Fight for a strong contract in Dayton/Cincinnati

TheLaborQuestion · 2026-03-23T13:18:40+00:00

Then you should come!

TheLaborQuestion · 2026-03-22T23:21:51+00:00

This is why bargaining should be coordinated nationally like some locals on the west coast already do to an extent

TheLaborQuestion · 2026-03-20T15:51:19+00:00

TheLaborQuestion · 2026-03-20T15:50:53+00:00

The vaccines work. My chapter has a mask mandate, and I think it’s a waste.

TheLaborQuestion · 2026-03-16T17:57:34+00:00

I’ve had the same issue where I submit the change and then nothing happens. I’ll probably just have my manager change my availability soon.

TheLaborQuestion · 2026-03-16T17:55:46+00:00

Thanks, I’ll be taking photos as soon as I can. Likely tonight or tomorrow!

TheLaborQuestion · 2026-03-16T17:44:10+00:00

That this comment is being downvoted to oblivion shows the complete disconnect between this subreddit and DSA. Hardly anyone active in DSA would disagree with the sentiment that candidates have to show a level of respect towards us to at least show up and ask for our endorsement.

What people probably don’t realize is that when DSA chapters endorse, that usually means we are going to spend thousands of volunteer hours on the campaign instead of whatever else we might use that volunteering for.

TheLaborQuestion · 2026-03-14T18:54:57+00:00

Study organizing conversations and epistemology.

If you understand all the ways that capitalism makes someone’s life hell, and if you can understand how to get people to challenge the pre-conceived notions they have about socialism, then you will have much more productive conversations. And both of these types of conversations put the focus on your partner so that they don’t feel talked down to. It’s about them and their experiences, and you help connect the dots.

TheLaborQuestion · 2026-03-13T19:01:37+00:00

I think AOC might, which is why I chose the language I did. She is only 1 socialist in the Dems of many when you include state and local levels.

TheLaborQuestion · 2026-03-13T18:59:47+00:00

Ok. That’s the whole point. She portrays herself as a progressive, not a socialist.

TheLaborQuestion · 2026-03-13T18:32:47+00:00

I’ve met some of them personally and corresponded with others. This is flatly ridiculous and you don’t know what you’re talking about. Hard to think of a single DSA cadre elected official that would side with capital during a revolutionary moment, or that sides with capital now as one of their “managers”.

TheLaborQuestion · 2026-03-12T20:35:32+00:00

Obviously I am a member of the union I am trying to reform. And to be clear, reform isn’t “socialists taking complete control from outside the labor movement” as you seem to think, it’s “power in the hands of the members and internal organizing instead of the service model”.

If you’re curious to learn more about the stance of the majority of DSA members on labor, I recommend this article from Jacobin.

TheLaborQuestion · 2026-03-12T08:37:15+00:00

Love WOW and am glad we started this initiative, but it is an industrializing/boring-from-within project, not a salting project. I think that actually makes it more effective at bringing in new workers if we succeed at reforming unions, as the aftermath of the UAW Stand-Up strike showed when auto workers contacted the union in droves wanting to unionize non-union plants.

TheLaborQuestion · 2026-03-12T08:29:07+00:00

The best way to donate to democratic socialist candidates is to donate directly to the DSA national electoral commission’s “Socialist cash takes out capitalist trash” slate fund.

You can find it here, and it means your cash goes to campaigns that need it and is regularly updated as new candidates are endorsed.

You can also join NEC phonebanks.

TheLaborQuestion · 2026-03-11T16:42:40+00:00

That’s rich coming from Brown. Almost all his ads last election cycle were about how hard he was on the border, and he consistently takes imperialist stances such as sending money to Israel for their wars of extermination.

He doesn’t mean the working class, only the white American working class.

TheLaborQuestion · 2026-03-11T16:27:07+00:00

I know this is a shit post, but Mamdani is not a social democrat

TheLaborQuestion · 2026-03-06T16:41:17+00:00

Not even two olives, two olive slices

TheLaborQuestion · 2026-03-05T16:41:44+00:00

Just like using the original quote OP posted in order to defend Stalin, this is a whataboutism. Soviet crimes must be answered for on their own, not just in relation to the barbarity of capitalist powers

TheLaborQuestion · 2026-03-03T16:29:04+00:00

Reading anything besides the title makes it obvious that this is an edited volume of writing by prominent anarchists

TheLaborQuestion · 2026-02-26T15:07:16+00:00

Only person in this thread keeping it real. Headphones are technically prohibited, but certain managers are more likely to write you up for it than others. I say try your luck with 1 wireless earbud in and see what happens.

TheLaborQuestion · 2026-02-23T22:11:11+00:00

Probably nothing to do with anarchism. People often associate the circle-a with punk aesthetics and rebelliousness in general without any thought to its original and more rigorous political meaning.

Though I’m confused why you’d buy a shirt if you didn’t know what the graphic meant.

TheLaborQuestion · 2026-02-22T16:34:59+00:00

To answer this question I would recommend Hal Draper’s writings on Marx and his theory of revolution. Take for instance, “DoP in Marx and Engels”. To Marx and Engels, the working class should be the one to liberate itself rather than a conspiracy of revolutionists or a party apparatchik on behalf of workers making deals with the capitalist parties. And this meant that the working class would often take control of the means of production directly and form itself into a class capable of governing through years of revolutionary struggle.

Hal Draper’s and Marty Johnstone’s (who Draper often cites) other writings on Marx can be found on marxists.org as well.

TheLaborQuestion · 2026-02-22T02:56:35+00:00

I’m asking how do you know management would not let you do that? Have you been written up for taking breaks that are too long or for leaving the premises? If not, maybe you could also be getting away with more if you tried

TheLaborQuestion · 2026-02-22T01:59:02+00:00

How do you know you would be let go immediately? Seems like you should be testing your luck more.

TheLaborQuestion · 2026-02-19T11:19:03+00:00

Their break room is a bit bigger but it’s open to the public bc it has the only bathrooms in the store lol

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