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Jun 6 2012 08:02
Amazing. Walker won by a bigger margin than in 2010. My Facebook is exploding about articles about voter fraud, but I'm not sure I buy it.
The Lt. Governor also won her recall election.
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So, bit of analysis from the anarchos, please!
Obviously, it's all bullshit, what's needed is not any politician but an increase in the confidence and combatitivity of the class in Wisconsin. However, how do we think Walkers recall victory will play out? Will he come after workers even harder? Is there any sense that workers (and maybe certain sections of the mainstream unions) will be more willing to play outside of the bounds of labor law? Has the IWW in the state issued any sort of statement?
MKE might be the place to be tonight, especially if we're trying to get away from the everyone-go-to-the-capitol-and-walk-in-circles game. There will be an anti-capitalist contingent that could be pretty big if people came from around the state to it, and such a sizable contingent might create some multipolarity in the discourse against austerity in Wisconsin (which only a small section of the people angry consider to be the thing anyway).
syndicalist
It will be "interesting" to see what, if any, additional "right-to-work" (for less) and anti-worker/anti-union stuff starts cming down the line in a coordinated way across the country.
BTW, I thought I heard on the radio that the Dems have a majority in the WI Senate. Not to endorse the Dems or reformism or the like, but might that slow down or water down any additional stuff Walker might want to pull?
TitusMoans
On the OWS forum, just a short while ago, I read that Democrats succeeded in winning the Wisconsin Senate. If the narrow victory holds up, it is more symbolic than practical.
Elections in November, gerrymandered for GOP benefit, may tell if Walker truly has the support of Wisconsin voters or if they simply believed Barrett was not the right man to lead the state.
Aflwydd
http://lbo-news.com/2012/06/06/walkers-victory-un-sugar-coated/?utm_campaign=X&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter
Decent article echoing union criticisms that have been made on here many times.
Apparently Tom Barret was slapped in the face by someone in the crowd of his supporters, for dropping out of the race before all the ballots had been counted last night. The man has a habit of getting hit in the face. Two years ago he was hit in the face with a tire iron, while trying to intervene on a domestic dispute outside of the Wisconsin State Fair.
Yeah I heard he was booed when he said he talked to Walker when he conceding the race.
This happened in Milwaukee: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=626zgMzyuwY
Something will probably be written about it more, but it was, however silly and weak at times, the most wild occupy/anti-walker/anti-austerity event that has happened since the shit started. Two Hundred people actively snaking around the city, routing and wrestling police, hating the police, feeling far more fierce and common than a long long ass time. Maybe thirty people doing the black bloc, and another fifty just as if not more confrontational than the bloc, but not blocked up.
What happened in Madison?
Juan Conatz wrote:
As a rule, FB is full of shit. It's just online groupthink. One of my coms joked last week that if the stuff they saw on FB had any bearing, no-one in Ireland was going to vote YES in the Fiscal Compact referendum. FB said 100% NO. The newspaper polls said 60/40 to the YES. The newspapers were right.
So the spin on the recall election coming from the unions/liberals/Democrats is that Walker outspent Barrett 7-to-1 and that, hey, at least the Democrats won 1 of the 4/5 recall elections that day. I think they took control of either the state house or senate. Also, there is some anger from liberals because the Democratic National Committee put zero to little resources in WI and Obama/Biden didn't come out to support Barrett. Obama says that Barrett never asked him to come out.
Some accusations of voter fraud are also being made, but most of it is really vague. What isn't vague is, while probably ethically objectionable, I'm not sure actually illegal and in any case, Barrett lost by a wide enough margin that to blame it on fraud is ridiculous. The level of fraud needed for a margin that big just couldn't be done unnoticed unless in a third world dictatorship.
Redwinged Blackbird
Milwaukee was pretty fuckin rad. It was a pretty refreshing adventure, as Wisconsin has been quite lame lately.
A friend in Madison told me it was non-confrontational there as usual. Damnit Madison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=626zgMzyuwY&feature=player_embedded
An account from someone else there (not me):
"Yesterday, people took to the streets during a march. Police tried to get them out of the street, and the crowd refused to obey, overflowing the police lines and pushing against police and police horses to continue moving. When police tried to arrest a number of individuals, others in the crowd dearrested them (pulling them to safety). One of the police officers that was swinging their baton had it pulled away by someone in the crowd, who hit the cop then threw it at another cop. The cops tried a bunch of times to kettle and intimidate the crowd, and failed every time."
Police Report:
"Five people were arrested; one for obstructing/resisting an officer, four for disorderly conduct. Video of the incidents show protesters refusing police orders to get out of the street and onto the sidewalks to let traffic pass and to keep members of the group from being struck by passing vehicles. A bottle containing a liquid was thrown at an officer and it struck him, but the officer was not injured. Protesters can be seen in video clips trying to grab the reins of the police horses as Mounted Officers tried to push the people back onto the sidewalk."
Taken from @news:
Electoral Politics Recalled: An Evening of Wildness Snakes Through Downtown Milwaukee
Four arrests Wednesday evening. A "keep it in the streets" protest in downtown Milwaukee followed the re-election of Governor Scott Walker, and scheduled to respond to the victory of either politician. At this time, four have been released and cited with disorderly conduct and one more recently released back into our arms a day later than the rest. The five that were arrested were almost arbitrarily chosen for their close proximity to the blind and fevered panic of the police. The police, despite their smirks, had far less control over the situation than they want to say. At moments they had to put their hands on their guns just to convince themselves of who was in control. Shit was out of control.
After a year and a half being wasted on a recall election, after all of the energy put into the Capitol occupation and state-wide strikes was funneled into useless electoral politics, there is now room to breathe and begin again. This newfound freedom to act was seen in the streets of Milwaukee with surprising clarity. What started as a gathering of talking heads quickly escalated into a push and shove match with police, whose aim was to corner and stop any unpermitted march from taking place. Within seconds of the march, protesters took to the streets as dozens of cops in riot gear attempted to contain them. The crowd was unwilling to be pushed aside, and worked together to shove back and wind around the horses, motorcycles, and beefy baton-wielding helmets.
The black bloc, though dormant in Milwaukee for years, seemingly reappeared (some in all black, some with red bandannas, and some other groups and individuals who wore some form of the mask) and it both engaged in confrontation and helped to defend individuals in the crowd, while others that weren't bloc'd up joined in and initiated their own actions. Its very presence declared non-violence an impossibility.
Police tried to stop the crowds, but failed again and again to contain its excesses. People pushed against police lines and horses and pulled their friends to safety as cops attempted to arrest them. One startled cop had some unknown liquid thrown at his face during the first attempted kettle. At another moment of police provocation a member of the crowd wrested a baton from the grip of a cavalry officer, hit him, and threw the baton at another, then jumped into the cloak of the crowd. It was unruly, disobedient, and willing to shove, at least 150 deep.
After twelve or so blocks of low-intensity conflict, protestors made it to Zeidler Park, the planned to be space of occupation. At this point the PA once again became an instrument of boredom as the crowd was talked at by people that wanted to give speeches instead of dance, or eat, or fight. Attention was then shifted to supporting those arrested, and a small crowd moved to the local police station to await their release. No occupation happened, but for now that is ok. All in all, the event was a short but inspiring leap away from the silly matter of a recall election.
When asked about the protest, police chief Flynn was quoted saying that it was MPD's job to "babysit" the crowd while they "pretend to be relevant protestors". We couldn't disagree more. It is only now that the police have been identified as a thing to be fought, and the recognition that democracy will always fail to appease its audience that Wisconsin joins relevant contemporary struggle. Last year at the Capitol there was some confusion as to whether or not the police could be considered a part of the working class and it is very nice to see this question can put to rest. There is nothing more salient to present-day politics than an antagonism towards police.
Meanwhile, the media acted with calculation, minimizing and simplifying events, as they are expected to, creating a safe distance from any possible intensity. To them, it was simply a protest, it was "40", it was "several". It marched roughly half the actual distance down the forgettable avenue of Plankinton, when the wildness really cut through Water Street, the center of downtown. We blocked traffic "briefly" (ahem, forty god minutes at least). Their tendencies are to be non-descriptive, to imply that those that got arrested deserved it, and to minimize the actual event as much as possible, acknowledging it only so as to explain it away.
Similarly, the Left attempts to erase the excitement and power we experienced at the march. They talk about a peaceful, nonviolent protest where police officers unjustly arrested individuals to stifle free speech. From their press releases to the photos they post, the shining activists of the 99% were all but crushed, helpless victims.
The truth is that the march wouldn't have happened if it hadn't been as unruly and forceful as it had been, and there would have been many more arrests and injuries at the hands of the police. There was anger, and there was power.
To the rest of the world that is fighting and making 2012 the year that the world ends: Don't wait for us, we'll catch up!
We were not the 99%. We were 150, and we were angry.
Cant watch the video. Says its "private".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2nB8KjxoVQ
This should work better.
devoration1
Looks like the 'money is speech' decision by the SCOTUS combined with endless populist sloganeering and 're-branding' of attacks on workers as attacks on 'parasites' is working to give the organized right a new lease on life. Walker's victory gave legitimacy to his policies and methods of governing, as seen by his new public relationship with Romney. Public sector workers as parasitic, greedy thugs is now a legitimate and repeated mantra- looks like we'll get to see the Democrats repeat their weak decades long opposition to Taft-Hartley (repealing it was dropped from their party program not too long ago) and play the 'only friends of labor' against states enacting more and more restrictive and draconian labor laws. Hell, they've wanted to do all this since Nixon had the AFL-CIO political director at the top of his 'List'. You'd think they'd be thankful for the unions introducing Political Action Committee's (now Super-PACs) into American electoral politics
Surtrsflame
Well, liberal activists in this state have lost a lot of faith in the election system, that's one thing thats become obvious in the past 10 days since the election. If it'll amount to much is yet to be seen.
http://coreyrobin.com/2012/06/20/what-might-have-been-one-report-from-madison-wisconsin/
I'm a member of the Teaching Assistants' Association. I was heavily involved during the actual occupation of the Capitol, and then gradually less so after we were kicked out. I was at the meeting of the Wisconsin South-Central Federation of Labor when it voted to endorse a general strike if the bill went through. It should be noted that the final version of the bill involved endorsing an "international" general strike, whatever the hell that would be.
Although, to be fair, since the leadership knew they didn't have a strike fund or any advance work with any unions, they were only endorsing a strike in principle, I still thought I was on the set of a movie. Since, you know, the last general strike in the United States was in Minneapolis in 1934. I talked to a still-wet-behind-the-ears paid organizer for SCFL, and he told me that, indeed, there was serious talk about a general strike.
When things actually hit the fan, of course, it was only the directly-affected public-sector unions that had any real strike talk. In my own, undoubtedly the most radical, there was a hard core of activists who had been working around the clock on the occupation who favored going on strike. I was willing to be one of them, but it became pretty clear that we had no chance in hell of winning a strike vote. The primary problem was not our "fat-cat" union bureaucrats (our officers actually don't draw a union salary) but the bulk of our membership. Even among the people who showed up to our large and contentious general membership meetings there were many who strongly opposed our "teachouts," in which we didn't teach our classes on campus but sometimes made alternative arrangements to teach near the State Capitol. I imagine that among the much larger number who didn't come to the meetings and didn't participate in the teachouts, such opposition was even greater. Certainly, those members would never have voted for a formal walkout.
Even some of our progressive faculty were getting antsy about the continued teachouts, and, of course, there was a considerable public backlash against the wildcat sickouts that many teachers participated in, most notably members of MTI, the Madison teachers union.
Without knowing all the decision-making details within the big public-sector unions, I am still confident that there is no way that a grassroots groundswell for a strike was squelched by union bureaucrats and Democratic politicians. They might have tried (and likely failed) to squelch such a surge had it existed, but it was clear to the vast majority of those involved that we had already done pretty much all we could do and that there was not going to be any strike, let alone the fabled general strike, the chimera of the left.
