We Made It Gang

True either way you take it. And for the literal way, mud helps a lot too.

college admissions decisions pages are almost getting the same number of visits as 2020 election results tab got

Don’t cross picket lines, people!

TODAY.com

Nabisco bakers across the US are on strike, potentially disrupting Oreo supply

Hundreds of workers at Nabisco bakeries across the country are on strike over a proposal to change their work shifts and health care benefit

Hundreds of union employees at three U.S. Nabisco bakeries that make Oreo and Chips Ahoy cookies and Ritz Crackers have gone on strike to protest proposed changes amid contract negotiations with parent company Mondelez International, Inc.

Approximately 200 workers at a factory in Portland, Oregon, have been on strike for two weeks and were joined on Monday by about 400 employees at Nabisco’s bakery in Richmond, Virginia. On Thursday, workers at Nabisco’s bakery in Chicago also walked off the job to go on strike.

Employees at a sales distribution center in Aurora, Colorado, also joined the strike on Aug. 12. All of the workers on strike are members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers International Union, which announced the Chicago strike on Thursday.

“This fight is about maintaining what we already have,” Mike Burlingham, vice president of BCTGM Local 364 in Portland, told TODAY Food. “During the pandemic, we all were putting in a lot of hours, demand was higher, people were at home, and the snack food industry did phenomenally well.

“Mondelez made record profits and they want to thank us by closing two of the U.S. bakeries (last month) and telling the rest of us we have to take concessions, what kind of thanks is that? We make them a lot of money. It’s very disheartening. How is that supposed to make us feel?”

The union is in the midst of negotiating a new four-year contract with Mondelez after the previous one expired in May.

Union leaders say that Mondelez has proposed switching from eight-hour shifts, five days a week, to 12-hour shifts, three or four days a week, without overtime, and with increased mandatory work on weekends without extra pay.

"Be comfortable in your own body" b*tch I *am* that unrealistic beauty standard everyone's talking about

Alright so at the bar the bartender called Moskovskaya (the well vodka) "musky" so I asked if that was a reference to Muscovy or just the demonym "muscovite" and he was like "dude it's well so idk if it's even Russian and Musky is easier to say when drunk" and I was like "I will take any opportunity to bring up Russian history and this is why I'm sitting alone at the bar."

that sounds like a challenge to me

I’m just going to leave this here…

Don't mind me I'm just wasting my time arguing about the USSR with one of those "my dad left communism to pursue the American dream" kids

“how can you be a communist you’re an individual and like freedom”

*grabs megaphone*

democracy in the workplace is still democracy people

If you are in/can make it to Montreal on February 17-18, consider registering for this year's Marxist Winter School! 100 years have passed since the death of Lenin, but he lives on in his writings and, to the best of our ability, in all of our work today. This is why the theme this year is "In Defence of Lenin." Hyped to meet new comrades and consider/discuss the revolutionary ideas and historical lessons of Lenin! See you there <3

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I am doing laundry at 3:45 AM and I'm a bit scared of myself