Tag: labor
Why I Hate “Cruelty Free” Labels That Don’t Address The Treatment Of Workers
I’ve seen SO many people say “I need to pick my battles and I choose animal rights as my issue because animals don’t have a voice” but here’s the thing, you can’t say you support animal testing without sounding like a douchebag, public opinion is overwhelmingly negative, labor rights violations on the other hand…
Child labor:
Animal testing:
Labor Unions:
PETA:
Cruelty to animals:
Sweat shops:
We live in a culture that sentimentalizes animals and hates the working class.
Do you wanna build a union
Do you wanna join a union?
Come on let’s on strike
We never protest anymore
Come on walk out the door
It’s like gone away
We used to have a union
and now we don’t
so we have no chance
to bargain collectively
Do you wanna join a union?
Yeah, it has to be a union
Do you wanna join a union?
and Strike for better hours?
I think a strike we can’t delay
They’ve started cutting pay
(I can’t afford heat)
It gets a little hard
with all these unpaid bills
just seeing what the boss can buy
Workers?
Please, I know you’re out there
People are asking where we’ve been
They say “get healthcare” and I’m trying to
The union’s here for you, so come join in
We only have each other
Because management is shit
so what are we gonna do?
Do you wanna join a union?
Like according to Marx, labor is a commodity like any other commodity… so can we brand that commodity to make it more expensive? Actually… that’s kind of what most college degrees are, aren’t they?
Labor’s Story In The United States By Philip Nicholson Should Be Required Reading.
Labor Unions Abandoning Their Socially Progressive History Helped Created The “Fiscal conservative, social liberal” Bullshit we see these days (and yes they are misusing liberal and conservative a bit.)
Forgetting the link of classism with all other oppression has fucked us so bad.
Some Tips For Johns (Sex Work Consumers)
- What does hiring a sex worker entitle you to? It entitles you to the service agreed upon within the terms agreed upon, or a refund. If you break the terms, you are not entitled to a refund. If you shower a stream of insults at your plumber while they’re working they are entitled to leave and not give you your money back. If an extra was not pre-negotiated you are not entitled to it.
- Once you have paid you are entitled to the amount of time agreed upon, or a refund for the percentage of time left unless you break the agreement in which case you are entitled to nothing. It’s like the warranty on your iPhone, you throw it into a pot of boiling water, you don’t get a refund. If you have to leave the sex worker gets to keep the whole fee, they cleared that block of their day for you, so you pay for the whole session.
- If a worker doesn’t offer the service you want you are entitled to take your business elsewhere. You don’t go into a French restaurant and argue with the manager about the place not serving tapas.
- Hiring a sex worker entitles you to be communicative about your needs, if things are not working for you, please tell the sex worker during the service so we can do something about it, if you complain afterwards it sounds like you’re angling for free services or a refund. If you do not tell the worker then they can’t correct it. If it turns out the service you purchased does not meet your needs then that is on you, if you hire a party clown and realize half way through you wanted a princess party that’s your damage.
- If you can’t afford services that sucks, capitalism’s a dick, ain’t it?
- They are not obligated to give you extra time
- They are not obligated to like you
- If you haven’t paid/they haven’t agreed to the terms you are entitled to nothing. Throwing money at someone doesn’t entitle you to anything. You can’t just hire someone without consulting them
- They are at work. If that ruins your fantasy tuck it away but keep it in the back of your mind so you don’t behave like a dick.
- If your fantasy is to rescue them, tip extra, they hate you.
- If your behavior would make a server spit in your food, your behavior is making the sex worker hate you.
I Want To Write A Thing About Feminized Jobs Doing Other Women’s Second Shift
And how they illustrate the shittiness of capitalism and the patriarchy really well. Most of the job’s I’ve had have been in some way me doing another woman’s second shift (child care, beauty industry, sex work with a heavy focus on emotional labor) while the employer benefited from the product of my labor and gave me a tiny percentage of the value I’d produced back.
But, also because the employer is typically a woman, getting “paid” the value of a bunch of women doing second shift work, she’s usually getting paid for the value produced in a portion of her husband’s larger salary (which is in turn the value produced by a bunch of workers working under him, who get a tiny percentage of the value produced back, and also larger because he’s giving his wife a percentage of the value of her doing his second shift work has produced).
Does that make sense?
Like I am denied the comfort of the middle class woman who at least spends her time taking care of her own kids, sexually and emotionally dealing with her own husband, and keeping her own house clean, and the comfort of not having my own second shift waiting for me when I get home (thankfully D does not demand the second shift from me).
Like I’m having trouble expressing as thoroughly and accurately as I want to what sucks about this.
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 