It might be interesting to imagine what would have happened had there been some organized campaign to stop doing any other activism and start preparing for a mass public-sector strike. For those who think the recall was an overreach, you shouldn't try to imagine what the backlash would have been against that.
Update (6/21, 8:30 am)
One commenter reminds us that the last general strike in the United States was in Oakland in 1946, not Minneapolis in 1934.
Here's a response a wrote to that comment
Thanks for posting this. I was actually in Madison, WI from March to June (while also traveling into town a couple times in February) , during which part of the time I was a stipended organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Because the IWW included a number of 'dual carders' that were also in some of the public sector unions and we, as a organization were pretty loud about the pro-strike talk, I have some things to say about this.
I generally agree with the thrust of the comment: that the entirety of blame on the failure of a strike happening shouldn't be placed at the Democrats/bureaucrats/leadership, etc. That's doesn't give you the complete picture. It's more of a cookie cutter analysis. For liberals and socialists its along the lines of "the formal leadership is bad leadership and didn't fight for a general strike or fought against it therefore we need to replace the formal leadership with people we like!" For anarchists its like "formal leadership is bad and therefore it is natural that they fought against the general strike idea".
The centering of this critique of leadership has more to do with the easy way in which it fits into people's political perspective, but still looks at the participants as a faceless mass with none of their own subjectivity. These two ways of looking at Wisconsin erase the experiences, attitudes, opinions, reactions and organizing of a countless number of people.
That's not to say that the AFL-CIO or Democrats didn't fight against the idea of a general strike. At a state level AFL-CIO I was told by one of the attendees that one of the international people stated "if you don't have 75% of your workplace on board, we're not even going to talk about a strike". Obviously, this was a way of shutting down any talk of it by making the issue into one of negotiation and fighting, similar to the relationship between workers and bosses. The numerous speeches which pushed the line of coming to protests and going home also contributed, it its own way of fighting against people doing anything 'too crazy'. The formative meetings of the AFL-CIO's 'We Are Wisconsin' group happened largely during when most people were working, was probably not promoted to its members and was more of a big meeting of staffers, paid organizers and people in official positions in various unions and nonprofits. Anything like that in the context of tens of thousands of rank and file workers marching in the street, in my mind, was undoubtadly done with the intention of excluding those people from the 'What are we going to do?' question. A question that was a a strong minority undercurrent fro February until mid March. (See a paid organizer for an AFL-CIO unions perspective: http://uhavenothin2losebuturchains.tumblr.com/post/18400931279/why-m1gs-lessons-from-wisconsin)
Anyway, on to specifics of the comment.
I think there is some confusion on the part about SCFL passing a resolution (called a 'bill' by the comment's author). I don't remember the resolution including anything about an 'international' general strike. I checked the language of the resolution (see here: http://libcom.org/library/wisconsin-south-central-federation-labors-general-strike-packet) and didn't see anything about that.
You mention 'public backlash' against the MTI sickouts. What do you mean by this? I know, nationally, Fox News picked up on the story and there were right-wing groups that were trying to expose teachers who called in sick, but that's inevitable, and not sure what I would call 'public backlash'. They got a lot of support in Madison (probably supermajority) and their actions coincided with student walkouts in places I'd never imagine (like Platteville).
Overall, I agree with what you are saying: any strike/general strike would not have come through formal union structures because people weren't at that point where they could win a majority and that blaming Democrats/union bureaucrats as the sole reason strikes didn't happen is not an opinion based on what happened.
But I do not share your pessimism of whether strikes could have happened. I think they could have, but wouldn't have looked like:
A) Campaign for strike votes
B) Hold vote
C) Repeat in numerous workplaces, locals and unions.
D) Announce strike.
E) Strike.
I think that's what a lot of people, including pro-strike militants, expected the process to look like. That's understandable. As was pointed out, the last official general strike in the U.S. (although it was called a 'work holiday') was Oakland in 1946. There wasn't a reference point to really look to.
In retrospect, pro-strike militants using a mixture of formal union structures and outside the union tactics concentrating on one workplace or job classification to go out and be supported by mass pickets/flying squads who then targeted additional places to spread strikes would have most likely been the most realistic chance for a strike. That could have happened, and for a short time, it felt that way. Even 40%-50% of a decent sized public sector workplace walking out would have received an enormous amount of support and getting a mass picket together would have been practically effortless. The anger that was there in the city and you could feel (which expressed itself in such things as the forceable second occupation of the capitol) could have translated into other places walking out. Such a thing would also change the question from 'Are you for striking and all that may mean?' into 'Are you going to cross this picket line and betray your co-workers?' in a way that make the issue about how you relate to people in your everyday life and not how you relate to AFL-CIO talking heads or politicians.
Steven.
Sep 15 2012 19:49
The courts have now overturned this law. Walker is going to appeal:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/09/14/161175928/court-strikes-d...
Oh boy. Reading through this thread brings up a lot of memories. Thought I'd post an update.
In reference to Steven's last post, the unions tried through the courts to get the Act defeated, but, in the end, the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld it.
As is known, Walker won the recall election. He also won relection in November 2014, beating his Democratic opponent 52% to 46%. Like in the recall election, the Democrats downplayed some of the most polarizing issues, such as collective bargaining and austerity, in favor of middle of the road nonsense about job creation and such. Walker is now considering running for President in 2016.
There have been a couple of books written about the 'Wisconsin Uprising' in the last couple years. One of them, Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest, from Madison to Wall Street by John Nichols, is particularly bad. I couldn't even make it through the whole thing because the author spends so much time tying the protesters to the Founding Fathers. Here's some of the books that have come out so far. I've included the publisher and a link to a description of the book, if available.
-Wisconsin Uprising: labor fights back by Michael D. Yates (Published by Monthly Review)
-It Started in Wisconsin: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest edited by Mari Jo Buhle and Paul Buhle (Published by Verso Books)
-We Are Wisconsin - The Wisconsin uprising in the words of the activists, writers, and everyday Wisconsinites who made it happen edited by Erica Sagrans (Published by Tasora Books)
-A Whole Which Is Greater: Why the Wisconsin Uprising Failed edited by Paul Gilk and David Kast (Published by Wipf & Stock Pub)
-More than They Bargained For: Scott Walker, Unions, and the Fight for Wisconsin by Jason Stein and Patrick Marley (Published by University of Wisconsin Press)
-Cut from Plain Cloth: The 2011 Wisconsin Workers Protests by Dennis Weidemann (Published by Manitenahk Books)
-A View from the Interior: Policing the Protests at the Wisconsin State Capitol by Susan Riseling (Published by Mavenmark Books)
There was also a book or zine that was supposedly created by the Madison Infoshop, but I've never seen it.
During the summer of 2012, Grace Parker, db and I talked about trying to get a book together of our writings, interviews and accounts of the Wisconsin protests, but unfortunately, we never could make time for it and it didn't get further than an idea and a couple conversations.
As for the IWW in WI, things looked bright, but unfortunately, it doesn't look like we took advantage of it. There was basically a split in the Madison GMB. I wasn't there when this happened, but it seemed partially to be over tensions that built over whether new workplace organizing efforts were to be supported or whether participating in the (at that point) small protest movement was to be supported. Eventually, an Industrial Union Branch (IUB) focused on the Communications industry was formed to assist campaigns in that industry, particularly in one multi-city large workplace. Robbie Jenson and I went there, fueled on energy drinks, to do a graveyard shift, condensed Organizer Training 101. I believe they were having some successes growing the committee, but unfortunately got into a pretty heated conflict with the CWA, who came in at the urging of an ISO member1. The IWW committee there saw this as raiding or taking over an in-process campaign, something we've actually experienced multiple times over the years, including here in the Twin Cities. In any case, John O'Reilly and I wrote a Workers Power column that was indirectly about some of the organizer's in that campaign, called 'Shotgun organizing'.
That IUB is now defunct, and the campaign they were focused on, is as well, as far as I know. The GMB is still around. They publish a newsletter called Prairie Fire.
As for Milwaukee, I went there in Spring of 2012. The Branch Secretary of the MKE GMB picked me up and we went to a bar and talked about what was going on with them. The Milwaukee branch has long been pretty small, although recently, I've noticed a flurry of activity from them, including a solidarity picket from that ZSP-Amazon conflict that is posted elsewhere in the forums. The reason I came to town was to go to event by some French communization folks involved in the journal, Sic. We exchanged emails, and I had a set of interview questions for them, but they seemed to have had difficulty with how to respond to them, and never got anything from them. Which was unfortunate, since my trip was partially funded by Nate Hawthorne for the purpose of getting something written for Recomposition. I did however interview one of the people behind Burning Bookmobile, and published it on my blog here.
There were a couple of smaller groups in smaller areas around WI that popped up, joined the IWW and then sort of disappeared.
1. This is described in the January/February 2012 issue of the Industrial Worker
Couple more things.
As soon as I left WI for Minnesota, the latter had a budget issue due to disagreements between the Republicans and Democratic Farmer-Labor Party. This resulted in a state government shutdown for 2 weeks. I joked at the time, that wherever I went, the state government was having a crisis.
Although, in retrospect, the movement had been defeated in April of 2011, it wasn't until around July 2011, when I arrived in Minneapolis, that the defeat hit me. Maybe if you were involved in the antiwar movement right before the invasion of Iraq, you might understand. To see and be so heavily involved in a large mass movement that loses was a lot to take. I felt pretty down for a while, until Occupy popped up, which was unexpected, and exciting.
In many ways, Occupy improved on the #wiunion. Instead of atomized individuals or grouplets in a crowd of tens of thousands, Occupy forced people to talk to each other, and decide things, in an assembly. Unfortunately, it did so through an alienating, drawn out and horrid modified consensus fashion, which goes to show, each social movement makes improvements on the last, as well as inherits the poison from the past.
Juan I respectfully suggest you turn those two comments in a blog post with just like 1-2 sentence intro. I think more people would like to read them than will find them just as comments here.
Walker was finally defeated in the elections earlier this month by Democratic Tony Evers. Although he has promised to repeal Act 10, the GOP still controls the State Assembly and State Senate and a slight majority of Wisconsinites in polls support keeping Act 10. So I doubt even the status quo of 2010 will be returned to.
If anyone has been paying attention, Walker and the state GOP stripped the Governorship of certain discretionary powers as a retaliation against the Democrat who won the election. Also, probably in fear that the Democrat will try to reverse some of the collective bargaining things through executive order. I've noticed there has been some minor protests in Madison with the familiar "This is what democracy looks like!" slogans.
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Today has been a good day. Good in the sense that I feel like I have a plan. I see where I want to go and now I just need to take the steps in order to get their. Starting your very own business can be hard. There are a million and one things to think about, do and sometimes it can get a little overwhelming. I had one of those days yesterday. I was flat. I was miserable and somehow the universe reflected that in the dull, grey, drizzly weather that resulted. To top off my "great" day yesterday I decided to stack it a good one in a carpark pothole. So good that I now can hardly walk and have a swollen bruised knee and ankle. Positive side, I woke up this morning (besides the aching ankle) with a fresh renewed sense of energy. My mind felt clearer. I can see my vision, I can see how I am going to get there. Just one small (hoppily) step at a time.
So I thought what better thing to do, then write a post for my blog. One good thing has to come from bed rest and owning a laptop! So here are a couple of shots I have randomly snapped over the last couple of days.
Powerful stuff. It got me thinking, the only thing holding me back is me… and I CAN DO THIS!!!
Another Tilley shot. I am captivated by her and I always try to find new ways of photographing my precious labradorable!
Darcy May.. She is such a beautiful girl.. when she is not grumpy that is!!
Finally a couple of self portraits. In the late afternoon just outside my office, there is a beautiful stream of afternoon sunlight that glistens for about half and hour before it goes behind the trees. I have been wanting to do some shoots with it for a while, but never had the chance. So the other day I seize my moment and took a couple of quick self portraits. I quite like them. Something a little different and I can't wait to photograph someone else in this beautiful afternoon gold!!


