Believe it or not, but you don’t have to explicitly state something for you to be doing something. It’s extremely obvious that you approached this news with that bias.

It’s part of the flaw in polling. AWU is a pretty substantial minority union (meaning they don’t have bargaining rights) and they have unionized retail stores. However, Google is also a massive company

The same way you organize anything. Start by talking to a couple trusted coworkers to form an organizing committee. All the members of the OC need to talk to coworkers, handle workplace drama, agitate for better conditions, educate people about unions, maintain systematic campaign tracking, and fight against the boss during their union busting campaign. When I worked remotely, it was as simple as sending a dm like this:

Hey, would you be able to talk over break? Some coworkers and I were discussing some issues and I wanted to hear your thoughts.

Unions are legal in the US. The labor movement is currently seeing a huge swell in new bargaining units across most unions

Unions generally don’t write or repeal laws, but a union contract can negotiate overtime pay where there isn’t any.

Tbh the idea of exploiting 100s of people for my personal gain makes me want to set the gun down and put on a trigger lock.

They’re kids, not English professors

The guy with a truck had a concept of a plan

I’ve always known and used them interchangeably, my health teacher had to update the ancient health textbooks through her lectures. This meant that when it came to the sex ed portion, we stopped using the 40 year old textbook almost entirely and used a modern bookless curriculum.

I suppose that’s a matter of perspective. Using inches for measurement and a total ignorance of sex education screams US to me

Planned Parenthood provides STD testing. Go see them. Set an appointment here

They’ll just have more slides on ethical yachting and how to cleanly produce power by burning heavy oil. COP is a greenwashing party for the rich people in governments.

I like to find news sources that analyze the story as well as explains where it fits into the ongoing situation, why it’s relevant, and has a reasonably accurate history of predictions based on their analysis. Since this is rare, I try to find a source that has 3 of the 4 to make it part of my news consumption. So this tends to include Democracy Now!, Some More News, Last Week Tonight, Beau of the Fifth Column, AP, and the like. A lot of the sources shared on lemmy, bar the NYT, are in that category

The NEA is peak business union. There are movements to democratize the union though. It’s happening in most unions lately

Factory farming should be banned. Food is not worth that cruelty, even if the fires have nothing to do with the farm itself.

Having lived in a house with radiators, bleeding registers is like a once every 5 years type of task. There’s a much larger leak in the system, you should talk to your apartment manager.

I have a friend that likes it well done. I cook it to medium well because I love them

Still a drop in the bucket, but these are fine numbers I can get behind

Hey, I resemble those remarks

If you truly want to help him, give him a list of post-carceral support resources, a note stating that you’re only willing to help more if he truly wants to change, and a small amount of money to get started.

Make it clear in the letter that you don’t want to see him in prison and that you know he’s a better person than that. Do not bring up the falling out just yet in case he’s willing to contact you for a real life change.