Hey Justin Bieber: How about some respect for the janitors who clean up after you?

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Tuesday July 23, 2013 · 3:38 PM PDT

2013/07/23 · 15:38

So, I get it: stars are just like us! From time to time, they too require the use of a public restroom when they’re away from home.

Only….mega-star Justin Bieber doesn’t always apparently follow this widely-accepted public restroom protocol.

A recent TMZ video clip shows him bypassing an NYC restaurant’s bathroom to instead relieve himself using a yellow janitor’s bucket. While Bieber is, ehem, taking care of business, his friends gleefully cheer him on. “That’s the coolest spot to piss," one says. “You know, you’ll forever remember that."

You know who else will also forever remember this? The JANITOR who’s job it then became to physically clean out Bieber’s soiling of his or her mop bucket.

As though working as a janitor isn’t already enough of a thankless job.

Kate Thomas

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Wednesday April 07, 2010 · 12:44 PM PDT

2010/04/07 · 12:44

Beginning at 9 a.m. this morning, Jewish Funds for Justice has been driving activists to "tweet the heck out of Glenn Beck," as the Washington Post puts it. The group is sending one haiku a minute directly to @glennbeck (accompanied by hashtag #becku) for 24 straight hours to raise awareness of the Fox News host's recent remarks mocking the faith-based idea of "social justice."

Kate Thomas

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Tuesday January 12, 2010 · 11:50 AM PST

2010/01/12 · 11:50

Ever wonder where the labor term "scab" comes from? For those who might not know, a scab is also sometimes called a "strikebreaker:" --a person who returns to the job without permission from the union or the striking workers during a strike action. One of the most powerful weapons a labor union has is a strike. By crossing the picket line, a scab can render a strike useless.

Kate Thomas

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Tuesday November 17, 2009 · 4:59 PM PST

2009/11/17 · 16:59

Women in Colorado who purchase insurance on the individual market currently pay up to 59 percent more than men for coverage that doesn't even include maternity care. Now, a group of agents and insurance company representatives in their state are trying to keep it that way.

The Colorado State Association of Health Underwriters plans to lobby against efforts to include maternity care in individual plans, in addition their efforts to keep "gender rating" legal, and you won't believe why: insurers are actually telling legislators that they're concerned about how this all might affect men.

Kate Thomas

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Friday September 18, 2009 · 8:46 AM PDT

2009/09/18 · 08:46

If you think insurance companies have gone too far claiming that "domestic violence victim" is also a pre-existing condition to deny coverage to countless Americans, you may be appalled to hear this isn't health insurers' only policy that discriminates against women.

Kate Thomas

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Wednesday August 26, 2009 · 1:41 PM PDT

2009/08/26 · 13:41

Glenn Beck may be feeling slightly less than relaxed and rejuvenated after returning from vacation on Monday. Since he's been gone, the number of advertisers who've signed on to dissociate themselves from The Glenn Beck Show's rhetoric of fear-mongering paranoia has reached a total of 36--up from 20 just one week ago.

Kate Thomas

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Friday August 07, 2009 · 10:17 AM PDT

2009/08/07 · 10:17

(Cross-posted from SEIU's Blog here)

For the last 52 years, Local 1426 of Workers United in Terre Haute, Indiana has worked with Bemis to grow their local plant from 150 employees to over 1,000 employees. Yet in spite of their growing size, members of the union have agreed to modest wage gains over the years that just barely keep up with the cost of inflation--because that was what was best for the community and to keep the company competitive.

Kate Thomas

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Friday July 24, 2009 · 8:53 AM PDT

2009/07/24 · 08:53

Corporations are making way less than money than they used to, the economy is in shambles and the unemployment rate is at a 26-year high. Yet even as average Americans scrimp and save, the same financial services companies and big banks that tanked our economy--and got bailed out by taxpayers--are holding out their hands greedily for more, more, more!

Kate Thomas

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Tuesday June 30, 2009 · 10:31 AM PDT

2009/06/30 · 10:31

In recent Wal-Mart news, a really disturbing precedent: A Canadian court overturned the UFCW certification granted to Wal-Mart workers in December 2008, keeping alive a five-year-old battle between Wal-Mart and the union.

Kate Thomas

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Tuesday June 16, 2009 · 12:17 PM PDT

2009/06/16 · 12:17

Republicans pursue failed strategy attacking Dems on Employee Free Choice

The National Republican Senatorial Committee is planning on going after Sens. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and Michael Bennet (D-CO), according to a Roll Call article today. Yet the NRSC seems to have already forgotten the lessons of the 2008 campaigns, in which groups spent millions attacking Democrats on Employee Free Choice only to see those candidates go on to win--with voters approving Employee Free Choice by a considerable margin.

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Monday June 15, 2009 · 2:26 PM PDT

2009/06/15 · 14:26

Throughout the middle part of the 20th century--when more than a third of working Americans belonged to a union--American workers generated economic growth with increased productivity and were rewarded with higher wages. But this link between greater productivity and higher wages has broken down.

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