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SOLIDARITY DISRUPTED
Trump's labor secretary pick will hurt ordinary workers fighting for $15-an-hour pay
Reuters/Lucy Nicholson
Fight for $15
By Sarah Kessler
Published December 8, 2016 This article is more than 2 years old.
Unions have been on life-support since President Ronald Reagan broke the air traffic controller's union in 1981; their membership numbers have plummeted over the last 50 years. President-elect Donald Trump's pick of Andy Puzder, the CEO of the parent company of the Carl's Jr. and Hardee's fast food chains, as the next US labor secretary will likely further degrade their power and initiatives.
Kendall Fells, organizing director for the Fight for 15, told the Prospect earlier this week that "Puzder as labor secretary is like putting Bernie Madoff in charge of the treasury." Puzder has been an outspoken opponent of many changes backed by unions:
He abhors organized labor's biggest campaign, "the fight for $15." He has written in the Wall Street Journal that "broad increases in the minimum wage destroy jobs and hurt the working-class Americans that they are supposed to help" and has warned against raising the federal minimum wage higher than $9 per hour. "Does it really help if Sally makes $3 more an hour if Suzie has no job?" he once reasoned in an interview.
He blamed the union-backed group "Making Change at Wal-Mart," which had campaigned for the store to raise its entry-level wages, for store closures. In the same Wall Street Journal op-ed, Putzer wrote that "many of the job losses [at Wal-Mart] are the direct result, to borrow the outfit's branding, of making change at Wal-Mart."
He has said that minimum wage increases make automated restaurants more viable, and could cut down on the number of employees. "They're always polite, they always upsell, they never take a vacation, they never show up late, there's never a slip-and-fall, or an age, sex, or race discrimination case," he said of robots.
He has criticized the Obama Administration's new overtime rule, which raised the threshold below which salaried managers automatically qualify for overtime pay from those who make $23,660 per year to those who make less than $47,500 per year. In a Forbes op-ed, Puzder said that the rule "will cause some employers to reclassify salaried employees as hourly." The rule is expected to be reversed.
It's not surprising that Trump's pick for labor secretary isn't a champion of organized labor. Other rumored candidates included Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who eroded the power of Wisconsin unions by pushing for a "right to work" law . On Wednesday evening, Trump attacked the president of United Steelworkers 1999, the union that represents workers at the Carrier factory where Trump pledged to save jobs, after the union president said Trump had misrepresented the number of workers saved by his deal.


