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Fantastic! Great news!
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This is the whole thread from The New School.

https://twitter.com/TheNewSchool/status ... 8995019777
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Seen this happen so many times before, so-called progressive institutions acting just like corporations when it comes to their own workers. :problem:
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Glendale police activate Taser on woman over a dozen times at WalMart
A spokesperson for the Glendale Police Department says that an off-duty officer was assisting loss prevention at the WalMart near 59th and Northern avenues on Wednesday for a shoplifter.

They say a woman would not comply with orders and resisted arrest which led to a Taser being used for her to comply.

The spokesperson says that the device was activated in the ‘drive stun’ function which is intended for pain compliance instead of incapacitation.

“It was initiated 14 times, the total amount of time it was activated being used was 10.6 seconds,” said Gina Winn, with the Glendale Police Department, “that doesn’t mean that’s the amount of time it was placed on the individual.”

It’s unclear how many of the 14 times hit the woman.

A bystander entering the shopping center recorded the encounter as well, concerned about the number of times a Taser was used, "I thought she was going to die from that many Tasings," said Trisha Curby.....
https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/stat ... 9542408192
Here's an interview with the CEO of Walmart bragging about their partnership with local cops a few days ago. Is using a local gang of violent psychos to tase an unarmed woman 14 times the partnership with police that Walmart had in mind?
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UAW Local 7902
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You heard it here first: We have countersigned a tentative agreement and the strike is ending.

Stay tuned for the official joint statement from part-time faculty and New School management.

We look forward to returning to our students.

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https://twitter.com/UAW7902/status/1601780812986585088
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Fuck Wallyworld :mrgreen: ..............

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meet-yah ... 35263.html
Meet Yahoo Finance's 2022 Company of the Year: Costco
In a year of rampant inflation—not seen since the early 1980s—Costco (COST) was a warm hug to millions of loyal members by keeping prices for everything from food to gasoline as low as possible, just as rivals were aggressively jacking up prices.

It also provided a warm hug to its fans on Wall Street, producing stellar results from sizable same-store sales increases to its stock price, which got the best of the S&P 500 (^GSPC) index. Not to mention its sales of $222.7 billion in the fiscal year ended October, up a whopping 16 percent.

For that and more—including Costco's continued status as one of the nation's best employers—we named the Issaquah, Washington–based warehouse behemoth our 2022 Company of the Year.
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bradman wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 3:22 pm Fuck Wallyworld :mrgreen: ..............

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meet-yah ... 35263.html
Meet Yahoo Finance's 2022 Company of the Year: Costco


:D
I've been a Costco member for nearly 20 years and it's one of the best stores I've ever shopped in. I also like that they pay their employees fairly well which results in lower employee turnover. It's no wonder they are Yahoo Finance's 2022 Company of the Year.
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As to bad Companies, I just did a promotion with Verizon as they are the only ones we can use where we live, long story, where I trade in my old iphone for a new iphone 14 and it's basically FREE. My current phone, my current account has no add Ons at all other than what promotional freebies came with a recent change I made.

After I did the order over the phone, since the Costco cell phone companies are all closed now in case you didn't know, I looked at the estimated new future Bill and of course it was too high, I found that contrary to what I told them they added every possible thing you can think of like device insurance, tech coach, cloud etc, and they changed my data plan to the more expensive one which the trade in did not require.

So I spent two days on the phone with them to clear it up and at one point the guy said he NEVER has seen that happen before, and almost believed him the way he said it, but clearly they do this to everybody.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5t2dufNkvU
Increasing number of people in United Kingdom go hungry because of price spikes

A winter of discontent is coming for the United Kingdom. Monday, the first in what will be weeks of nationwide strikes across professions began in protest of the skyrocketing living costs. Now, a bleak winter forces many to decide whether to heat their homes or feed their family. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports from Whitehawk, one of the poorest districts of Brighton.


Donors meet in Paris to get Ukraine through winter, bombing
Dozens of countries and international organizations threw their weight and hundreds of millions of euros (dollars) behind a fresh and urgent push Tuesday to keep Ukraine powered, fed, warm and moving this winter, responding defiantly to sustained Russian aerial bombardments that have plunged millions into the cold and dark by targeting critical infrastructure.

