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2023 Harley-Davidson FLHCS - Heritage Classic | Apple State Harley-Davidson
#Apple State Harley-Davidson#applestatehd#Yakima#WA#Washington#Naches#Wapato#Mattawa#Union Gap#Cruiser#motorcycles#new#used#pre-owned
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you know, everyone thinks that maintenance is the lowest rung on the ladder just ‘cause we fix pipes instead of writing memos, but i gotta be honest, these are the bravest people in the goddamn building
#control#control remedy#control 2019#jesse faden#vg#virtual photography#my photomode#SAY THAT ARISH#i sincerely hope there’s a union in the fbc especially for maintenance workers. if not… get to it jesse!!#you’re still the janitor’s assistant that includes you girl#also technically the third one is in the motel but it’s the switch that takes you to the quarry so i think it counts lol#and what did i say about gaps in trees smh i have a problem
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Craig Harrington at MMFA:
The economic policy provisions outlined by Project 2025 — the extreme right-wing agenda for the next Republican administration — are overwhelmingly catered toward benefiting wealthier Americans and corporate interests at the expense of average workers and taxpayers. Project 2025 prioritizes redoubling Republican efforts to expand “trickle-down” tax cuts for the wealthy and deregulation across the economy. The authors of the effort’s policy book, Mandate for Leadership: A Conservative Promise, recommend putting key government agencies responsible for oversight of large sectors of the economy under direct right-wing political control and empowering those agencies to prioritize right-wing agendas in dealing with everything from consumer protections to organized labor activity. [...]
Project 2025 would chill labor unions' abilities to engage in political activity. Project 2025 suggests that the National Labor Relations Board change its enforcement priorities regarding what it describes as unions using “members' resources on left-wing culture-war issues.” The authors encourage allowing employees to accuse union leadership of violating their “duty of fair representation” by having “political conflicts of interest” if the union engages in political activity that the employee disagrees with. [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023; National Labor Relations Board, accessed 7/8/24]
Project 2025 would make it easier for employers to classify workers as “independent contractors.” The authors recommended reinstating policies governing the classification of independent contractors that the NLRB implemented during the Trump administration. Those Trump-era NLRB regulations were amended in 2023, expanding workplace and labor organizing protections to previously exempt American workers. [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023; The National Law Review, 6/19/23; National Labor Relations Board, 6/13/23]
Project 2025 would reduce base overtime pay for workers. The authors recommend changing overtime protections to remove nonwage compensatory and other workplace benefits from calculations of their “regular” pay rate, which forms the basis for overtime formulations. If that change is enacted, every worker currently given overtime protections could be subject to a slight reduction in the value of their overtime pay, which the authors claim will encourage employers to provide nonwage benefits but would effectively just amount to a pay cut. The authors also propose other changes to the way overtime is calculated and enforced, which could result in reduced compensation for workers. Overtime protections have long been a focus of right-wing media campaigns to reduce protections afforded to American workers. [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023, Media Matters, 7/9/24]
Project 2025 proposes capping and phasing out visa programs for migrant workers. Project 2025’s authors propose capping and eventually eliminating the H-2A and H-2B temporary work visa programs, which are available for seasonal agricultural and nonagricultural workers, respectively. Even the Project 2025 authors admit that these proposals could threaten many businesses that rely on migrant workers and could result in higher prices for consumers. [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]
Project 2025 recommends institutionalizing the “Judeo-Christian tradition” of the Sabbath. Under the guise of creating a “communal day of rest,” Project 2025 includes a policy proposal amending the Fair Labor Standards Act to require paying workers who currently receive overtime protections “time and a half for hours worked on the Sabbath,” which it said “would default to Sunday.” Ostensibly a policy that increases wages, the proposal is specifically meant to disincentivize employers from providing services on Sundays as an explicitly religious overture. [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]
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International Trade
Project 2025 contains a lengthy debate between diametrically opposed perspectives on international trade and commerce.Over the course of 31 pages, disgraced former Trump adviser and current federal inmate Peter Navarro outlines various proposals to fundamentally transform American international commercial and domestic industrial policy in opposition to China, primarily by using tariffs. He dedicates well over a dozen pages to obsessing over America’s trade deficit with China, even though Trump’s trade war with China was a failure and as he focused on China, the overall U.S. trade deficit exploded. Much of the rest of Navarro’s section is economic saber-rattling against “Communist China’s economic aggression and quest for world domination.”In response, Kent Lassman of the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute promotes a return to free trade orthodoxy that was previously pursued by the Republican Party but has fallen out of favor during the Trump era.
The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 agenda would be a boon for the wealthy and a disaster for the working class folk.
