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Month: January 2024

  • Bargaining, not begging

    Remote work is not a new thing. It certainly predates the COVID-19 pandemic, during which remote work became a topic of consideration at the national level, and the job industry as a whole was rightly shaken into its widespread adoption for the sake of public health, bottom lines, the economy, society as a whole –…

  • Civil leave

    Until I got involved with volunteer boards and consumer cooperatives, and took an actual government job, election work was my widest window into self-organization. My family was associated with politics — I attended a birthday party for Haley Barbour long before he was chair of the Republican National Committee — but I failed to heed…