An international donor conference in Paris quickly racked up pledges of financial and in-kind support to help Ukraine's beleaguered civilian population survive winter’s freezing temperatures and long nights....
International Community comes together to build new things to be destroyed in ongoing war, vowing to not let people traumatized daily by the ongoing war, deprivation, and winter without food electricity or functioning society to lose hope.

.....The European Union's chief executive, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, said the missile and drone bombardments are aimed at breaking Ukrainian morale but added: “Russia will fail.”.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4bgXH3sJ2Q
....Donor pledges quickly surged past the 400-million euro mark, the equivalent of more than US$420 million, Macron's office announced. The total included 125 million euros ($131 million) worth of aid from host France.

As temperatures plunge and snow falls, Ukraine's needs are huge and pressing. Successive waves of cruise missiles and exploding drones since October have destroyed about half of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, the Kyiv government says......

...As winter bites, “we need to do whatever we can to help improve conditions in Ukraine and also help them to fight off the Russian invaders,” he said. "We’re here for them as long as it takes.”.....
What have we done?
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10-year Treasury yield drops below 3.5% after inflation reading comes in lighter than expected

Treasury yields slid on Tuesday after data showed inflation rose less than expected for November, fueling hope that the Federal Reserve will slow the pace of rate hikes.

The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury dropped 15 basis points to 3.46%. The 2-year Treasury yield was last down by 20 basis points to 4.17% to hit its lowest level since Oct. 6.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/13/treasur ... gures.html
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Consumer prices rose less than expected in November, up 7.1% from a year ago

Prices rose less than expected in November, the latest sign that the runaway inflation that has been gripping the economy is beginning to loosen up.

The consumer price index, which measures a wide basket of goods and services, rose just 0.1% from the previous month, and increased 7.1% from a year ago, the Labor Department reported Tuesday. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been expecting a 0.3% monthly increase and a 7.3% 12-month rate.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/13/cpi-inf ... 2022-.html
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UK nurses join wave of strike action to demand better pay
Although nurses did not plan to strike in Scotland, Thursday's action was described as the biggest by nurses since the U.K.'s National Health Service was established in 1948.

The Royal College of Nursing has called for a pay rise at 5% above inflation, though it has indicated it would accept a lower offer. The government has said the demand was unaffordable, and talks between the two sides collapsed Monday.....
Bank of England hikes interest rates
...One big factor behind the need to keep raising rates is Britain's persistent shortage of workers, according to the bank.

“The labor market remains tight and there has been evidence of inflationary pressures in domestic prices and wages that could indicate greater persistence and thus justifies a further forceful monetary policy response," it said....


Employee fatally shot at Highland Park plant after argument with coworker
.....According to officials, the metal section these two men worked in is expected to close in January and move the production to Mexico. Patterson said that Wednesday’s incident has no impact on the metal section moving.....
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Rail workers rally in Royal Oak for better working conditions
...“They want to go down to one-person crews and automation if they could, but for public safety purposes and the safety of our members, we need to keep two people on the train,” said Donald Roach, SMART State Legislative Director.....
....Wendy Thompson spent 33 years at American Axle before retirement but says she will always work for what she believes is right.

“It seems so unfair to me to say you have to work long hours with no sick time,” said Thompson, who showed up to support union workers.

To this group, it is truly a sign of the times....
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NLRB Protects Workers from Employer Coercion During Investigation of Unfair Labor Practice Complaints

December 15, 2022 Today, the National Labor Relations Board issued a decision in Sunbelt Rentals, Inc., reaffirming its longstanding approach to protecting employees from coercion when they are interviewed by employers preparing for unfair labor practice proceedings before the Board. This decision follows the Board’s Notice and Invitation to File Briefs seeking public input regarding whether or not to adhere to the standard first adopted in 1964 in Johnnie’s Poultry, 146 NLRB 770 (1964), which found that such interviews violated the National Labor Relations Act unless the employer gave the employee specific assurances.