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Maria Sharapova Makes It Past the First Round In ASB Classic
Get all the latest tennis news from www.TennisNow.com
Maria Sharapova began 2011 with a bang; the former No.1 was able to overcome Alberta Brianti of Italy, a last-minute opponent change, 6-2, 6-3.
Originally the Russian was set to play against Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro in her first round match, but due to the withdrawal of Latvia's Anastasija Sevastova, the draw was forced to be reshuffled.
Sharapova took down Brianti in a manner that hasn't been recently seen, showing signs of the form and athleticism that led her to becoming world No.1 in 2005. In the 90 minute match, the 23-year-old treated the change in opponent as if she was simply asked to play on a different court.
"We spend so much time training and out-of-tournament competition, it's great to be in the atmosphere of a crowd," said Sharapova to the Australian Associated Press. "The change of opponent was different, because I warmed up pretty early. I headed back and took another rest and came back. That was the only hiccup today."
Despite this turn around, Sharapova is still lacking in some key areas. During the match, Sharapova served seven double faults while Brianti served only two, three aces to none, and nailed only 68 percent of her first serves, all this is coupled with multiple unforced errors and managing to only convert five of 11 break points.
It's been no secret that Sharapova has been under a strict regimen to place herself back in the world rankings. She has also made a change in gear, leaving behind Prince and now embracing Head has her new racquet of choice.
Today, the player will officially announce her new $2 million a year deal with the manufacturer reportedly for the next five years; She will join a list of big name players like Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Robin Soderli...


