Maybe there’s a page with Kinja pro-tips that answers this question, but I’ll ask anywhere: Has the Splinter/GMG business leadership considered doing a pay-to-play option for commenters? Modeled after e.g. Total Fark.
Zachary Bos
zbos
What’s to counter? Unions are not interested in corruption. Strong unions are good for business. Businesses that fear unions, are only scared about losing the advantages that come with exploitation. None of your links address those simple facts.
I’m a union officer, so I am well equipped (if you take first-hand experience as useful) to see how you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Be in a better union?
Let’s give people some agency, eh?
Unions working in the best interest of their people would, by definition, be working for the best interest of the employer as well. (If as an employer, your business model depends upon the employees suffering for your benefit, your business model sucks.)
The transgressions of people of low character can’t be attributed to unions.
“I like taking advantage of the members of my community who work in non-unionized grocery stores. Their economic disadvantage saves me money, right?”
You can ride on some of them: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/09/05/the-march-of-the-strandbeests
Oh, for sure, I wouldn’t address any ol’ oldie as “elder” along these lines. I supposed I’m accustomed to seeing the term “elder” used in the sense of “older person with a position of status and likely authority”, in readings from anthropology and other disciplines.
The word “senator” comes from “senex”, meaning “wise old man.” (Cognate to “senior” and “senescent.”) A “senate” is “a council of elders.”
Not enough, no. (But I didn’t suppose that a rally [and its attendant value capture] would be sufficient on its own.)
There are plenty of carry-along actions that accompany that kind of organizing. A large proportion of new protestors will be added to the mailing list of legislation action organizations, thus amplifying their work of legislative change. (And so on.)
Organizing tens of thousands of people in live action is far more…
If they get 5,000 white nationalists out for this event, spreading their venom on my National Mall, let’s get 500,000 real Americans to wrap around them in every direction. Photograph the proud fascists in attendance, and make sure their neighbors and employees and communities know who they are. And then get our half…
According to the Verizon machine on the other end of the line, that number has been disconnected.
I think we might need a list of their names.
Not heard of it before; thanks! In return: http://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/05/leng/
Cordyceps horror!
It seems to me that an assertion like “It’s this coddling behavior that we have to control everything that isn’t liked that is ruining society.” is much more an expression of your feelings on the subject, than an assessment of the facts about the matter.