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I just found out they tried to arrest the entirety of the staff of two unions over "extortion". Police said the workers were asking for higher wages under the direction of the unions to increase their pay and hence pay higher union fees

This assault on bourgeois labourism will heighten the contradictions and further class struggle. The fire rises



 

hell hello this is a labor of love i guess you could say LOL which is why i post it on /labor/ with my two capivt audience watch my labor of lov and i think i did pri gud wat u thinK???

Can't watch YouTube without an account. What is it?

>>795
How come? It works for me. It's a video titled " IMG 8552" that was uploaded 6 days ago and has 19 views.



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>In 1868, the Money Order Office in London put in a formal request to the Secretary of the Post Office to employ three cats. Their weekly allowance of one shilling went toward food for all three cats. This arrangement was dependent on the new employees’ ability to lower the mouse population- a job they proved born to do!

>The outstanding performance of these brave mousers led to the formal creation of The Cat System, which began hiring at various branches across England. The standard weekly wage was between six and seven pence per-cat, which was barely enough to maintain their morale. Branch managers began to demand wage increases on behalf of the post office cats in order to fairly compensate them with food and healthcare.


>Minnie the cat served a long and successful career as a mouser at the Post Office Headquarters Building in London. Following her death in 1950, the position was passed on to her son, a large 23-pound Tabby cat called Tibs. Earning a certain celebrity status and the title “Tibs the Great”, he was celebrated for outstanding service up until his death in 1964. Sadly, around the same time that Tibs retired, pesticides became widely available which eliminated the need for post office cats on the official payroll.

Tibs is remembered with an impressive legacy. During his 14 diligent years of service as the Official Post Office Headquarters Cat, he kept the building free of mice and raised the standard for the treatment of great mouse-control cats everywhere.

railroad baboon is my favorite one

basically a baboon to assist a paraplegic man in pulling signal switches for trains to stop. look it up. I think it’s the most wonderful thing.

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>>741
>The standard weekly wage was between six and seven pence per-cat, which was barely enough to maintain their morale.
This is hilarious

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Jack was an employee of the railroad. He belonged to James “Jumper” Wide who worked as a signalman until he lost both legs in an accident. Wide earned the nickname “Jumper” due to his habit of jumping from one railway car to another and sometimes swinging from railcar to railcar. One afternoon in 1877, near Kleinpoort in the Eastern Cape, he attempted to leap to another car and fell underneath the moving train. The massive metal wheels of the train severed both his legs.

Jumper was devastated. Not only had he lost his legs, but he would be of no use to the railroad. He took a post as signalman at Uitenhage station, where he made himself two pegged legs he carved from a piece of wood, and built himself a small trolley he used to get around. Still, he was limited on how well he could perform his job.

One afternoon he was visiting the marketplace in Uitenhage where he saw a baboon leading an ox wagon. He met the owner who demonstrated how smart the primate was. Soon, Jumper was convinced the baboon could serve him well. He pleaded with the owner to let him have the baboon. The owner didn’t really want to give up his favorite pet, but he felt sorry for the crippled man.

He gave the baboon to Jumper and thus began the most unusual friendship in the railroad’s history. The two lived in a cottage a half mile from the railroad depot. Each morning Jack would push Jumper to work on the trolley. He would push the trolley up a hill and once on top of the hill, Jack would jump on the trolley for a fun ride as it rolled quickly down the other side of the hill. Once at work, Jack operated the signals that instructed train engineers which tracks they would take.


The working relationship between Jumper and Jack worked well and the two forged a strong friendship. Many locals would go to the tracks to see if the story of a baboon working the signals was true. Most marveled at how well Jack performed his job.
He knew the difference between the “home” and “distant” signals, and also the engine whistles; and although he was always under the eye of his master, he never made a mistake or required telling twice. Jack was one of the sights of Uitenhage for many years, and his astonishing feats of intelligence was the wonder of all who witnessed them.

Then one day, a prominent lady on route to Port Elizabeth observed Jack working and was horrified at the prospects of a baboon running the signals. She notified the railroad auPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

This was how humans used to work until after the Industrial Revolution when we switched over to pure artificial pesticides.

Instead of chasing away birds from the parking lot., keep them. They help take away trash.

Cannot pay humans to clean up shit because they just half ass and make more mess.