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Spector had history of pointing guns, prosecutors say
Culture // Culture
LOS ANGELES -- Record producer Phil Spector, who will stand trial in September for shooting dead an actress at his Los Angeles area home, has a history of using guns to intimidate women, prosecutors said in court documents released Monday.
They listed five encounters in which women said Spector pointed a gun at them, and other gun-related convictions and allegations involving the 65-year-old recording legend.
Los Angeles County prosecutors want the judge in the upcoming trial to allow the jury to hear about the incidents. The trial judge will decide on the request in May.
"Spector has a long history of gun-related violence, much of it directed against women. It begins in 1972 and continues to the present," the prosecution's court papers said.
The documents said the alleged "prior acts" should be heard by the jury "to show that the death of Lana Clarkson occurred pursuant to a recurring, common plan by Spector to intimidate women into staying with him."
Spector, best known for his layered "Wall of Sound" recording technique in the 1960s, has denied murdering Clarkson, 40, on Feb. 3, 2003, after picking her up at a Los Angeles nightclub where she worked.
An autopsy report concluded that a gun was placed in the mouth of the actress and fired. The reclusive Spector says Clarkson committed suicide for reasons he does not understand.
The incidents referred to by the prosectors included;
• A 1972 arrest and subsequent guilty plea for carrying a loaded firearm in a public place.
• A 1975 run-in at a Beverly Hills hotel for which Spector pleaded guilty to brandishing a firearm.
• In 1977, Spector is said to have placed one arm around musician Leonard Cohen's shoulders, pointed a semi-automatic pistol at Cohen's chest and told him "I love you, Leonard."
• In 1978, he allegedly pointed a gun at television producer Alan Sacks.
• In November 2003, at a Starbucks coffee shop near his home, Spector allegedly yelled at three men, "I'm gonna go get my gun and blow you ... away" after one of the men asked him to join them for coffee.
Spector is free on $1 million bail while awaiting trial set for Sept. 16.


