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Comrade Fakename posted:That was always what they were talking about. https://twitter.com/andraydomise/status/1349949156773797888?s=19
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Jose posted:Ah yes I wonder what the cause could be Not reading the article but I assume it's due to the increased interest in CBT
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Wolfsbane posted:Yeah, if you read the small print. The adverts were all talking about $2000 cheques. I mean, the whole thing was about the stimulus cheques, and the Democrats wanted $2000, but the Republicans only allowed $600. Those cheques have now gone out. The Democrats said if they took the Senate they'd up it to $2k. So the $1400 means they are. There's plenty of poo poo to complain about the Democrats about but this is them explicitly meeting an election promise.
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Comrade Fakename posted:I mean, the whole thing was about the stimulus cheques, and the Democrats wanted $2000, but the Republicans only allowed $600. Those cheques have now gone out. The Democrats said if they took the Senate they'd up it to $2k. So the $1400 means they are. Hello I am the wallet inspector
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Jose posted:Hello I am the wallet inspector I looked in my wallet after and it had another $1400 in it, as promised.
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This thread told me the Chancellor would give me a voucher for a PS5 and I didn't get poo poo. What gives there?
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Comrade Fakename posted:I looked in my wallet after and it had another $1400 in it, as promised. So just going to ignore the evidence that this isn't true No wonder you're still a labour member
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What are the CWU like as a union, since they're now open the general IT, not just communications, workers? And should you join a union based on your company's overall field, or what you actually do in that company? i.e. I'm an IT person, but my company isn't an IT company. Angrymog fucked around with this message at 13:12 on Jan 15, 2021 |
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Insight into the experience of Polish lorry drivers in Kent. It's going predictably well https://twitter.com/torynski/status/1349784018628259841?s=21
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Red faced and horny https://twitter.com/RebeccaWiIks/status/1350034830327762944
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peanut- posted:How much value does the 48-hour working week thing have in practice? Every employment contract I've ever signed just has an opt-out clause in it. IIRC that clause has to be voluntary, they can't make it a condition of employment. Now whether that matters in practice, well, with the work tribunals being what they are, that's another thing. e: Also according to the NHS it has some further implications you can't opt out of, namely: quote: 11 hours continuous rest in 24 hours Private Speech fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Jan 15, 2021 |
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Angrymog posted:What are the CWU like as a union, since they're now open the general IT, not just communications, workers? CWU are good as a union, whether to join them or not depends on if there's another union already at your work. If there's a branch or just other members of another union you can join it's better to join that as it's increasing your collective strength. If there's nothing obvious then think about whether it's more likely you could get your other workers to join a particular union or not and join the one you think you've got the best odds.
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keep punching joe posted:Red faced and horny
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Failed Imagineer posted:Not reading the article but I assume it's due to the increased interest in CBT these articles are usually just a long form version of the 14 words , but dressed up in a suit
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Jose posted:Ah yes I wonder what the cause could be That island of yours is overpopulated as is.
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It makes some interesting points about China, labour supply shock, and bankers taking credit for things that they didn't do, but not one mention of automation in the whole article.
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namesake posted:CWU are good as a union, whether to join them or not depends on if there's another union already at your work. If there's a branch or just other members of another union you can join it's better to join that as it's increasing your collective strength. If there's nothing obvious then think about whether it's more likely you could get your other workers to join a particular union or not and join the one you think you've got the best odds. As far as I know we don't have a union at work, but how would I find out?
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peanut- posted:How much value does the 48-hour working week thing have in practice? Every employment contract I've ever signed just has an opt-out clause in it. Yeah, this has been my experience as well. Either your job never needed to exceed a 48-hour working week so it never came up, or they made you choose between signing an opt-out or not getting the job. Allowing an opt-out just made it into a box-ticking exercise.
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Was the opt-out one of the things that Britain pushed for or was it the Frugal Four?
