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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (13 children)

I'm sorry if I'm being dumb but I don't get what you're asking. I work as a unionized engineer and then always try to keep a second side hustle job (cashier, waiter, etc.). When I was a non-union engineer I saw third party companies hiring people that were underqualified and across the globe, remotely taking jobs. As a waiter/cashier however, I didn't see this at all. Although I was working minimum wage so I don't think anyone would necessarily ask lower.

The point I was trying to make is that, when I was making $35 an hour non-unionized, firms would offer to have remote engineers for $30 an hour. So now I'm effectively "over" market rate, and am at risk of being fired. This weakens my ability to earn for my family. If the latter didn't exist, I could have asked for $40 an hour even. Thankfully I'm now unionized at around that rate so I'm okay. But for my friends that aren't minimum wage, but aren't flying stacks of money rich, they are constantly at risk of just being another budget issue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

NYSNA is in the hospital I work at (New York City), although I'm an 1199 Union Member as I'm not a nurse. They're huge and really demand a lot from the hospitals in New York. While not perfect, I see them doing work for the betterment of their Nurses and that's pretty good to see.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (19 children)

Kind of a messed up take here but migrants are used as a tool by the proletariat to keep wages low and to push down wages. I see the perspective that C-Suite Individuals (CEO, COO, CFO, etc.) keep wages low and pocket the multi-million dollar change, but how do they justify it? "Market Rate" is a good way to deflect blame nowhere. Everyone's moving labor outside of the US, and at least for me as a USA born working class individual, it weakens my ability to earn for my family.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I wouldn't say corrupted, as much as "oh I need this job and I can't give it up". I'm probably not the only engineer in this community who's living paycheck to paycheck. Old parents and a really high mortgage lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

3DS or Wii U. I have four Nintendo DS family consoles and that numbers only gonna grow >:)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It’s not his fault! He’s orange :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't think the protesters were upset or concerned that they got arrested. After reading the article, it seems that the students fully knew what they were protesting for.

The only person that seemed shocked or surprised was the professor who commented that "...this is more horrifying than anything I’ve ever seen here”.

Edit: I also wanted to add that the Civil Rights movement was taught to me, I was in high school within this decade, but just like any other irresponsible, nascent high schooler I was daydreaming about my crush and just not paying attention to anything. The many self-faults of man.

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