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giantofthenorth@lemm.eeto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•is there a useful way for tech workers to express interest in a union? In USA.
17·3 years agoHere’s what I’ve done when attempting at my workplace via the postal workers union.
Get in contact with an organizer, they are there to help guide you or who ever wants to be the main leader of this effort. I will say, as the lead organizer in my attempt, it’s just talking a lot, and getting people to a meeting, it kinda sucks but isn’t a huge ordeal to do, and takes maybe 2 hours in a busy week.
I went through the AFL-CIO website aflcio.org/formaunion and filled out my information, during my major attempt it took half a week to get in contact with an organizer, though it could take a bit longer.
You’ll get in contact with an organizer and they’ll get a rundown of your workplace and what it looks like.
After that there’s about an hour’s worth of training to know your rights and what works for your union.
Then you’ll be pretty much ready to go to start talking with coworkers to try and get an organizing committee (10% of your workplace) which will be your main coworkers who should be all about the idea, after that 10% then you’ll start convincing everyone in your workplace and soon after that collect signatures.
Then you’ll go to an election, sadly I do not have much information to get beyond here as the movement fell apart in my workplace during signatures due to a weak organizing committee.
Hope this helps ya out and if you want any additional information I’m happy to share, we need more unions especially in IT!
giantofthenorth@lemm.eeto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•is there a useful way for tech workers to express interest in a union? In USA.
1·3 years agoI’ve asked the same thing to my organizer and it was basically telecom is the closest to it under the AFL-CIO umbrella, and i believe he said they may end up getting an IT specific union once enough get unionized.
giantofthenorth@lemm.eeto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Now everyone must pay for someone else's vandalism.English
851·3 years agoLove that most of the world’s governments came together and said “collective punishment is bad, we should make it illegal during times of war” and shit like this can still fly within any first world country.
giantofthenorth@lemm.eeto
Gaming@beehaw.org•The Elder Scrolls VI will skip PS5 and isn’t coming until at least 2026
3·3 years agoWhy wouldn’t we? The PS5 is already 3* years old, most cycles are around 7 years
giantofthenorth@lemm.eeto
Games@sh.itjust.works•$70 Mortal Kombat 1 Switch version called "robbery" as graphical comparisons flood the internetEnglish
7·3 years agoI’ve seen phone games look better
giantofthenorth@lemm.eeto
Games@sh.itjust.works•Overwatch 2 has banned 250,000+ cheaters since launchEnglish
211·3 years agoif only they were this serious about actually completing their “new” “game”
giantofthenorth@lemm.eeto
Technology@lemmy.world•Call Of Duty using AI to listen out for hate speech during online matchesEnglish
66·3 years agoGlad I haven’t played a cod game in years.
There’s already a report button if someone has an issue with it let them report it, this is just going to lead to a ton of false positives or be completely useless.
giantofthenorth@lemm.eeto
Animals and Pets@beehaw.org•I went a little nuts kitbashing cages to make a mansion for my hamster
7·3 years agoYou should check out plusschraupe on Instagram for their hamster “cages” if you wanna see something even bigger
But this one is very cool
giantofthenorth@lemm.eeto
Technology@lemmy.world•'Where ambition goes to die': These tech workers flocked to Austin during the pandemic. Now they're desperate to get out.English
19·3 years agoTo be fair, Austin has to be not far behind LA as some of the worst. Everything in Texas is made for cars only basically.
giantofthenorth@lemm.eeto
Technology@lemmy.world•Reddit Taken To SF Court for Firing Worker With Anxiety: LawsuitEnglish
9·3 years agoDon’t forget for trying to form a union too!
giantofthenorth@lemm.eeOPtoPersonal Finance@lemmy.ml•should I pay off my student loans in full before intrest kicks in?English
141·3 years agoI do still lose by having to over pay the bloodsuckers either way 👉😎👉
giantofthenorth@lemm.eeto
Politics@beehaw.org•Sen. Blumenthal: US Getting Its ‘Money’s Worth’ in Ukraine Because Americans Aren’t Dying
9·3 years agoWhat a dogshit article.
Sure what sen. Blum. Said taken out of context is bad but the people he’s trying to get some support out of with his statement is the right wingers/capitalist types to be less anti us support in Ukraine.
Romney as always is indefensible.
From real Politik perspective they’re 100% right based off only the title.
From real life they’re correct that helping Ukraine helps the USA indirectly and even if somehow lives weren’t being lost to this war it would still help the military industrial complex greatly in ways that actually benefit the USA at least somewhat (we’re tossing out a bunch of outdated, expensive to maintain vehicles and getting up to date ones instead) and this is one of the rare times that the USA is doing something for a relatively good cause for once.
I get this is an anti war publication but be fucking real, war ain’t leaving anytime soon, every ideology, tribe, government type, and religion has and will again engage in it with very few exceptions. And those exceptions usually mean tiny island tribes where there’s no land to conquer/reclaim/defend
giantofthenorth@lemm.eetoPolitics@lemmy.ml•Bernie Sanders urges left to back Biden to stop ‘very dangerous’ Trump
234·3 years agoDamn. Maybe he should run again so we can at least get a good old man in office
giantofthenorth@lemm.eeto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•The Spotify Car Thing cost $100, but I can't use it anymore.English
21·3 years agoThere’s plenty of 2010-2015ish cars with dogshit radios that are hard to find, expensive to get or literally impossible to find good replacements for, thanks to vehicle manufacturers killing of the DIN system.
giantofthenorth@lemm.eeto
RetroGaming@lemmy.world•Never Go On Vacation Without A PortableEnglish
5·3 years agoI just beat tcg2, I’m onto the end game content trying to get that 50 wins in a row
giantofthenorth@lemm.eeto
Games@sh.itjust.works•Charles Martinet Will No Longer Voice MarioEnglish
18·3 years agoHope this is what he wanted

I think it’s important enough to note, there’s no evidence showing this was the plan in any Soviet campaign in WW2. (But this is based off memory so there could be a single digit number of times)
In WW1? That would be accurate. Say what you will about Soviets but weapons were something they could produce and properly supply unlike the tsar.
In the Ukraine war though you are probably correct.