Erik Loomis

petewarsec@whitehouse.gov

right, which makes the craven sucking up even worse, though I'm not really blaming the student in reality

I've actually never seen that......

I've never met a student rep on these boards who do anything but rubber stamp the administration because their real role is making friends with rich guys who will pay them big time down the road.

One point here--the story quotes the student rep on the Board of Regents extensively. These were largely created by the student movements of the late 60s but in reality, no one on the Board is more beholden and bootlicking to administration than the student rep. They know who pays in the future.

exactly!

1973 was a great, great, great year of film--Scenes from a Marriage, Badlands, The Last Detail, The Long Goodbye. Lady Snowblood, The Sting, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Mother and the Whore, Belladonna of Sadness, Fantastic Planet, World on a Wire, Serpico, Sleeper, F for Fake, etc, etc.

This is such a fucking fantastic film, one of the greatest ever made, all should watch

If the politics of liberals are nothing more than "Deals with the guy who won't be running in 2028 effectively" it's lose, lose, lose

You know, if we're just asking questions on who gets to set the agenda here.....

Where should the Democratic Party be on "fucked Kimberly Guilfoyle while doing a lot of cocaine for five years?"

Cowboys’ George Pickens rips Richard Sherman: ‘Don’t speak on me unless you know the game’ Dallas coach Brian Schottenheimer says he would speak to Pickens about the since-deleted Instagram post regarding Sherman, a former All-Pro.

Update: Richard Sherman knows the game

www.nytimes.com/athletic/686...

Really excited that RFK is repealing the Health Industrial Complex so that we can return to quality medical care of the past, like this.

I assume the Roberts Court will rule every Democratic gerrymander illegal based on the legal doctrine of Fuck Democrats and there will nothing anyone can do about it

Back Monday to discuss the foundation of the American Federation of Labor in 1886.

The UMWA never did gain any of this back. It has been under attack for decades now and today is effectively a pension fund, not a union. There’s just a tiny number of active members working, including I believe almost zero for at least 30 years now in Kentucky.

Miller had a heart attack shortly after the contract was signed and was effectively kicked out of office at this time, both because of his personal behavior problems and because of anger over the contract.

It had fought for three decades for a cradle-to-grave welfare program and the mine owners gained a lot of that back.

Now, the UMWA still had to get the miners to accept it. So it hired Johnny Paycheck to do an ad for it on local radio stations. That plus everything else seems to have worked and the miners approved the contract in March. But it was a pretty bad contract, where miners lost on almost all issues.

So both sides gave a little at the table to end this, mostly around issues going to new dispute settlement proceedings to speed up resolution and undermine the wildcat strikes.

Employer contributions to health and pension funds–which were significant–were based on productivity and a lot of workers wanted to see those funds in their accounts, not strike all the time.

What finally ended this strike was frustration among enough workers over the holdouts on the wildcat strike issue.

The district court issuing the first injunction refused the administration request to make it permanent and Carter just gave up on it. Just a weird president, vacillating over issues like this and coming across looking weak to everyone.

The coal companies had stockpiled so much coal that it was hard to argue this was any kind of a national emergency.

He used the provisions for mediation and a cooling-off period, but the workers just ignored him. Carter then didn’t really do anything to enforce the injunction against striking that followed.

At this point, the Carter administration stepped in. Carter was no friend of labor, but this was still unclear in early 1978. He tried to use his power under the Taft-Hartley Act to force workers back on the job. Sort of. Carter was a weak president and responded weakly here too.

The employers refused to do anything on the wildcat issue and Miller didn’t want to fight for that anyway. Response from the workers was apoplectic. Contracts were burned publicly in front of television cameras. The membership overwhelming defeated the contract in March.

A tentative contract was agreed to February 1978, but it wasn’t a very good one for the workers. For one, workers had to pay into health care plans, a previously unacceptable demand from the companies.

Responses in the various states really depended on the governor. Kentucky and Utah were bad, West Virginia, where Jay Rockefeller had bigger political ambitions, and Pennsylvania were much better.

But a coal car was turned around by workers standing in the tracks and in Kentucky, cops tear gassed workers.