giantofthenorth

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[–] giantofthenorth@lemm.ee 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Here's what I've done when attempting at my workplace via the postal workers union.

Get in contact with an organizer, they are there to help guide you or who ever wants to be the main leader of this effort. I will say, as the lead organizer in my attempt, it's just talking a lot, and getting people to a meeting, it kinda sucks but isn't a huge ordeal to do, and takes maybe 2 hours in a busy week.

I went through the AFL-CIO website aflcio.org/formaunion and filled out my information, during my major attempt it took half a week to get in contact with an organizer, though it could take a bit longer.

You'll get in contact with an organizer and they'll get a rundown of your workplace and what it looks like.

After that there's about an hour's worth of training to know your rights and what works for your union.

Then you'll be pretty much ready to go to start talking with coworkers to try and get an organizing committee (10% of your workplace) which will be your main coworkers who should be all about the idea, after that 10% then you'll start convincing everyone in your workplace and soon after that collect signatures.

Then you'll go to an election, sadly I do not have much information to get beyond here as the movement fell apart in my workplace during signatures due to a weak organizing committee.

Hope this helps ya out and if you want any additional information I'm happy to share, we need more unions especially in IT!

[–] giantofthenorth@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

I've asked the same thing to my organizer and it was basically telecom is the closest to it under the AFL-CIO umbrella, and i believe he said they may end up getting an IT specific union once enough get unionized.

[–] giantofthenorth@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The most famous victims of all, armed men in broad daylight with firearms.

[–] giantofthenorth@lemm.ee 72 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Love that most of the world's governments came together and said "collective punishment is bad, we should make it illegal during times of war" and shit like this can still fly within any first world country.

[–] giantofthenorth@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why wouldn't we? The PS5 is already 3* years old, most cycles are around 7 years

[–] giantofthenorth@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imma say it, he's kinda based, evades taxes and "illegally" owns guns, free my boy.

[–] giantofthenorth@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Glad I haven't played a cod game in years.

There's already a report button if someone has an issue with it let them report it, this is just going to lead to a ton of false positives or be completely useless.

[–] giantofthenorth@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

You should check out plusschraupe on Instagram for their hamster "cages" if you wanna see something even bigger

But this one is very cool

[–] giantofthenorth@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

To be fair, Austin has to be not far behind LA as some of the worst. Everything in Texas is made for cars only basically.

[–] giantofthenorth@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Don't forget for trying to form a union too!

 

General financials:

I can afford to pay them off in full and have plenty left over for general life needs

The interest rates on them should be 4.53% according to their chart of when it was awarded.

If I do hold onto the money and pay off monthly I can put everything into a CD but I'll still be losing .03% if I lock in the student loan money maybe I'll beat but .07-.43% so not a ton of upside unless there's sudden political will to actually follow through on student loan forgiveness.

Is there anything else I'm missing when considering this? I am leaning towards just pay off as I've been planning for this, but I want to make sure there isn't something else to do.

[–] giantofthenorth@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

What a dogshit article.

Sure what sen. Blum. Said taken out of context is bad but the people he's trying to get some support out of with his statement is the right wingers/capitalist types to be less anti us support in Ukraine.

Romney as always is indefensible.

From real Politik perspective they're 100% right based off only the title.

From real life they're correct that helping Ukraine helps the USA indirectly and even if somehow lives weren't being lost to this war it would still help the military industrial complex greatly in ways that actually benefit the USA at least somewhat (we're tossing out a bunch of outdated, expensive to maintain vehicles and getting up to date ones instead) and this is one of the rare times that the USA is doing something for a relatively good cause for once.

I get this is an anti war publication but be fucking real, war ain't leaving anytime soon, every ideology, tribe, government type, and religion has and will again engage in it with very few exceptions. And those exceptions usually mean tiny island tribes where there's no land to conquer/reclaim/defend

[–] giantofthenorth@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's plenty of 2010-2015ish cars with dogshit radios that are hard to find, expensive to get or literally impossible to find good replacements for, thanks to vehicle manufacturers killing of the DIN system.

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