As a matter of fact, if your employer fires you for anything relating to forming a union, that’s retalition, and it’s illegal under federal law. If this happens to you, vontact the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
I never understood why so many in the US are anti union and I don’t just mean bosses but also workers. Unions serve such an important function. I’m Germany unions are much more normalized though that doesn’t stop companies like Liddl from trying to stop people from forming unions also temp workers are shitbout of luck most of the time, but overall unions have done so much good to fight for employee eights. Yes they can be stuck up their own arse sometimes bit dam i prefer them to the greedy ceo’s who think it’s ok to go to space while their workers don’t even get minimum wage and are so strictly timed that they can’t even take a shit.
There’s a ton of anti-union propaganda that has been largely successful, especially in the southern US. Then, companies that are headquartered say, up here in the Rust Belt, move their operations down there or overseas. Then bad actors go, “Well, what did the union even do for you?” It’s ugly over here.
Jesus Christ that is messed up. I swear these idiots want to take us back to 19th Century labor conditions. 😒
not to get political but im begging you guys to stop coming to hawaii. in maui theyre asking to put a ‘pause’ on flights bc we literally do not have enough room or staff to service you. the roads are so full that its causing a major backup when ppl need to get to work.
on top of this, i heard that by September? theyre expecting to get rid of the mask rule (if 70% of ppl are vaccinated/all goes well) but ill be honest w/ you, i know many locals arent getting the vaccine and i know plenty of tourist arent gonna take the necessary precautions.
homeless hawaiians aren’t even allowed to sit or lay on sidewalks to keep up the “paradise” image for tourists
Tourism makes it impossible to keep up with the rising cost of living. It brings in revenue and with that, becomes the fake state’s priority. Tourism pushes native Hawaiians from their land and homes, puts locals at risk for covid19, directly harms the delicate environment and native species here, houseless folk (many whom are native Hawaiian) are being illegally swept to make room for tourists at beaches, and locals are being restricted and fined for using water on east Maui, all while hotels can use up all the resources no problem and our government approves a million dollar home construction for new part-time residents (when locals who have been here for generations are being thrown into poverty, barely staying afloat, losing businesses and even their homes). “Hawai’i has become the Blood Diamond of the Pacific. We are mined for our splendor, and our residents live the every day, complex consequences.”
It’s absolutely VILE what is happening here. I hope yall know that Hawaiʻi was overthrown and occupied by the US military, and isn’t even legally a state! Hawaiʻi is not your vacation spot, so you better tell your family and friends to stay at home.
Lol John Deere executives think they can break the worker’s strike by having Terry from HR build an engine.
Anyone else have the “Shake Hands With Danger” song playing in their heads?
For those unaware of this masterpierce, it’s from a 1980′s industrial safety training video, and it’s main character is named ‘Three Finger Joe.’
I’m just imagining some farmer trying to fix his combine in 2023, saying “I don’t know why it won’t work, it’s only 2 years old,” and then they open up the engine and the dusty hand bones of a middle manager fall out.
Things are going great over there!
It’s day 1 and salary workers are joking about forming their own union, this is great stuff.
It’s another extension of the SB3 ban on “Critical Race Theory” in class room. Southlake is where all this started in the first place.
By the way, for people that don’t know, Southlake isn’t some podunk, backwater redneck area like y'all want to pretend all the Trumpian power is based in. It’s a bougie Dallas suburb. 80%+ white, average income is $250,000. It’s the wealthiest part of DFW and one of the wealthiest in the state of Texas if not nationally. That’s where the modern reactionary movement’s power is based, wealthy white suburbs, not poor coal mining towns and backwoods hick country. Not to say those other areas aren’t conservative or reactionary, but this is where the power is seated. This is where those bills come from. This is where those politicians are bought.
They’re more concerned about their precious Kadane and Machaeilianne feeling guilty about slavery, genocide, and oppression than the effects of those things, and lord forbid they know gay people exist that might get infected with The Trans.
These are people that buy $100,000 King Ranch trucks and larp as Real America while they go live in their McMansions and get PF Chang’s ubered (but don’t tip) to chase their ivermectin.
