gehringer_2 Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 4 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said: I had to deal with the NC in Chicago as a traffic reporter. There were two companies in town at the time and both enforced the policy. So basically I had to find other employment for a year in order to make a move. The upside for me was I decided what I was doing between media jobs was more fun than dealing with the politics of my old job. I also figured out without the hour plus commute both ways I was coming out ahead of the game. It was weird. All the refinery services companies had them, but guys went from one firm to another all the time, in fact half the guys I worked with had worked for at least two of the major firms. There seemed to be enough ways to rewrite job descriptions that I don't know of anyone actually trying to enforce one - again probably because they were all guilty of raiding one another. The question is why they bothered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 12 hours ago, gehringer_2 said: This is the kind of action where the Biden administration is making deliberate efforts to force up wages in the US as the most direct was to increase social equity. If they’re really looking for wage/income/wealth equity, they need to balance the scale on the other side by raising taxes and slashing abatements and subsidies on the ultra wealthy and their business activities. Otherwise all that’ll happen is they push the dollar down by making it cheaper overall and everything just costs commensurately more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 12 hours ago, CMRivdogs said: I had to deal with the NC in Chicago as a traffic reporter. There were two companies in town at the time and both enforced the policy. So basically I had to find other employment for a year in order to make a move. The upside for me was I decided what I was doing between media jobs was more fun than dealing with the politics of my old job. I also figured out without the hour plus commute both ways I was coming out ahead of the game. I don’t really understand the presumed benefit to the company of forcing a non-compete on a traffic reporter. It’s not like you have any trade secrets you can take over there that will put the other guy out of business. It simply seems punitive to you, and a way for colluding duopolists to maintain complete monopolistic control of its labor market. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 12 minutes ago, chasfh said: I don’t really understand the presumed benefit to the company of forcing a non-compete on a traffic reporter. It’s not like you have any trade secrets you can take over there that will put the other guy out of business. It simply seems punitive to you, and a way for colluding duopolists to maintain complete monopolistic control of its labor market. a lot of local radio guys on Twitter were talking about this yesterday in such a way that the lack of a NC during the consolidation period would have been game changers. When one station did their mass firings those guys couldn't work elsewhere even though another station might have wanted them. It's a back scratching exercise. I see it as a form of the collusion we saw in MLB in hte 80's. Keep the talent pool off the market. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMRivdogs Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 12 minutes ago, oblong said: a lot of local radio guys on Twitter were talking about this yesterday in such a way that the lack of a NC during the consolidation period would have been game changers. When one station did their mass firings those guys couldn't work elsewhere even though another station might have wanted them. It's a back scratching exercise. I see it as a form of the collusion we saw in MLB in hte 80's. Keep the talent pool off the market. Basically you had to leave the market and uproot your family if you wanted to stay employed in the industry. In my case I knew in advance the station group was switching services since they had just recently acquired the competition. In hindsight, it did seem a bit funny to me that after serving the non compete time, and then some I did work at the second company for a while. On my last day there the announcement came that the two companies were merging. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 (edited) 1 hour ago, chasfh said: If they’re really looking for wage/income/wealth equity, they need to balance the scale on the other side by raising taxes and slashing abatements and subsidies on the ultra wealthy and their business activities. Otherwise all that’ll happen is they push the dollar down by making it cheaper overall and everything just costs commensurately more. Sure, but they know they can't raise taxes significantly without bigger legislative majorities, so the concept of increased backing of workers rights is a practical strategy to deal with political reality. I give them credit for having their feet on the ground and not letting ideality stand in the way of working practically. Edited April 25 by gehringer_2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 5 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said: Sure, but they know they can't raise taxes significantly without bigger legislative majorities, so the concept of increased backing of workers rights is a practical strategy to deal with political reality. I give them credit for having their feet on the ground and not letting ideality stand in the way of working practically. That's fair, but eventually, the realization is going to have to be that the scales can't be balanced by continuing to load everything onto only one side of it, in the service of working practically. That's what makes the Republican position so seductively easy: there is no pretense to wanting to balance any economic scales between the classes, and as with the word 'class" itself, they have basically made "equity" a dirty word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfife Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 WAPO push alert that an appeals court overturned Harvey Weinsteins conviction and ordered a new trial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 2 minutes ago, pfife said: WAPO push alert that an appeals court overturned Harvey Weinsteins conviction and ordered a new trial. apparently over admission of evidence about events not at trial. Unless CA lets him off also he's not going anywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 41 minutes ago, pfife said: WAPO push alert that an appeals court overturned Harvey Weinsteins conviction and ordered a new trial. He had multiple convictions though so this only affects one of them. He's still staying on Rikers and getting pounded probably. