all workers' strikes are good. yes even if they're inconvenient. even if they're making your life harder. even if you don't get to watch your favourite tv show. workers fighting for their rights is ALWAYS a good thing
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ok, i was already wholeheartedly supporting the sag-wga strike, but now it's personal. which studio head do i need to torture so that they stop being cheap fucks and start paying people what they deserve and we can all get severance s2?
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oh no you are on a babygirl poll
youre losing :(
”What?? Why am I on there?”
Why are you losing? You should win!! We should fire the writers!!!
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in case you haven't thought about switching to firefox yet, here's an extension that will...
Notify you if a website you're on has employees that are on strike
Bypass paywalls for major news outlets like the New York Times
Change the browser theme based on the time of day
Directly install third party non-extension scripts
Save individual browser sessions to be reopened at any time
Use the TV format of YouTube in-browser
Make all chrome extensions compatible with Firefox
Turn YouTube dislikes back on
Fix Twitter and make it way less fucked up
Automatically remove trackers from URLs
And many more!
Feel free to add any other firefox extensions you think are slept on.
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Bank Employees' Union Mulls Nationwide Strike in Jamshedpur Conclave
AIUBEA Meets in Jamshedpur to Address Worker Concerns
Union Bank staff representatives gather to discuss employee shortage, wage issues, and potential industrial action.
JAMSHEDPUR – All India Union Bank Employees Association convenes central executive meeting to address pressing workforce challenges.
The All India Union Bank Employees Association (AIUBEA) has initiated a crucial two-day meeting…
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So the owners at my new job are flat earthers who don't think women should have autonomy. Which explains so much of why the wife, when showing me how to do stuff, kept referring to her husband for basic things and why she had this "I'm being held hostage" vibe. Today, I found out that, through whatever fundy religion they're a part of, they won't let their son be on his own until he's married. Last night, his mother kept asking me if I had a boyfriend, what I look for in a man, etc., and had mentioned at some point that her son (3 years older than me) is also single... And everyone else working there is a man, and I always put "female" on job apps so I don't not get chosen for employment. So I'm, like, wondering now if I got hired to date their weird, cringefail son? One of the other employees said it was weird I got hired because they only hire men (I assumed due to their idea that anyone they think is a woman can't make decisions on their own). Weird situation. Weird vibe. But they also let me take food for free and don't make me clock out for breaks, so I'm like.... Do I leave or stay?
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The economic indicators speak of nothing less than an economic catastrophe. Over 46,000 businesses have gone bankrupt, tourism has stopped, Israel’s credit rating was lowered, Israeli bonds are sold at the prices of almost “junk bonds” levels, and the foreign investments that have already dropped by 60% in the first quarter of 2023 (as a result of the policies of Israel’s far-right government before October 7) show no prospects of recovery. The majority of the money invested in Israeli investment funds was diverted to investments abroad because Israelis do not want their own pension funds and insurance funds or their own savings to be tied to the fate of the State of Israel. This has caused a surprising stability in the Israeli stock market because funds invested in foreign stocks and bonds generated profit in foreign currency, which was multiplied by the rise in the exchange rate between foreign currencies and the Israeli Shekel. But then Intel scuttled a $25 billion investment plan in Israel, the biggest BDS victory ever.
These are all financial indicators. But the crisis strikes deeper at the means of production of the Israeli economy. Israel’s power grid, which has largely switched to natural gas, still depends on coal to supply demand. The biggest supplier of coal to Israel is Colombia, which announced that it would suspend coal shipments to Israel as long as the genocide was ongoing. After Colombia, the next two biggest suppliers are South Africa and Russia. Without reliable and continuous electricity, Israel will no longer be able to pretend to be a developed economy. Server farms do not work without 24-hour power, and no one knows how many blackouts the Israeli high-tech sector could potentially survive. International tech companies have already started closing their branches in Israel.
Israel’s reputation as a “startup nation” depends on its tech sector, which in turn depends on highly educated employees. Israeli academics report that joint research with universities abroad has declined sharply thanks to the efforts of student encampments. Israeli newspapers are full of articles about the exodus of educated Israelis. Prof. Dan Ben David, a famous economist, argued that the Israeli economy is held together by 300,000 people (the senior staff in universities, tech companies, and hospitals). Once a significant portion of these people leaves, he says, “We won’t become a third world country, we just won’t be anymore.”
19 July 2024
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