GavinMcG

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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Walmart is historically just as anti-union as Amazon. No idea if it's still true, but anti-union material used to be part of every employee's initial training.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
That's simply not true in Alabama and many other states, which legally prohibit closed shops.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
To answer your question, probably not. For a fuller answer, I'd read this breakdown by Jane McAlevey, who wrote the extremely well-sourced "No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age" about the importance of ac
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Which is a good reason to be a little skeptical. The amount is off by an order of magnitude.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Thanks for sharing that! What a great dive into the particulars—way beyond my music theory knowledge, but still accessible.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Nonsensical as it might be, "costs" does not mean net expenditures , but rather costs associated with filing fees, document production, etc. The loser may well pay "costs," but attorney time, which is by far the biggest
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
What are you on about? Pay, benefits, and safety are core workplace concerns. There's no roping-in going on: Amazon fired them once they began bringing up labor issues.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Which is nice in this case, but it still doesn't tell me what's interesting about this hiring.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
I really don't understand the title changes sometimes. I have no idea who Jakub Konka is. On the other hand, the old title communicated that this hiring was the first for Zig, which gives me far more context, and a prompt for my next t
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Sure, but they're still constrained by the Courts of Appeal and the Supreme Court. And that bias would show up in the final decision: merely having a letter saying the NLRB will take up the case is multiple steps removed from the polit
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
I agree with the majority here, but how is that crazy? One major point in the fair use analysis is that Android (for smartphones) did not directly compete with Java SE (for laptops and desktops). Showing that Android is a viable alternative
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
The case was argued weeks before Barrett was confirmed to the court.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
How so? On the whole, it saves Amazon the hassle of dealing with "unfair labor" complaints that really aren't. And it's not like the NLRB attorneys give the employee some special advantage. Frankly, there are a lot of ca
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
The labor board may well have done nothing if Amazon had fired them for activism. But they fired them once they did start bringing up labor issues: > Amazon has fired two employees and asked a third not to return to work, after the group
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
When you file a lawsuit, you get a summons to serve on the other party. That is "a piece of paper, from the government, undeniably saying government intervention will happen if a settlement isn't reached." The government inte
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
It's effectively the same thing as Cunningham and Costa themselves saying they would pursue a ULP charge. It's just that in labor cases, the NLRB screens complaints first and then steps in to represent the complainant for complain
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Why should it have been evaluated first? I understand the intuition you're getting at: logically, the first question could make the second irrelevant. But if the second question resolves the issue even when the first is construed in fa
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
FTA: From 1974-1985, Synertek, Inc., leased the area directly uphill from where the Santa Clara Square Apartments currently stand. Synertek manufactured semiconductors, crucial to the production of microchips for computers and other technol
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
It has to do with your comment that the city would "deny development license if the proposed building will cast an overly large shadow over a playground." That's clearly not the case, here: they expedited development, rathe
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
What makes you think this is something that criminal law would address? The vast vast majority of these sorts of issues with corporations are handled via civil suits. That even includes wage theft, which is the largest category of theft sev
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
1) It's not in San Francisco. 2) The development was explicitly expedited with permission of the city. 3) She actually collected data on both tVOCs and her physical symptoms. There's absolutely room for skepticism, but dismissing
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
> not for the sake of other people By that measure there should be no objection to eliminating inheritance altogether.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
No, I disagree. Misuse and opposition are fundamentally different things.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Do they consider it science? I haven't seen racial justice movements incorporating that. And if they do, that's evidence of an orientation toward science that the right actively opposes—i.e. an effort to dress up views with a sc
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
I think you're talking about certain subjects being more prevalent in left- or right-wing communities. That's different from making opposition to science a political priority. Yeah, there's kooks on the left who go for healin
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Do you deny the irony?
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
It absolutely had to do with Fox News by way of Rush Limbaugh . The fairness doctrine applied to broadcast radio as well as television, and the next year after its abolition, the Rush Limbaugh Show began airing. His meteoric rise over th
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Side note: it's bizarre to me that Fox News gets a pass on being part of "the media". The article says that "73 percent of Republicans say news media don't understand people like them." But Fox News has been th
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Short answer: after the revocation of the fairness doctrine, Rush Limbaugh and Roger Ailes/Fox News found a profitable strategy in focusing on a specific demographic and telling them what they want to hear. Fox led the way, and the pol
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
The fact that all of these require explanations is evidence against an obvious/immediate association in the minds of likely readers.

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