#Subsidizing #Clearcuts.
Communities and forest workers need a new social contract, not a corporate bailout.

https://watershedsentinel.ca/article/subsidizing-clearcuts/

In June, USW Local 1-1937 went on strike in Tree Farm License 64 because the company insists on hiring non-union contractors to do union work. The new TFL is held by Western Forest Products and La-Kwa sa muqw, a partnership of four Vancouver Island First Nations: Tlowitsis, We Wai Kai, Wei Wai Kum, and K’omoks.

Forest industry losses will continue because the Canadian lumber industry is barely profitable. Almost all the old growth forests are gone. The easy-to-reach, low-elevation, high-value trees were taken years ago. What’s left is the “guts and feathers,” as Wilderness Committee campaign director Joe Foy says.

It costs politicians nothing to claim that this bailout will benefit workers. But the only thing they can guarantee is a new round of austerity: cutting wages and benefits and replacing union workers with non-union contractors – the same gambit that led to the Steelworkers’ strike.

#BCpoli #CDNpoli #BCForestryReform #BCForestryWorkers #WorkerUnions #Greenwashing #Scabs #Logging

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Ukrainian military releases footage of Russian troops killing civilian in Donetsk Oblast and Ukraine’s retaliation — Russia to spend $1.1 trillion preparing for upcoming large-scale war — Ukrainian drones reportedly attack Samara plant making raw materials for Russian artillery, bombs — Russia recruits children into drone programs through games, education incentives … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/07/wednesday-july-23-2025/

If you are an #American with an education and normal intelligence:

Are you proud of having a president who is not smart enough to understand that buying products from someone is not "#subsidizing" them?

https://www.salon.com/2020/12/12/government-study-shows-taxpayers-are-subsidizing-starvation-wages-at-mcdonalds-walmart/

“Millions of Americans employed at some of the country's largest companies have had to rely on food stamps and Medicaid, with giants like Walmart and McDonald's employing the most workers whose income is subsidized by taxpayers, according to a new study.”

#starvationwages #wages #employment #subsidizing #taxpayers #study

#Subsidizing #Wildfires: Last year, at the last minute and without any public discussion, the #California #Legislature passed AB 205, a large “budget trailer bill” that included a little-noticed provision for a #UtilityTax. Here is how each legislator voted.

#RegulatoryCapture #ValueOfSolar #ValueOfMicrogrids

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB205

#Free #communitycollege would, of course, be amazing, but #subsidizing all #public #highereducation would be a larger benefit to the country, given that #public #colleges and #universities serve the largest percentage of #students nationwide.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/wvu-cuts-higher-education/

#Subsidizing #fossilfuels- #Shoup’s basic conclusion: Dedicating so much space to #parking makes #housing more expensive, #traffic more #congested and #airpollution worse.

About 800 #homeless individuals shelter on #Metrorail on any given night, and on average about 555 people experiencing homelessness exit onto city streets at "end-of-line" stations located throughout Los Angeles County, according to a survey released on Thursday, April 27.
#TaxTheRich
https://www.masstransitmag.com/management/news/53058905/ca-la-metro-survey-about-600-homeless-riders-exit-nightly-when-train-service-ends

#Subsidizing the #unsustainable: bigger #crashes, more construction, #concrete, and #realestate for roads and garages to hold more weight at bigger distances, rare #resources to fight over, #oligarchs from Cheney to Tillerson policing the #fossilfuel era from #StandingRock to #Willows.

#walkablecities #visionzero #20splenty

https://www.curbed.com/2023/04/gm-killed-chevy-bolt-small-ev.html