#properties of union

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TEAM ASRA PROPERTIES DUBAI

#asraproperties #teamasraproperties #dubaiproperties #dubairealestate #dubailuxury #dubaidesert #dubaioffplan #offplan

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

She Went From Ivy League Student to Having IQ of 6 Year Old - Jealous Evil Classmate?

The Story of Zhu Ling (A story known to 1.4 billion Chinese people)

[cherrim]

happy pride to my fave kh bisexual

[banana-milk-enthusiast]

3 years ago, Tetsuya Nomura hacked into my phone and murdered my oc in cold blood.

Never forget

Saya Sona (kh)

2013-2021

[drumlincountry]

Just had a phone call with my mother about her friend who toooootally wants to rent their spare house out to a refugee family but just needs to know all the ins and outs of the government supports available first. like "mhm and is that €500 a month tax free? and can they ask them to pay more rent on top of that? But the €500 is guaranteed right? Yeah they're very generous they'd be easygoing they're a great landlord but they just wants to have assurance the tenants won't wreck the place...."

[urproblematicfav-arsonk]

In the same way that Ozzie definitely hates Val, I want to see Mammon fucking hate Vox's tacky ass. I want Mamm to find out someone plagiarized his Fizzbots and is trying to be the industry of pride when everyone fucking knows that the #Product™ of hell comes from Greed and Mammon himself

[awstenlookbook]

For the Sneaking Out of Heaven Tour show in Salt Lake City, UT at The Union Event Center, Awsten wears a generic "Girls To the Front" graphic tee (similar from Amazon pictured, $14.99).

📸Destiny Ross for Fresh Off The Scene Magazine

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[dwemers]

I’m so excited I’m like literally shaking

[thecolorsfucked]

8hrs deep in The Second Sex and this white woman is rly helping me see connections and how the downfall of women will always be antiblackness

[onefail-at-atime]

Everyone,

It's time to WAKE UP and start asking those in your community how they're going to work to stop build-to-rent communities from becoming a mainstream housing option. This isn’t just an American housing issue either. It's become a problem in Canada, the UK, Ireland, and even Australia. Home developers are no longer looking to invest in building for sale home communities. No, corporations are investigating in housing properties to build with the intent to rent. Forever.

These developments aren't new homes for sale. They're not even rent to own communities. No, they're brand new houses/condos that are being built for the sole purpose of helping corporations make a profit now that commercial real estate has become such an unpredictable market.

Americans are already familiar with the apartment living build-to-rent model that has consumed so much of the housing market that it's just natural. For my European friends, they're shocked to hear just how many apartment buildings are built for the sole purpose of being a permanent rental building. Month to month rent that has already increased nearly 50% in just 5 years.

Don't sit on this issue. Don't buy into the grand scheme that economists put out there that this will help the housing crisis because it won't. All it will do is cripple a consumer's buying power more than it already has been since the pandemic.

Housing 👏 is 👏 not👏 for👏 corporate 👏 gain.

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a cement mixing company that seeks to bypass federal labor law and sue a union in state court for the destruction of property caused by striking workers.

The Court said the dispute could continue in state court for now, a move that could chill workers’ decisions to strike for fear that unions would now have to face potentially costly litigation in state court for misconduct during federally protected strikes.

The union argued that the case should be handled by an independent federal agency that investigates allegations of wrongdoing, and that the union should not have to face costly state litigation.

The case had been closely watched by supporters of unions who have witnessed the conservative majority in recent years chip away their power.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, writing for the majority that included two of the court’s liberal members, said that the Washington state Supreme Court had been too dismissive of arguments made by the business that it should be able to move forward in state court with a claim of intentional destruction of property.

She pointed particularly to the fact striking workers “abandoned fully loaded trucks” of cement “without telling anyone,” a move that could have destroyed the trucks had they not been unloaded in time by non-striking workers at the company, Glacier Northwest.

Barrett said that the “union’s actions not only resulted in the destruction of all the concrete Glacier had prepared that day; they also posed a risk of foreseeable, aggravated, and imminent harm to Glacier’s trucks.”

Because “the union took affirmative steps to endanger Glacier’s property,” rather than “reasonable precautions to mitigate the risk,” the conduct at issue is arguably “not protected by the” National Labor Relations Act, Barrett wrote.

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Brett Kavanaugh joined Barrett’s opinion.

Noel Francisco, an attorney for the cement company, said he was “pleased” with the court’s ruling. “Our client is entitled to just compensation for its property that the union intentionally destroyed.”

The ruling is a loss for the unions, but the majority maintained a test for future cases that the unions had argued should remain in place.

