Harper stokes resentments in discreet class war: McQuaig | Toronto Star
Nothing discreet about it.
Aaargh! Teh stupid — it burns!
I’d suspect that another Sun “reader” got lost on the internetz, but for the correct spelling.
i am fed up with a government that shows no respect to workers - without whom it would crumble - and confused why the union refuses to fight with all it has to protect the hard won right - which people in the past died for - to collectively bargain with the employer.
i am also confused why “the public” and “parents” who go on and on about how voting is so important and its a right that people - women and people of colour especially - fought and died for, get up in arms when teachers - many of whom are women and people of colour - attempt to protect a right that those before them fought and died for - the right to collectively bargain. teach your child that they deserve respect in the workplace and you’ll contribute to a better world for all. teach them that if they stand up to authority when it behaves egregiously they’ll be fired and you teach them to usher in fascism.
H/t @SidRyan_OFL.
You see now, I hope, why I’m so focused on the meanings of words. George Orwell had a point.
Lincoln on labour and capital.
(h/t Mike Belmore)
“Fuck your unpaid internship.”
This was one of the more colour-ful slogans scrawled on a sign at the peak of the Occupy movement. Held up by young people who stand to lose large from financial-crisis fallout, placards like these are refreshingly frank refusals of the mantra that we must be willing to do “more for less” nowadays. A 21st-century update on Bartleby’s famous reply to the duties assigned by his boss – “I’d prefer not to” – the intern invective expresses the frustration bubbling among youth facing mounting student debt and diminishing prospects for employment.
Walmart Workers Ask For Basic Rights, Walmart Calls Riot Police
What you’re supporting when you shop at Walmart.
Doesn’t say whether they pepper-sprayed anybody.
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