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STATES REJECT ARGUMENTS TO PAY FOR MARIJUANA TREATMENT FOR WORKERS' COMPENSATION INJURIES, WHILE OTHERS PASS NEW MEDICAL MARIJUANA LAWS
Now totaling 30 states and the District of Columbia, both Maine and Oklahoma recently passed laws which allow the sale of medical marijuana. Meanwhile, California becomes the 9th state to allow legal recreational marijuana. As states continue to adopt new marijuana laws, the courts are deciding whether or not employers and insurance carriers will pay for cannabis treatment in the case of work-related injuries. Maine's Supreme Court overruled a lower court in June in Bourgoin vs Twin Rivers Paper Company. They ruled that if a carrier or employer were required to pay for the marijuana treatment prescribed for the workers' compensation injury, it would essentially be ordering the employer to violate a federal law, putting them at risk for "aiding and abetting."
Per NCCI's June, 2018: Court Case Update, they note that Florida and North Dakota are in alignment with the above decision, passing legislation in 2017 to cease payments for medical marijuana prescribed in workers' compensation cases.
In contrast, however, NCCI lists five states that have now authorized cannabis for treatment in workers' compensation injuries; CT, MN, NJ, NY and NM.
As courts are ruling on these new laws, they are also setting uniquely different precedents in each state, regarding the level of protection that businesses may have in terminating employees for use of the drug.
While Colorado's Supreme Court upheld the termination of employees that violate company drug-usage policies, Arizona, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Montana all have cases pending in district and appellate courts that will be pivotal in determining any similar action employers can take in these states. It is crucial that employers seek guidance from labor law attorneys in their states, to assure they are in compliance with these evolving laws. For more information on the cases being heard in the aforementioned states, please contact your IMA representative.
TEXAS EXTENDS THE EXPIRATION OF NEGOTIATED MODS
Texas has historically allowed for employers to work with their agents and their carriers to "negotiate" the experience modification factor. This factor, based on each employer's injury experience, is applied to their workers' compensation policies to develop annual premiums. While these agreements did not impact the actual mod factor, produced by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI), it would adjust the final premiums that Texas employers would pay to their carrier.
The ability to negotiate mods was set to expire on July 1, 2018. As a result of a petition put forth by the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas, the Texas Insurance Commissioner issued an order in late June, that negotiated mods would be extended until July 1, 2019.
BROAD LEGISLATION IN U.S. ON "MARKETPLACE CONTRACTORS"
While at least eight states introduced legislation this year to address aspects of marketplace contractors, according to the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI), Iowa (SB2257), Florida (HB7087) and Tennessee (SB1967) all passed new laws this year to address this burgeoning new market segment.
Often referred to as the "on demand" or "gig" segment of our economy it includes companies such as Uber, Lyft, Handy, Taskrabbit and DoorDash, to name just a few.
These new laws are an attempt to clarify the relationship of the workers in these entities and whether or not the platform "parent" is their statutory employer, or, if these workers are independent contractors and not subject to workers' compensation laws.
Conflict continues as some workers in these gig companies wish to have the benefits provided by workers' compensation, while others point to their autonomy and "lack of control" by the parent company, giving them the freedom to operate as an independent contractor. New laws and cases being heard across the nation will help define this relatively new class of workers, but the results on how workers' compensation coverages apply will likely vary by state.
WORKERS' COMPENSATION RATES CONTINUE TO DECLINE ACROSS THE NATION
According to the National Council on Compensation's (NCCI) "State of the Line," this spring, results continue to improve in the workers' compensation line, with the combined loss ratio dropping, from 115% in 2010 to 94% in 2016 and a preliminary 89%, for 2017.
These results are impacted by another year of reduced frequency of workers' compensation claims, along with a reduction in lost-time injuries.
Meanwhile, the California Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau just released their own 2018 "State of the System" report, showing, despite several years of rate decreases, California still has the highest workers' comp. rates in the nation. According to the study, California has 11% of the country's workforce, but pays 20% of the nation's workers' compensation premiums. While across the nation, the frequency of indemnity losses declined by 27%, California's remained flat and was impacted by an actual increase in losses in the Los Angeles region, along with a spike in cumulative injury claims, such as carpel tunnel injuries.
The continued reduction in workers' compensation claims costs has resulted in rate reductions in numerous states. Per NCCI's 2018 state advisory session in May, there were sixteen states with ratepercentage reductions in the double-digits; Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.


