conk

an invisible man trying to sing with all mankind.

[OPSEU/SEFPO @OPSEU]

More than 10,000 full-time college support staff are ON STRIKE as of 12:01 a.m. This is not just a fight for a contract – it’s about the future of student support. We’re fighting because we know our students need us.

Join a picket line near you 🫵 https://t.co/Fk5ToG4S9I

[Mikayla Gallant @mikayla_gallant]

🚨 FYI the City of Charlottetown hired Island Coastal Construction today as scab workers to do a job which cost FAR more $ than it would have cost their CUPE workers. The following issues were witnessed on the job:

[Mikayla Gallant @mikayla_gallant]

CUPE on Strike!

CUPE Local 830 Charlottetown Water and Sewer have voted 90% in favor to strike. If these workers walk the picket, I hope to see all of you there supporting our municipality workers!

#pei #peipoli

[OmbudsPEI @OmbudsPEI]

Do you feel you have you been treated unfairly by the provincial government, a local government, a post-secondary institution, or any provincial public body?

OmbudsPEI is hosting mobile complaint clinics across the Island every week in May in these locations:

Souris
Eastern Kings Community Centre – 85 Munns Rd, Souris, PE
Tuesday, May 6th 12:00pm – 6:30pm

Montague
Montague Rural Action Centre – 540 Main St, Montague, PE
Tuesday, May 13th 12:00pm – 6:30pm

O’Leary
St. Luke’s Hall – 1020 Route 142, O’Leary Corner, PE
Thursday, May 22nd 12:00pm – 6:30pm

Summerside
Summerside Rotary Library – 57 Central St, Summerside, PE
Thursday, May 29th 12:00pm – 6:30pm

Our impartial and independent services are free and open to all islanders. Experienced staff will determine whether they can help you on the spot or if we need more information to resolve the issue.

Drop-ins are welcome, though appointments are encouraged. Please call 902-288-1105 to secure your spot. If you cannot come to one of our mobile clinics, you can always call us or submit your complaint online at https://t.co/22W0skXboE.

[conk @johnconkell]

@CodyInHiFi Awesome! I hope they go well!

[Eugene V. Debs Museum @DebsMuseum]

While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

[conk @johnconkell]

very similar situations handling termination grievances. employers offer settlements that are cruel and demeaning compared to what a worker's owed, but people need wages to live, or their citizenship depends on employment, so they leap to accept the punishment

[Ry-Guy @Ry_Gunn013]

One of the last straws as a public defender was when I begged a girl not to take a felony probation plea to a charge I knew I could beat at trial. However, the girl had been in jail for a year bc she couldn’t make bond and wanted to get back to her kids. I cried taking the plea

[tabitha arnold @thetolerantweft]

Me signing my email “in solidarity”

[conk @johnconkell]

yesterday i had a membership meeting where members' stories had me staring at the horrors of the past like

[conk @johnconkell]

i'm not being sarcastic. that's the good stuff. the majority of my time goes towards arguing with managers who act like full-diapered toddlers except their tantrums ruin people's lives.

and expense forms. i hate expense forms.

[conk @johnconkell]

the most exciting parts of my union work are when i get to revise survey templates and update charts and lists. the really great days are when i drive several hours on a weekend to have the same conversation over and over with (if i'm lucky) ten strangers.

[Honda Wang 王宏达 @HondaWang]

so-called leftists whine about "being denied the FUN parts of being a Leftists like getting rowdy at protests"

meanwhile, serious people who were actually trying to change the world in the 20th century:

[conk @johnconkell]

would also work for an RPG, a steward/rep/organizer by nature of the role is justified in running around talking to everyone and asking lots of questions.

[conk @johnconkell]

it seems entirely possible to take the structure of a copaganda show and instead make it about shop stewards/reps handling grievances. can get all kinds of different plots out of the protag just being overworked and assigned to too many different bargaining units.

[conk @johnconkell]

who knew that constant imposter syndrome and anxiety could be comforted by playing around with a cheap harmonica

[conk @johnconkell]

my favourite part of nosferatu is when the tension and stress has been building and building then von Franz is introduced and provides instant relief by saying (as i remember) "wow you look like shit want some schnapps?"

[conk @johnconkell]

i have a deep freezer now and after stocking it up i am experiencing a squirrel-like joy

[conk @johnconkell]

@PropaGandalf866 this guy's moved around so much, how does he afford the cost of selling/buying over and over?

[conk @johnconkell]

@jstp0stingthngs the city of brass by s.a. chakraborty

the expanse series is also pretty good without being too heavy

[conk @johnconkell]

@jstp0stingthngs newfoundland isn't an amazing campaign launch spot (i assume, i know nothing about that stuff) but it seems like it'd be better than pei

[conk @johnconkell]

@jstp0stingthngs imagine launching an invasion of north america from a small sandbar rather than the other larger, sparsely populated, solid stone island 500km further out to sea which also already has an international airport