Chetzemoka

This is literally why I left management, dude. I had the worst month ever and did my P&L, and I still put $5,000 profit to the company's bottom line. I realized how much I'd be making if I owned my own business and all my hard work paid myself, and that was it, I quit. Ended up becoming a nurse because I make twice as much now as I made as a salaried manager, and I punch my clock and go home and don't think about work.

There absolutely is. There was a successful nursing strike in Worcester, MA that lasted 10 months and the hospital didn't shut down. It was staffed by a rotating cast of expensive travel nurses.

It's a controversial maneuver because it can prolong a strike, but it maintains public support and also prevents possibly endangering the lives of people in the community, which is the opposite of what we're trying to achieve in a healthcare strike.

(Personally, I am firmly of the belief that if any service is so critical to the public well-being that a compromised strike is necessary, then that service should be owned by the public and not a corporation. But that's a whole other conversation.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%E2%80%932022_Saint_Vincent_Hospital_strike#:~:text=The%20strike%20began%20on%20March,an%20agreement%20with%20the%20hospital.

You wouldn't have support for the UAW, writer's, and Kaiser healthcare strikes, if the rail strike caused the general public to go without power and water. Blame the idiot people who favor their comfort over other people's lives, same as it ever was. But you absolutely would have seen the public turn against strikes, if that had happened.

And of course they walked away with only part of what they came in asking. That is how negotiations work.

The only thing I came away feeling from the whole situation is that if those rail services are so critical to the basic functioning of this country that we can't afford a strike and the government needs to step into negotiations, then we should be nationalizing this industry. Period. It should not be permitted to be in the hands of a corporation.

I believe science because I understand science, and I'm also religious. So no, it doesn't work like that lol. It's not one or the other. It's two different ways of making sense of the world that should only be applied to the arenas of life that are within their scope.

This tracks closely with my own personal mythology that sheep when seen from a distance on a hillside are actually unicorns.

Healthcare strikes are complicated. It's weird because it's not like a retail business that can safely shut down. If we shut down a hospital, it could endanger people's lives, and that's the exact opposite of what we're trying to accomplish.

So we strike with compromises. A three day strike is like a warning shot. It gets public attention and it can be extended into an indefinite strike, if needed. Just a couple years ago here in Massachusetts, there was a nursing strike that lasted almost an entire year. That was accomplished by forcing them to staff the hospital with expensive travel nurses.

It's a controversial tactic. It can prolong the strike, but it maintains the trust and support of the public, which is more intrinsic to healthcare than other businesses.

As a nurse who also suffers from a painful chronic illness, I appreciate you. We're currently unionizing at my hospital because we've tried literally every single other thing we could think of - reporting detailed safety events, protesting assignments - and the hospital simply refuses to hire more staff. None of us want to strike, but the working conditions we're currently experiencing make it impossible for us to do the right thing for our patients. None of us want to strike, but if we do so, it's because we were left with no other option. Believe me, all we want is to be able to safely and successfully do our jobs.

Solidarity forever.

Aliens

(This exchange is from the second movie lol)

Nah, only ruined it for the uncultured mob who didn't get the reference.

"he vetoed this bill because the fund the state uses to pay unemployment benefits will be nearly $20 billion in debt by the end of the year.

The fund the state uses to pay unemployment benefits is already more than $18 billion in debt. That’s because the fund ran out of money and had to borrow from the federal government during the pandemic, when Newsom ordered most businesses to close and caused a massive spike in unemployment. The fund was also beset by massive amounts of fraud that cost the state billions of dollars."

The reasoning and background, if anyone is curious

You are expressing a very modern and ahistorical paradigm of what makes a human being valuable. Deep history shows us fossilized remains of people with injuries like broken femurs or no teeth that would have been absolutely fatal without continuous support. Disabled people are valuable simply because they are human every bit as much as able-bodied people are, and historically we have dedicated resources to caring for the disabled among us.

It is a very modern idea that labor is the only value a human being possesses, and that those who cannot care for themselves are worthless. What use is anything that we do, if we can't even be bothered to care for people who cannot care for themselves? What kind of monsters does that pretend we are? And make no mistake, we all start and most of us will end our lives not being able to care for ourselves.

Personally, I view caring for the helpless as a fundamental function of humanity. And yes, we as a society fail at that function, primarily because we fail to recognize it in the first place.

The US Dept of Justice Civil Rights Division, since violations of the First Amendment are alleged

https://www.justice.gov/crt/law-enforcement-misconduct#:~:text=The%20Department%20of%20Justice%20(%22The,violations%20by%20law%20enforcement%20officers.