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You are seperating people by how much they earn, which is precisely why we are here. The sanitation workers retail workers and more deserve 60k, 80k salaries, which is what they were earning equivalent of back post-union-fixes and in a less horrible society.
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They are salaried workers who do not own the output of their labor. Whether they are knowledge workers or not means little; "I can survive 1 year out of my job rather than 1 month like retail workers" means little. They deserve to be paid a livable wage.
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Similarly, tech workers deserve to not be driven into the ground and burned out for their labor, no matter how much they're being paid or not paid.
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Work is work. Talking about "unskilled" labor is just a way to pit us against each other instead of looking at the Capitalist who's making a killing off our sweat
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No, but racism is a strong motivator in a district that housed one of the very last places in the North to drop slavery. 🤷‍♀️
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Björk retweeted
the united states has convinced do many people that MLK day is a day of service. MLK wasn't interested in "service," he was interested in the redistribution of wealth to render poverty obsolete. Less service, more redistribution
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Suffice to say, the Superintendent was S H O O K. We stayed home. Next year, they gave us MLK day off. And the Superintendent called us, and told us proudly that THEY were the one to help put it on the agenda that we should get MLK day off. (He expected praise; he got some. :D)
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I'm sure some people personally think that working themselves on a Holiday is a good thing, but please keep in mind that a lot of people fought for even these tiny concessions, especially in a country where 2 weeks of paid time off is barely something people have.
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"I can work on a Holiday" is fine, but trying to use MLK "he would want me to be working hard right now" as the justification for it is messed up, because that's the same justification that the School Board used to try to get us into detention for weeks.
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(I should call back into that School District, and see if they still take MLK day off....)
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