Not voting for that.
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Does Harvey Weinstein get to roam free during his bogus appeals or do we reserve that privilege for those who physically threaten the judge?
https://mobile.twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1231986422518878214
https://mobile.twitter.com/ScottGreenfield/status/1231985476879384576
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https://twitter.com/people4bernie/status/1231991165899034626?s=21
lol, the consultants who told Bloomberg he had a shot at this nomination were just robbing him blind.
https://twitter.com/jamieson/status/1232006856110956546
Possibly posted already, but I guess thatâs one more former Republican who doesnât get to stay on my plane. He was always on thin ice.
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Please look into it more and it was released before this meeting on unionâs where his oppenent finally decided to show upâŚ
I donât think that tweet is 100% accurateâŚ
Must be near Cicely.
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The Tweet also links to an article about TYTâs union-busting
Top leadership at the progressive news network The Young Turks held an all-staff meeting at its office in Culver City, California, on Feb. 12. The regularly scheduled gathering was supposed to deal with personnel matters, but instead the focus turned to the staffâs nascent union campaign, which had just gone public.
Earlier that day, a Twitter handle claiming to represent TYT employees had announced on the social media platform their intention to form a union. In the staff meeting, the networkâs co-founder and influential host, Cenk Uygur, urged employees not to do so, arguing that a union does not belong at a small, independent outlet like TYT, according to two workers who were present. He said if there had been a union at the network it would not have grown the way it has.
His talk â at times emotional, the staffers said, with Uygur throwing his papers to the ground at one point, and chastising an employee â seemed to contradict the progressive, worker-first ethos that TYT broadcasts to its millions of lefty followers. Jack Gerard, who is acting as the companyâs chief operating officer as Uygur runs for Congress in California, told the staff they were not discouraging unionization.
But the message from Uygur was clear â and, to at least some staffers, discouraging.
âWe generally feel disappointed, but unshaken,â said one staffer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. âWe feel itâs the right thing to do because of what TYT values.â
In an interview with HuffPost, Uygur said he is a strong supporter of unions, especially at large corporations that arenât sharing profits with their workers. But he said he worries a unionized workforce would bring new legal and bureaucratic costs that TYT canât sustain. The network has a growing subscription base and has raised venture capital money, but faces many of the same headwinds as other online media dealing with the collapse of ad revenue.
âThe reality is weâre in a precarious position,â Uygur said. âWeâre in a digital media landscape where almost no one makes money or is sustainable.â
He added, âFor a smaller digital media company, those are absolutely real considerations. It doesnât mean you shouldnât have a union. Everyone should know the full context ⌠If folks say they donât believe weâre in a precarious position, OK. And thatâs their decision to make.â
Uygur said he was caught off guard by the union effort that appeared on Twitter the day of the meeting, and that it was so early in the process he wasnât sure if it was real or if he was âbeing punked.â He acknowledged that he threw papers in the meeting â in a downward direction, not toward anyone, he noted â and that he reprimanded an employee whom he believed to be smiling. According to staffers, Ugyer said it would be funny âlaterâ â an ominous statement they found unsettling. He told HuffPost it wasnât meant to be a threat.
âThe person smiling seemed to be openly mocking the idea that the company might not survive after 18 years. And we put all this blood, sweat and tears into it,â he said. âI donât find the idea of us going down funny.â
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Iâve read conflicting tweets about it, and done no research as I was going to watch TYT tonight and see if thereâs a response⌠Iâm a Union man through and through so Iâll be cancelling my Sub if its true.
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Lit. Ty.
Only counter I have is that you never know what might light a fire in someone or when that will happen, but agree that pushing someone to live for something is stupid. If someone wants to live for something, your problem will be teaching them healthy restraint, not healthy pursuit.
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Letâs see what happens⌠As Union leadership has been doing funny stuff lately
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheYoungTurks/status/1231988485151547392
Secret ballots itt
Weinstein being found guilty is the best news I have heard in some time. Now he needs to rot in jail for life.
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Union votes have to be secret no?
Just finished Ronan Farrowâs Catch and Kill. Weinstein and Lauer need to be in jail, but there are dozensâprobably hundredsâwho need to join them there.
I read both books and listened to the podcasts. They were all well done and horrifying.
While I agree there are many others who also should be punished, it is particularly important that he suffer the most severe consequences as he was essentially the catalyst of #metoo. He is also perhaps one of the worst offenders ever recorded in terms of numbers, brazenness, and cover up.
He is the face of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace like Manson is the face of psychopathic killers.
Itâs good advice but I think itâs more for parents than kids. If you have to wake your kid up and drag them to practice every time, they probably donât want to be doing it.
