Enkers

Cynical take: Presumably to protect corporations from whistleblowers.

I think what stands out to me is the growing use of legislative power to stop strikes and remove negotiating power from unions. The most recent major example being the then pending rail strike back in 2022.

Sure Trump will be 10x worse, but the Dems really haven't done enough to address the health and safety of these people, and to protect them from growing corporate exploitation.

Just to be clear, this is a matter of workplace policy, so relating to the law, but not of the law. But yes, it would be prudent to know the policies of your workplace, and doubly so if you're a goddamned judge.

Not to underplay the craziness of this, but I'd assumed from the headline it meant annually, but it's actually current active deals over the period of 2011-2030:

the study highlighted 205 active deals over a period starting in 2011 — with some deals scheduled to last until 2030

Of course that leaves out any future deal that'll be made in the that period.

It definitely would've been nice if they'd given us what they're spending in an average year.

I feel like there's something peculiar about those slanty words you used, but who am I to judge?

My spitball theory is that she sees this new Loomer person coming to eat her lunch as token crazy maga lady, so she's trying to get off her sinking ship.

Out of curiosity, what would stop these unions from just striking illegally anyways? Seems like at some point, it'll be the only way forward if these co's keep turning to binding arbitration.

Cannon had filed the Sage Lodge trips with the federal judiciary’s administrative office but had “inadvertently” not taken the second step of posting them on the court’s website. [The clerk] explained that “Judges often do not realize they must input the information twice."

Seems like a bad system. Why not just have it be done automatically, or have the clerk do it. Presumably the judge's time is going to be more costly than the clerk's.

It almost seems intentionally bad so these little oopsies can keep happening.

OK, wise guy, listen here.... >:(

But that can of soup did irreperable harm to the sheet of glass protecting the painting. Wahh.

And the corn flour did irreperable harm to the lichen on the stones, but climate change certainly won't. Wahh.

Their arguments are always just knee jerk grasping at straws.

Somehow it seemed to actually work

Tell that to East Palestine. Train derailments are on the rise because of lax safety measures, and this was one of the issues that the workers were trying to resolve. Instead Biden had congress force them back to work.