 

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WORKER'S DAY EVERYONE

post kino songs to celebrate the 1st of May ITT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFIDEv1b4F0
turkish song about the 1st of may
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsgoMC1wHUE
the battle is going on again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzm5HhjMqqg
turkish recreation of "the battle is going on again"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S9foCTOba0
turkish communist song "don't give approval to this order"
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Angloids aren’t workers and must be annihilated

I blame porkies of creating material conditions of where im always hang over during workers day so I cant join marches.

>>879
>no! valborg/vappu is a bourgeois concept. do not show up hung over on may 1st.

May Day fell flat for me, it was mostly middle-class libs and leftists protesting Trump/Elon.

Nice day!



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/labor/

is the working name for a series of articles/essays I would like to get off the ground

each month we cover a different job working with someone who has said job as to see what skill that job has, how people might get that job, labor struggles, unionization efforts, the real, raw reality of working hard ass jobs

"dirty jobs but leftist"

not sure the best approach on it, im thinking we want to give it a low to the ground, insider feel, you ever seen the leaked footage animal rights activists take from the factory farm slaughter houses? shits brutal asf, its unmasking, its real shit.

im thinking we can take advantage of the anonymous nature of this board to facilitate real stories/photos/the same kinds of reveals. we could have a pro-salting line, oh shit you work at the worst rated taco bell in Dallas? let's hear about it, let's hear about the guys who got fired for organizing before it even began. that sort of shit. you work at the mechanic shop and your boss stiffed your check? lets hear about the bullshit. that sort of thing but with a bit more of an essayist gleen



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MAY DAY INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY THE 1ST OF MAY WORKERS' DAY LABOUR DAY

Post your posters post your marches post your festivals post your banners post your flags it is Workers' Day let us all unite in celebrating it.
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>>851
>I really should have heard about this through Palestine Solidarity. These people are so disorganised, it's really distressing.
Trades Councils (which organise May Day events) are geriatric even places where they are vibrant, let alone outside of the metropoles. They can't use social media for shit and are very bad at publicising their own events to their own audience (trade unionists) let alone outside of it. Good tip for local anons is to look up "X District Trades Council" (if you live in a small town it will be your local government district) and they will likely have something on their facebook.


>>857
Shay is alive?

>>848
>>851
Went for ps solidarity group, It was pretty small, maybe only ~100 people. sad.

>>859
As I said anon >>856 (me) unfortunately trades councils are shit at what they are meant to do nowadays. If you have the wherewithal to sit through a dull meeting once a month and pick up the huge amount of missing load I'd suggest trying to get involved to bring things together. They usually won't offer resistance because they want someone young to do these things. Still it will mean you are own your own though.



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ITT we share our experiences with the NGO industrial complex while still deluding ourselves that entryism is a valid strategy for anyone except feds and hawks.

This evening I went on a deep dive on linkedin and just googled a whole bunch of political foundations I was interested in and laughed at all the weirdo glowie-adjacent people that work for them.
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>>296
maybe get some shit on your cv to increase credibility but i wouldn't give it too much thought

Could you try unionizing? Might help protect against getting fired for actually trying to help people.

>>188
>ITT we share our experiences with the NGO industrial complex while still deluding ourselves that entryism is a valid strategy for anyone except feds and hawks.
I don't do that. I just work here for the money and flexibility.
Also: especifismo > eNtRyIsM

>>189
>Work tips to keep this thread bumping and for me and anybody else are much welcome🙏
Actually take the time to make your work station ergonomic. It is not a meme. Your health with thank you. Also do kegels throughout the day.
>>283
>Also I use all their milk.
bassed

Will doing an internship at the imperial bureaucracy (i.e. a Western government ministry) forever tarnish my credentials as a TRU-leftist(TM)?



