#Secretary of Labour

[professorfcknmoriarty]

someone has to save these poor comedians from Sam Reich

[filosofablogger]

Score One For We The People!

Far too often the people who work to make, sell and distribute a product or service are not the ones who are enjoying the profits of their labours – the corporate CEOs are using the product of the workers’ blood, sweat and tears to enhance their own profits, to buy yachts, mansions, vacation homes, and private airplanes.  This week may have given us a glimmer of hope that workers do have some…

[political-us]

[ghosthermione-reads]

Feeling a bit guilty that, although i reached my reading goal for the year, of 95 books, about 1/3rd of the paper "books" are short stories or novellas I read for the Hugos. I counted my average and im at like 200p per books, which would be decent short novels or novellas.

Then I remember that, actually, this year has been the busiest I've ever been. I was secretary of a rescue charity ("association") and worked on financial applications for that, I switched jobs and dealt with the anxiety of the last job being thieves and liars and gaslighting and pressuring you into 40h weeks, I've gotten used to new job at its peak time + having 1h to get to it each way (yay audiobooks!) and finally, I organized a Christmas market for the rescue's benefit, with close to 40 small creators, , from finding the room to rent to actually being there on the day to filing paperwork that nobody had even heard of in previous years.

I considered lowering my goal at some point but I haven't. and I also managed to play more games this year I think, and not feel guilty about how "i should be reading"

so i will take that as a victory and continue reading whatever amount I read!

[kamalkafir-blog]

Home secretary rejects Zarah Sultana’s claim Labour failing to improve lives – UK politics live | Politics

[News] Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Ministers are “looking at a range of different issues” for cutting small boat crossings, the home secretary said as she declined to confirm reports the government was considering a “one in, one out” policy for asylum seekers, reports the PA news agency. Asked whether the government was looking at such a scheme…

[the-new-typist]

‘View in topics’ new offices in London at 23 King Street, Cheapside, E. C.’ from Typewriter Topics — The International Office Equipment Magazine for the 1910 Annual European Trade Review, January 1910.

[mossadegh]

In his 1960 autobiography, former British Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison said he wanted to take military action in Iran during the “Abadan Crisis”.

The Mossadegh Project

[youthchronical]

Lori Chavez-DeRemer confirmed by Senate as labor secretary in Trump administration - The Times of India

Lori Chavez-DeRemer at hearing of the Senate, last month, as part of the confirmation process (AP photo) The US Senate confirmed Lori Chavez-DeRemer as the labour secretary in Trump administration on Monday. In this role, she will enforce federally mandated worker protections whilst the White House aims to reduce government staff numbers. She will lead the Department of Labour, which is involved…

[beetrans]

you must be in solidarity with people you personally dislike and wouldn't hang out with! this is an important thing I've learned in Organizing!

you must respect their contributions and make space for them and their differences from you and determine when something needs to be in your Points of Unity and when you need to have a one-on-one chat about that Kinda Racist Thing They Said and when you can let something slide as just differences.

and crucially, you need them to do the same for you. bc we all rub each other the wrong way at some point. that's part of sharing space and acting together.

as long as you want collective action towards the same goals, you gotta work collectively.

I think it's important to be allies and work together with people who can share the same goals as you, but don't have the same feelings as you.

Many people who believe that abortion needs to be legal, are upset by the idea of abortion. They might feel that abortion is a tragedy. They might be very uncomfortable with people making flippant jokes about abortion.

These people are allies, NOT enemies. However, they are commonly treated like enemies by people who support abortion rights.

It's foolish. I believe in the right to personal and bodily autonomy even though it means people will make choices about their bodies that I don't like. I feel that some choices people make about their bodies are bad or harmful, but I still believe in the right to make them.

Therefore it would be hypocritical to expect someone who shares my belief in a right to bodily autonomy, to personally feel positively about abortion.

[gurutrends]

Japa: 19,000 illegal immigrants deported under Labour govt – UK Home Secretary

Japa: 19,000 illegal immigrants deported under Labour govt – UK Home Secretary The United Kingdom Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, has revealed that 19,000 illegal immigrants have been deported under the Labour government.  She made this known during an interview on GBN station and on the Home Office website. “To rebuild public confidence in the immigration system, we need to show that the rules…

[fruitfulchaos]

Sam Reich is such a cartoonish character to me. His last name is literally "Rich". He's this villain-y game show host. He's the son of the ex-secretary of labour who saved a comedy media company from extinction and does magic tricks as a hobby in his free time. What kinda muppet factory did they release him from

[thejaymo]

The Processing of Words | 2429

Cut, Copy, Paste, Highlight, Delete, Overwrite, Move, Drag, and Drop. I have come to a realisation: I am not a writer. I don't write words, I process them.

In 1984, author Ray Hammond reminded readers that ‘the computer has no power to write words.’

As large language models (LLMs) reshape writing today, it’s worth reflecting on the last seismic shift in creative technology: the rise of the word processor.

Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2024/11/17/2429-the-processing-of-words/

[the-new-typist]

The first and most lasting union for women stenographers and typists in American history being the Bookkeepers, Stenographers and Accountants Union (1908) in New York being solely made by the help of the Women’s Trade Union League (WTUL) is depressing to think about. They had smaller mutual aid and benefit associations before, but rarely any actual labour unions. It took other working women to see their troubles and finally decide it was time to act, but a majority of unionising attempts didn’t last.

They were pink- and white-collared workers overlooked by their comrades for being working women in clerical or secretarial jobs. Some women internalised that either their positions wasn’t appropriate for unions or weren’t permanent jobs, didn’t constitute as actual work in comparison to the hands-on blue collared workers, or were in places made in such a way that prevented them from collaborating, etc. These views resulted in the belief that there was “no real need” to or ability to organise.

The diverse structure and different cultures of the office and role of the typist, stenographer, clerk, or secretary made it harder for those women to organise than the average factory worker. Different spheres of work and lesser community meant lesser solidarity, or the feeling of a need for it. Classism, misogyny, and what counted as “real work” inside and outside of the labour movement all determined what they’d do next. All of these factors will never persist in not making my blood boil, a loss of office solidarity in the labour movement amongst women.

All from "Union Fever": Organizing Among Clerical Workers, 1900-1930 by Roslyn L. Feldberg from Workers' Struggles, Past and Present: A "Radical America" Reader by James Green (1983, Temple University Press)

[chrissterry]

Labour ditches Streeting pledge to meet four-hour A&E target by 2029 | News i

So much for a Labour manifesto and the Health and social care Secretary Wes Streeting MP for it appears pledges or promises means nothing to Labour once they have formed a government, especially one with such a large majority. But shoulkd this be a surprise for what governments can be trusted, well, in my experience none. If they were transparenct, accountable and foremost honesty then we could…