tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post8390790957919033166..comments2024-03-07T15:25:26.971-05:00Comments on ICEUFT Blog: WILL PRESIDENT ELECT BIDEN BE PRO-LABOR?Jeff Kaufmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11728874415155394751noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-58682450375742422622020-11-19T10:23:27.912-05:002020-11-19T10:23:27.912-05:00Agreed 7:49Agreed 7:49Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-18329655846698690952020-11-18T19:49:50.645-05:002020-11-18T19:49:50.645-05:00You leftist teachers are really sickening. You com...You leftist teachers are really sickening. You complain about lack of discipline in schools, lack of accountability, yet you vote for it. Biden spokesperson just came out and said he will go back to Obama's policy, which Trump took out, of not suspending black students. YOU VOTE FOR IT. Now stop complaining. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-30855228996275561782020-11-18T09:07:16.514-05:002020-11-18T09:07:16.514-05:00https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/...https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/sara-nelson-calls-general-strike-end-shutdown/581227/<br /><br />For reference.James Eternohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13578647381229034792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-5824895324865906072020-11-18T09:06:19.364-05:002020-11-18T09:06:19.364-05:00I said why is there no talk of a general strike, S...I said why is there no talk of a general strike, Shelley. Big difference as opposed to why there is no general strike. <br /><br />Sara Nelson called for a general strike in 2019. It helped end the government shutdown and made her a star in labor.<br /><br />Sam Lazarus and I called for the UFT to work with transit workers in 2005. The ideas are there. The organizers to spread the word in schools are what's needed.James Eternohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13578647381229034792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-65019953140291435642020-11-18T07:53:29.598-05:002020-11-18T07:53:29.598-05:00Shelly, you continue to impress me.Shelly, you continue to impress me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-17445140924311995462020-11-18T07:09:56.097-05:002020-11-18T07:09:56.097-05:00A nearly silly rhetorical question from James: Why...A nearly silly rhetorical question from James: Why is there no general strike in the USA? If you are waiting for a general strike forget about it. When the Virus actually shut down the global economy, not like now where the economy is actually very much open for business and recovering from the brief self-induced global depression, now a recession in a K or V recovery, we had that opportunity and missed it. The UFT's president dared whisper the words "strike" and the phrase "job action" in public spaces and this blog quickly and naively endorsed the president and his newfound militancy. Then, when the president walked back his hasty public threats, this blog dis the same, arguing that this "strike" would not resemble any "strike" in history, that it was technically not a strike but more a job action, possibly a safety strike, though why use such militant terms and phrases? --when all that was happening was an appeasement of the more "militant" (there is no true militant caucus in the UFT) caucuses and members, a head fake that bought the president some time to stomp out a possible sickout. This blog has been aiding and abetting the Unity/UFT ever since. General strike? You might as well ask why the teachers haven't coordinated a strike with the TWU to block the bridges, tunnels, and trains. We are UFT and we are not living in France. Silly rhetorical questions like this make we wonder what reality bloggers live in. It used to be: why is UFT/NYC not like Chicago? A silly enough question but at least it only asks us to compare apples to meatpackers not apples to the RATP in Paris. We are not Chicago teachers, we are not Parisians. Even in Paris, in France, the strike, though recently resurrected from the dead, is not what it used to be. <br /><br />see here----><br /><br /> https://jacobinmag.com/2020/1/france-strikes-trade-unions-gilets-jaunes<br /><br />OSHA? OSHA is not protecting workers these days. Please pay attention. And, why doesn't the UFT require OSHA training? Now that we are machine workers don't we need to be protected from what this all day machine work will do to our spines, our necks, our eyes? Other unions in NYC require it, but we must sit through another sensitivity training PD. Another on race. Another on SEL and Trauma. <br /><br />Where be our machines that comply with OSHA? We are given laptops. Keep working on a laptop, a machine that never was meant to be used as a desktop for 7 hours a day and see what happens to your body. No Teacher's Choice and we must buy machines, tools, chairs, wireless mice and keyboards, standup desks, artificial tears ... and the list goes on . . .or suffer a broken body. Where be our Union on this? <br /><br />General strike my ass. Shelleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-11169748471506107112020-11-18T06:44:01.351-05:002020-11-18T06:44:01.351-05:00Yeah the guy who helped send blue collar jobs out ...Yeah the guy who helped send blue collar jobs out of the country over decades will now be good for labor. I guess if by pro labor you mean will Biden wine and dine union heads like Mulgrew then yes. Biden will give them a seat at the table so they can all keep their bellies full while working guy continues to starve. You guys hate Trump so much that you’re actually entertaining the thought that a 78 year old tiger is going to change his stripes. Joe from Scranton is a bullshit construct. Joe Biden was and is a corrupt politician who doesn’t give a fuck about the working guy but is likely very interested in maintaining the support of any fatcat union heads that still have sway over their members. Insanity.... same old thing yet you expect a different result. Pure insanity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-40625776504848587352020-11-17T21:02:51.449-05:002020-11-17T21:02:51.449-05:00Only Joe has a voice.Only Joe has a voice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-20794374305538076862020-11-17T20:20:14.662-05:002020-11-17T20:20:14.662-05:00We should all "use our voices."We should all "use our voices."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-15210355848163881552020-11-17T19:59:38.130-05:002020-11-17T19:59:38.130-05:00Is this what you planned, James?
BIDEN WH STAFF S...Is this what you planned, James?<br /><br />BIDEN WH STAFF SO FAR:<br /><br />Venture capital executive Ronald Klain<br /><br />Former pharmaceutical, insurance lobbyist (Steve Ricchetti).<br /><br />Top Dem recipient of Big Oil $ cedric richmond<br /><br />Co-founder of firm that represents pharma & private equity j omalley dillon<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-22064562672307092592020-11-17T18:22:20.431-05:002020-11-17T18:22:20.431-05:00Were the scabs furloghed yet? LOL.Were the scabs furloghed yet? LOL.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com