Yikes.
You people and your crazy Variety-speak.
Peacock Prexy Ankles Skein!!
And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
The Minearverse 6: Fiery Thread of Death
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath. Oh, and help us get Terriers dvds!
Jesse - Apr 18, 2008 10:36:46 am PDT #480 of 4535
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
sumi - Apr 18, 2008 10:45:58 am PDT #481 of 4535
Art Crawl!!!
No, my pattern is one they were giving out for free at a yarn store.
msbelle - Apr 18, 2008 11:18:30 am PDT #482 of 4535
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
and it was for the brand/type of yarn you used? That bites. My issue is of my own making (kinda) - I am making the pattern in a different guage than the pattern, so that could be contributing, oh oh oh - AND i just looked at the yardage info and my skein is 60 yds LESS than the skein they used for the pattern - hell.
victor infante - Apr 18, 2008 11:22:38 am PDT #483 of 4535
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Wow. That's pretty uncool.
Nah. It's lightweight. Not too terribly long ago, you'd be left bleeding behind a 7-11 for working during a strike. Or at least kicked out of the union.
I know of relatively recent cases where people got their cars worked over with baseball bats for crossing a picket line.
Ah, the memories ...
victor infante - Apr 18, 2008 11:22:56 am PDT #484 of 4535
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Kristen - Apr 18, 2008 11:26:26 am PDT #485 of 4535
Not too terribly long ago, you'd be left bleeding behind a 7-11 for working during a strike. Or at least kicked out of the union.
They resigned from the union, as is legally allowed. And, from the wording of the letter, it seems not all of them worked during the strike.
Sean K - Apr 18, 2008 11:28:52 am PDT #486 of 4535
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
They resigned from the union, as is legally allowed. And, from the wording of the letter, it seems not all of them worked during the strike.
This is what is pinging me as uncool.
They're not being blacklisted for explicitly working during the strike. They are being blacklisted for refusing to participate.
I'm pretty pro-union, but this bothers me. Suffice to say violence toward persons or property for strikebreaking is also unacceptable to me.
Invisible Green - Apr 18, 2008 11:29:51 am PDT #487 of 4535
It seems the blacklist is alive and well.
John Ridley's the only name on that this I recognize, and I'd expect he's proud to be on that list. I don't think he's done any TV recently, anyway. He's still got novels, comic books, and NPR.
libkitty - Apr 18, 2008 7:25:46 pm PDT #488 of 4535
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Is this normally public information, just made more visible, or is it normally confidential? For union action to work, it seems harsh but reasonable to let people know about people who broke the strike. I don't know enough about the way this system works to know if financial core=broke the strike or not.
eta: It seems more stand up and be counted than blacklist, to me. I mean, aren't blacklists usually a little more covert? And wouldn't any potential employer learn this in the hiring process anyway? Or maybe I'm being hopelessly naive.
Kristen - Apr 18, 2008 7:28:10 pm PDT #489 of 4535
My understanding is that, until now, the Guild never commented on which members had resigned from the union.