussetts' reduced unemployment (thanks, Democrats!) rather than cross a picket line and be a filthy scab.

All the while making grimacing faces that pass for attempts at friendliness here among the New England proletariat.

Vive le Galt!

Apparently, they won the same day after I left. Nobody wants goblins holding picket signs in front of their day center.

Huzzah!

The workers united/Will never be defeated! The workers united/Will never be defeated!


China's New Labor Insurgency

Liberty's Edge

Good on them.


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Home care workers unionize in Minnesota.

There are still some legal challenges to the vote, no idea if they represent a significant challenge or not. It's hard and valuable work though, that is often paid at, or barely above, minimum wage.


Organize the unorganized!

Vive le Galt!


And, apparently, the Market Basket strike is over.

Deliveries roll following deal in supermarket feud

Thank god! They have (had?) the cheapest cigarette carton prices in town!


Ireland: Greyhound lockout – a fight for all workers


The Union is a Family for Me


Hey Gobbo!

Since this thread is basically goblin territory now, I figured I'd ask you here.

Yesterday, when I was walking to lunch, there was a socialist pamphleteer on the corner with a bunch of hand-made signs, one of which read something along the lines of "labor marches in support of Michael Brown" and I was thinking "that's cool." Then on the way back, on the other side of his kiosk, there was a sign that said "Crimea is Russian, end US Imperialist involvement in Ukraine."

I just thought that was odd. I mean, I get that Russia is ostensibly communist *scoff* but let's face it, they're every bit as imperialist as the US.

What are your thoughts on the issue?

Grand Lodge

meatrace wrote:

Hey Gobbo!

Since this thread is basically goblin territory now, I figured I'd ask you here.

Yesterday, when I was walking to lunch, there was a socialist pamphleteer on the corner with a bunch of hand-made signs, one of which read something along the lines of "labor marches in support of Michael Brown" and I was thinking "that's cool." Then on the way back, on the other side of his kiosk, there was a sign that said "Crimea is Russian, end US Imperialist involvement in Ukraine."

I just thought that was odd. I mean, I get that Russia is ostensibly communist *scoff* but let's face it, they're every bit as imperialist as the US.

What are your thoughts on the issue?

There are functional differences between imperialism in your own backyard and imperialism on the opposite side of the globe - both are imperialism, and hence bad, but one is definitely worse than the other.

Because Crimea is on the border of Ukraine and Russia, it's belonged to both over the long sweep of history, its assignment to Ukraine while both were part of the Soviet Union was an interesting historical artifact, and actually its strongest historical association with either nation.


meatrace wrote:

Hey Gobbo!

Since this thread is basically goblin territory now, I figured I'd ask you here.

Yesterday, when I was walking to lunch, there was a socialist pamphleteer on the corner with a bunch of hand-made signs, one of which read something along the lines of "labor marches in support of Michael Brown" and I was thinking "that's cool." Then on the way back, on the other side of his kiosk, there was a sign that said "Crimea is Russian, end US Imperialist involvement in Ukraine."

I just thought that was odd. I mean, I get that Russia is ostensibly communist *scoff* but let's face it, they're every bit as imperialist as the US.

What are your thoughts on the issue?

The only people that I have seen use the phrase "Crimea Is Russian" are my old comrades in the Spartacist League. Maybe the Spart splits in the Internationalist Group.

I've already posted their articles and many of my thoughts, including a lengthy discourse on the Leninist definition of "imperialism" over in The Ukraine Thingy thread, so I shall direct you in that direction.


Once again, there will be a national day of action for fast food workers and $15/hr and a union...while I am at work.

Low Pay Is Not Okay!


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Comrade Anklebiter wrote:
Hands up! Don't ship!

Part Deux


Comrade Anklebiter wrote:

Once again, there will be a national day of action for fast food workers and $15/hr and a union...while I am at work.

Low Pay Is Not Okay!

Vive le Galt!


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Hey gobbo, since you're always off-topic anyway, thought I'd recommend a new great "leftist" artist from my country.
Issa Lory Cat

I wonder if the name has anything to do with the current cat hysteria among the autonomous left of Sweden, but regardless, the song is great and I think there'll be more to come.


Please tell me more about this cat hysteria?

Or is that just the Swedish version of Pussy Riot?


Gaberlunzie wrote:

Hey gobbo, since you're always off-topic anyway, thought I'd recommend a new great "leftist" artist from my country.

Issa Lory Cat

Vive le Galt!

Organize the Unorganized!: The Musical Interlude


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meatrace wrote:

Please tell me more about this cat hysteria?

Or is that just the Swedish version of Pussy Riot?

Well, there's simply just a current trend in the swedish autonomous left. Basically:

This poster is everywhere around town, saying "politicians are rats" (and I happen to have met the cat on the pic ;P), "kattvänstern" or "the cat left" is an established expression, cat masks are like the n.1 most common mask during protests, and this flag is really beautiful: "turn the rich into catfood!".
EDIT: And the comment below the pic says "It's so cute when humans try to mimic their betters. But when they acumulate their own bodies as capital in the form of food to the always growing cat left, they're heroes.
And so on.