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Q: React: Is it better to pass something as a prop to a child component, or have that child component get it from Redux? I have components <Parent> and <Child>, and <Parent> accesses a Redux state prop called prop1 using mapStateToProps(). <Child> needs to access prop1 as well.
What's the difference between passing it to <Child> as a prop like <Child prop1={this.props.prop1}> vs having <Child> get it via mapStateToProps()? Is one way better than the other?

A: TLDR: Get it via mapStateToProps from Child
In this simplified example you provided I would say that the best option is to get the prop1 directly in the Child component for the sake of encapsulation. It would be easier for other developers or the future you to identify the component's dependencies when it gets revisited.
Another benefit of this approach is that it limits updates in case the prop1 changes.  Only Child component will be updated in contrast to the other approach where Parent will be updated along with all of it's children.
However there is a use-case where prop drilling from Parent may be preferred.
If Child component is a reusable one and you don't want to bind it with a specific redux state slice. This way you can keep it unaware of redux and reuse it in another parent component with some other value as prop.

A: If the value is already stored in redux you should use redux.
The main drawback of using redux is the sheer amount of boiler plate. However, you already crossed that line in this case.

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Q: Is every abstract simplicial complex the independence complex of a simple graph? Given a simple (no loops, no multi-edges) undirected graph $G$ on $n$-vertices, one can assign an abstract simplicial complex known as the independence complex (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_complex) on $n$-vertices whose faces are exactly the independent sets of the graph $G$.
My question is: Is every abstract simplicial complex the independence complex of a simple graph?

A: If $X$ is a subset of the vertex set of a graph and if every $2$-element subset of $X$ is independent, then $X$ itself is independent. So the simplicial complex consisting of all the $\leq2$-element subsets of $\{1,2,3\}$ is not the independence complex of any graph.

A: As @AndreasBlass said, this is not true because whenever all the 2-faces of a simplex are present in the complex, the the simplex itself is present. This is a characterization of the clique complexes. And actually, the independence complex of a graph $G$ is the clique complex of the complement of $G$, so this makes sense.


In 2001, Chiquita became the first company in the banana sector to sign an international framework agreement with global and regional trade union organizations called the "IUF/ COLSIBA/Chiquita Agreement on Freedom of Association, Minimum Labor Standards and Employment in Latin America Banana Operations".
2011, which seeks improvement for women working in the banana farms. Its main goal is to promote and reinforce a safe workplace free of harassment, exclusion or inequality, and to improve the opportunities available to women by supporting their personal and professional development. This innovative model was included in the agenda of the World Banana Forum working group on labor rights and working conditions, to be supported and replicated.


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Gnophos reisseri är en fjärilsart som beskrevs av Karl Schawerda 1938. Gnophos reisseri ingår i släktet Gnophos och familjen mätare. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Källor

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reisseri

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Q: Phabricator API - Create a Project is not working curl -k -s -X POST "https://phabricator_URL.eu/api/project.edit" \
    -d api.token=api-myapitoken \
    -d members.add=TestMember \
    -d name=TestProject \
    -d objectIdentifier= | jq -r

ERROR receive:
{
  "result": null,
  "error_code": "ERR-CONDUIT-CALL",
  "error_info": "API Method \"project.edit\" does not define these parameters: 'members.add', 'name'."
}

Link Used:
https://secure.phabricator.com/conduit/method/project.edit/

A: You have to specify members.add as part of a list of transactions, and the users to add must also be a list:
curl -k -s -X POST "https://phabricator_URL.eu/api/project.edit" \
    -d api.token=api-myapitoken \
    -d transactions[0][type]=name
    -d transactions[0][value]=TestProject \
    -d transactions[1][type]=members.add \
    -d transactions[1][value][0]=PHID-USER-5555 \
    -d objectIdentifier= | jq -r

If you submit the API call you want to make through the conduit doc page, it will display the curl call needed to perform those same actions.


