Thank you!! Some of these takes about contract policy/structuring and players (employees!) communicating with other players are bordering on anti-worker and anti-union!!!!
this may very well be a stupid question, but is it considered tampering if it’s conversations between players? Because my labor brain is just like oh, encouraging better working conditions and discussing other opportunities within the same union lmao
BREAKING: United Auto Workers today passed a resolution at its convention, 321-287, to divest from Israeli bonds.
With nearly 400,000 members, UAW becomes the largest US union to officially divest from Israel.
The vote received support from a range of sectors, including a large number of Michigan auto delegates, in addition to legal services and higher education.
The original call for divestment came from a wildcat strike of 2,000 mainly Arab American workers at Chrysler’s Dodge Main in 1973. Amid the genocide in Gaza, pro-Palestinian labor groups and UAW locals renewed and intensified their campaign.
Speakers motivated for the resolution by citing the union’s legacy of divesting from South African apartheid in 1978.
This is insane:
• UofM cracks down on and arrests anti-genocide student protesters
• Ann Arbor prosecutor Eli Savit declines to prosecute
• UofM recruits MI AG and Zionist lunatic Dana Nessel to personally prosecute the case—HIGHLY unusual for such low-level charges
• Nessel forced to drop all charges to preempt court finding her unable to fairly prosecute the case due to her bias against Arabs and Muslims as well as her ties to Zionist extremist groups caught attempting to influence the court
• Nessel (a Democrat!) turns to Trump DoJ and Kash Patel to bring felony conspiracy charges against the students
The myth of democracy can’t survive into the age of trillionaires—the ruling class isn’t even pretending it will. They’re busy preparing for an entirely different future than the one they’re selling us on. In fact most of us don’t appear in their future at all. This may be our last moment of choice.
It’s just so silly to me. There are people you don’t have to “grill” that you could hire and assume the best of like men are addicted to doing the most convoluted thing possible in any situation
MLB promising to end blackouts if they get a salary cap — something that won’t happen, because all national games (which they add more of every year) will still be blacked out — has powerful “fifth grade class president promising recess twice a day and ice cream for lunch” energy
The PWHL Detroit discord has been making plans to donate to pro-trans and pro-LGBTQ+ charities for every goal/point BCS scores, and set up a website and IG for it. They’re planning on adding a donation tracker and list of charities! Help spread the word https://t.co/lTsy6QZYId