I like this, since I love cats (I live with three, and they all hiss at the landlord).


Boston school bus drivers won't back down


Iran:
Support Behnam Ebrahimzadeh


San Francisco stevedores, Minneapolis Teamsters and Toledo rubberworkers? Must be another set of articles about 1934!

1934 Strikes--Class-Struggle Leadership Made the Difference: Then and Now

Part Two

Musical Interlude Included


NLRB Orders CNN To Rehire Fired Workers


CNN is a leftist organization... I am surprised they went anti-union. I guess next time they should consult labor contract lawyers before de-unionizing. Just to make sure they don't violate any agreements in doing so.


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CNN isn't a leftist organization.


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Aranna wrote:

CNN is a leftist organization... I am surprised they went anti-union. I guess next time they should consult labor contract lawyers before de-unionizing. Just to make sure they don't violate any agreements in doing so.

CNN only appears to be a leftist organization when you look at it in the context of the current American political landscape and it's peers.

To illustrate:

Tea party wing of Republican Party - extreme right, flirting with fascism.
Other Republicans - very very right, Machiavelli
"Centerist" Independents - very right, Roman Senate
Democrats - right, cautious conservatism.
"Radical Liberal" Democrat - actual political center, Nancy Pelosi, Al Gore, Rachael Maddow.

Fox News / AM talk radio fits in that first category.
WSJ/Washington Post fits in that second category.
NYT/CNN/National Network News fits in that third category.
NPR/HuffPo fits in that fourth category.
MSNBC/Daily Kos fits in that fifth category.

Anything that Comrade Anklebiter links to will be an actual left organization, aka rag.


CNN isn't a leftist organization, it's a capitalistic company.


BigDTBone wrote:
Aranna wrote:

CNN is a leftist organization... I am surprised they went anti-union. I guess next time they should consult labor contract lawyers before de-unionizing. Just to make sure they don't violate any agreements in doing so.

CNN only appears to be a leftist organization when you look at it in the context of the current American political landscape and it's peers.

To illustrate:

Tea party wing of Republican Party - extreme right, flirting with fascism.
Other Republicans - very very right, Machiavelli
"Centerist" Independents - very right, Roman Senate
Democrats - right, cautious conservatism.
"Radical Liberal" Democrat - actual political center, Nancy Pelosi, Al Gore, Rachael Maddow.

Fox News / AM talk radio fits in that first category.
WSJ/Washington Post fits in that second category.
NYT/CNN/National Network News fits in that third category.
NPR/HuffPo fits in that fourth category.
MSNBC/Daily Kos fits in that fifth category.

Anything that Comrade Anklebiter links to will be an actual left organization, aka rag.

I'd only quibble that while MSNBC does have some shows that fit in the fifth category, it's also got some that swing much farther right - third or maybe even second. Its actual news coverage also isn't nearly as skewed, probably in line with the NYT/CNN. (In fairness Fox isn't as bad with their news as their pundit shows either.)


thejeff wrote:
BigDTBone wrote:
Aranna wrote:

CNN is a leftist organization... I am surprised they went anti-union. I guess next time they should consult labor contract lawyers before de-unionizing. Just to make sure they don't violate any agreements in doing so.

CNN only appears to be a leftist organization when you look at it in the context of the current American political landscape and it's peers.

To illustrate:

Tea party wing of Republican Party - extreme right, flirting with fascism.
Other Republicans - very very right, Machiavelli
"Centerist" Independents - very right, Roman Senate
Democrats - right, cautious conservatism.
"Radical Liberal" Democrat - actual political center, Nancy Pelosi, Al Gore, Rachael Maddow.

Fox News / AM talk radio fits in that first category.
WSJ/Washington Post fits in that second category.
NYT/CNN/National Network News fits in that third category.
NPR/HuffPo fits in that fourth category.
MSNBC/Daily Kos fits in that fifth category.

Anything that Comrade Anklebiter links to will be an actual left organization, aka rag.

I'd only quibble that while MSNBC does have some shows that fit in the fifth category, it's also got some that swing much farther right - third or maybe even second. Its actual news coverage also isn't nearly as skewed, probably in line with the NYT/CNN. (In fairness Fox isn't as bad with their news as their pundit shows either.)

Agreed, I was making a larger comment about general editorial bias. Morning Joe definitely is bent to the right, and I'm sure that when Fox reads the AP newswire verbatim, if you close your eyes so you can see their purposefully distorted charts, and try to filter the anchor's inflections, it may not be completely right leaning. But, there will still be selection bias...


BigDTBone wrote:
Agreed, I was making a larger comment about general editorial bias. Morning Joe definitely is bent to the right, and I'm sure that when Fox reads the AP newswire verbatim, if you close your eyes so you can see their purposefully distorted charts, and try to filter the anchor's inflections, it may not be completely right leaning. But, there will still be selection bias...

