The Swamp

mister d wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 9:32 am Euphemism alert!

Ryan clearly got a tour than included a stop in the merkin warehouse.

The Sybian wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 10:43 am

mister d wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 9:32 am Euphemism alert!

Ryan clearly got a tour than included a stop in the merkin warehouse.

Apparently, one tour was in Van Nuys and the other was in Chatsworth.

There is also a group of people who work for Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network who are unionizing with the Animation Guild.

DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 20, 2023 11:03 am

There is also a group of people who work for Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network who are unionizing with the Animation Guild.

Come join the Warner brothers and the Warner sister Dot, just for fun we organize the Warner movie lot.

-stolen from Eric Rauchway on bluesky

Excellent stuff.

This interests me greatly:

The WGA strike at least appears to be over after a provisional deal is reached. Needs to be approved by full membership.

I really hope they took the studios to the cleaners but I have my doubts.

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2023 9:57 pm I really hope they took the studios to the cleaners but I have my doubts.

From what I heard the WGA got a LOT of what they wanted. Hard work, but worth it.

Best part:

"To be clear, no one is to return to work until specifically authorized to by the Guild. We are still on strike until then. But we are, as of today, suspending WA picketing. Instead, if you are able, we encourage you to join the SAG-AFTRA picket lines this week."

Glad folks get back to work now fuck your trucks and signs and closed streets

Looks like it's a go for all now. Good news.

tennbengal wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 8:42 am Looks like it's a go for all now. Good news.

Between this and the UAW scoring big wins, it was a good year for organized labor.

Can’t wait for the NYT to spin that these labor wins somehow means that Biden is fucked.

Add another W to the ledger. Power to the people!

brian wrote: ↑Fri Nov 10, 2023 12:44 pm Add another W to the ledger. Power to the people!

Explain this to me like I'm a Canadian...

The average Culinary union member in Las Vegas gets $26 an hour in both pay and benefits,

How much of the $26 is actually paid to the worker, and how much of that is paid to health insurers?

Pruitt IV wrote: ↑Fri Nov 10, 2023 1:35 pm

brian wrote: ↑Fri Nov 10, 2023 12:44 pm Add another W to the ledger. Power to the people!

Explain this to me like I'm a Canadian...

The average Culinary union member in Las Vegas gets $26 an hour in both pay and benefits,

How much of the $26 is actually paid to the worker, and how much of that is paid to health insurers?

I mean no idea. But Culinary contracts are unique in that there’s no employee cost at all (I just filled out my new benefits stuff and I have a roughly $2500 yearly co-pay) and they still have a pension plan.

My company pays my whole premium and we have a similar out of pocket as Brian. It's usually about 25% of my salary when I get the form at the end of the year.

Edit: To be clear, this is money they pay on top of my salary. So my pay is 80% of total compensation and benefits 20%. But we do have a matching program for pension replacement so I guess total compensation from the company is higher than that.

Thanks for that!

Apparently, some of the AI stuff in the SAG deal is pretty bad. Seeing some pushback online to voting in favor of the deal.

Not sure what will shake out, but...

degenerasian wrote: ↑Fri Jul 14, 2023 10:01 am my Walmart now has two self checkout areas. One for under 20 items and one for over 20 items. There are only 4 cashiers.

There are more self checkout "attendants" than cashiers.

Fuck, NVM it was some kind of opinion piece.

Noted.

There's no fucking way I can go 24 straight hours without engaging with the Washington Post online.

Not sure if you're kidding or not, but this is actually something I'll have to make a conscious effort to pull off. A number of items I hit there daily as part of routine info gathering and game playing.

Same here.

I'll just have to live without my George Will fix.

There’s only one website I’d have trouble staying away from. And it’s…oh shoot, dinner time - you guys can finish my thought I trust you.

Mr. Skin.

Is it a porn site, Ryan?

sancarlos wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 8:35 pm Is it a porn site, Ryan?

Some might say it's obscene and an affront to god and country.

Coming up up on week 15 swampcrash -

Name one of the 15 categories of stories on Literotica.

Changing the thread title to make it more inclusive.

How you guys holding up? I'm busy enough today that it hasn't really dawned on me until now. (Got my morning news from one of the newsie newsletters I often ignore.)

Opened WaPo on accident to play the crossword, but closed the window pretty quickly once I realized the date.

SCAB!!!

Giff wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 3:52 pmSCAB!!!

It took me way too long to realize Scab was a play on "picket". It was one of those weird TIL things that just passed me by and when it clicked how ever many years ago I felt dumb.

Well, AB... TIL...

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 4:14 pm Well, AB... TIL...

I bet you feel extra dumb!