See Also:
MMFA: Project 2025’s dystopian approach to taxes
#Economy#Project 2025#The Heritage Foundation#Donald Trump#Income Inequality#Mandate For Leadership#Federal Reserve#IRS#Student Loan Debt#Unions#Labor#Overtime Pay#Independent Contractors#H2A Visa#H2B Visa#Sabbath#Workplace Safety#Gender Pay Gap#Trade#Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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they ARE making more money than ever
#tiktok#writers#writers strike#workers vs capital#workers rights#union workers#workers#labor vs capital#capital vs labor#labor rights#labor#adam ruins everything#Adam Conover#CNN#CEO#wealth inequality#wealth gap#hoarding wealth#wealth
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Karel Gott performing Ámen, pravím vám (Amen, I Tell You) (cover of Gary Puckett & The Union Gap - Woman, Woman) 1968, TV, MV, dir. Marie Manolová IMDB YT
#Czech#čumblr#Karel Gott#Czech pop music#Czech pop#Czech music#Ámen pravím vám#Woman Woman#Gary Puckett & The Union Gap#cover version#1960s#music video#music video edit#singer#Czech singer#black and white#Marie Manolová#central Europe#European pop music#European pop#Czechia#Czech Republic#Czech pop culture#gif
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I so wish people thought about accessibility while they are designing and not just as an afterthought.
I shouldn't have to call help desk every morning asking if I could get in cause they can't fix the handicap accessibility button that has been broken for 3 months now.
#anyway#just send a long email to the student union#cause I just checked#and the IT classroom is only accessible via a spiral staircase#and it's metal#with gaps#personal#accessibility#its sunday and I can't get in cause there is no staff and the button doesnt work
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killer7 did something to my brain. you guys ever think of hand in killer7? i have so many thoughts, so many questions. forefront of my mind rn is what was kun lan’s taxi driver career in japan like.
#i have big contemplations like was emir around during the 90s when the rest of the smiths were being revived#CAUSE TAHTS WHEN THE PIGEON LETTERS AND HOLBERTS DEATH BY EMIR TOOK PLACE.#also not to mention mills saying 30 years ago you and harman-#whatever happened back then is not touched on in the game rather to show what happened at the union hotel#while its still very important to SOMETHING it seems. like mills was killed before he could tell garcian important#also what revamps the smith syndicate? the ones in killer7 are the second and that 1990 to 2000 gap still didnt turn them into a new one#while they turned into the 3rd smith syndicate after their deaths in 2011 from the big coburn fight#NOT TO MENTION THEY REFORMED IN 2053. THATS FORTYISH YEARS.#also the personae are assumed to still be around because in 2170 mask is still around with the 5th smith syndicate#maybe the coburn fight was an even more intense weakening than the 1990 fight and took a while for the smiths to reemerge?#also what ended the 3rd and 4th syndicates? who knows. whats garcians identity throughout these ones?#I HAVE SO MANY CONTEMPLATIONS. also taxicab driver kun lan.#i speak#killer7#kill the past
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so. hi mutuals. ive vanished for a bit because school is a lot of fucking effort right now. but. guess who's officially going to costuming school.
#gonna get into a union#gonna make pretty things#the course doesn't defer which sucks because I was planning a gap year but full send I guesss#only 20 people get accepted so im feeling pretty cool rn
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By Brett Wilkins
Common Dreams
Oct. 24, 2024
"Closing the emissions gap means closing the ambition gap, the implementation gap, and the finance gap," said U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. "Starting at COP29."
The world's nations must commit to dramatically slashing greenhouse gas emissions in the near future or risk a "catastrophic" rise in global average temperatures, a key United Nations climate report published Thursday warned.
"It is still technically possible to meet the 1.5°C goal" set out in the Paris agreement, "but only with a G20-led massive global mobilization to cut all greenhouse gas emissions, starting today," the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) said in a summary of its annual Emissions Gap Report.
"Nations must collectively commit to cutting 42% off annual greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and 57% by 2035 in the next round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)—and back this up with rapid action—or the Paris agreement's 1.5°C goal will be gone within a few years," UNEP warned.
"Failure to increase ambition in these new NDCs and start delivering immediately would put the world on course for a temperature increase of 2.6-3.1°C over this century," the agency said. "This would bring debilitating impacts to people, planet, and economies."
UNEP said "solar, wind, and forests" have the potential to help the world "get on a 1.5°C pathway." However, "sufficiently strong NDCs would need to be backed urgently by a whole-of-government approach, measures that maximize socioeconomic and environmental co-benefits, enhanced international collaboration that includes reform of the global financial architecture, strong private sector action, and a minimum six-fold increase in mitigation investment."
"G20 nations, particularly the largest-emitting members, would need to do the heavy lifting," the agency added.
The task is daunting—according to the report, human emissions of greenhouse gases—CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases—reached a record 57.1bn tons of CO2 equivalent (GtCO2e) last year.
"The emissions gap is not an abstract notion," U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres stressed in a video message on the UNEP report. "There is a direct link between increasing emissions and increasingly frequent and intense climate disasters."
"Around the world, people are paying a terrible price," he continued. "Record emissions mean record sea temperatures supercharging monster hurricanes; record heat is turning forests into tinder boxes and cities into saunas; record rains are resulting in biblical floods."
