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racefortheironthrone · 10 months

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What are your thoughts on government intervention to end labor disputes in general? On one hand, forced settlements almost always favour management, and if management knows that the government will intervene, they have an incentive to stall negotiations and run out the clock, so to speak. On the other hand, some shutdowns will have far reaching negative effects on society as a whole, particularly if the strike involves the public service or things like railroads or ports.

In terms of my take on government intervention to end labor disputes, I'm fully in favor of procedural hypocrisy (or, as a philosophy PhD might put it, consequentialism) because the only question that really matters is whose side the government is intervening on behalf of. (This is where I'm going to make a massive plug on behalf of my colleague Erik Loomis' book A History of America in Ten Strikes, and in particular recommend his chapters on the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 and the Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1937.)

As a labor historian, I would say that as a rule, the state almost always intervenes in labor disputes at some level, whether it's the local cops and local government, the state militia, the U.S Army, or the courts. For most of labor history, the state has intervened on behalf of capital, and was broadly succesful in using its police power to crush strikes and keep the trade union movement economically marginal.

Where the union movement has been most successful is not when the state is neutral (because capital versus labor is not historically a fair fight between opponents of equal weight), but when the state intevenes on behalf of labor. So yeah, government intervention in labor disputes is awesome - when it's Governor Frank Murphy sending in the National Guard to keep the cops and the strikebreakers out of the plants in the Flint Strike, or the "Madden Board" NLRB enforcing the Wagner Act through the work of the Economic Division and the Review Division, or the National War Labor Board ordering Little Steel to recognize SWOC and agree to the union's terms.

Specifically on the issue of forced settlements, whether they're a good thing or a bad thing depends entirely on whose terms the settlement is made, which in turn depends on how labor law is written and enforced (and staffed). The whole reason why the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 mandates that "neither party shall be under any duty to accept, in whole or in part, any proposal of settlement made by the [Federal Mediation] Service" is because one of capital's biggest grievances against the "Madden Board" NLRB was that the Board's orders and settlement proposals had systematically favored workers between 1935-1947.

I think the numbers tell the tale - when the state was at its most "neutral" at the turn of the 20th century, union density hit a ceiling of 10% of the workforce. The only time that the labor movement broke through that ceiling was during WWI and then the New Deal, when the state shifted to supporting unions. And then when the state began to shift back in the direction of capital and labor law increasingly favored management, the union movement began to shrink.

This is why I always tell my students that the state is like a great stationary engine, and the only thing that changes is where that engine's power is being sent to. If you refuse to engage in electoral politics and only rely on direct action, the engine doesn't go away - it just gets harnessed by the other side and the power is used against you.

#history #labor history #labor law #trade unions #forced settlements #strikes

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lovelylunas-world · 4 months

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“Israel is acting according to international law”

was this after or before they dropped phosphorus on Gaza?🤨

Or turned off all the water and stopped food from going in?

“The idf is the most moral army in the world and isn’t trying to kill people”

so bombing civilians,stealing their belongings and stealing a child is moral?

#free palestine 🇵🇸#South Africa #free gaza #and remember Israel is a illegal settlement so no they don’t have the right to self defence according to international law.#they are a occupying force.#but as we know the law doesn’t apply to them #icj #icjp #palestine #endisraelsgenocide

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sarah-yyy · 3 months

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the worst part of this job is client interaction because i can really be out here asking y/n questions and my client will literally tell me every single thing EXCEPT the answer to my question

#i am AT MY LIMIT AGAIN MY DUDES #all i wanted to know from my client was 1) is there a problem with the tenants vacating because i am getting the vibe it's a Problem #and 2) if there is no problem when is the move-out date #this is just so i can draft this stupid settlement deed right #it's all information i need like if i could do without this i WOULD just so i wouldn't have to claw information out of my client-#-like it's killing him to tell me things that i actually have to know to be able to do the work he's engaged me to do #and he went on a whole spiel about how he's going to take opposing counsel to the law society like ?????????????????#buddy can we go one step at a time #that side track went on for almost ten mins and i was actively trying to turn the convo back!!! but we got back to the main issue!!#and i PRY that information out of him by baiting him to answer like i'm fucking cross-examining at trial #and come to this conclusion that it sounds like the tenants ARE vacating on the 29th #to attempt to get a firm answer i go 'okay so the tenants WILL vacate that's what you're telling me?? there's no problem??'#and he said 'under the tenancy act we can't force them to leave'#WHAT DOES THIS MEAN #BUDDY YOU'RE KILLING ME #what's a nice law job where i don't have to talk to people #work stories #sarah talks about herself

