#unionize motherfucker

[itsladykit]

One thing that drives me nuts about the narrative surrounding the Radium Girls is that the company still has such a strong hold on the way the story is often told.

Granted, it may be an attempt to affirm to a modern audience that these girls--deliberately using 'girls', not 'women' because most of them were in their teens or early twenties at most--had no idea how harmful radium could be, but the narrative always seems to start out that "no one knew it was dangerous".

As soon as anyone does a deep dive, though, you realize someone did: company higher ups. In fact, men working in the same company--doing a different job, that I would say involved less contact with radium--were given full PPE for their jobs. One company scientist, upon hearing the women were practicing "lip-dipping"--which involved the girls using their lips to bring the fine-bristled, radium-soaked paintbrushes to a point--was reportedly horrified and tried to stop the practice, before any of the girls ever reported any symptoms. But the policy wasn't enforced because stopping the girls from lip-dipping cut into profits. So they turned a blind eye, telling the girls radium was completely safe out of one side of their mouth while they told the men to fully suit up out of the other.

There's better coverage of the company's reprehensible behavior during the trials--claiming the girls' symptoms were a sign of syphilis, funding misleading/fabricated studies on the safety of radium, etc. I really just wish it was more clearly stated that the company knew from the start. That knowledge hadn't trickled down to the general population yet, and they fully took advantage of that.

[itsladykit]

Wild to me that non-represented employees get upset at represented employees for having benefits.

That's not something to be angry at your fellow worker for--you should be angry that management will take advantage of employees that don't have a union's protection.

The union is not the bad guy here.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[musicalhell]

Good for them. Make Walt spin in his cryo-chamber fast enough to run the Epcot light show.

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Let’s go!

[burr-ell]

it's very funny for people to be like oh this was a JESUS situation, ayden's not REALLY the dawnfather as a way to effectively weasel out of pelor having soft or kind traits when like. "if you have seen Me you have seen the Father". WHAT do yall think the trinity is. guys you're doing arianism

[marciliedonato]

good evening, sharks. let me tell you about my vision: dunmeshi but chilchuck is allowed to swear. this is a deal you just cant miss....!!

[wolfgirlfloof]

these are all the same guy. like literally these are all just the same guy, corrosion damage fucks with near global range, they all do the exact same thing they just have slightly different stats. the guys hit a bit harder the girls shoot a bit faster. why did they do this. enemies having a second challenge variant is standard. a third miniboss variant is stretching it but not unprecedented. but then doubling everything for a total of six? like props for the gender equality but this is deranged. it's like that one spy from ww2 who ran a whole network of dozens of informants, except it turned out they were all fake and it was only ever just him feeding the germans garbage intel since he was actually a double agent. someone's turned the armorless union's filing department into a black hole and is making them hemorrhage funds paying a fabricated workforce and no one's figured it out yet. no wonder platinum hates her job. 60% of their manpower only exists on paper. it's all just the same fucking guy

[mamawasatesttube]

war of the supermen i could fix you...

[curiosityschild]

On the website for my county government for some reason and all five of our county commissioners look like supervillains. Like. It looks like someone travelled across the multiverse to pluck five supervillains from five different genres and got them all together to govern my county for some reason.

[cynicalclassicist]

To strikes! Unionize! That is the way to keep the bastards on top scared!

Some actually good game industry news

[cilibi]

Me every time I watch someone find the original source of any of America’s current political crisis:

How could one terrible man do so much damage lasting for so long???

[maxwellshimbo]

Ahh even the rules of the robot union have a serious and kinda sad reason behing them??

Me, at the beginning: Haha funny robots, they don't do windows and drinks machines, how silly. What a fun show!

Me, 30 episodes later: 💀

[sapphickatpoet]

WE FUCKIN’ WON!!!!

Big Labor News, the WGA won on nearly all fronts.

[drumlincountry]

The job I just quit asked me to join their board of management. Why do people want me on their board of management so bad. One time an organisation rejected my job application in the same email as asking if i'd serve on their board. Pay me, motherfuckers.

[dadzxwa]

Just got my rosters and it is going to be one hell of a school year

[kylewalker-peters]

how are we feeling after this evening of hell yesterday bestie

feeling pretty awful 😝✌🏻 but it's FINE because we're now going to use all of this sadness and anger and WIN EVERYTHING! we're going to personally relegate schalke on Saturday, the bundesliga? we're gonna win that! the pokal? that's gonna be ours babyyyyy! who needs some plastic stupid insignificant European trophy we are going to do the double edin just texted he said so himself