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You should meet my 88 year old father. Union guy, blue collar, worked on Adlai Stevenso's campaign, let me skip school to go to protests, proudly wears his Union Thug shirt. Both my octogenarian parents, indeed my entire family are die hard lefties.

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I blame Juanita Brodderick.

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I shared this article with my mum and she was horrified. She worked in nursing homes for thirty years but only once did she witness abuse and she raised hell about it and the nurse was charged with endangerment. By this new law I guess the nurses/assistants have to monitor each other and make complaints to management if something is going on, and they won't even know if they'll lose their jobs themselves to save face for the business.

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How many years is a life sentence for a 71 year old obese Cheeto? Enquiring minds want to know.

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Every time I think the bed of snakes, (GOPbaggers) can't get any worse, they up and surprise me. Everything they do seems to fly in the face of what normal people would consider good and kind. It's like the Republicans sit around wondering what would Snidely Whiplash do.

And what is even stranger, is all too often, the people these cruelties hurt the most, still support the GOP and tRump.

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Our viewing area had Creature Feature and Doctor Madblood. A kinder gentler group of monsters for teen stoners.

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I'll bet this is why the State is trying to privatize their institutions. They can still be sued and held responsible for mismanagement and negligence.

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They do, but I remember there was a lot of consumers who started saying "Oh hell no" and opting out and it seemed like a few companies backed off, but now it's come back into style.

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Lucky you! I'm the lone Democrat in my family. I had an elderly friend, who I always wished was my dad. He was a die hard Democrat and would just roll his eyes at dumb Republican ideas.

I'm not sure most people even remember what unions are.

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Oh, I knew you didn't mean it as a gay thing. I just couldn't resist the joke, as usual.

Yeah, I thought it was a pulled muscle, but it's hurt for a couple of months, so I need to do something about it.

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That's a good question - if you could prove it was intentional to save money and improve business income, that might do it. Other than that - I am sure there is something else - must be.

If nothing else dragging them into court repeatedly would be a) an annoyance and b) embarrassing. It's a matter of money on the part of the complainant - can you afford to do it?

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Oh my dad has never been one for eye rolling. He's utterly outspoken and will confront anyone, anywhere, any time. I got him a sweatshirt that says "LIBERAL" in huge red white and blue letters and he wears it to every dentist visit because his dentist is a complete RWNJ. He can out argue, out talk and out fact check anyone, he's awesome. He was a union machinist at GE for decades.

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Do you mean the one staff person per 20 residents per shift? That person should DO it all?

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Night of the Lepus was the best/worst that I remember. Cut in footage of lots of rabbits just wasn't very scary. Hard to make a horror movie about being hopped to death by cute fuzzy creatures.

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Did you read the post just above mine? Where the guy could smell the infection in his mother's leg before he saw it? The staff shouldn't be spread so thin in the first place, that is unfair both to them AND the people they take care of, but there are places where they walk in and mentally check out.

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The company I just started working for said in our orientation "we don't want a union, please don't try to bring a union in." I was thinking "I would sign up in a heartbeat if anyone tried to unionize me."

Boeing spends millions of dollars every year in my state convincing the rubes they don't want a union. Luckily for Boeing, South Carolinians are mostly pro-Trump morons who always vote "no" on unions. Boeing ran a commercial showing the union leaders' mcmansion. The union leaders house is probably 1/20th the size of the Boeing CEOs mansion, but these dumb rubes can't figure that out. Oh, and after they voted "no" Boeing thanked them by laying a lot of them off.

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