Chetzemoka
Yeah way too many people don’t recognize the methods of passive genocide as being such.
“We’re not going to put you in death camps per se; we’re just going to lock you out of every effective means of social and financial advancement, continually reduce the amount of money you’re able to make to feed yourself, and also refuse to feed, shelter, or clothe you. What’s the problem? It’s not like we’re putting you in death camps.”
Edit: found how to fix this in “account preferences”
Mine hide in the short term when I “Mark as Read” (you can turn on the “Mark as Read” checkmark button in post settings). But the marked as read/hidden status isn’t holding over, if I navigate away from the page I was on. So every time I navigate to All, I’m seeing the same posts I just marked as read a couple minutes ago
The rail strike would have had major economy-wide side effects, including people in other industries being laid off and inflation being exacerbated by shortages in basic food, water, gas.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/looming-rail-strike-would-take-a-major-toll-on-u-s-economy
After averting the strike, the Biden administration continued to pressure and negotiate with rail companies to get the paid sick days that were the sticking point. But there’s been almost no news coverage about that fact.
"Negotiations with the other labor coalition unions continued toward a Sept. 15 deadline, but when it became obvious that the bargaining parties would not reach consensus by then, Biden asked then-Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh to assemble the sides and reach an acceptable agreement that would head off a national freight rail strike.
On deadline day, the parties reached an agreement on an updated contract that included the biggest wage increases in 47 years. Over the next several weeks, while acknowledging that the agreement was less than perfect, the IBEW and several of its fellow coalition unions voted to ratify the agreement. A handful of others, however, did not, instead threatening a December freight rail strike.
Biden, citing the potential economic impact of a national freight rail strike during the winter holidays, on Nov. 28 called on Congress to impose the emergency board’s agreement.
Since then, several other railroad-related unions have also seen success in negotiating for similar sick-day benefits. These 12 unions represent more than 105,000 railroad workers. (emphasis mine)
“Biden deserves a lot of the credit for achieving this goal for us,” Russo said. “He and his team continued to work behind the scenes to get all of rail labor a fair agreement for paid sick leave.”
https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid
A much, much larger question is this: If that rail infrastructure is THIS critical to the basic functioning of our economy, why are we allowing it to be held hostage by private for-profit corporations? This shit should be nationalized and those should be government jobs.
What on earth are you talking about? I literally just said these workers are SO important that I think they should be nationalized.
A strike is not a good thing. The purpose of unionizing is NOT to strike. Getting demands is the goal and they got that through back channels without a strike. The union itself reports this as a victory.
I’m literally unionizing at my job right now and I keep having to explain to this to my colleagues who are terrified they’ll have to endure a long strike without pay if we unionize. A strike is a last resort desperation move. It. Is. Not. The. Goal. Collective bargaining negotiations is the goal. That was accomplished without a strike.
I couldn’t log in to Boost using my kbin account. So I created an account on startrek.website with the same username and I’m running with that just fine on Boost. It doesn’t really have much impact on the day to day activity of me basically just browsing All and bs-ing with people.
I suspect Boost doesn’t support (and might not be able to support) kbin because of the unique kbin features like non-anonymous voting and the “boost” for visibility/favoriting thing on kbin.
I’m now seeing a larger volume of both up and down votes, which just don’t translate to kbin for some reason? (Like on kbin I would see comments about how hard downvoted a comment was, and I’m only seeing like two downvotes. On boost now I’m seeing all of that invisible stuff.)
Overall, just the ability to permanently hide posts that I’ve marked as read and having a save post function that isn’t the kbin “boost” feature is going to keep me using this startrek.website account so I can use the Boost app.
The only thing I miss is my more concentrated interactions with some of the people who show up frequently on kbin. Those usernames I’ve come to recognize