*sigh* There’s good unions and there’s bad unions. My point was, when you’re organizing you get to pick which your local is going to be - at least if you can get your people involved. And that failing to do so? You end up with shit.

I see you forgot about the actual air controllers strike that happened, how the industry handled it (badly) and the current suicide rate for non Union controllers. 

quitting does nothing to improve the material conditions of the workforce. Capital will never give you any more than subsistence wages unless forced, and the only route to improving our material conditions is labor militancy. Politicians will not save us.

“What you’re thinking of is the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition ...”

Show me a school teacher that is paid what he/she is worth. And please, turn off caps-lock. It makes you look like an idiot.

adam smith was writing about mercantilism for the most part anyway so these chucklefucks can drop the bullshit

“I love Ayn Rand! God bless!”

If the functions of state employees are so critical, maybe they should pay them better.

People don’t strike to dick you around or deprive you of things. They strike because they’re getting dicked around and deprived of things.

fascinatingly enough, in many european countries it is perfectly legal for public workers to unionize ans go on strike. While it may be inconvenient when it happens, these countries are perfectly possible to live in. Most of them have much better health care than the US, and better welfare system.

There no industry in workers which will not recognize benefits through unionization. Anyone who claims otherwise does not have the interests of the workers in mind.

Striking is a civil right no matter what job you have. If you are not allowed to deny your labor to capital than you are a slave. 

Okay, I’m not to rise to the bait that he’s laying out here. I mean, yes, I think his “canon” should definitely include, at minimum, Ursula K. LeGuin’s short story “The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas” and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ article “Fear of a Black President”, if not his book Between the World and Me. I also would…

The only reasons to not-unionize is because A) you want to screw your coworkers over and climb to the top of your local shitpile over their proverbial corpses, b) because you like being screwed over by people claiming to be your best friends but expecting you to be silent about how much your work and how much your are…

Never forget: there is an inherent conflict of interests between the worker and the employer. It is the same conflict of interest that exists in every market economy between seller and buyer: the seller wants the most for the goods or services they sell and the buyer wants the most for the money they pay. The…

I’m currently trying to unionize my work place. I work for an education service district that is one of the few non-unionized education providers in the state. We typically provide education service (Special Ed, Speech, etc) to small districts with high special education populations that can’t afford it. My school is…

Republicans:  “Pee is stored in the balls.”

Yep, I figured moving the goalposts was the next step. You never said anything about a “healthy baby” or about a “viable fetus”. Let me quote you:

Obvious troll is obvious:

But, once that new life is created, it should be protected, and has a right to live regardless of the impact it has on the parents life.

Yes, I’ll take your advice over my own experience with my own pregnancy and my doctors’ (multiple) advice. Sure.