You're just fucking over people who work for hourly wages and/or have childcare issues. People who otherwise might be sympathetic to your cause.
It's the stupidest form of protest there is. Maybe it would be fine in a country with a better social safety net, but in the US it impacts poor working people the most, while wealthier people can just work remotely or stay home and still earn their salary.
Meanwhile some single mom is being blocked from picking her kid up from school.
That's fucked up. You should have been a teamster. Those boys have a pretty strong union.
I am a dues-paying member of IUPAT Painters Local 10 and will be till the day I die!
Too fucking right! Local 10 till I die!
OK, so what's the worst thing then?
Both UA and IBEW have a higher pay scale than the Ironworkers local where I live.
It's also because a lot of blue-collar guys are heavy smokers and drinkers, which ages people fast. It's not so much the work as it is the lifestyle. The work can cause injuries as well, but being injured isn't the same thing as looking older than your years.
It's suspicious, but not even remotely proof of falsity or grounds for dismissing it outright. That's just sloppy motivated thinking on your part.
NPR's bias is toward the wealthy and educated class. It's not a political bias at all. That said, there are NPR affiliates who do produce and air leftist programming, but that's not the same as NPR itself. A lot of people are very confused about how public radio is structured, I think because public radio has not done a good job of explaining it to the public.
Correction; it's what some people want. Most people pay very little attention to Twitter, X or Mastodon. These systems are very much about providing a way for media and tech elite to talk to each other.
That's because they literally aren't.
That's totally fair. My union threatened to strike and ran pickets in 2019 and basically got what we asked for, little though it was.
We authorized a strike in 2022 and the signatory contractors basically gave us most of what we wanted because they didn't want to lose out on the "CHIPS" act money.
Now here we are with billions on the table, and I think it's time to strike again.
There are also regional dynamics at play, but fortunately my union is on top of all that and we are planning accordingly.
Iran is Persian, not Arab. They are also currently engaged in a power struggle by proxy with the KSA, ostensibly to determine which of them will become the region's dominant power. There is no world in which KSA sides with Iran, and as they go (MBS really) so go most of the other big players in the Arab world.