The agreement grants 25% in base wage increases through April 2028, and will cumulatively raise the top wage by over 30% to more than $40 an hour, and raise the starting wage by 68%, to over $28 an hour.
The lowest-paid workers at Ford will see a raise of more than 150% over the life of the agreement, with some workers receiving an immediate 85% increase immediately upon ratification.
The agreement reinstates major benefits lost during the Great Recession, including Cost-of-Living Allowances and a three-year Wage Progression, as well as killing divisive wage tiers in the union. It improves retirement for current retirees, those workers with pensions, and those who have 401(k) plans. It also includes a historic right to strike over plant closures, a first for the union.
Nearly five months after thousands of film and TV writers went on strike over more equitable pay and working conditions in the streaming era, effectively shutting down the entertainment industry, Hollywood studio and streaming executives at long last have reached a tentative deal with the Writers Guild of America, East and West....
Ooh, I do this too! I like to throw a twist into my characters, just to make them different from me. That way they become less of a self-insert, and I get to explore a different life experience.
I also had my very patriarchal, xenophobic dwarven cleric go through a bisexual awakening after meeting some fit, hairless male monks. It was remarkable how normal it felt for him to have that dawning realization, even as he was already married (to a proper Dwarven woman). I was a much better ally after that campaign, especially when a new player joined us, who was bisexual.
For my one trans character, I asked my gender non-conforming friends for advice, so that I wouldnโt accidentally make an ignorant caricature.
Make your characters Ace! Or Pan! Taste the rainbow in your games, even if youโre limited to one or two colors IRL.
Though few anthropologists still subscribe fully to the Man the Hunter narrative, its premises continue to influence interpretations.
This is the story of so many of our narratives. Invented to justify the status quo, then deeply embedded in our cultural narratives, so that they seem eternal. Iโm so glad that we are intentionally disassembling these assumptions, one generation at a time.
Despite gender differences, the team found little evidence for rigid rules. โIf somebody liked to hunt, they could just hunt,โ Wall-Scheffler says.
Imagine that! Letโs normalize more of that in our post-industrial world.
I would love to hear a good answer to this question. My mother-in-law is hitting some serious dementia, and I have very mixed feeling about how to proceed.
UAW Reaches Tentative Agreement on Record Contract with Ford Motor Company | UAW (uaw.org)
Don't you just hate railroading? ugh. (comicpress.socksandpuppets.com)
This comic is part of an ongoing story that might make more sense with full context....
The Historic Writers Strike Will Soon Be Over (www.huffpost.com)
Nearly five months after thousands of film and TV writers went on strike over more equitable pay and working conditions in the streaming era, effectively shutting down the entertainment industry, Hollywood studio and streaming executives at long last have reached a tentative deal with the Writers Guild of America, East and West....
Lava demon (lemmy.world)
I swear, someday I was casually brainstorming a character and my brain went "why are they not NB" and I had no reply other than "fair point." (ttrpg.network)
Panel 1: Bilbo Baggins holding a character sheet....
finally got medicated, part of what got me to finally get around to scheduling a psychiatry (pawb.social)
Worldwide survey kills the myth of โMan the Hunterโ - Women hunt in vast majority of foraging societies, upending old stereotypes (www.science.org)
I created a battlemap community if anyone is interested (sh.itjust.works)
See it here: https://sh.itjust.works/c/battlemaps for all your TTRPG map needs
Conjure a better world! (slrpnk.net)