Yeah, I just get irritated seeing MSNBC portrayed as the liberal equivalent of Fox, when it really isn't anywhere near so partisan, even given that the mainstream "left" in the US is much less extreme than the mainstream "right".

There are far more voices on MSNBC that will attack Democrats from the right than there on Fox that will attack Republicans from the left.
The widespread theory that MSNBC is "leftist" lets that turn into "Even MSNBC thinks the Democrats have gone too far."

And Fox news being less extreme doesn't really push it past the second category.


BigDTBone wrote:

Anything that Comrade Anklebiter links to will be an actual left organization, aka rag.

Rag peddlars of the world, unite!

Although, to be fair, I sometimes link to rightist newssites, like the New York Times and The Nation.

Hmmm, I need an actual labor story before this thread devolves...oh, hold on...


Bump. (I have no idea what's happened in the meantime.)

Comrade Anklebiter wrote:
In Their Own Backyard: MSNBC Hosts Ignore Unionization Effort


thejeff wrote:
BigDTBone wrote:
Agreed, I was making a larger comment about general editorial bias. Morning Joe definitely is bent to the right, and I'm sure that when Fox reads the AP newswire verbatim, if you close your eyes so you can see their purposefully distorted charts, and try to filter the anchor's inflections, it may not be completely right leaning. But, there will still be selection bias...

Yeah, I just get irritated seeing MSNBC portrayed as the liberal equivalent of Fox, when it really isn't anywhere near so partisan, even given that the mainstream "left" in the US is much less extreme than the mainstream "right".

There are far more voices on MSNBC that will attack Democrats from the right than there on Fox that will attack Republicans from the left.
The widespread theory that MSNBC is "leftist" lets that turn into "Even MSNBC thinks the Democrats have gone too far."

And Fox news being less extreme doesn't really push it past the second category.

I never said MSNBC was liberal, I specifically called it politically center. FOX is certifiable nut job right. Most definitely first category in editorial views, even if they do have an occasional "news events update" type broadcast.


Comrade Anklebiter wrote:
Hmmm, I need an actual labor story before this thread devolves...oh, hold on...

Omar the Arab Trade Union Rep tells me that his previously unreported campaign to Bring Back Ray!! was a success and Ray has been brought back.

Huzzah!!

Forward to communism!


Actually true center is BBC since they have no skin in the political game here.


Aranna wrote:
Actually true center is BBC since they have no skin in the political game here.

Actually true center is RT since they have no skin in the political game here.

Actually true center is Al Jazeera since they have no skin in the political game here.

I should let it go because BBC is in many far left of any US programming, but the logic makes no sense.


I get most of my news from WSJ/BBC/NPR.
I haven't noticed any political bias from the BBC on its American reporting. Now maybe I just wasn't looking for it. But I have noticed a slight conservative bias in the WSJ. And I see a massive leftist bias from NPR on nearly every article. I would include FOX if it were available on podcast if only to get both sides of every story.

FOX did set out to create a fair and unbiased news network... and mostly succeeded early on with the exception of some of their strongly right wing talk hosts. They do definitely drift right these days making them the perfect counterpoint to left biased sources like CNN, MSNBC, NPR, ect. That is for those of us who like hearing both sides.


As far as Ray is concerned I am torn. I admire his willingness to do the right thing but also understand why his bosses want him gone (he opens them up to liability suits by helping elderly against company policy if something should go wrong). Perhaps the company would do well to consider creating a place for people like Ray? Perhaps Ray, the community and the company could pay for Ray to be trained as a medic so that liability could be limited in the cases where he helps out? It would be good press for the bus company, Ray would have a secure job, and the people could have a friendly helper.


You don't tend to notice political bias if the bias is pretty close to your own views and not too obvious.

Articles that I find objectively describe reality, other would see as communist propaganda. Articles that others see as everyday news I see as capitalist propaganda.


So your saying I don't see BBC bias because I share their views?


Most of my comrades refer to NPR as "National Propaganda Radio." I don't think they mean it as a compliment.

[Shrugs]

Anyway more labor articles from sites with actual left biases:

Public Education Under Nationwide Assault: California Ruling Pits Minorities Against Teachers Unions

Don’t Fall for Democrats’ Campaign Promises: Fight Low-Wage Slavery,
Mobilize Workers’ Power

A strike lit the way at Juno

The whole labor page at In These Times

Don’t Back Down: If Karen Lewis runs for Chicago mayor, she should do so as an unapologetic progressive.

Labor Notes: Putting the Movement Back into the Labor Movement

and, finally, not labor-related, but a shameless plug:

Panel Discussion in NYC: The Climate Crisis: Which Way Out? featuring Kshama Sawant, Chris Hedges, Naomi Klein and Bill McKibbon
Vive le Galt!


Off-Topic Musical Interlude

"In her kiss, I TASTE THE REVOLUTION!!!!!"

Vive le Bachuan!

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