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  1. I locked fatty talk guys. You are all mentally getting middle fingers.

    Had a night to sleep on it, missed a glaring example of nurses and home health workers where gains could be made with union representation IMO. Quick google check showed 15 nurse strikes in 2021, 17 in 2022, and 36 in 2023.

    Not sure how the dynamics of travel nurses and “staff” nurses play out, or how effective the NNU is with negotiations.

  2. 8 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    Taxes.  Goes to the govt.  To relieve deadbeats of their debts.   Pretty simple.  

    But yeah, I've got my kids covered, too, which is fine. 

    So both public and private banks get your tax dollars when a loan is forgiven? Or does the interest that is 3x the principal amount cover some losses for both public and private? How much did you give in FY 2023?

  3. It’s bout to be summertime. In Texas. In New Mexico. In Arizona. All undoable with temps, terrain, and length. California may be the only doable/service entrance but that is the longest route.

     Any caravan talk will sputter out and by the time the argument can regain momentum, the reaction will be “not this stupid bullshit again”

  4. A hunter just came to me with tears in his eyes and said it’s so unfair what they do to me in my Joe Biden is God thread.

    “Every time you post great economic news or talk about state lege changes or shifting policy in areas of importance, some stupid dickhead like sheeeeeit or fatty or Boss Hogg intentionally, obtusely, and miraculously miss the most obvious fucking point and low level trolling wins the day.

    In my head I didn’t worry cause I knew there’d be more great economic news to post, there always is, and I said “Don't worry Q1 GDP is coming up, probably 3%.”

    The camouflage wearing man looked at me, wiped away his tears and said “Goddamn it Beau Biden got brain cancer from his time in the fire pits while serving overseas like a good American patriot! Dying in a hospital in America from a battle with brain cancer is the obvious end result. It’s not a lie that he died in Iraq”

    I comforted him and whispered “it’s ok, it’s gonna be 3%, and they’ll post a Project Veritas video

     

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  5. Holy shit this article is too funny. 

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/04/16/republican-governors-uaw/

    Spoiler

    Governors of six Southern states warn workers against joining UAW union

    Joint statement comes a day before Volkswagen factory in Tennessee votes on unionization — the first of more than a dozen factories the UAW is targeting
     

    In a high-profile attempt to head off unionization of their states’ auto factories, the governors of six Southern states warned their residents that joining the United Auto Workers would threaten jobs and “the values we live by.”

    The joint statement from the Republican governors comes just a day before a Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tenn., is set to vote on joining the UAW — the first of more than a dozen factories the union is targeting in the South as it attempts to break out of its Midwestern stronghold.

     

    “The reality is companies have choices when it comes to where to invest and bring jobs and opportunity,” the governors of Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas wrote. “Unionization would certainly put our states’ jobs in jeopardy.”

    The remarkable intervention follows signs of optimism among pro-union workers at the VW plant, who in recent days have expressed hope that the vote will pass. It begins Wednesday and lasts three days, with results expected late Friday.

     

    “They’re so scared,” UAW strategist Chris Brooks wrote on social media as he reposted Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey’s comment about the statement. The union didn’t otherwise provide a comment.

    An economist who has closely studied unionization in the South called the statement “unprecedented and shocking” and said it discouraged workers from exercising their legal right to organize.

    “It implies that the governors fear that the UAW will prevail in the upcoming union recognition election and that UAW success could upend their economic models built on relatively low pay and minimal worker voice,” Stephen Silvia, a professor at American University, said by email.

    Tennessee Republicans have helped thwart two UAW attempts to unionize the VW factory, in 2014 and 2019, and have ramped up their opposition in recent weeks with news conferences and public statements. During a visit to Chattanooga this month, Gov. Bill Lee said joining the union would be “a big mistake.”

    Some of the messages have stressed that the UAW endorsed President Biden and has long ties to the Democratic Party.

    “We have serious reservations that the UAW leadership can represent our values. They proudly call themselves democratic socialists and seem more focused on helping President Biden get reelected than on the autoworker jobs being cut at plants they already represent,” the governors wrote.

    Some VW workers told The Washington Post this month that they wished politicians would stay out of the matter and leave it up to employees.

    Democratic politicians have voiced support for the UAW. Democratic state senators in Tennessee on Tuesday criticized the Republican governors on social media. “Autoworkers in the South are ready to make history this week. #StandUp, Chattanooga!” Sen. London Lamar posted.

    Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, whose state faces a UAW organizing effort at a Toyota factory in Georgetown, said on social medialast week that unions have raised workers’ standard of living and that he was “proud to stand shoulder-to-shoulder” with the UAW.

     

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