An idea, dozens of designs available.
Although digital sends, graphic resources on paper as posters or posters still being a benchmark to advertise a movie or sell any product. Case aside are the motivational posters.
Both for its size and for the creative freedom it offers, the posters allow you to capture any idea by combining different elements with visually attractive results.
But how to create posters? Is it enough with a tool like Photoshop or Illustrator? As in any area of design or image retouching, there are solutions for all tastes and pockets.
In this article we will review the best online options to design posters and prepare them for printing directly from the browser. Easy to use, full of templates and support resources and for all audiences.
Completely online and without the need to register, Designcap allows you to design posters, posters and flyers with the help of their templates, that you will be able to personalize to the pleasure.
It doesn't matter the subject of your sign. If you have pictures or photographs and a good motto, designcap makes it easier for you to compose the poster and include graphic elements to draw attention and achieve your purpose.
The editor of DesignCap is very intuitive. Each item you add you can flip it, invert it, apply opacity effects separately, and place them on top of each other using layers.
Designcap allows you to print the design or download it in JPG or PNG format in different sizes (between 1587 and 4959 pixels wide).
The online design tool BeFunky serves all kinds of tasks, and among them it also allows to create posters using pre-designed templates.
From the template we can add or remove vector elements, photographs and text, which we will edit by selecting, since the editing menu is adapted according to a text, a photograph or a geometric figure.
BeFunky offers many options to export our work. In addition to sharing it on social networks, you can upload it to Dropbox, Google Drive, Facebook or save it on your computer.
Like BeFunky, Canva is used to retouch images, edit photographs and carry out all kinds of designs.
In this sense, it also has functions focused on the design of posters and posters directly from your browser.
Prior registration, its operation is similar to DesignCap or BeFunky. We start from a template or a blank canvas and add images, vector drawings and text.
Canva is very manageable, customizable and offers different download versions depending on the quality and size you need.
Backgrounds, photographs, texts, objects and whatever you want. Crello helps you create your own posters and posters of the size you choose (after free registration).
Similar to Canva or BeFunky, it offers free and other payment elements, between stickers, frames, icons, lines and different fonts. There are also high quality, free and paid photographs to use on our posters.
To use Crello we will have to register, free of charge. So we can download or share our designs and even save them in our Crello space.
If you are looking for something simple, quick and not too complicated, you may prefer something like PosterMyWall, an online poster creator with examples to inspire you and that allows you to create posters and flyers with images and videos.
From an example or one of the many templates available, you have several types of background to choose from, with images or colors, possibility to include video, cliparts or vector drawings to decorate and possibility to enter text with custom font.
Although the Publisher does not require registration, if you want to save your poster you will need to register free. The standard discharge, with watermark is free also, although the highest quality download is paid.


The penne alla rusticana was delicious & full of flavour. The server was lovely & efficient.
Set over 2 spacious floors, Prezzo York showcases a bright cosmopolitan setting for enjoying modern Italian delights. A magnificent fireplace is the focal point of the dining room, whilst floor-to-ceiling windows let light flood in.
Surrounded by impressive architecture, York Prezzo is a stone's throw from the historic city's landmarks and museums. York Rail Station is a 4-minute drive away.
We did not get to dine.Having booked a table on Sunday 17th for 12.30 and travelling from Harrogate especially, we arrived to find the restaurant closed with no explanation. I am still awaiting one from the restaurant.
Brillant service and food was delicious, made to feel very welcome.
OK. Risotto had to be returned as more like soup. 'New' dish improved but still very wet.
Waitress was lovely and provided good services, but i could see she was rushed off her feet.
The course I have came with a side of chips, I thought chunky chips would have been more appealing to the adult consumer. The fries are not very flavorful, and not what I think the modern day consumer would like as chunky chips are slightly healthier. the fries reminded me of McDonald ones and could have done with more seasoning. A roasted veg side would have been more suitable option.
Overall though it was a good experience, please take this as constructive feedback.


Those living in northeast San Jose will be hearing more BART trains moving up and down the newly built tracks in the coming weeks as transit officials ramp up testing and at faster speeds.
The more frequent testing comes as the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority gets closer to the opening of the BART Berryessa station. Some residents in the area are concerned about the noise.
"I do hear them when I have my windows open," said Tanim Abdullah, who lives on Brooktree Square, about 30 feet away from the train tracks. "You hear the train going by, the sonic boom. Everything."
The tracks and the trains are part of the 10-mile BART extension into San Jose, a project that's expected to open later this year.
The VTA is responsible for funding and building the tracks and the station, but BART will run it. And before the station is handed over to BART, VTA plans to conduct thorough, progressive tests until June.
"This could happen throughout the 20-hour span of the day, and we are looking to run trains more quickly at up to 80 mph, which is going to be what service will be like," VTA spokeswoman Brandi Childress said.
The VTA said it has installed sound-proof windows and doors in about 250 homes in the neighborhood to control muffle the noise.
Abdullah is one of the neighbors with the sound-proof windows and doors.
"The sound problem has been mitigated more or less," Abdullah said, adding that he is thankful and a little less concerned about the increase in train testing. "It sounds like a really quiet hum. Like a refrigerator."
Childress said while the noise of a new transit system will now be a part of living in the Brooktree Square neighborhood, the benefit of that is that the residents there will get to use it.
Once VTA turns the station over, BART will start its own train testing that mirrors real day-to-day operations.


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Q: Parallel Cabal Builds Is there a way to compile packages in parallel when using cabal install similar to GNU make's -jN flag?

A: Yes, from version 1.16, cabal does support this using the -j option to install, like so:
cabal install -j mypackage

A: No.  This has been an open issue for some time.  There was an effort to make ghc --make build the needed modules in parallel, but evidently that ran into issues.  Since then doing this at the cabal level has been all the discussion I've heard but has not became reality yet.
See this duplicate question for some links and what is still the state of the art.


From specialist magazines to national newspapers, television programmes to local radio, the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show, powered by Discovery, is promoted far and wide. Every year the show attracts around 500 journalists from all over the world.
If you wish to be added to the distribution list for releases, etc or wish to discuss a feature or competition, please email andrea@poppyseedmedia.co.uk or telephone +44 (0)781 201 0765.
In order to apply for a press pass, you must be an accredited member of the press and be able to provide the following proof of your work.
Applications will be processed and if successful, passes are issued from the Press Centre next to the entrance to Hall 2 at the start of the event.
Passes are valid for all three show days.
If you wish to accredit during the show, you must bring the necessary evidence with you to support your application else your request will be refused.
Please note: We do not offer press passes to advertising sales staff or PR companies unless they represent an exhibiting company.
You can download an Accreditation Form here.