normal_user [they/them, any]

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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • The boss wants to sit down with us troublemakers, and we figure we might as well. It’s not going to sway us from our goal, if anything, it will be another chance to slap the boss around again.

    Actually I have to say that when I tried to unionize my office togheter with some collegues (we were in the very early stages of trying to figure what we needed to do), the manager requested a meeting with all of us “troublemakers” (only the ones they knew where getting involved in lamenting the low wages) and I have to say that (after a group meeting and some individual meetings) they succeeded in stopping, at least for the time, the “energy” of the movement. Some people just didn’t feel anymore like “risking” it.

    So, I guess my suggestion is to be careful about who goes in what meeting, especially in the very early stages, because some people might chicken out, and then other people might see those people and feel like unionizing is going too far.

    Because of this, we had to stop at getting a small wage increase for our team alone, and now, only after a year, is some of that energy, to do something about the wage and the workplace, coming back.















  • While some parts of this could be seen as a bailout to some of the companies, it is also true that they are building houses for people that already bought them. According to the article they will also cut interest rates on mortgages, which is good for people with a difficult financial situation and “On Saturday, finance ministry officials also announced measures to prop up the property sector, allowing local governments to use funds from special bonds to buy unsold homes and idle land.” This seems to also be a good development as the government itself takes back control of some of its land. Instead of a bailout where the government buys debt, they are buying houses and land (that, according to the article, has gone down in price) which is obviously much better.