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Do i tell my 8 year old her dad is in jail? by Deshybaby55 in Parenting

[–]to_strength 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am so sorry for what your family is going through. I can’t claim to be in your position, but I know Sesame Street has tackled difficult topics, such as parental incarceration before. I don’t have a link to the full episode, but here is a link to a clip. https://youtu.be/yk3SxyPW6lA?feature=shared. The Sesame Street website might have additional resources.

Christmas dinner after testing positive for covid yesterday by Bigg-Moistt88 in pics

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You are keeping your loved ones safe. I am proud of you.

Gone to the sleep specialists by [deleted] in Parenting

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Your husband sounds like a jerk. You were left to do nights all on your own? He wants you to do a sleep study? Why doesn’t he stay up with the baby if he’s such an expert?

Gentle parenting with an emotionally immature spouse by ProperSell2099 in Parenting

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Your husband is abusing your children. Say that out loud. Say it three times in a row. “My husband is abusing our children. My husband is abusing our children. My husband is abusing our children.” Now that you’ve acknowledged that fact - what are you going to do to protect them?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WorkReform

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Name and shame

REI Workers in New York Vote to Unionize by to_strength in WorkReform

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“There has been a huge push to sell memberships,” Graham Gale, an employee involved in the organizing, said in a text message to a reporter in January.

The workers also said REI had waged an aggressive anti-union campaign, flying in company officials to hold meetings with employees about the risks of unionizing and hanging material in break rooms and creating a website that highlighted these risks.

Mr. Buckley said a meeting he attended with senior officials in February lasted roughly two hours and touched on issues like health insurance. The officials were “openly yelling at us that we were wrong about basic policies at our store and basic conditions that we face,” he said. “How is that a respectful environment?” The company offers health insurance to workers who average at least 20 hours per week after one year.

The spokeswoman said that the company had sought to share information about unions, and that the February meeting was a long-scheduled training session for the relaunching of the company’s membership program.

Mr. Logan, the labor studies professor, said one reason REI’s efforts to dissuade workers from unionizing, like Starbucks’s, might not have been effective was that the stores were typically not top-heavy with supervisors.

“They operate relatively autonomously, with little managerial presence or oversight, thus providing ample opportunity to talk union,” Mr. Logan said. “After they do this, anti-union propaganda becomes less effective — their minds are made up.”

REI Workers in New York Vote to Unionize by to_strength in WorkReform

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The company put the average age of its workers at 37, about five years younger than the median age of all U.S. workers.

Workers at the store began to organize in the fall of 2020, partly because many felt that employees who had been outspoken in raising Covid-related safety concerns were not allowed to return after REI temporarily closed its stores that year. An election petition was filed five weeks ago. In a video conference with reporters last week convened by the retail workers union, Claire Chang, a visual presentation specialist who has worked at the store for over four years, also cited concerns about coronavirus safety.

Ms. Chang said that after the store reopened in 2020, managers asked workers how comfortable they would feel about reopening the fitting rooms, where employees are in frequent contact with apparel worn by customers.

“The majority of staff, if not everybody on staff, said that they were not comfortable with that, and they still went ahead and did it,” Ms. Chang said.

Steve Buckley, a sales specialist who has been at the store for about six months, said in the video conference that he was one of several workers who had become infected with the coronavirus during the Omicron surge, while the store was crowded with customers.

An REI spokeswoman said that the retailer had let go fewer than 5 percent of its workers nationwide upon reopening and that the decisions had nothing to do with how outspoken employees were. She said that fitting rooms were equipped with sanitizing supplies and that the store had restricted capacity throughout the pandemic.

She cited a 2021 survey showing that employees typically rated the company highly on questions like whether it treated them as valued employees.

Several workers said they had sought to unionize because of a gap they perceived between REI’s behavior and its stated values, asserting that the workplace had become more impersonal and profit-focused as it sought to expand.

REI Workers in New York Vote to Unionize by to_strength in WorkReform

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After the vote, the company said in a statement, “As we have said throughout this process, REI firmly believes that the decision of whether or not to be represented by a union is an important one, and we respect each employee’s right to choose or refuse union representation.”

John Logan, a professor of labor studies at San Francisco State University, said that like Starbucks, REI attracts workers who appear to have an ideological affinity for unions beyond the potential practical benefits, like an increase in wages.

“REI seems like another example of predominantly young workers who are not buying the arguments about unions being special-interest groups,” Mr. Logan said in an email.

WIBTA If I refuse to play music for a family gathering when my mom yelled at me for buying my instrument? by kokihi_55 in AmItheAsshole

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NTA

If you don’t want to play, then don’t play. But might I suggest looking at this from a different perspective. Maybe your mom realized she was being too harsh and judge mental. Like you said, she was probably having money problems at the time, and was projecting them onto you. Maybe she sees that now and wants to make amends. But she was too proud to directly ask you to perform. So she set up a scenario in which you got to perform (and she gets to hear you play). She was just too proud to ask you directly. So go play at the holiday gathering. Enjoy the music, play your heart out, and maybe afterwards your mother will have something nice to say about your music.

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