W. Mondale Robinson spent a large chunk of last fall in clubs and bars and concert venues in Georgia,
trying to convince disenchanted Black men that casting a ballot — in
the 2020 general election, then the Georgia runoffs for the U.S. Senate —
could finally mean real change in their communities.
But
Robinson, founder of the Black Male Voter Project, thinks the case
would be a lot harder to make now. He remembers the exact moment his
optimism that President Biden would be different began to fade: when
Democrats in May said they were willing to significantly weaken a policing-reform bill to get Republican support.
More disappointments followed. Robinson was dismayed that Biden did not push for changes to the filibuster to enact a $15 minimum wage. He was upset that the president did not try to halt a raft of voting restrictions passed by Georgia’s GOP-led legislature.
“I
think the frustration is at an all-time high, and Biden can’t go to
Georgia or any other Black state in the South and say, ‘This is what we
delivered in 2021,’ ” said Robinson, whose group believes it reached
1.2 million Black men in Georgia. “Black men are pissed off about the
nothingness that has happened. . . . Does it make the work harder? It
makes the work damn near impossible.”
With more than 30 years of experience with the Canadian Armed Forces,
Bonvie spoke of how Western militaries are making use of research by du
Cluzel and others, and incorporating novel cognitive warfare techniques
into their combat activities.
“Cognitive warfare is a new type of hybrid warfare for us,” Bonvie said.
And it means that we need to look at the traditional
thresholds of conflict and how the things that are being done are really
below those thresholds of conflict, cognitive attacks, and non-kinetic
forms and non-combative threats to us. We need to understand these
attacks better and adjust their actions and our training accordingly to
be able to operate in these different environments.
Although he portrayed NATO’s actions as “defensive,” claiming
“adversaries” were using cognitive warfare against them, Bonvie was
unambiguous about the fact that Western militaries are developing these
tecniques themselves, to maintain a “tactical advantage.”
“We cannot lose the tactical advantage for our troops that we’re
placing forward as it spans not only tactically, but strategically,” he
said.
Some of those different capabilities that we have that we
enjoy all of a sudden could be pivoted to be used against us. So we
have to better understand how quickly our adversaries adapt to things,
and then be able to predict where they’re going in the future, to help
us be and maintain the tactical advantage for our troops moving forward.
Marie-Pierre Raymond, a retired Canadian lieutenant colonel who
currently serves as a “defence scientist and innovation portfolio
manager” for the Canadian Armed Forces’ Innovation for Defence
Excellence and Security Program, also joined the October 5 panel.
“Long gone are the days when war was fought to acquire more land,” Raymond said.
Now the new objective is to change the adversaries’
ideologies, which makes the brain the center of gravity of the human.
And it makes the human the contested domain, and the mind becomes the
battlefield.
“When we speak about hybrid threats, cognitive warfare is the most
advanced form of manipulation seen to date,” she added, noting that it
aims to influence individuals’ decision-making and “to influence a group
of a group of individuals on their behavior, with the aim of gaining a
tactical or strategic advantage.”
Raymond noted that cognitive warfare also heavily overlaps
with artificial intelligence, big data, and social media, and reflects
“the rapid evolution of neurosciences as a tool of war.”
Raymond is helping to oversee the NATO Fall 2021 Innovation Challenge
on behalf of Canada’s Department of National Defence, which delegated
management responsibilities to the military’s Innovation for Defence
Excellence and Security (IDEaS) Program, where she works.
In highly technical jargon, Raymond indicated that the cognitive warfare program is not solely defensive, but also offensive:
This challenge is calling for a solution that will
support NATO’s nascent human domain and jump-start the development of a
cognition ecosystem within the alliance, and that will support the
development of new applications, new systems, new tools and concepts
leading to concrete action in the cognitive domain.”
She emphasized that this “will require sustained cooperation between
allies, innovators, and researchers to enable our troops to fight and
win in the cognitive domain. This is what we are hoping to emerge from
this call to innovators and researchers.”
To inspire corporate interest in the NATO Innovation Challenge, Raymond
enticed, “Applicants will receive national and international exposure
and cash prizes for the best solution.” She then added tantalizingly,
This could also benefit the applicants by potentially providing them access to a market of 30 nations.
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