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Business, Economics & Tax Policy 7: Workers of the world unite!

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St. Clown said:
UPS could find Hair Furor's ire if this isn't resolved. And then someone will tell him it's all the union's fault, and he's going to claim that 6% of GDP is dependent upon you. With a full 1/16th of our nation dependent upon your company's operation, he might try to pull a Reagan and bust the strike in the name of national safety. He'll manufacture the safety portion of that argument.
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Trump busting strikers fighting for newer, better paying jobs for others while fighting the will of union bosses? Let’s see how well that would go...

That’s actually something that CNN reported well on. There’s a power struggle in the Teamsters right now between a group of UPS workers who are tired of conciliatory contracts negotiated by Hoffa and co. The big thing in all of this is that while Hoffa was reelected as the Union head, he lost a majority of votes in the US (his votes in Canada carried him) and among UPS workers to this group. So the group of Hoffa opponents is campaigning hard for members to reject the contract.

The big sticking point is that UPS wants to start 7 day service. To accomplish that the company wants add more drivers but not at the normal drivers pay rate but instead create a second job class and pay them a lower wage, i.e. same work but lower pay. It’s a ridiculous proposal considering record profits recently and the new corporate tax breaks, it should’ve been rejected immediately but apparently not.
 
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One can only assume no broads are being hired for that 2nd, lower pay role
 
Kepler said:
It would be nice to see every labor union in the country go out. An honest to god general strike. And then have consumers observe the strike, not cross lines, and maybe extend the strike in their own non-union shops, themselves.

The people have all the power, they just don't know it. Between labor and, maybe more importantly now, consumption, we could force our politicians to the bargaining table and start to claw back some of our basic rights and dignity from the 1%. Not even the rich have enough cops and soldiers to stop that.
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Ah Kep - 3 missed meals and the riots start. No food gets delivered, no coffee to $tarbucks, chemicals to water treatment plants not dropped off, etc.
 
mookie1995 said:
One can only assume no broads are being hired for that 2nd, lower pay role
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Probably not.

Also the “part-time workers make $15 an hour” is a lie, maybe some do but all start at $10.10 (was $8.50 when I started) and progress from there.
 
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joecct said:
Ah Kep - 3 missed meals and the riots start. No food gets delivered, no coffee to $tarbucks, chemicals to water treatment plants not dropped off, etc.
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The Plutes may have to agree to 40% taxation on the rich. Horrors.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
"Chief Knowledge Officer", lol. Nothing like resume padding to give yourself undeserved social media cred.

Also, top comment candidate.
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I'll say. That's Comment Hall of Fame, right there.
 
Kepler said:
I've never seen FG. After this clip I want to watch all of it in order.
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Like most comedies, Family Guy is hit or miss. There's about a quarter that is poignant and hilarious, about a quarter that completely misses the mark, and about 50 % that's good for a chuckle and not much more.
 
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unofan said:
Like most comedies, Family Guy is hit or miss. There's about a quarter that is poignant and hilarious, about a quarter that completely misses the mark, and about 50 % that's good for a chuckle and not much more.
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I hate poignancy in comedy. I would go so far as to say when a comedy attempts to be poignant I want to hurl the TV through the window.

Probably the hundred worst moments in television history are when M*A*S*H is poignant. Makes my skin crawl.
 
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mookie1995 said:
Preach on brother.

The best mash would have been where Hawkeye was gunned down.
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Hawkeye was great when he was an unreconstructed smart-as-s. He declined precipitously from the book (in which he's basically a monster) to the movie (in which he's perfectly balanced) to early MASH (about half the time fine) to late MASH (insufferable drip).

The early Hawkeye would have completely hated the late Hawkeye as a self-important prig.
 
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Kepler said:
Hawkeye was great when he was a smart-***. He declined precipitously from the book (in which he's basically a monster) to the movie (in which he's perfectly balanced) to early MASH (about half the time fine) to late MASH (insufferable dipsh-t).
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Yup yup and yup
 
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Kepler said:
I hate poignancy in comedy. I would go so far as to say when a comedy attempts to be poignant I want to hurl the TV through the window.

Probably the hundred worst moments in television history are when M*A*S*H is poignant. Makes my skin crawl.
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Yeah, but that wasn't cause it was poignant. that's cause it was preachy, sappy, and maudlin.
 
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What's America going to do when there is no one to trade with anymore? I know. Go bankrupt.
 
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