The IWW's TEFL branch is without a doubt the most active branch in all of the UK, possibly all the IWW across the world.
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When the media talks about recession (same as your papers, your favourite news site, it's the media in general), they mean "shit's bad and you're struggling". Same in school, when you learn about a recession, you learn about the simplified definition. That's fine. I don't care what your economics book is saying, I deal with real science, not imaginary shit.
So when people start complaining because their living conditions are getting worse, the same media and the people who suck up to them for some reason (wink wink) come back with "akshully, I think you'll find things aren't that bad because technically, this is not a recession".
The same thing happens when a government counts "unemployment". They define it in such ridiculously restrictive ways that every time they report on it, it magically goes down.
"Oh, you've gotten out of bed at least once in the past 12 hours? Well, that's a job, buddy! Well done, you're now self-employed and can't be counted as unemployed." Telling me "unemployment" is down is meaningless and I couldn't care less. Telling me "it's not a recession so everything is fine, trust me bro" is just as meaningless.
Obviously this is a Labour government so they are not to be trusted to actually carry it out until it's actually carried out and then check what the caveats are.
Apologies for the KamalaHQ link or the twitter link for that matter. But I didn't bother looking up if anyone else discussed it.
"No you see, idiot, uneducated worker, the economy is doing great actually. Now go back to the your 3rd job's shift to barely make ends meet."
SineNomineAnonymous 1 month ago • 100%
Yeah........ not buying the "sorry we had to kill hundreds of people, we were just following orders".
Let's just say that when you resort to the Nuremberg defense, you've lost.
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Not necessarily teaching but kinda still because local authorities do hire education staff (obviously) and are in charge of budgeting. And it's worker solidarity anyway.
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They come out with all the security updates (anywhere between 2 weeks and a month after Google pushes them out). They don't wait for a feature update to push out security updates.
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It's a bit annoying (I know I'm still not getting it on mine despite the announcements), but their handling it of major updates (performance wise) have been decent on my end. I do love my FP5, but it's a bit hit and miss according to experience I read about online. I know my experience of their headphones (the most recent ones, the wireless buds) has been horrendous but I would recommend the FairPhone personally.
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Still not getting it on mine 😖
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to be fair to the incompetent people in law enforcement, I do believe "trying to kill a presidential candidate slated to win and being a millimeter away from getting it done" would justify relying on a 0-day.
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"We tried 0000. Tony, write up a press release about how incredible we are at our job and how we spent 400% of our usual overtime on it and send it to the tech press. Make sure they mention we need to triple next year's budget for security and shit."
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Exactly. The article doesn't shy away from a bit of free publicity for Cellerite. Which is nowhere near as much of a magic bullet as the "tech media" makes it out to be.
How do I know it? By doing the most basic of research by heading to their website and looking at their manuals and documentation.
And Cellerite won't tell you this publicly because their bottom line depends on their ability to massively overprice their services which they sell to technically illiterate people.
Any article that mentions Cellerite without a caveat about the dubiousness of their publicity can be disregarded and shouldn't be taken seriously.
The NEU has disappointed a lot before. But they do do some good things sometimes.
SineNomineAnonymous 7 months ago • 100%
Crossposted from the other site. Hoping it's real because it's great to see young people getting involved and getting a union education. The earlier the better.
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Long time FF user, things really aren't looking good for Mozilla as a whole.
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I’d fire nabakov immediately for example (at the least)
You didn't read it, did you?
And I'm not saying it's a good book because it isn't.
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Remember: no scabbing, that includes the customer too.
SineNomineAnonymous 8 months ago • 100%
I first remember Russia was out of ammo and Moscow was about to be invaded any second now.
Then I was told the TB2 drones were going to end Russia.
Then I was told it was their lack of numbers.
Then I was told it was their lack of winter clothes (no, they really said that).
Then I was told himars would absolutely end them.
Then I was told no it's the cluster ammo.
Then I was told the Leopard would end then.
Then it was the JDAM.
Then the Abrams and challenger tanks.
Dont forget the french CAESAR
You can check. All of those were about to turn the tide in a major way.
They're fighting the most hardened, experienced and numerous army in Europe, a trained and well equipped military with what is effectively the second largest military budget on the planet. And they're still gaining ground.
Meanwhile israel is getting absolutely owned by random bakers wearing tactical flip flops and firing homemade RPGs. Who don't have air, ground or naval support whatsoever.
Just like Americans got owned twice in a row in the same region before.
Liberals have no idea what an actual war is. All their countries have done is fighting colonial expeditions before being told by their history books it was an unquestionable win and the complete lack of achievement or victory was actually the entire point of it.
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The sub has been dead and not spread at all whatsoever since I've started it. The reason is simple: no time, lack of motivation unquestionably. Going to try and pick up the pace myself although it's not super easy as I'm not currently in the UK but have a lot of contacts in UK education sector so hopefully will be able to post a few things in the coming weeks and make the community a bit more active.
Form to fill: rb.gy/6ptfs or email palestineinschool[at]gmail.com Phone number is ZERO 3333 44 44 96 This is for students OR teachers. We know how terrible the UK is (that includes the education system) when it comes to not allowing dissent against Israel, we need all the help we can.
Costco workers in Norfolk have unionised and Costco are seething.
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The more I read about the Teamsters and the deal they managed to get, the more I wonder what's going on with what was a very promising union.
They were sold down the river by their unions who told them to accept the deal (because the unions had no desire to fight any further). I'll be fair to the unions, the workers that make them up didn't follow through with the strike actions (there is only so much that can be done) BUT the unions did a terrible job of communicating with the workers and backing up the strike action. The 6.5% "increase" is a major pay cut for 2 reasons: 1 - it comes on the back of nearly no increase for the past few years (definitely not enough to even keep up with inflation over the past years). 2 - it's about half the inflation *this year*. Moreoever, it's not funded. Funded means "the government spends that money on the education sector". That would be "extra money to the budget". Funded. The government said "3% will be funded through defunding other public services - targetting foeigners who use public services - and we hope that will be enough (it won't be". So... where do the other 3.5% come from? They have to come from existing school budgets. Meaning all schools now have to make major budget cuts (they have already cut everything they could) to find that money. The education budget comes out even worse than it was before. And they're calling it "a win". The budget cuts mean: whatever staff can be considered spare (tough decisions are going to have to be made), mostly the support staff, will have to be cut. In the UK, teachers already moan constantly about the lack of support staff. If you accepted that deal, that's on you, fingers crossed you're massively screwed for next year, well done you. Extra-curricular activities will be cut. Optional subjects (think arts, mostly) will have to be cut (which is one of the things the government has been aching to do for a long time). And that's considered a win. Class solidarity? Nowhere to be found. So much more to add, but only so much you can add before people tune out.
For UK based teachers (currently not based in the UK at the moment, but have been in the UK for a while and might be heading back soon). It appears evident that the "reddit equivalent" are a bunch of conservative scabs so it would be worthy to have something in a more progressive place.
Because I'm seeing a lot of positivie coverage of the agreement but it's not covering the really important bit that it's not a fair one for all.
It's worth listening to, regardless of what you think of the podcast itself or the hosts, because Brace goes into a decent amount of details about how he organised his workplace following the tactics commonly used by the iww.