#Labor

The United States Government as it exists is closer to Marx's 10 planks of Communism than anyone gives it credit for. Let's go through this plank by plank. /A thread
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STOP BELIVING YOUR OB WHEN THEY SAY YOUR BABY IS MEASURING “TOO BIG” AND YOU NEED TO BE INDUCED. 99% of the time baby is NOT “too big”US weight estimates
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So a thing I always knew about meetings which is now even more obvious when everyone is working remotely is that meetings are at least 90% about building working relationships
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What can the teacher strikes tell us about the ongoing COVID-related retail and grocery worker walkouts and strikes? @snaidunl, Adam Reich, @pnyoungblood, and I are in the @monkeycageblog with a
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If I have one message for the Bernie left in the aftermath of the Democratic primary, it's that we need less angst about the 2020 election (in all directions!), and
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#ChristineHolgate has been abused and bullied out of her job by the PM. No amount of gaslighting can obscure this. We all saw it on the floor of the House
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What's a domestic labor imbalance in your life that you tolerated, or maybe just ignored.....and now feels truly intolerable and unignorable? I don't because we've both worked from home for
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A @GIOReport investigation has found that YouTube is being flooded with hundreds of Chinese propaganda videos denouncing Western companies after they accused the Chinese government of using forced labor in
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alright folks i had a bad day. respond to this post with things that will make me laff i will click the heart button in return for your emotional labor
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Everyone wanted to support Black businesses until they realized that the production levels are no where near Amazon’s. Capitalism reinforces the idea of instant gratification. And a lot of y’all
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America is about to witness the biggest labor movement it’s seen in decades, writes @stevelevine. http://read.medium.com/4h2FUon  Across the U.S., cashiers, truckers, nurses, burger flippers, stock replenishers, meat plant workers, and
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Just in case anyone thought koalas were only threatened in NSW, here is a reminder of what the Victorian Labor government is doing to koala habitat this very week.This is
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Strange to think how the media that greeted Labor unveiling a deficit of $50 billion with criticism and accusations of irresponsibility is cheering on the Coalition a $200 billion plus
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Why colonialism happened, a thread: Human resources have always been limited by how much we can extract from the environment. In hunter gatherer societies that meant possessing just enough to
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How many women engage in any of these kind of work today? In rural areas or villages we can still find them. Some of it like grinding and cleaning rice,
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Men don’t have friends and it’s killing them. People who lack strong friendships have: Higher blood pressureHigher BMIAre more likely to be depressedLive 22% less longStudies show males were more
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