UPS has reached an agreement with the Teamsters union to equip its iconic brown delivery trucks with air conditioning for the first time for new units.

The agreement, announced by UPS on Tuesday, comes as the delivery giant and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters negotiate the terms of a new contract for more than 330,000 U.S. employees. (source)

Unions work, unionize.

They only just now got air conditioners?!?!?!

Yeah it’s a huge win. Those trucks are death traps on a good day. A bunch of drivers died and more got severely ill last year from heat stroke. The temperature in the back of those vans is usually 10 degrees hotter than outside. It’s terrible, and I’m so proud of my union for how harshly they’re negotiating right now. We’ve got a bunch of smaller consessions already but this one was big.

This round of negotiations is difficult. The UPS Overlords are trying very hard to keep their billions of dollars in three pockets instead of spreading the wealth we (the workers) earned for them during the pandemic’s influx of home delivery. They’re trying to give us as little as possible and spinning the news articles to make it look like they’re super generous. Meanwhile almost everyone in my warehouse is on food stamps cuz we aren’t paid shit.

The UPS Teamsters Union are currently voting on whether or not to go on strike in August, so prepare for that. Stock up on essential supplies, just in case. We’ll let everyone know how to support us when the time comes.

This job is my first time being part of a union and I never wanna go back to not having one. It’s amazing to have so much fighting power.

The fact that they are just now getting air conditioners installed is mind boggling.

Remember kids, Nazis don't deserve their kneecaps.

Also if any of these are incorrect pls lemme know

i didnt see anyone saying any of this is wrong in the notes so im gonna reblog-

additional helpful resource:

this is the anti-defamation league’s hate symbol database. it’s massive and includes details about what symbols mean and where you might see them.

i’m a tattoo artist and use this all the time when i see a symbol i don’t recognize—better safe than sorry. it’s saved me from working with white supremacists a few times.

I'm glad to see the arrow cross (last one( there! It originates from Hungary and was used by the nazi party here, but it was banned after WWII. It barely shows up in guides/warnings like this and idk if they still use it but better safe than sorry.

requested by anonymous:

RATING: MOSTY RELIABLE

After searching, '92' does not appear to be a hate symbol. The only reference I can find to it is a reddit post, in reference to the same image as above. The rest are listed in the ADL hate symbol database.

It should be noted that several of these symbols, such as the  sonnenrad, are ancient symbols that have been appropriated by Nazis, and therefore may be considered non-racist in specific contexts.

Source: 'Because sonnenrad imagery is used by many cultures around the world, one should not assume that most sonnenrad-like images necessarily denote racism or white supremacy; rather, they should be analyzed carefully in the context in which they appear.'

I have linked to the ADL page for the symbols below.

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as a scandinavian, it makes me FURIOUS they used our fucking LIFE RUNE. they take away lives. they don't deserve lives. this is what cultural appropriation looks like.

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They should be getting the petition forms for everyone to sign by 2pm today, June 22nd. If you are AN OFFICIAL RESIDENT OF ALTANTA, GEORGIA and WERE REGISTERED TO VOTE IN THE PREVIOUS 2021 ELECTION, get notified here of when the petition is available!

If you know anyone who is a resident of Atlanta, reach out to them and share this info! 

@brattylikestoeat

i don't care about the comfort of people who don't care about my comfort

As a professional intersex trans woman voice over artist let me tell you one thing:

Don't let anyone EVER tell you that you need to change your voice for their comfort, EVER.

What is DEEP, or MANLY, or FEMININE, or ANDROGYNOUS, or HIGH PITCH, or HUSKY, or SOFT, or WHATEVER is very dependent on one person's perspective.

I know cis men with way higher voices than me, I know cis women with way deeper voices than me, I know shorter folks than me with husky gruff voices, I know taller folks than me with spritely soft voices.

All this "YOU GOTTA SOUND A CERTAIN WAY" shit is absolute NONSENSE.

You do what you need for you to feel comfortable, THAT'S IT! If someone pressures you to change your voice for THEIR comfort and you don't give a shit? Toss that person in the TRASH and live your life without their negativity.

This adds onto the video of the over aging Black kids thing I posted yesterday. It goes into detail on what to look for when determining a Black kids age and what biased cause the over aging of Black kids.

-fae

31-year-old Johanita Dogbey was murdered in broad daylight, in a park in Brixton, while talking to her grandmother over the phone. A stranger attacked her and stabbed her from behind.

We are a truly broken nation - a nation where a woman can't even go shopping and walk through a park without being murdered for it. Justice for Johanita.

If you can't show up in person, make a phone call. If you can't call, write a letter. If you can't write a letter, an email.

In order to liberate our communities from this lovecraft country's Jim & Jane Crow violence, we have to upRoot white supremacist politics and practices from the root.

