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Hadlock posted:Amtrak has always run at a loss except for the NE corridor. The justification has always been "it's not a viable business so we must run it as a government owned company, because if we don't the infrastructure around will crumble and it'll never return" Some of the first English settlers were aristocrats who famously refused to even try to farm(Jamestown I'm looking at you).
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looks like it's a little of bothwikipedia posted:Founded in 1971 as a quasi-public corporation to operate many U.S. passenger rail routes, Amtrak receives a combination of state and federal subsidies but is managed as a for-profit organization.
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Well isnt that unusual. https://twitter.com/KTLA/status/1722150601759576438
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drat that's crazy.
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What LA Times expose is about to drop?
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Scott Forstall posted:What LA Times expose is about to drop? with all we already know about the LA sheriff's department i figured there was a decent chance someone staged some suicides to ensure people who could don't talk to the LA Times
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Scott Forstall posted:What LA Times expose is about to drop? it's hard to imagine what more could be exposed about LASD. they're like the major leagues of dirty cops
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Cactus Ghost posted:it's hard to imagine what more could be exposed about LASD. they're like the major leagues of dirty cops Fair, but with the LASD, there’s always more and it’s always worse than what we’ve previously heard.
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Tayter Swift posted:Thinking it through I don't think a strike could happen until 2025. There's a bill in the legislature (AB 1677) requiring a study into what the gently caress is going on with stat scientists' salary over the years. It's gone through the Assembly, but I don't know if Newsom intends to sign it. Welp. CAPS is doing a rolling 3-day strike next week.
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first strike by civil servants in state history. apparently the dills act makes the process to legally strike so lengthy almost no one actually does
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My dills act is so lengthy nobody strikes it either
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Labor is more into dill girth.
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so Sacramento is basically a slot in a strip mall now?
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What?
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SlimGoodbody posted:What? Don't mind that guy, he's some permabanned guy spending $10 per post
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It's strike day.
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Tayter Swift posted:It's strike day. For better hours, wages and conditions?
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Wages and like pay for like work, primarily. Scientist wages are 25-40% lower than equivalent roles in the engineering classes with identical duty statements and tenure (we're talking folks in my unit which I've personally trained among others), thanks to a massive pay bump engineers got in the mid-aughts. There's a pay equity element to this, as 50% of CAPS are women but 75% of engineers are men. Our last contract ran from 2018-2020. We've been out of contract since then. The last tentative agreement (late 2022) included a wage increase of 6.5% spread over 19 months (with some upward exceptions). It was rejected soundly. CAPS and the State went back to the table this year and CalHR stonewalled us on salary for months before coming back with some convoluted plan which would have worked out to about 15% spread for folks topped out on salary. CAPS didn't bring this to members for a vote. They pushed for an impasse, which the Public Employee Relations Board granted. There was a meeting with a mediator early this month and I guess it didn't go over well as CAPS called for the strike shortly after. The next mediator meeting is on the 28th.
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i am pro strike as long as the strikers aren't cops. so im pro this strike
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I saw the picket line when I was driving by Sacramento City hall yesterday. Brought a tear to this state worker's eye. The state generally needs its arm twisted to negotiate in good faith. We were in a similar situation to the scientists. It took my union taking steps to get a judge to break our public safety no strike clause to get them to budge and give us our first targeted raises in over a decade. Gangringo fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Nov 17, 2023 |
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the state's first move when we announced the strike was to move to have it declared illegal, and still continuing to take that line with threats to the status of those in permanent-intermittent positions if they are out of the office for more than 3 days not exactly feeling the love for labor from the newsom administration
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Yeah that guy's a piece of poo poo
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SlimGoodbody posted:Yeah that guy's a piece of poo poo
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SlimGoodbody posted:Yeah that guy's a piece of poo poo
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My US Rep, Anna Eshoo, just announced she's retiring. She's not particularly remarkable, but the runner-up in 2022, a guy named Rishi Kumar, is a stealth libertarian. No idea if he'll run again but he would be worse in every conceivable way. vvv Kumar also runs as a D Family Values fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Nov 22, 2023 |
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Family Values posted:My US Rep, Anna Eshoo, just announced she's retiring. She's not particularly remarkable, but the runner-up in 2022, a guy named Rishi Kumar, is a stealth libertarian. No idea if he'll run again but he would be worse in every conceivable way. The runner up isn't going to win next time, he's going to be the runner up again to whomever the Democratic Party nominates.
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Muir posted:The runner up isn't going to win next time, he's going to be the runner up again to whomever the Democratic Party nominates. Rishi Kumar is a Democrat, and supported Medicare for all, Green New deal, etc and was ostensibly a Bernie supporter, but governed on the Saratoga city council as a NIMBY, supports cops, and hosted a "Friends of the BJP" event. So he kinda painted himself into a corner there. He's not gonna get a party endorsement and the left knows he's a poser. That said, the other names floated all also loving suck: Liccardo: Former San Jose Mayor, failed to change the rules to extend his term, has been raising money and making connections to deep pockets (all he really did as mayor too). Kinda assumed Lofgren's ancient rear end was gonna retire first and he'd go for that spot. Bloomberg campaign state chair. Low: Rich parents got him the seat, doesn't rock the boat, was Andrew Yang's state chair, has Andrew Yang type politics. Simitian: Been around for decades so prob lots of connections, don't know much about him except he opposed high speed rail and works to suppress the left in the local party, so I hear.
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Back right after J6 I sent Eshoo a message, encouraging her to support investigations against the Congresspeople who aided and abetted the insurrection. She wrote me back saying, essentially, everyone is entitled to their opinion. So I'm glad she's out.
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First of May posted:Back right after J6 I sent Eshoo a message, encouraging her to support investigations against the Congresspeople who aided and abetted the insurrection. I emailed her about PAYGO in 2019 and the reply I got was about fiscal responsibility and the national debt lol
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For some reason Desantis and Newsom are debating and all the videos i've seen make Ron look like an idiot. https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1730416638812471647
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couldn’t pay me to click that
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Trump looked like a moron too but he became president. Newsom is absolutely loving stupid to do this poo poo
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Ron DeSantis isn't becoming president.
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Ron DeSantis is an annoying little twerp with no juice. Trump, for all his innumerable faults, is entertaining, and that's what people voted for.
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Centrist Committee posted:couldn’t pay me to click that
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Centrist Committee posted:couldn’t pay me to click that
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OgNar posted:For some reason Desantis and Newsom are debating and all the videos i've seen make Ron look like an idiot. The reason is, Ron is an idiot.
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big black turnout posted:Trump looked like a moron too but he became president. Newsom is absolutely loving stupid to do this poo poo He's setting up a run for 2028.
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First of May posted:He's setting up a run for 2028. Given how much the national media ignores things and people outside of the Acela corridor, it's probably a smart move.
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SlimGoodbody posted:Ron DeSantis is an annoying little twerp with no juice. Trump, for all his innumerable faults, is entertaining, and that's what people voted for. i mean, desantis may not be a meme machine but he's also giving the fash what they want, which is the other thing that got trump votes
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