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The union is negotiating with management, i.e. those with hiring and firing authority who direct the work of others. Same as a for profit.

>my general understanding is that the unions are protectionist dreaming of things that were true before but not today, but they want to keep things as they were. This mindset reall…

I said contract negotiations, you said strike. Even in this example, and there is an army of scabs outside the door, if a strike and its associated costs would cost the employer 75…

>What’s a union going to do if (doing a lot of work there) AI significantly reduces the demand for software engineers or tech workers generally? Aside from general job protection s…

Yes, but it's uncommon enough that doing so is called "voluntary recognition" of the union, acknowledging that the expected process is to file the cards and then do the NLRB electi…

Right to freeload laws work as I describe. Although no employees are forced to "join a union" in the sense of signing a piece of paper joining the union, in all cases they are unio…

>By federal law, if a company has a union, the union must represent ALL non-management workers, even those who do not pay dues. This is not true. There can be non-union job classes…

No, you need the signed cards to take to the NLRB and get an anonymous election.

No, it doesn't. There is no such thing as an "open shop" in the US, even under right to freeload. Union membership is determined by job classification. If you are working in a unio…

That's not how it works. You need the signed cards to hold an election. Employers can, seeing a large majority publically willing to sign the cards before they have any solid prote…

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Never played the backyard games. For me, the ultimate nostalgia trip along these lines is the excellent Little League Baseball for NES.

The US has historically been quite opposed to the workers becoming shareholders.

So, are the landlords wealthy or not wealthy? I don't get it.

Who owns the capital for those future investments? Who will receive returns on those investments?

Question begging, basically. The contention is that they were railroaded and maliciously overprosecuted, it's hard for the answer to be "enough to convince a jury of their peers."

Imagine you are a restaurant reviewer. Your job is unquestionably to go to restaurants, order and eat food, and write a review. The restaurant's job is to provide you food to eat a…

If you're reliably beating the market over a long time horizon by picking specific stocks, you're a billionaire, or soon to be.

Selling winners and buying losers sounds an awful lot like "buy low, sell high".

In the US it's illegal for someone who's not a postal worker to put things in your mailbox for exactly this kind of reason.

And when you find that your state senator's votes don't actually matter, will we start engaging in federal politics? I suspect, if it makes the right person a buck, that even once …

I believe there are still some echoes of the concept. Even top engines will play certain grandmaster draw lines unless told more or less explicitly not to. So if you were playing a…

Merging all the iota sounds into ι, and ω into ο destroys too much grammatically. I don't understand what the point of this is?

Right. So, no left wing party, not even a center left party, has been in power in Ireland in its history. But I'm supposed to believe that it's one of the most left wing countries …

Ireland, the country with 2 center right parties that differ with regards to patronage networks and political history from 1940, is one of the most left-wing leaning countries in E…