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claraameliapond · 1 month

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Children in Gaza scrape flour from the ground amidst Israel's obstruction of food aid and trucks, Israel's intentional forced starvation of the Palestinian people

This is Israel's intentionally enforced starvation of Palestine

Innocent people

Palestine must be decolonised forever

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news4dzhozhar · 4 months

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agentfascinateur · 4 days

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Big day tomorrow for Palestine at the UNGA

The United Nations General Assembly could vote on Friday on a draft resolution that would recognize the Palestinians as qualified to become a full U.N. member and recommend that the U.N. Security Council "reconsider the matter favorably." It would effectively act as a global survey of how much support the Palestinians have for their bid

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/palestinians-seek-un-general-assembly-backing-full-membership-2024-05-07/

It's the only reasonable way towards a two-state solution and to correct historical mistakes.

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workersolidarity · 6 months

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🇮🇱🇵🇸🚨 THERE IS NO UNITY: ISRAELI SETTLERS INTERCEPT ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES DURING THEIR ASSAULT ON DEIR SHARAF NEAR NABLUS FOR FEAR OF ESCALATION FROM PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE

@WorkerSolidarityNews

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robo-dino-puppy · 1 year

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*kiss*

#horizon forbidden west #hfw #aloy #erend #aloy x erend #ereloy #one for the shippers #soooooo frustrating we can't move the camera in settlements #this is super cropped #and not great quality #because i hadn't scrunched the camera closer #let us take settlement photos guerrilla!!!#tbf if you go into photomode right on the edge of a settlement #and then force the camera inside #the npcs tend to be... uh... minimally rendered #sometimes... kinda scary #so i guess that's why #but i think with camera mods you can do it on pc so... idk

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pacificgasandelectric · 7 months

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love seeing goyische Takes™ about israel that conveniently and unsubtly ignore that the modern state of israel was founded in the wake of the holocaust

like, was european (and later american) states’ support of zionism an explicitly colonial project? yes. did european jews in the wake of the holocaust (and frankly before it) have a VERY GOOD REASON to want to have a nation-state controlled by jews? also yes. does that excuse the colonial way in which the nation of israel was founded and its national status enforced? no. is israel the only state involved and the only government at fault? also no.

#mine #ce #israel/palestine for blacklist #EVERY DAY i am forced to see Takes.#like. the british empire’s defeat of the ottoman empire in palestine and the existence of Mandatory Palestine are #SO FUCKING IMPORTANT to the context of how israel got The Way It Is. so is the history of antisemitism in europe & in n africa & west asia #but you don’t get to pick and choose what parts of history you acknowledge either. jews did imperial-backed colonialism before the holocaus #AND then the fucking holocaust happened and that had a massive influence on the international viability of the zionist project.#jews everywhere faced violent antisemitism AND jews in palestine faced justified backlash to their settlement of occupied land.#it’s more complex than ‘X group was wrong abt everything and Y one was right’. nuance nuance nuance.#if you’re gonna cite history do it right. fucking. please.

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zevranunderstander · 2 months

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we just played a session of our campaign which was like the first HUGE arc finale, and I can only summarise it by saying that nemja's evil ex survived being barbequed by the most powerful magic source in the world because we teleported him away with us, 3 characters got powers / memories back that they didn't have access to since the start of the campaign and nemja's kids (yeah he stole some kids) very likely died a really horrible and cruel and undeserving death and none of these things are on the top 10 of Insane Things That Happened This Session

#myposts #im devastated about the children not gonna lie. like i had plans to relocate them to a settlement we built our house in #aauuuugh #but also. THE main guy like our powerful archmage Most Powerful Guy On The Planet NPC got ripped to shreds like its nothing #by a creature WE BROUGHT THERE AND WANTED HIM TO SAVE BECAUSE THE KID WE WANTED TO PROTECT WAS THE FUCKING ANTICHRIST #AND SHE KILLED MY FUCKING CHILDREN #and we got teleported apart from each other One Piece Style to do a One Piece Timeskip Arc now #And also we unleashed some insanely powerful magic force into the world #found out theres not 1 but 12 planets in the world that are inhabited by humans and humanoids #We all learned soul magic which is like. a homebrew type of magic that anyone can learn but they have to be Awakened for it #like it needs to be said that its a complete coincidence all of us fucking learned it #we gave the villain guy diaherra which happened in the same session we watched an actual apocalyptic fucking genocide #we found out that one character Not Dying in one moment was because his father decided to die instead of him to protect him #i wont sleep at ALLL NOW HELLOOOOO #HELLOOO

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scopophobia-polaris · 1 year