After considering public comment, a Board majority consisting of Chairman McFerran and Members Wilcox and Prouty found that the Johnnie’s Poultry standard effectively balances employers’ legitimate need to prepare a defense to an unfair labor practice allegation with employees’ statutory right to engage in protected concerted activity free from employer interference, and decided to adhere to the Johnnie’s Poultry standard in whole. The standard states:

https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news ... igation-of
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Minimum wage increase GOP tried to block could take effect this winter
The 2018 law allows workers at businesses with 10 or fewer employees to earn 40 hours per year of paid sick time, and up to 72 hours annually for workers at larger businesses. In addition, the minimum wage in Michigan would increase to $13.03 an hour, the subminimum tipped wage of $3.75 an hour would be eliminated and instead those workers would receive $11.73 an hour plus tips. Over 600,000 Michiganders will see a raise as a result of this increase.

These changes will take effect on Feb. 19, 2023 ― roughly a month after new lawmakers are seated, and Democrats officially take control of both chambers of the Michigan Legislature. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will swear her second oath of office on Jan. 1, 2023.....
Fed plans to keep rates high fight vulnerable with recession deeper desperation
....“We’re going to break something. We’re going to break inflation or we’re going to break the economy.’’.....
theyre going to break an already broken society and economic system even worse.
..The Fed is especially worried that a worker shortage in the labor-intensive services sector — everything from restaurants and hotels to airlines and entertainment venues — could keep pay growth high and make inflation more intractable....
Mets set to shatter payroll records, soar to about $350M
Steve Cohen's New York Mets are on track to shatter spending records in his third season as owner, boosting payroll to about $350 million for purposes of the luxury tax and poised to pay a penalty of about $80 million......
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University of California, workers reach deal to end strike

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The University of California reached an agreement Friday with some 36,000 graduate student teaching assistants and other academic workers for increased pay and benefits that could potentially end a monthlong strike — the largest of its kind in the nation — at the prestigious state system.

The strike disrupted classes at all 10 of the university system’s campuses. The agreement still needs to be ratified before the strike officially ends.

https://apnews.com/article/business-edu ... 0722b00422
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Child workers found throughout Hyundai-Kia supply chain in Alabama

At least four major suppliers of Hyundai Motor Co and sister Kia Corp have employed child labor at Alabama factories in recent years, a Reuters investigation found, and state and federal agencies are probing whether kids have worked at as many as a half dozen additional manufacturers throughout the automakers’ supply chain in the southern U.S. state.

At a plant owned by Hwashin America Corp, a supplier to the two car brands in the south Alabama town of Greenville, a 14-year-old Guatemalan girl worked this May assembling auto body components, according to interviews with her father and law enforcement officials. At plants owned by Korean auto-parts maker Ajin Industrial Co, in the east Alabama town of Cusseta, a former production engineer told Reuters he worked with at least 10 minors. And six other ex-employees of Ajin said they, too, worked alongside multiple underage laborers.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/sp ... n-hyundai/
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Allright Rashida

Tlaib Introduces Restaurant Workers Bill of Rights to Improve the Lives of Restaurant Workers Nationwide
...“I can’t express enough how grateful and honored I am that the Restaurant Workers Bill of Rights was introduced in the House of Representatives by Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, who is a native of Detroit, like me, and has spent all her life in the state of Michigan,” said Crystal Coleman, a restaurant worker in Detroit, Michigan. “Even when I work long hours, I still have to rely on state Medicaid, just for us to be protected in case I or one of my children gets sick. I am also on food stamps. I would have not experienced these hardships if the Restaurant Workers Bill of Rights was already in place. It’s time to call on Congress! We now need our representatives to vote for this resolution and start advancing the policies that are outlined in the Restaurant Workers Bill of Rights. We have been waiting for far too long!”.....
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https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status ... 3995479040
yesterday was the anniversary of Carl Sagan's passing, one of the great humanists and popularizers of science gone too soon. Here was his response when he was asked if he was a socialist:
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U.S. consumer spending, inflation slow in November

WASHINGTON, Dec 23 (Reuters) - U.S. consumer spending barely rose in November, while inflation cooled further, but not enough to discourage the Federal Reserve from driving interest rates to higher levels next year.

Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, edged up 0.1%, the Commerce Department said on Friday. Data for October was revised up to show spending surging 0.9% instead of 0.8% as previously reported.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-c ... 022-12-23/
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Taking the side of the rebel Jesus
...The pontiff has encouraged a broader discourse about an economic order in which so few have so much and so many have so little.

In so doing, he has put broader economic debates in perspective, especially when he has argued that “as long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world’s problems or, for that matter, to any problems.”....
Because the inequality and the economic order or should I say the economic disorder are the problems of the world magnified and multiplied.
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Elderly resident dies after being found outside assisted living center in bitter cold
The death of an 82-year-old woman found outside an assisted living facility early Friday is under investigation by police.

Police were called to Timber Ridge Village assisted living in the 16000 block of Park Lake Rd. after a snow plow driver clearing the parking lot shortly after 7 a.m. located her “curled up on the north end of the parking lot,” Bath Township Police Chief Lyle Lindemulder said in a release.

He said the woman was a resident of the facility and staff were notified and carried the woman inside.

Meridian Township Fire Department and Bath Township police and fire department personnel attempted to treat the woman for what Lindemulder said was extreme cold exposure.......
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N.C. Chick-fil-A fined after paying workers with free meals instead of a wage, Labor Department says
The U.S. Department of Labor fined a North Carolina Chick-fil-A after it says the restaurant violated federal child labor and minimum wage regulations after paying some employees with meal vouchers instead of a wage.

The violation was among several at the restaurant, according to a Wednesday news release by the Labor Department, and it received a $6,450 fine. The Labor Department said the Hendersonville Chick-fil-A allowed three workers under the age of 18 to operate a trash compactor, in violation of federal child-labor regulations that prohibit employing minors to perform hazardous jobs.

The Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division investigation also found the restaurant paid employees, who worked to direct traffic, to work for meal vouchers rather than wages, in violation of federal minimum wage law.....
......In July, the same Chick-Fil-A location faced stiff public backlash when it posted a request on social media for "volunteers" to work the restaurant’s new drive-thru express. The fast-food chicken restaurant promised food instead of monetary compensation.........
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US retail sales rise 7.6 percent during holidays

U.S. retail sales rose 7.6 percent during the holidays this year, despite inflation pressures and recession fears.

The year-over-year bump recorded by Mastercard’s SpendingPulse tracker during the holiday period of Nov. 1 through Dec. 24 was lower than the 8.8 percent increase from 2020 to 2021, but exceeded the 7.1 percent forecasted this year.

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3788 ... -holidays/
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Is that corrected for inflation? 7% is fairly close to the increase in the consumer price index.

I can't speak for the whole world, but in my little corner of the world it seemed like there was a lot less interest in the holidays than usual. Hardly anyone outside neighborhoods where it's essentially mandatory put up lights. Tree lots were few and far between, to the point where they started delivering to boost sales. There were the usual giddy TV reports of busy stores with mobs of shoppers, but who believes TV Nooz any more? You see a shot of 20 people waiting at a door, and we're supposed to think the whole country looked like that. It sure didn't around here.
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ZoWie wrote: Tue Dec 27, 2022 11:04 am Is that corrected for inflation? 7% is fairly close to the increase in the consumer price index.

I can't speak for the whole world, but in my little corner of the world it seemed like there was a lot less interest in the holidays than usual. Hardly anyone outside neighborhoods where it's essentially mandatory put up lights. Tree lots were few and far between, to the point where they started delivering to boost sales. There were the usual giddy TV reports of busy stores with mobs of shoppers, but who believes TV Nooz any more? You see a shot of 20 people waiting at a door, and we're supposed to think the whole country looked like that. It sure didn't around here.
During the holidays, I don't visit many stores or malls mainly because they too crowded so I judge shopping based upon how crowded the Navy Exchanges are at North Island and Navy Base San Diego. Neither Exchange was as busy as they were five years ago and the lines for waiting to checkout took about 10 minutes, much less than in the past. I think a lot of purchases made this year was done online. Even watching the local news the crowds at the malls wasn't bad.

Note, I took a walk to downtown Coronado to the Hotel del Coronado and the sidewalks were crowded, especially the restaurants. We don't have any big stores like Target or Walmart, mainly just small shops so why there were so many people out is beyond me.
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