Discussion: Picketing at Greenway Market?

Since we are lacking data, we have to fall back on the general condition that, in the aggregate, unions are good for both workers and communities

https://www.epi.org/publication/unions-and-well-being/

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Discussion: Picketing at Greenway Market?

jeffl said:

DaveSchmidt said:

joan_crystal said:

Even if Greenway employees were paid more than what is in the contract, they would not be receiving the wages provided in the Union contract.

You’re saying the UFCW may have put a dishonest spin on that sentence’s plain meaning. As a member of a union myself, I give the UFCW more credit than that.

It's in the union's best interest to spin things in their favor. It may be true that union employees do make more, but that may be washed out by union dues. I'm not at all anti-union. But I have worked with some unions that were deceptive towards employees who they wanted to join the union.  In my case, the employees didn't think the potential union benefits were worth it. 

i always find it funny when someone claims that union dues offset the benefits gained by a union contract.  I pay 2.5% dues.  Non union people in my field earn almost the same wages.  But I have a pension.  They do not.  I have an annuity.  They do not.   I have health insurance.  They do not.  And most importantly, I have a job steward I can report safety concerns to and they get addressed.  So yes, I pay dues.

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Discussion: The NYT Spelling Bee Thread

got the QB. My last word was a very common word. Can't believe it took me that long to see it.

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Discussion: Ohio is still scaring me. No! Wait! Is that hope on the horizon? Nope.

Oh look! Gov. DeWine found his spine!

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DeWine takes aim at Trump, Vance over Springfield claims

“I am saddened by how they and others continue to repeat claims that lack evidence and disparage the legal migrants living in Springfield,” DeWine wrote.

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Discussion: Ohio is still scaring me. No! Wait! Is that hope on the horizon? Nope.

In today's GOP, it's practically a profile in courage.

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Discussion: Picketing at Greenway Market?

mrincredible said:

you may think that’s funny but it’s not

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Discussion: Roger McGuinn at SOPAC

The video above was posted in a Politics thread, and it called to mind Roger McGuinn’s autobiographical acoustic performance at SOPAC on Saturday, when he mentioned how much it meant to him for Dylan and the other all-stars to choose his arrangement of My Back Pages for this concert and to grant him the honor of singing the opening verse.

It’s still hard for me to believe it was my honor to sit just a couple of dozen of feet away from a giant like Roger McGuinn, who at 82 remained nimble-fingered on guitar and banjo. (His voice was even reedier with age, but hell if I cared.) 

My favorite anecdote he shared was about his friend Peter Fonda’s asking him for a new song for Fonda’s low-budget motorcycle movie. McGuinn suggests that Fonda ask Dylan instead. Fonda flies to New York and finds Dylan in a bar. Dylan scribbles something on a cocktail napkin, hands it to Fonda and says: “Give this to McGuinn. He’ll know what to do with it.” Fonda flies back go L.A. and shows up at McGuinn’s door with the napkin. On it is written: “The river flows. It flows to the sea. Wherever that river goes, that’s where I want to be.”

McGuinn takes the Ballad of Easy Rider from there.

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Discussion: Meet the Mets (For Mets Fans Only!)

jfinnegan said:

Phils are going for best record. Plus they likely hate the Mets slightly more than Atlanta.

one thing we can say for the current postseason rules is it keeps most of the playoff teams playing hard to the end to fight for seeding. 

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Discussion: The NYT Spelling Bee Thread

Got the QB. First one in a few days without help from Buddy. Good day to go for it. 

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Discussion: What does Putin want (and whatabout it)

nan said:

I don't think he wants to launch a nuclear war, but he did not want to invade Ukraine either. You can't try to logically figure out those things.  You just do what you can to avoid situations where justifications need to be made. The West keeps provoking him and eventually he runs out of patience.  Then bad stuff happens.  Have you never been worn down by a friend or relative that kept harping on you?  That's how I ended up taking ballet and tap dance lessons as a child and it was a miserable experience for all involved.

We've all been there -- your friend just keeps going on and on and, next thing you know, you find yourself in a bloody field with no memory of the past few days, surrounded by an army hailing you as Caesar of the Third Rome and restorer of the historical unity of the Russian and Ukrainian people. Who among us hasn't been forced to launch a massive war from time to time?

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