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Cake day: September 24th, 2022

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  • Overall good article, but this bit seems self defeating:

    It would be great if labor took action overnight, but due to these contractual traps, undoing labor’s habits is more likely a long term project. Unions need to be rebuilt from the ground up, by the rank & file, in a way that preserves the freedom to strike. Then we will have the freedom to move in situations like this.

    The idea is to no longer comply with the government system designed to neuter unions, but we can’t do it yet because of union contracts with the government? Basically capitulating the main point from the very start.





  • I don’t understand. I use self checkout almost exclusively and it’s usually faster and easier. The last time I was at Target there were way more people using self checkout than not, and there were quite a few cashiers with next to no line. In that case it wasn’t faster of course, but people still chose it over regular checkout. He says most retailers have ripped out their self checkout machines, but I’ve never seen that across many grocery stores. The few grocery stores I’ve seen without self checkout never had them in the first place.