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Comment: Re:GO UNIONS! (Score 4, Informative) 674

by royallthefourth (#42005245) Attached to: Hostess To Close; No More Twinkies

It's much more than just "a cut"

The contract Hostess wants to impose on BCTGM workers includes:

        -- An immediate 8 percent wage cut.

        -- Shifting 20 percent more of health care costs onto the workers (for some workers, this would mean an increased cost of $240 a month for medical insurance).

        -- Eliminating retiree Medigap insurance, which covers gaps in Medicare.

        -- Eliminating Pension Supplement to pay health and funeral costs.

        -- Closing an undisclosed 10 to 12 plants.

        -- Eliminating the eight-hour day, which would mean no time-and-a-half pay after eight hours per day.

In addition, the company illegally froze pension contributions mandated under the contract for all of 2012, in violation of federal law. This is still being contested before the National Labor Relations Board.

http://socialistworker.org/2012/11/15/hostess-workers-draw-a-line

Comment: Re:Perhaps (Score 5, Informative) 446

by royallthefourth (#41764951) Attached to: 72% of Xbox 360 Gamers Approve of "More Military Drone Strikes"

That's your stupid fucking opinion, but here's the facts:

"The study by Stanford Law School and New York University's School of Law calls for a re-evaluation of the practice, saying the number of "high-level" targets killed as a percentage of total casualties is extremely low -- about 2%."

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/25/world/asia/pakistan-us-drone-strikes/index.html

Comment: I'm fond of Jacobin's article on the topic (Score 5, Informative) 235

by royallthefourth (#41477275) Attached to: NZ Broke the Law Spying On Kim Dotcom, PM Apologizes

"Megaupload's Kim Dotcom, a willfully tacky fat guy with a baby face and a vanity license plate that says "guilty," has styled himself as a kind of comic villain, a composite of everything people love to hate. He effectively serves as empire's face of piracy: an overweight nouveau-riche wannabe hacker who finally gets his comeuppance through the macho justice of Uncle Sam. It's so easy to hate Kim Dotcom that you almost forget that the US convinced the New Zealand government to send in an assault brigade, bereft of a valid warrant but outfitted with automatic weapons and helicopters, to arrest a Finnish citizen at the demand of Hollywood studios. If Kim Dotcom didn't exist, the FBI, with the help of the MPAA, would have invented him."

http://jacobinmag.com/2012/08/gimme-the-loot/

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