mtunion.bsky.social
Dedicated to empowering Massage Therapists to stand up for safer workplaces, better pay and benefits for themselves and their teams. MTs deserve better than exploitation and wage theft. ✋💪🤚
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Authentic breast cancer survivor. We don't have to hide behind fake boobs or implants. We owe much to our trans friends who demanded that doctors devise better breast tissue removal techniques that leave a smooth, aesthetic chest wall after a mastectomy. I can be here as I am because of you. 🦄💙💖🤍
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I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning!
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For as few curricula that include business planning, even fewer offer information on employee rights and protections: how to recognize employee misclassification, wage theft, exploitation; and the legal paths you can pursue to fix it.
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How ironic - they expect their staff to provide health care to patients, but not to receive any if they become patients
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Highly recommend the rabbit hole that is Idealista:
Spain - www.idealista.com/en/
Portugal - www.idealista.pt/en/
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If he doesn't pay us in 60 days from the judgement, the penalties all double. He still has the right to appeal again, if he wishes. But filing an appeal after you "won" is kind of weird. It's nice to have something resembling closure, but I'm not done fighting until we have checks in our hands.
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Since he only paid us 1x in penalties, he now owed us another 1x penalty check to bring it up to the 2x penalty from the initial decision. And he now owes over $27,000 in state fines as well. His ego cost him just under $100,000 - and that's not counting however much he paid his lawyer.
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So technically, he won. The judge decided that the willful determination was not accurate and repealed that part of the investigator's decision. But since he appealed the dollar amounts, he no longer qualified for the reduced penalties. Like they said before.
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But he didn't like the 'willful' part of the decision and chose to appeal. He sent us a penalty check for 1/2 of the non-willful amount (1x) instead. He was warned by the appeals agent at the time he appealed that this would make him ineligible for the reduced penalties offer.
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To encourage employers to settle quickly, CO says that if the monies are paid out early, they will cut the penalties to half (1.5x) and completely waive the penalties owed to the state. But to qualify for the decreased penalties, they cannot appeal the dollar amounts awarded.
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Last year, we finally landed an investigator who found that we were due backpay and awarded us the maximum that the state could award. He also found that the wage theft had been willful, which increased the penalties from 2x backpay owed to 3x backpay owed.
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We weren't being paid for being required to come into the studio before our shifts started to set up rooms, for time spent cleaning the rooms between sessions, or for other cleaning and side work we were required to do. We did this in May of 2022 - almost three years ago!
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#GimPOTUS
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Putin: That's not our safe word.
#GimPOTUS
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GimPOTUS
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Putin: That's not our safe word.
#GimPOTUS
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Putin: That's not our safe word.
#GimPOTUS
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Trump: Vladimir, STOP!
Putin: That's not our safe word.
#GimPOTUS
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If you were born in 1968 or earlier, consider getting an MMR booster.
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Trump: Vladimir, STOP!
Putin: That's not our safe word.
#GimPOTUS
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That picture makes him look like a member of the Manson Family
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Dude, it's an article from The Onion. There is plenty that is legitimately going wrong. Please don't succumb to disinformation.
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Freudian eye slip? For several reads, I saw "save a dying PLANET", and didn't even think it an odd headline.
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2025 Democrats are 1985 Republicans
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Electric car dealerships are overstocked with used #swasticars. The dealers can't rationalize the ROI to buy any new ones until the used ones move, and they just aren't selling.
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Don't the Tesla dealerships have insurance? They'll be fine. We all know how efficient and prompt the insurance industry is in America. I'm sure they'll be just dandy.
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Wanna know what Musk now knows about you? Rep. Jamie Raskin has created a handy-dandy FOIA request that you and every American can use to find out a) what information Musk has acquired and b) with whom he has shared it.
s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ak-raskin/im...
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Hits on Rhymezone.com have hit record highs.
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I'm certain Vance and Johnson have already made plans to invoke the 25th once Trump's cult of personality wanes sufficiently.
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From the shining ladies to the savage daughters and all those around us. Huzzah!
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He didn't even have "just under 50% of the vote". He had roughly 33% - the largest percentage of eligible voters chose not to vote at all.
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What people aren't saying about tariffs is that they go straight to the Treasury and they are UNDESIGNATED funds. It's a giant slush fund generator for whatever he wants to do. That's why tRump likes them - and it's an easy word to pronounce.
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What people aren't saying about tariffs is that they go straight to the Treasury and they are UNDESIGNATED funds. It's a giant slush fund generator for whatever he wants to do. That's why tRump likes them - and it's an easy word to pronounce.