"Today's Emissions Gap report is clear: We're playing with fire; but there can be no more playing for time," Guterres added. "We're out of time. Closing the emissions gap means closing the ambition gap, the implementation gap, and the finance gap. Starting at COP29."
The U.N. chief was referring to the United Nations Climate Change Conference, which is set to take place next month in Baku, Azerbaijan—a nation that is "aggressively" expanding fossil fuel production.
UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen said in a statement:
Climate crunch time is here. We need global mobilization on a scale and pace never seen before—starting right now, before the next round of climate pledges—or the 1.5°C goal will soon be dead and well below 2°C will take its place in the intensive care unit. I urge every nation: No more hot air, please. Use the upcoming COP29 talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, to increase action now, set the stage for stronger NDCs, and then go all-out to get on a 1.5°C pathway. Even if the world overshoots 1.5°C—and the chances of this happening are increasing every day—we must keep striving for a net-zero, sustainable, and prosperous world. Every fraction of a degree avoided counts in terms of lives saved, economies protected, damages avoided, biodiversity conserved, and the ability to rapidly bring down any temperature overshoot.
Climate scientists and green groups expressed alarm over the UNEP report.
"The Emissions Gap Report is yet another clear warning about what needs to be done and fast," Andreas Sieber, associate director of policy and campaigns at 350.org, said in a statement. "Last year at COP28, nations agreed to transition away from fossil fuels. The report makes it crystal clear that governments must translate this decision into action in their national climate pledges if they are serious about the just energy transition."
Greenpeace International climate politics expert Tracy Carty said that "for 15 years, the UNEP has been sounding the alarm on the great chasm between political will for climate action and the worsening emissions trajectory fuelling rising temperatures."
"These reports are a historical litany of negligence from the world's leaders to tackle the climate crisis with the urgency it demands, but it's not too late to take corrective action," Carty continued. "We challenge leaders to embark on wholesale change in their 2035 climate plans, to come to COP29 prepared to finance climate action and to make up for lost time."
Rachel Cleetus, policy director and a lead economist in the Climate and Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, issued a statement arguing that the new UNEP report "forcefully confirms that nations' efforts to cut heat-trapping emissions have been grossly insufficient to date."
"Global heating records are being topped year after year, and people and ecosystems worldwide are suffering the devastation of unrelenting climate change disasters and increasingly irreversible impacts," she noted. "To put it bluntly, decades of inadequate action have put the 1.5°C goal further out of reach and world leaders are failing their people. The consequences are profound—but the policy choices decided now are as crucial as ever to limit future harm."
Cleetus continued:
The best way forward is to implement sweeping changes to the global energy system by phasing out the destructive products fossil fuel companies are peddling and investing big in renewable energy solutions to sharply curtail heat-trapping emissions. Also urgent are scaled-up investments in climate resilience to cope with impacts already locked in. Rich, high-emitting nations—including the United States—are most responsible for these calamitous circumstances. Those living in climate-vulnerable, low-income countries that contributed very little to the fossil fuel pollution driving this crisis need more than hollow words; they need wealthy countries and other major emitters to live up to their responsibilities.
"At the upcoming U.N. climate talks, wealthy nations must significantly grow the amount of climate financing available to ensure all countries can slash their global warming emissions and prepare for the more frequent and severe climate impacts that are the punishing consequence of a warming world," Cleetus added.
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#antonio guterres#cop29#paris agreement#climate emergency#climate change#greenhouse gas emissions#unep#united nations#union of concerned scientists#emissions gap report
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#Apple State Harley-Davidson#applestatehd#Yakima#WA#Washington#Naches#Wapato#Mattawa#Union Gap#Cruiser#motorcycles
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I visited New York a while back, where I toured these enormous mansions built during America's "Gilded Age" in the late 19th century. Each estate was about the size of a literal palace, with acres of gardens and armies of staff, and were all summer homes that were only ever used for a few months every year. They were built during the greatest wealth desperately in American history, when industries were almost entirely unregulated, the rich were basically untaxed, and worker's unions had yet to organize.
Last year, America's wealth gap surpassed the Gilded Age.
#the gilded age#wealth gap#unionize#labor unions#late stage capitalism#regulations#industrial revolution
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pay the writers
#tiktok#more perfect union#billionaire#evil billionaire#WGA strike#WGA#writers strike#protest#collective action#labor strike#strike#wealth inequality#wealth gap#hoarding wealth#wealth#HBO#labor vs capital#capital vs labor#labor rights#labor movements#labor#boston university
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Gary Puckett and the Union Gap - Lady Willpower
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Gary Puckett & The Union Gap: Greatest Hits (1970)
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#my vinyl playlist#gary puckett and the union gap#gary puckett#dwight bement#kerry chater#gary mutha#paul wheatbread#classic rock#pop rock#60’s rock#record cover#album cover#album art#vinyl records
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13. Woman Woman by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap debuted Nov 67 and peaked at number four, scoring 1379 points.
In England, the song peaked at number 48 in Sep 68. Their only other chart entry there was Young Girl, peaking at number six in 1974, six years after charting in the US.
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