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How the fuck are you supposed to apply for an academy for a profession where they already require you to have prior knowledge and skill for it when you want to fucking learn it? I want to study to become a 2D animator and the requirements literally require me to make a fucking short film even though I have not been taught how to before. And I cannot find any private tutoring for 2D animation so I can actually prepare to apply.
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4. RECEPTION
When submitting the documents, each candidate must submit a portfolio of creative works (valid for all majors at the same time). The purpose of the portfolio is for candidates to present their creative abilities and aesthetic interests in the best possible way. All materials must be uploaded and shared in the Google Drive cloud space in a volume of up to 3 GB. On the day of the exam, each candidate must also bring a flash drive with a duplicate of the submitted portfolio.
When submitting the documents, each candidate arranges all the specialties in the Faculty of Screen Arts in the order of their preference. The final ranking is made jointly for all candidates. Those who received a grade lower than average (3.00) are excluded from participation in the ranking.
The entrance exam to the Faculty of Screen Arts consists of an interview with a committee (including the Dean and the heads of all undergraduate majors) based on the materials from the submitted portfolio. During the interview, the committee may also assign practical tasks to the candidates in order to gain a deeper understanding of their skills, knowledge, and artistic reflexivity.


The PORTFOLIO must contain the candidate's CV , presenting where and when he was born, what education he acquired and where, what materials he offers in the portfolio and why, what are the reasons for his desire to receive an education in the field of audiovisual and what (according to him) are his strongest and weakest personal qualities.



The PORTFOLIO may contain:

Literary materials (scripts, essays, poems, stories, plays, novels, analyses, reviews, etc.) in .pdf format , not exceeding 15 pages in total .
Post too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>570
Silly.

tbh i think ur getting brainwormed by capital. even if it is amateur I think if you put love into it theyll understand. although a fucking short film is a lot of work. Although Id do more research to see if the pathway of classes and teachers themselves will be helpful to you specifically bc a lot of artists say its a scam but the ones saying its a scam are also the artists advertising their personalized online course to get you ready for an industry they have not been part of for 5 years bc its more lucrative being an online teacher than in the actual industry

>>752
like theres a lot of materiel you can show by doing a short film. like storyboarding, how your concept evolved from rough to final, color, etc etc. You should probably ask is it an actual short film or more like an animatic? I think they want you to show your skills of critical thinking and problem solving more than your talent bc well talent is the result of critical thinking and if you somehow show evidence of that thinking and solving in your process, no matter how shotty it looks itll gain some merit. although your complaints still do make sense since who tf has time for that. its demoralizing.

oh shit uyghur why did you decide to become an artist? you should have studied medicine like you were told

>>759
Fucking this. I love it when people who have a knack for medicine or engineering or have family connections to those fields decide to throw it away for some non essential career and get pissed about costs and "slop".

We need to stop putting professional arts&craft on the same level of necessity as medicine and engineering.



 

I realized that the daycare industry is a single point of failure that could cause a shockwave of strikes. Most of the adult population becomes parents at some point. Parents need their kids to be in daycare between 1 and 4 years old so they can actually go to work and get shit done. Daycare is privatized in the USA and the daycare workers don't have very good unions. But I think if the daycare workers got organized, and went on a massive strike, it would make most parents unable to go to work, because they would need to stay home and watch their kids. This could create a domino effect leading to huge labor unrest in many other areas. I'm also thinking sanitation, electrical, and transportation workers need to strike. There will be a lot of suffering but this could lead to revolution. Not all sectors are equal when it comes to cascading effects of labor unrest. There are some areas that are way more likely to cause a domino effect than others. You feel?
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>>187
You need to have money to pay for daycare, and petty bourgs have class solidarity with each other. They are able to selectively choose small and local businesses for daycare.

Is keftypol really just a bunch of 14 year olds?

I think that "millions of people should unionize and strike" is not really a plan.

>>299
Are you implying you need to be petty booj to afford daycare? It's like 250/month for one kid at the cheaper ones where I live. 125 from each parent. Some self described "reserveless proles" spend that much on weed or booze each month. nearly all families get daycare these days because both mom and dad need to work during the day to make ends meet and they can't get jobs where they never see each other and take turns watching the kid. This is especially true when the kid is old enough for daycare (1 or 2 years old) but not old enough to be a "latchkey kid" (5-10 depending on how much you trust them).

>>742
don't expect anons here to actually understand how real life works for most people



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the last time the minimum wage was raised was Obama's first term

~$1200 before taxes if you get 32 hours
i did apply to these jobs bc that's the position im in atm, yet i always hear "everything starts at $20 nowadays, we don't need to raise the min wage"

Stop applying for bullshit parasite jobs. Lower wages and no contribution to social-aggregate product, the semi-proletarian retail service worker is distinct from proletariat. Assembly line wages make far higher wages because they actually produce value.

>>749
cash app me



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