What union is it? UNITE-HERE? UFCW? Is the employer owned by a chain/restaurant group or is it on its own?

You’re safer if you sign a union card. I know it’s counterintuitive but if it comes to it
the company has to prove they didn’t fire you because you wanted to unionize if you sign it. They probably won’t have to prove that if you don’t sign it though.

The company will probably hire a legal firm. They might fire union supporters (but probably not organizers). If it’s a small shop it might recognize your union and give in to paltry demands but won’t negotiate a contract and will make everyone’s lives hell.

Don’t settle for a first contract. You’ll never get a better one if you do.

Are NPC election results in?

What was passed in regards to labor? And did the organization finally commit to good organizing or are they still planning on not planning anything?

CC is all anarchists that read Lenin and made their own left-communism from it.

I mean DSA was founded by trots that hated the Soviet Union so much that they re-embraced liberal democracy so it’s no surprise.

It’s technically been within the power of the NPC to do it for almost a decade under their expulsion clause. They have just made a point not to because most of their precious “electeds” are Zionists. I guess this resolution and the one that preceded it at the last convention are directives to exercise that power.

I actually left in 2024 because they gutted a resolution similar to this first at convention then locally so it’s good to see something similar passed.

Socialist Majority Caucus wants this. They didn’t “fall” for anything.

Lassalle was probably to the left of most of the DSA tbh

You can actually join up when you’re 17. And if that’s not early enough JROTC starts in middle school I think.

Markets arereallyus is a fantastic name

Not to say those issues aren’t important, but aren’t low birthrates basically unrelated to any of that? There are countries with decent healthcare and parental leave guarantees that also have extremely low or declining birthrates. Declining birthrates seem much more related to the fact that modern women have relative financial, social, and medical independence compared to what they had in the past and quite reasonably don’t want to go through pregnancy and raising children as early in their lives or as often as women in the past did.

Joe Biden is dead

Honest question, I’ve been under the impression that religious Judaism is still extremely Zionist compared to the general population and even secular Jews. Is that not the case? Like when I was arguing for a proposal calling for the expulsion of Zionists from the DSA people told me that would involve kicking out any Jews that gave money to the local temple which isn’t even Orthodox. Most of what I know about Judaism is secondhand from someone that was enmeshed in an Orthodox community for a while so I’d be happy for a broader perspective.

I’m sorry but I think this is fundamentally incorrect. The capitalist state is not designed for us to wield. Every single aspect of government will be holding back every single thing he proposes (assuming he even wins the election which is not a given like so many assume). The state and federal governments, the courts, and the city bureaucracy will obstruct and hinder him every step of the way and unlike historical reformers he is not the valve holding back a mass movement that is baying for the blood of the rich. He can’t even stick to his guns about the intifada, how’s he going to overcome a judge that says “fuck you you can’t do that”?

I feel like it’s worth zooming in on something he says about these people wanting power, wealth, fame, etc. There is specifically a trend in the DSA whose primary base is in NYC that believes power and fame are essentially the same - that AOC being a household name is equivalent to power for the DSA - so these people they helped to elect simply holding prestigious titles conveys power to the DSA in their worldview no matter what the elected person does.

I don’t know if AOC agrees with that position or if she just personally likes the wealth and power. My guess is Zohran comes out of the tradition but will more or less carry out the same program of caving to the Democrats to maintain his position.

As long as this idea remains the dominant trend in leftist politics in the US we will always falter.

No I couldn’t get the microphone to detect any input in Zoom, Firefox, or any other program. Like I said I think it’s more of a hardware/drivers problem because it’s a janky PC I built out of like the cheapest parts I could afford as a broke kid 8 years ago and a dirt cheap headset.

Yeah I end up on a zoom call like once in a blue moon and when I tried to on my Ubuntu install I discovered that my microphone wouldn’t work. Worked on it for hours messing around with stuff I probably shouldn’t have been. I even asked Deepseek what to do (only time I’ve ever gone to AI for help) but to no avail. It’s almost certainly because I have cheap dated hardware that barely even works with Windows and not because of Ubuntu but I just do zoom calls on Windows now.

Nothing particularly bad has happened to me today (yet) but it’s been a comically bad day.

Is anyone actually surprised that Natalie Wynn is wrong and a lib? I feel like that was pretty obvious six or seven years ago.