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Idk man I think a guy can do some shitty things for the people he holds as family and ultimately personal selfish reasons that make him slowly chip away at the truly good parts in him and strip him of his morality and humanity until he is nothing more than a tyrant have all of that set back to square one where he still has a conscience but has still done really shitty things and then upon finding out the monster he could be gives up the quest for ultimate power even if he thinks it's a GOOD thing for everyone, coming to find out what he thinks is good for other is not what they need OR want and ultimate try to become a better person at all costs and retain that bit of kindness that hes had all along and recognize hes an extremly selfish person with massive flaws and even if he keeps falling into his sins he perserserveres and tries as hard as possible to help the ones he loves in the way they need help instead of what father knows best and almost lay down his life to protect a place that he has treated so wrong and that MAYBE he shouldn't be executed for the future crimes that don't even exist in this timeline and that this dude and the evil version of himself are now so far removed from eachother but he should seriously face some conciquences for the crimes he has already committed but maybe straight up killing Daddydorf is fucking wrong ANYWAYS

#incoherent posts abiut Ganondorf #i might draw him today 💔#this is a post i might delete i swear im not a ganondorf apologist i just have a violently diffrent version of him #from canon that follows the route of maybe he isnt satan incarnate and maybe some of what he was saing in wind waker wad true #even if he is a selfish guy maybe he had complex reasons for wanting the triforce i doubt that #the place they were living was fucking awful but the idea of being an indipendant settlement and the unification of hyrule also ment #some forced annexation is a fucking idea you know

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an-onyx-void · 6 months

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#tiktok #palestine #palestinian authority #west bank #free palestine #free gaza #free the west bank #free west bank #free golan heights #israel #israeli government #israeli settlements #IDF #israeli defence forces #israel is an apartheid state #israel is committing genocide

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feckcops · 7 months

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‘A chance to implement forced displacement’: Israeli settlers are attacking Palestinians in the West Bank

“Settler violence in the West Bank has been increasing for months, but Palestinians interviewed by Novara Media reported a marked escalation since 7 October. While international attention has been on Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, at least 64 Palestinians – several of them children – have been killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank, and hundreds more have been wounded.

“Palestinians living in the West Bank said they believe settlers are using the ongoing crisis in Gaza as an opportunity to accelerate their goal of ethnic cleansing. They described settlers breaking into properties, bulldozing homes and water wells, cutting off electricity and burning tents with greater frequency than usual. ‘This is to make people afraid, the message is that the next step is going to be killing you if you don’t leave this land,’ said Adra. At least two Palestinian villages are reported to have been entirely depopulated by settlers forcing residents to leave.

“Settlers have been targeting Palestinians living in Area C, which constitutes about 60% of the West Bank and is where the majority of illegal Israeli settlers live. ‘It’s scary because these settlers are now wearing uniforms, have guns and are claiming that they are the reserve army,’ Adra said. ‘These attacks are not a new thing. The settlers always planned for this: to take our land, and to kick us out of Area C. Now’s the chance to do it, because everyone is focused on Gaza.’

“Hamed Qawasmeh, coordinator for the Hebron International Resources Fund, a charity that supports Palestinians living near settlements, also sees the attacks as opportunistic. ‘The settlers feel that they have a free hand at this point to do what they have always wanted – which is to attack Palestinians, strategically,’ he said. ‘They see this as a chance to implement forced displacement of the Palestinian population.’

“Settler violence is being aided and abetted by Israel’s far-right government. Last week, Israel’s security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, announced plans to immediately distribute 10,000 rifles to settlers.”

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nando161mando · 10 months

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17 Palestinians Killed During Massive Israeli Raids on Jenin

#free palestine #palestinians #palestine #jenin #israeli settlements #israeli military #israeli occupation #israeli music #israeli men #israel is a terrorist state #israel #israeli gay #israeli army #israeli forces #israeli #freepalastine🇵🇸

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claraameliapond · 3 months

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This Darling, incredibly beautiful Young girl had to leave north Gaza with her family because of forced starvation, hunger and danger. Her Baba was carrying a white flag. This whole occupation, invasion, blockade, forced starvation, genocide is literal madness, it doesn't get any less insane the longer it goes on. Decolonise Palestine 🇵🇸 ♥ ❤ 💖 🍉🫒🍉🫒🍉🫒🍉🇵🇸

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sembulapeyalneerpol · 10 months

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My partners car just got broken into and they tried to steal it but fucked it up but goddamn if y'all have kias in the states be careful

#apparently they are notoriously easy to steal abd there are tutorials on them online #and ofcourse rhe company is barely doing anythingi think they just been forced to a settlement #shes got insurance but we'll see how well it goes

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