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By Terry Evans May 24, 2021 12News/KBMTMembers of United Steelworkers Local 13-243 picket outside ExxonMobil in Beaumont, Texas, after being locked out by bosses May 1 in attack on seniority rights, safety and job security. Hiring is edging up as government coronavirus lockdowns are lifted and growing numbers of vaccinated workers rejoin the workforce. Better conditions are being created for workers to come together on the job to beat back attempts by the bosses to defend their competitive position against rivals at home and abroad and boost profits at the expense of our wages, safety and working conditions. More workers are organizing side by side in union struggles. Safety for workers in oil refineries and for nearby communities is at the heart of fights by workers at ExxonMobil in Texas and at a Marathon Petroleum refinery in Minnesota who are picketing against boss lockouts. ....
10 Tuesday AM Reads My Two-for-Tuesday morning • Millions Are Unemployed. Why Can’t Companies Find Workers? Among the reasons potential workers are holding back: fear of getting Covid, lack of child care and enhanced unemployment benefits (Wall Street Journal) see also Finding it Hard to Hire? Try Raising Your Wages After several decades of lagging prices for low wage labor, there is no more LABOR FOR SALE at $7/hour, so price are moving up. Once it moves up high enough so that supply matches with demand, you get a stabilization at that level. (The Big Picture) • Yield-Starved Investors Snap Up Muni Bonds Investors have put $39 billion into municipal-debt funds so far this year, the most over that period since 2008 (Wall Street Journal) ....
You are referring to the now gone Alexander Cockburn who advised young colleagues to “keep your hatred pure.” Of course he said that back in an era of Panglossian High Broderism when many leading pundits saw bipartisanship as the essence of politics and a way to keep the country humming. Now MSM journalism is nothing but hatred be it of Putin or the deplorables. The real left–the people he was talking to–seem to be out of the picture. All of which is a way of saying that herd mentality has always been a thing among reporters and people like Greenwald are the nail that must be knocked down. Greenwald is, after all, now going after them and while they can dish it out they can’t take it without whining. ....