Employers exploit the worker's financial insecurity to keep them from complaining about conditions and pay: they're afraid of losing their jobs. This ...
It's not my freedom. It's the American conservatives'. Yes, they are intent on tearing down the federation. https://www.commoncause.org/resource/u-s-c...
Exactly! It's a huge gamble for the members: the strike pay is much less than they have been accustomed to live on, and lower-level jobs don't pay eno...
I believe that your country has feeble, underfunded and possibly criminal trade unions. Corruption can happen anywhere. But I imagine you still have p...
Which collective? Which of its members? Every nation-state excludes of the needs and wants of some citizens - often, the majority of its citizens - an...
conveniently Not out of ignorance that they feel and think like other people. Not from a cultural assumption that people only do illegal things if the...
That's what all societies expect. Obey the law - yes, even the petty traffic rules. Serve in the armed forces if there is war. Send your children to s...
Not in my experience. From body language and facial expression, I can only guess what someone may be thinking (dogs are easier to read than people), b...
How about the matrix of all life? I can as well understand the suffering of a fly in a spider's web or the distress of a swallow whose nest is threate...
Also young women with squeaky voices speaking very fast on the telephone. Nearly everyone speaks fast now; you get the feeling they want to get their ...
Nor do I. I was responding to someone who apparently does. Some concepts of good and bad may be subjective; most concepts of good and bad may be cultu...
I've never seen the audience weep at a golf match. Soccer fans are more demonstrative, and yes, that form of tribalism is certainly part of that nosta...
See US gun lobby/ gun laws/ mass shootings. See Munroe Doctrine. See the unending wrangle over health insurance. The argument against doing what's goo...
But that decision - or event, because they don't always intend to reproduce - is also greatly influenced by society. How they're trained to think of t...
Then why can't we express it in the quality of art and literature those other Romantics? How come our version is so tawdry and vulgar? Actually I thin...
If you say so... But logos doesn't catch the bombs before they hit Baghdad! Or redirect American investment from oil to clean drinking water. Or infor...
Yes, they did really invested in that fairy tale, didn't they? An ordinary, and not very bright girl became a huge international icon just by contract...
Like jillionnaires with political hacks spilling out of every pocket? Have you actually been in the US? Or watched American movies? Or listened to NBC...
It will. The whole metaphorical cardboard structure is coming down. Yeees... only... Well, let's say both the political and economic landscape of the ...
or the notoriety of the incident: mass shootings with many casualties, terror attacks, egregious police violence, twenty-car pile-ups - that kind of t...
So is hope - I hope! From 1800 to 1980, it was a rocky, stop-and-start, blood-spattered upward path. Since 1980, it has quite reversed incline, at lea...
I was talking about the dimness of outlook for labour. Even the supposedly leftist political parties have gone all middle-class - the entire working c...
Oh they're a lot more than that! They're fellow rowers in the same galley; all of your fates are linked by united action or wrecked by division and in...
Which means shareholders, waiting for their quarterly dividend and looking for the value of their stock to rise. The paymaster sure can! Indeed! And I...
No sh...er... kidding! Anyway, I voted "correctly" before questioning. Further questioning: I know something about the history of trade union movement...
That's a rational cause, worth persevering in. I've been in unions at various points in their life-cycle, including an attempt to form a brand new one...
Please share. I'm aware of some infiltration of some unions by organized crime (also by law-enforcement agencies and political agitators) but not of a...
It may hurt their feelings - assuming they all trust the leadership as much as you do - but there are occasions when it makes no material difference. ...
If you want someone to make a choice, you need to be clear what they're choosing between. You haven't even said who or what the employer is. What's th...
None of this happens in a social vacuum. Right- and wrong-doing is judged, indeed, defined, by the requirements of a community. Crime is defined by it...
How does a strike accomplish that. The demand "Keep us digging coal or we'll stop digging coal!" is nonsense. The strike must have been called in dire...
This remains unclear. What is the objective of the strike? What are the employer's options? If the strike succeeds, what does the worker gain? If it f...
Make that 30 years, because this is from a Guardian article of 2005. It's not a traditional part of either of my cultures. It doesn't seem to have bee...
If the legislation has any teeth, the mine will soon be closed anyway and everyone who can't find work in a more eco-friendly endeavour will be out of...
I wouldn't like strangers to leave stuff that will turn into garbage almost instantly, that some other strangers than have to clean up... maybe cursin...
Who actually benefits? In what way? That's what I really wonder: what people get out of leaving what turns into litter in a day or two on some street ...
All over the world! Because you are a or the major world power. Nobody likes to give up power. (see white supremacists... or nazis). Many individual A...
In an adult, I suppose it must be internally motivated; I don't see how anyone can induce anyone else to examine their own thinking and assumptions. U...
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