I swear I heard this same headline 2 years ago around election time. "Bombshell" then too.

TLDR Unions work and I observe it every day from management's POV.

My employer uses lots of IBEW union labor. I'm adjacent to HR functions.

EEs (employees) need things. My and adjacent departments handle their requests tied to annual insurance enrollment, wage discrepancies, leaves of absence (LOAs), employment verifications, etc. The first question my team asks of an EE task is "Are they union?"

Union = TOP priority
I have standing instructions from management to "do whatever it takes to keeps the unions off our backs". I stop other duties to procure a resolution within 3 hours. Whatever deliverables (answers to questions, arranging back pay, LOA paperwork) are put in the hands of union EEs practically the same day.

Non-union = diet priority
My team works in good faith, with EEs' interests genuinely at the forefront of our minds, to make everyone happy, with an imperfect but high success rate (thus the "diet"). Nevertheless, hearing/reading "non-union" immediately puts the request at the end of the queue. It'll get done, but probably in 10 days or so. The legal time frame is often much longer, and we use that knowledge liberally. Non-union tasks are the first things I jettison if other priorities bottleneck.

Among my HR/adjacent coworkers are our share of smarmy middle class white women who scoff when a top priority union task hits their desk. They say shit like "Unions had their day and age, but..." and then shake their heads and literally not even complete that sentence, basking in solidarity with the same MAGA lady who asked everyone, video in hand, "(Elon's) salute doesn't look like that, does it?"

Our guy who represents the company in union negotiations is a MAGA propagandist who, in an informal interview with me about ideas to improve morale, answered my question "How could so many people see fit to elect a bona fide rapist as POTUS?" with a dubious anecdote about his elderly mother needing protection from all the trans talk at the dinner table.

I know this is a tangentious tangent. Apologies.

Laser Raptors aren't unheard of in Kung Führer's universe.

I also choose this dead man's wife.

The player that recruited me said there was a portal/POI that was nothing but an abandoned truck trailer in a parking lot somewhere in the American West desert.

Lol like in Kung Fury when ghost cobra tells him he's dead and he's like Nope, ima have to arrest you for obstruction of justice.

7th grade me asked teacher "Did they shoot at the drummer boys too?" and without hesitating she says "YES!" I'm sure she's right, but she had a gleeful face which made me think she was happy to answer regardless of its truthfulness.

A bit of a tangent, but I posted a review of Rise Against's song People Live Here. I think the song does more to speak to this topic than anything fox would explore with their viewers.

https://lemmy.world/post/37391041

AC/VC by Neil Cicierega

This got me imagining a guillotine-ing that is narrated by the How It's Made people.

Get some limbs, sandbag boy.

Ah, to reminisce of that time in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hеll in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer’s table.

Search & Destroy : Sweep & Clear
::
Creative & Unconventional : Cruel & Unusual

I see Gumby strutting

We should let turtles recover their image and exclusively use this image.

Omg I want to attend his memorial with this on my shirt.

No, that's licorice. You're thinking of that antifungal cream.

"I'm gonna fckn quack"

but crack

Red, with the blue sausage

My own MAGA parent, at present.