The U.S. Supreme Court appears set to deliver on another longstanding conservative policy goal in its first major labor law case this term, with a ruling that could hobble workers’ right to strike, amid a resurgence of worker organizing and a cost-of-living crisis.
The justices decided on Oct. 4 to consider whether businesses can sue unions in state court for the economic consequences of strikes and other employee protests, like spoiled products. […]
The petition is backed by corporate groups seeking new and potentially expansive powers to recoup money from unions for financial harms incidental to labor activity. It’s also supported by conservative groups like the Landmark Legal Foundation, one of the leading organizations behind the “school choice” movement for expanding religious education, and an opponent of teachers’ unions since the 1990s.[…]
There have been at least 316 strikes so far in 2022, up from 257 strikes in 2021, according to the Labor Action Tracker project at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. At least 240 company-owned Starbucks Corp locations have unionized in roughly the past year.
i learned that the Animal Planet reality series ‘River Monsters’ ended because star Jeremy Wade was able to catch essentially every exceptionally large freshwater fish species on earth, leaving no remaining content for the show (x)
If anyone deserves that “fish fear me” hat is this guy
Despite some of its misses, Firefox still matters. Mozilla is pushing companies to be more private, and its key product is different at its core. The browser market is dominated by Google’s Chromium codebase and its underlying browser engine, Blink, the component that turns code into visual web pages. Microsoft’s Edge Browser, Brave, Vivaldi, and Opera all use adapted versions of Chromium. Apple makes developers use its WebKit browser engine on iOS. Other than that, Firefox’s Gecko browser engine is the only alternative in existence.
“This market needs variety,” Willemsen says. If Firefox diminishes further, there’ll be less competition for Chrome. “We need that difference for open internet standards, for the sake of preventing monopolies,” Willemsen says. Others agree. Everyone we spoke with for this story—inside and outside of Mozilla—says having Firefox flourish makes the web a better place. The trick is figuring out how to get there.
Download and start using Firefox if you don’t already, I made the switch back to Firefox after not using it for years and being a chrome person until 2020 and have never regretted it
Roman Republic. C.
Marcius Censorinus AR Denarius with Jugate Heads. Numa Pompilius; 753–673 BCE was the legendary
second king of Rome, succeeding Romulus. He was of Sabine origin, and many of
Rome’s most important religious and political institutions are attributed to
him. Ancus Marcius (c. 677–617 BCE) was the legendary fourth king of Rome. While this coin might be taken as a sort of
history lesson regarding the early kings of Rome, I think there is an important
subtext. The fact that Numa is bearded
portrays the earliest kings as nothing more than barbaric. On the other hand, the beardless ancestor of
the moneyer connects his heritage to the civilization of the nation. In 87, the moneyer, Gaius Marcius Censorinus
was the military tribune or prefect, who commanded the cavalry that attacked
and killed the consul Gnaeus Octavius, then brought his head to Cinna; the
historian Appian remarks that this was the first time a consul’s head was
displayed on the Rostra, but unfortunately not the last.
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