Clay Jones for December 05, 2022

Strange how those on big money want to deny everyone else a living wage and care.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/30/us-rail-strike-congress-house-senate-union-sick-leave

Take the A train

The conservative, corporate media is presenting the issue as railroad workers holding the economy hostage for sick days.

The reality is that it is the railroad companies, who are enjoying record profits of $8.7 billion dollars that dwarf the cost of the seven sick days (one third of a billion dollars).

The railroad workers are leveraging the market value of their labor. When corporations do this, it is called “capitalism.” When workers do this, the wealthy corporate elite whine and cry and throw tantrums.

No one who opposes the workers can claim to believe in free markets.

If the railroad workers’ labor is so valuable that shutting it down would cost the economy two billion dollars a day, then maybe the workers who are so valuable deserve a few sick days.

It is not the workers holding the economy hostage; it is wealthy corporate owners who would be willing to collapse the economy to avoid covering sick days that would cost them a tiny sliver of a fraction of the huge windfall profits they are reaping.

It funny even the women is confused by his comments from her facial expressions

It must be nice to have sick days. I worked in construction, 46 years. Work a day, get paid for the day. No workee, no monee. Simple.

She could still do piece work.

Thanks to the heartless GOP, the strike was averted with no sick pay. WTF? These people have no compassion or souls! To think they’re in the congress….scary!

In what I would consider a decent society, all workers would get (a) paid vacation and (b) sick leave. It’s not good to have to use your vacation time for illness. Some workers do get both, why don’t all?

Vacation is not the same as sick leave. Many, if not most times, vacation has to be scheduled in advance. That was true for me and everyone I know from salaried to hourly workers.

GQP: Are you insane? You people would be calling in sick all the time and getting paid for it. Have a very Merry Xmas……………It’s a paid holiday.

the Democrats added seven sick days the Republican Senate voted down 7 sick days, you 750,000 railway workers remember that in 2024

My company doesn’t give sick days either. Instead we get an optional week. Which last contract allows us to now use those 5 days individually, instead of as a whole week, or a week we work and get paid at the end of the year for those days. In which you could take call offs to do things, but had to wait until the end of the year to get reimbursed. Now we can take them as you might a sick day.

I’d need to know more information to make a full judgement.

That said, I’m mixed about this whole thing. I support the right to strike, even if it’s at the economies least convenience. Freedom isn’t free.

‘Good grief’: Justice Samuel Alito blasted for ‘joke’ about ‘Black children in Ku Klux Klan outfits’

“Justice Jackson’s example of that, the Santa in the mall who doesn’t want his picture taken with Black children,” Justice Alito began, getting the basics of the analogy incorrect.

“So if there’s a Black Santa at the other end of the mall, and he doesn’t want to have his picture taken with a child who is dressed up in a Ku Klux Klan outfit, now does that Black Santa have to do that?”

Colorado Solicitor General Eric Olson replied, “No, because Klu Klux Klan outfits are not protected characteristics under public accommodation laws.”

“And presumably,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor interjected, “that would be the same Ku Klux Klan outfit regardless whether if the child was Black or white or any other characteristic.”

That’s when Alito decided to make a “joke,” while thousands of Americans were listening to the Court’s live proceedings.

“You do see a lot of Black children in Ku Klux Klan outfits all the time,” he said, presumably sarcastically.

He then laughed, and some viewers in the gallery joined with him.

Many on social media were outraged and offended.

“He is so inappropriate today. And offensive,” said Sherrilyn Ifill, the former President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF). “The Black kids in KuKluxKlan outfits? Not funny. Is this the highest Court of the most powerful country in the world? Good grief.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/good-grief-justice-samuel-alito-blasted-for-joke-about-black-children-in-ku-klux-klan-outfits/ar-AA14WaiZ?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=75bbbbb4945d448182147645ad923885

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