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Mugsbaloney posted:Expressing an opinion in the soprano Vs satc "debate" is only padding Hadley Freeman's engagement stats on her thought leadership CV, dont do it, have a wank or something If you were referring to me I had no idea there was any such debate going on. I was just adding my $0.02 about the sopranos 
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sebzilla posted:Four 12-hour days When I got my first proper job we used to work a 5 on / 3 off shift pattern, 6am - 6pm. Took us ages to convince our manager we should move to 4 on / 4 off to match what the production teams were working (we were quality assurance). I liked 4 days off, and you get numb to 12 hour days after a while.
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Guavanaut posted:Was the opt-out one of the things that Britain pushed for or was it the Frugal Four? I don't know about that, but apparently the opt-out applies on per-country basis and is not universal: euparl posted:A Member State shall have the option not to apply Article 6 [maximum So it's really Britain's fault that it applies in the UK in the first place. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Jan 15, 2021 |
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Private Speech posted:the competent authorities
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Dead Goon posted:When I got my first proper job we used to work a 5 on / 3 off shift pattern, 6am - 6pm. Ah, numbness. Always a good thing.
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Angrymog posted:As far as I know we don't have a union at work, but how would I find out? There might be a very shaded reference on your work intranet if you have one, otherwise it's very difficult unless they're recognised by the workplace. Odds are if you're not aware of it after checking the intranet and any main noticeboards then it doesn't exist.
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In fact here's a map of countries with the generalised opt-out (blue ones): Orange ones have it for emergency workers and the like, green ones for no workers at all. Bulgaria and Private Speech fucked around with this message at 14:37 on Jan 15, 2021 |
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Private Speech posted:In fact here's a map of countries with the generalised opt-out (blue ones):
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Personally I preferred working longer hours for 4 days because when you factor in the time you lose in unpaid breaks and travel and having to stay a bit longer here and there to finish things up when working shorter shifts over 5 days you're home too late and too knackered to do anything worthwhile of an evening anyway It was very predictable though that the tories would immediately start an assault on workers' rights as their first priority after brext, beaten only by nazgul patel putting out the idea of bringing back hanging, such is her thirst for blood 
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https://twitter.com/annelongfield/status/1349062358312869890 i just noticed that on the old coin bags that have been used to transport meagre scraps of food to children at extortionate cost to the public in one of the world's wealthiest nations, it says "no mixed coin" and the irony has made me very sad
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crispix posted:It was very predictable though that the tories would immediately start an assault on workers' rights as their first priority after brext, beaten only by nazgul patel putting out the idea of bringing back hanging, such is her thirst for blood Yeah, this was always the huge flaw in the Lexit idea - support for Brexit was driven by nationalism and xenophobia, so if you got Brexit you were getting a government far to the right of the EU to go with it.
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Private Speech posted:In fact here's a map of countries with the generalised opt-out (blue ones): Malta too e: Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania are in alphabetic order north-south if you ever need to recognise which is which
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Guavanaut posted:Spaffed up the red wall. How do they know the ages of people?
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I prefer working 0 hours, seven days a week. Check here to see if your house is built on top of an old landfill full of hazardous waste  https://www.endsreport.com/article/1704522/mapped-england-wales-toxic-legacy-landfills
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Julio Cruz posted:Malta too I always go by Estonia being non-slav hence closer to Finland, and Lithuania being former part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth hence being closest to Poland. When I actually bother distinguishing them from Finland that is.
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Guavanaut posted:Spaffed up the red wall. Masturbation is a good way to stay awake through the night to watch the results come in. Or so I hear.
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Comrade Fakename posted:I looked in my wallet after and it had another $1400 in it, as promised. If a $600 cheque has gone out & you promise that if you vote for our candidates here then we'll send out a $2000 cheque then some people will assume it's on top of the $600 rather to top up the original $600 to $2000. It's technically right but misleading is the problem. Sleight of hand is lame (especially as $2000, while nice, is a one off payment rather than a sustained payment to help people during a pandemic. It's not unreasonable to assume there could be more). And that extra $600 is basically a rounding error in the budget of the Pentagon which doesn't seem worth burning trust before your time in office has even loving started Umbra Dubium posted:This thread told me the Chancellor would give me a voucher for a PS5 and I didn't get poo poo. What gives there? He decided to use the money to encourage us all to go to the pub instead. Oopsy. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Jan 15, 2021 |
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