If this Starbucks can unionize, your local Starbucks can too. Use this link to find the contact information for your nearest local chapter of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). They’d love to talk with you about first steps for setting up a union drive at your workplace
[image: someone in an apron leans against a wall, doing something on their phone, while a swiffer-type mop leans against a nearby wall. large text reads “if you can clean, you can lean! trust me, your job isn’t that crucial. slow down.” smaller text reads “take our time back” and the URL in OP.]
.
and if you are an EMT, there should be enough of you scheduled that you can take a breather between emergencies, unless this work shift has an unusually high number of emergencies per hour
Our bodies aren’t make to constantly stand upright without rest for 8 hours, or move every instant, and employers aren’t exactly offering to compensate to the damage it does to us.
design your own picket line of working-class cats shutting it down!
worry your friends and colleagues with mildly aggressive agitational material!
if this is a good idea let me know. i really enjoyed designing these stickers so i’ll be making more if for no other reason than to have another creative outlet.
At the very least I’d say it’s a strong indicator of discretionary spending amongst lower to upper middle class men. Probably in line with things like steakhouse profits on work nights.
We’re absolutely in a recession.
It’s just that the people who are in charge of handling money and reporting on money are doing the same shit they always do and refuse to give a genuine public estimation of the economy so that they can move their money out of the stock market/housing market/etc. prior to any potential crash.
-The OECD released their preliminary report earlier this week, stating that inflation is currently expected to rise to nearly 9% this year.
This equates to the loss of just about over one month of wages in purchasing power.
This decrease in financial stability/purchasing power is expected to last well into 2023– Assuming things don’t get even more fucked before then, which is a real possibility.
This is important because it’s a great indicator that the classic “we’re fucked” cycle is beginning:
1) Businesses panic and do as much as possible to avoid having to pay people / do everything they can to minimise expenses, resulting in more unemployment due to lack of job opportunities in key sectors as well as a lot of people getting fired.
2) This results in even less money for people to spend on necessities (let alone anything else), resulting in even less money re-entering the economy on several levels.
3) This results in more recession/price fuckery and immediate crisis, including increases in homelessness as rent becomes unpayable and houses are impossible to afford, increased food poverty and increased inability to pay for any medication(s) etc. impacting on already shitty public health, and so on.
4) Nobody can buy anything, which means nothing is being bought, which means general strife for both actual people and also increasingly more and more pressure is put on businesses/services/etc., who can no longer afford to continue operating due to loss of sales etc., which results in even more severe fuckery.
Critical services such as healthcare providers (primarily clinics / hospitals) and educational centres are not immune to this effect, especially not in hyper-capitalist shit-show economies like the USA.
So whatever shitty services you have in your area, will straight up just not be there anymore at all if it gets to a certain level of fucked. Quality of services will continue to decline and become even more limited as shit gets fucked, as part of the lead-up to a total collapse and shut down.
This cycle tends to go two directions after a certain point, largely depending on the underlying political context:
A) Combination 2008/Great Depression sequel: Stock market shits the bed, line go down but cannot be dragged back up by suit wearing shitheads anymore, the average population suffers in just about every way.
or
B) Money Printer Gets Fucked (the Fed in the USA sure as hell has been printing money they can’t afford to print for a while now). You can refer to the hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic for a good picture of what this looks like.
I could keep going, but I mean, I think it’s clear that we’re fucked.
I didn’t even factor in supply chain issues, the multiple public health crises we are currently dealing with/which are currently developing, or anything else.
It’s pretty clear that we’re fucked, and nobody with the power to actually announce this or give any kind of fair warning to the general public will do so, because as we have seen over and over again, they are doing everything possible to avoid mentioning what is actually happening so that they can move their own money around as fast as possible in an effort to avoid getting fucked themselves.
My dad is retired now but during his career at a power plant he was very involved with the union
When he was in his early 20s, he worked on a grain elevator. He slipped and his foot went into the auger. He braced his other foot against the side to keep his entire leg from being pulled in until someone managed to shut the augur off about 20 seconds later. That is a long time to have your foot in this thing
(It may not have been one exactly like that, I’m not sure about the specifics, but that is what the blade would have looked like.) He almost lost his foot. People have lost their entire legs! He was very lucky, even though his foot is still scarred and gives him pain
At the time of the accident, he was sleep deprived. He had only been given 4 hours off between two 12 hour shifts
He’s never said as much, but I imagine that was something like his union origin story