“Given the implications of the ruling, and the uncertainty it will create for when striking workers can and can’t be sued for damage to their employers (as Justice Jackson stressed in her dissent), it may seem odd that Justices Sotomayor and Kagan joined Justice Barrett’s majority opinion,” said Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at the University of Texas School of Law.

“But compared to completely revisiting the court’s 1959 decision holding that state law generally doesn’t apply in these circumstances, the fact that Justice Barrett’s analysis rests on the narrow facts of this case – including the workers’ intentional misconduct and lack of effort to mitigate the damage – likely was enough to attract two of the three Democratic appointees, and too narrow for some of her fellow conservatives,” he said.

Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas agreed with the majority’s bottom line but would have gone further in their reasoning.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson filed a dissenting opinion joined by no other Justice, in which she suggested that the majority’s opinion “risks erosion of the right to strike.”

She said that the majority opinion would likely cause “considerable confusion” in the lower courts about what Supreme Court precedent requires, and she charged that her colleagues had failed “in multiple respects to heed Congress’ intent” that the National Labor Relations Board take a primary role in adjudicating labor disputes.

“In my view, doing that places a significant burden on the employees exercise of their statutory right to strike, unjustifiably undermining Congress’s intent,” Jackson wrote. She noted that “workers are not indentured servants, bound to continue laboring until any planned work stoppage would be as painless as possible for their master.”

LABOR DISPUTES AT THE COURT

Conservatives on the Court have diluted the strength of unions in recent years. In 2018, for instance, the Court held that public-sector unions aren’t automatically entitled to dues from non-union members.

Back in 2017, Glacier Northwest, a company that sells and delivers ready-mix concrete, was negotiating with Teamsters Local 174 when the company’s truck drivers went on strike. The workers left behind concrete in trucks, causing non-striking workers and managers to work quickly to remove the concrete so as not to damage the trucks. The trucks were saved, but the concrete went to waste and the company moved to sue in state court for damages that resulted from the strike.

A lower court dismissed the claims, holding that they were preempted by the federal National Labor Relations Act, a law passed in 1935 that established the legal right for workers to join labor unions and enter into collective bargaining. Under the law, labor disputes are resolved by an independent agency called the National Labor Relations Board set up to enforce US labor law.

In the dispute at hand, Glacier argued that the workers’ activity amounted to intentional destruction of property and did not fall under the scope of the NLRA because it doesn’t cover workers who fail to take “reasonable precautions” to prevent the destruction of an employer’s property. They said state courts are proper vehicles to decide tort claims.

The unions, on the other hand, said the workers had acted responsibly as evidenced by the fact that no truck was damaged.

The Biden administration supported neither party in the dispute, arguing that the lower court had erred, and the case should be remanded to the state court for further fact-finding.

[feckcops]

Capitalism NEEDS the state. It needs food stamps to supplement its underpaid workforce. It needs safety nets to prevent societal collapse. It needs police to protect property & break strikes. It needs the military to steal resources. Capitalism is a racket. The state is its goon.

– Hampton Institute proletarian think tank

[autonomoustweekazoid]

10.25 Happy bday to the GOAT iconoclast Max Stirner aka Johann Kaspar Schmidt

[megkuna]

so many republicans working in real estate. leftists get ur shit together tbh

[eelhound]

"If neoliberalism is a project of state power to defend property against popular demands for more equal reordering, the countermovement insists instead that the economy is a socially made entity that democratic power can restructure. A democratic economy is one in which the principles of democracy we are all familiar with extend beyond the political system and into our workplaces and communities, and where we re-extend common control over how the economy functions to expand human freedom.

The freedom of some cannot be based on the exploitation of others, nor exercised through unjustifiable hierarchies. It is, therefore, incompatible with the private regimes of power that capitalist property relations generate.

Instead, freedom is a shared project: individual liberty is secured through collective emancipation. Fundamental to this must be a politics committed to reimagining our systems of ownership and control.

There is no single party, tradition, or movement that can or should do this alone. We need a mass popular front that spans diverse groups.

The story that needs to be told is clear: the extraordinary potential of the many is held back by the institutions that shape our lives and communities, institutions that consolidate wealth and power while inflicting violence on communities and the natural world by prioritizing property at the expense of urgent needs. The political right defends and reproduces this configuration; to overcome it, a new bloc must contest and reimagine institutions of ownership and control to build an alternative, inclusive, and thoroughly democratic society.

Building agency and democratic control into every sphere of life can help counter the justified disillusionment with the political system and its agents that many across the political spectrum feel. To win, we urgently need to move from a moral critique of the present to standing against the forces and institutions that generate these injustices with a credible plan for dismantling them — and erecting in their place something new. It’s time we owned the future."

- Adrienne Buller and Mathew Lawrence, from "We Can Reimagine Our Systems of Ownership and Control." Jacobin, 25 September 2022.