#black butches and black trans mascs and black trans men and black trans women and black trans fems#and black nonbinary folks and black queens and black femmes and black studs and black bears#and even black cishet people who are even 1% trans friendly#BEEN SAYIN THIS#but y'all don’t wanna fuckin listen so we keep having this conversation over and over

Still relevant

And if I’m not mistaken, Sylvia Rivera was *specifically* addressing WHITE gays and white feminists here. She called out these middle/upper class white folks who strove only for assimilation while neglecting Black and brown LGBT people who were poor and struggling and languishing in prison. White Gays and feminists didn’t like the way revolutionary figures like Sylvia were “rocking the boat”

Specification is important here because antiblackness and racism are still rampant in the LGBT community and Black + brown LGBT folks have had to make communities of our own because white LGBT people ostracize us.

This was, IIRC, the year that Marsha and Sylvia were told they were not welcome in the March.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRntrGUq/

-fae

Marie Van Brittan Brown, born on January 7, 1922, was an African-American nurse and inventor from Queens, New York City. In 1966, at the age of 44, she came up with the brilliant idea to create a unique home surveillance device with a closed circuit television security system.

She and her husband, Albert L. Brown, applied for the patent and invented a system with a motorized camera that could show images on a monitor. That patent (#3,482,037) was eventually granted, and her invention went on to become a technological precursor to how modern day home security systems would be designed.

Brown's invention had very unique features for the time; The motorized camera at the door could slide up and down to look out of four peepholes. Anything the camera captured would be displayed on a monitor. Her system also included a radio-controlled lock that would allow the front door to remotely unlocked, and an audio-video alarm system that could be used to see and communicate with whoever was at the door.

For her genius invention, which obviously contributed to the future of home security systems, Brown was given a prestigious award by the National Scientists Committee (NSC). But for the most part, her invention has gone unnoticed and undocumented by the mainstream media and literature.

Sadly, Marie Van Brittan Brown died on February 2, 1999 at the age of 77-years old.

“From childhood to adulthood, Black girls have remained a unique entity with an unmatched style and presence. We use beauty shops and beauty supply stores as a breeding ground and support group. It’s the black girls from the hood who buy $1 doorknocker earrings, sport long acrylic nails, with $20 wigs and bodycons from Rainbow with blue and purple lipstick that created this Baddie trend. We created this culture. We are this culture. Back when Black girlhood and womanhood was scary and a femininity wrapped in melanin was discouraged, we made this shit.”

“Who taught you to hate the color of your skin? Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose and the shape of your lips? Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet? Who taught you to hate your own kind? Who taught you to hate the race that you belong to so much so that you don’t want to be around each other?”

- Malcolm X, 1962

Black Women of Rock & Roll in the 60s and 70s:

Tips That Can Save Your Kid’s Life.

THIS IS IMPORTANT 

When I was a child, from the time I was about four and could understand things, my mom told me and my brother that we should have a secret word. That way, if we were ever in trouble or felt unsafe and we didn’t want the people around us to know we needed her to come get us, we could let her know. So she let us pick the word and my brother and I chose the phrase “peanut butter cups.” (I’m happy to share the phrase now since both my brother and I are adults now). 

I used the phrase twice in my life. Once, I was at a friends house when I eight years old. Her dad got really drunk and was throwing things against the wall. I was really scared and I didn’t want to draw attention to myself on the phone when I called my mom to come get me because I didn’t know if he would get more violent if I asked her to come get me. So I called her and was calm and after a couple minutes I asked “Hey mommy, did you get me those peanut butter cups from the store?” And she said “I’ll be right there.” And she came and got me within minutes. 

Second, I was a teenager spending the night at a friends house. Her brother and dad were drinking and they started talking about things that made me uncomfortable - ie: what they liked to do to women. My friend didn’t seem perturbed and said that was normal for them and that I shouldn’t worry. But I was worried because they were really drunk and I was 15 and the only ‘woman’ around that wasn’t related to them. I went in my friends room, told her I needed to call my mom and say goodnight. Before I hung up with her I asked “Next time we go to the store, can we get some peanut butters cups? I’ve been craving them.” And she came and got me, just like that. 

Two incidents, one as a young child, one years later as a teen. Don’t discredit this stuff, it fucking works. My brother used it a few times too. Let your child pick the word and no never, ever, ever, ever get mad at them for using it no matter what it is. 

DO NOT SCROLL PAST THAT.

remember this fucking face

be careful googling his name, he's Filippo Claudio Giuseppe Ferlazzo.

He murdered in the streets, in daylight, a disabled black man called Alika Ogorchukwu who was just trying to sell his products.

Alika said to Giuseppe's fiancee if she could give him an euro or buy him any clothing, this garbage of human took that as harassment for some reason and took it as reason enough to murder and rob him.

Alika was knew by locals, he was kind and a hardworking father and husband, not problematic or a bad person, just a typical father of family.

Alika Ogorchukwu, Nigerian disabled man murdered.

this happened on july 2022, in Italy.

this is heartbreaking.

edit

this post has way more information about what happened, sorry, my English is very chunky and i was very mad while writing this post, i didn't know how to explain.