30? More like 3. 
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Chicago Pepsi drivers vote in favor of strike
PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP) delivery drivers and warehouse employees in the Chicago area are threatening to go on strike if the company doesn’t agree to terms demanded by the Teamsters union. Of those participating in the vote, 95% approved of a strike.
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Whine more asshole.
“I think it’s unwise to put your future in somebody else’s hands,” Lee said at an event in Gallatin.
The boss isn’t someone else? STFU.
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The funny thing is that as a German company VW have a lot of experience with union relations. They’re probably not half as angry as the GOP politicians performatively speaking up “for” them.
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Somebody that isn’t him and his cronies. The workers shouldn’t want to be taking charge of their workplaces!
/s
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“I suspect that such substantial increases may be a particular burden for many smaller businesses, forcing some to choose between cutting jobs and raising prices,” said Ted Hollis, a partner at Quarles & Brady, a law firm. “Some businesses that cannot do either may be forced to close, resulting in unintended but predictable side effects of this government action.”
Let’s be clear: claims like the above are always bullshit. Every time. If your business model requires underpaying your workers or forcing them to work long hours without pay, the problem is your business model, not the workers.
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Worker-owned companies. What a great idea!
‘In the US they think we’re communists!’ The 70,000 workers showing the world another way to earn a living
The Basque Country’s Mondragón Corporation is the globe’s largest industrial co-operative, with workers paying for the right to share in its profits – and its losses. In return for giving more to their employer, they expect more back.
And yeah, what a sadly foreign idea to most USians.
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The case arrives before the Supreme Court as Starbucks appears to have taken a new, more cordial tone, agreeing to talks with its union that could pave the way to the first labor contracts for stores that have already unionized.
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Lynne Fox, president of Workers United, Starbucks workers’ parent union, told The Washington Post that “the day [Starbucks] committed to a new path should’ve been the day that they pulled back the case before SCOTUS.”
And the NLRB is facing other, more drastic legal challenges to its authority. SpaceX filed a lawsuit in a federal court in Texas this year claiming that the agency’s structure is “unconstitutional”… Starbucks, Amazon and Trader Joe’s have since echoed SpaceX’s argument in legal proceedings.
(Free link)
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The mental gymnastics and cognitive dissonance required to even suggest these challenges much less consider them seriously is mind-blowing. They might as well claim the Executive Branch is unconstitutional.
Congress makes laws. Where necessary, the law funds an agency within the Executive Branch to execute the law. Because many subjects are far too complex to directly address each detail, that agency has to write regulations to address the finite details, and also to address new scenarios that are covered by the law but need to be handled with new details.
This is literally the structure of government explicitly laid out in the Constitution. The NRLB, the FDA, etc. aren’t unConstitutional, they are explicitly Constitutional. 
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Yeah, I wonder if/how this might also apply to FISA courts, the FCC, immigration courts, SEC etc. - though I figure some of these are also on their chopping block.
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If anyone in this thread has a book recommendation (you have read it and liked it) re the Mondragón Corporation, and the book is in English (sorry, at this time, no hablo español)… please let me know.
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Bernie Wan Kenobi
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Tesla laid off at least 10 percent of its workforce earlier this month, and in typical Tesla fashion, the Texas-based automaker made sure the layoffs were done in an organized fashion with plenty of communication and a clearly defined strategy. Just kidding. The layoffs were so poorly executed that security was forced to scan employees’ badges at the door to figure out who had been laid off.
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