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfife Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 Good! Thanks guys, I don't know much about his case honestly but it's good to know he isn't going anywhere near free because of this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 1 hour ago, oblong said: He had multiple convictions though so this only affects one of them. He's still staying on Rikers and getting pounded probably. And not in da butt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 Assuming this story is on the level about its effectiveness, this is a great idea and hopefully all schools will be doing this soon. I can’t think of any real down sides to this. Read the story in a private window on your favorite browser. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motown Bombers Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 I look forward to endless NYT articles about how he’s too old and young leftist demanding Whitmer run instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMRivdogs Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 This is solid red, 90% white SW Va. they might as well be Kentucky or Tennessee A Virginia school board voted early Friday to reinstate the original Confederate names of two public schools. Why it matters: The Shenandoah County School Board's 5-1 vote in favor of the move appears to be the first such action since authorities began removing Confederate symbols from U.S. institutions and public spaces in 2020 following racial justice protests that erupted after the murder of George Floyd. State of play: The vote reverses the board's decision in 2020 to remove the local elementary and high schools' association with Civil War-era Confederate leaders Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Turner Ashby. Consequently, Mountain View High School will revert to being called Stonewall Jackson High School and Honey Run Elementary School will again be called Ashby-Lee Elementary School. https://www.axios.com/2024/05/10/virginia-school-board-vote-restore-confederate-names?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiospm&stream=top 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted May 10 Author Share Posted May 10 4 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said: This is solid red, 90% white SW Va. they might as well be Kentucky or Tennessee A Virginia school board voted early Friday to reinstate the original Confederate names of two public schools. Why it matters: The Shenandoah County School Board's 5-1 vote in favor of the move appears to be the first such action since authorities began removing Confederate symbols from U.S. institutions and public spaces in 2020 following racial justice protests that erupted after the murder of George Floyd. State of play: The vote reverses the board's decision in 2020 to remove the local elementary and high schools' association with Civil War-era Confederate leaders Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Turner Ashby. Consequently, Mountain View High School will revert to being called Stonewall Jackson High School and Honey Run Elementary School will again be called Ashby-Lee Elementary School. https://www.axios.com/2024/05/10/virginia-school-board-vote-restore-confederate-names?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiospm&stream=top Apparently there were plenty of people at the public meetings registering their opposition to the moves. I keep chiding the people at work about the schools in Loudon County who had all their school named after principles or properties (e.g. Liberty, Freedom, Heritage): because they couldn't agree on names since the big bad woke crowd took away their ability to name Eva Hitler (nee Braun) Elementary or Charles Manson Middle School. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMRivdogs Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 2 hours ago, romad1 said: Apparently there were plenty of people at the public meetings registering their opposition to the moves. I keep chiding the people at work about the schools in Loudon County who had all their school named after principles or properties (e.g. Liberty, Freedom, Heritage): because they couldn't agree on names since the big bad woke crowd took away their ability to name Eva Hitler (nee Braun) Elementary or Charles Manson Middle School. In this particular county the schools were renamed for Confederate "heroes" in 1959, it was part of the massive resistance movement over desegregation. It was done by racist assholes the (See the Byrd Machine) and is being done by a bunch of assholes now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gilmore Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 How about the US gov tells them to apply to the Confederacy for funding, cause they just dropped their coverage with the United States. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.TaterSalad Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 What happened to the America First part of MAGA? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted May 12 Share Posted May 12 They would argue that the Confederacy is more American than anyone or anything not wired in to Trump could ever be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted May 13 Author Share Posted May 13 19 hours ago, chasfh said: They would argue that the Confederacy is more American than anyone or anything not wired in to Trump could ever be. I used to listen to this "the South will rise again" talk while I was in the Air Force and I would always say. "Yes, that is why all the strategic air command bases are in the North" (which isn't technically true but the ICBMs are). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger337 Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 On 4/25/2024 at 8:08 AM, chasfh said: If they’re really looking for wage/income/wealth equity, they need to balance the scale on the other side by raising taxes and slashing abatements and subsidies on the ultra wealthy and their business activities. The wealthy don't want that and they always get what they want. We live in a world designed by the weathy for the benefit of the wealthy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 36 minutes ago, Tiger337 said: The wealthy don't want that and they always get what they want. We live in a world designed by the weathy for the benefit of the wealthy. this is the functional shift in approach that Biden is attempting. They recognize that the political difficulty of raising taxes for new transfer payments is pretty close to impossible. It's going to be a big enough lift just to increase the FICA cap to put Social Security back on a better footing in the near future. So instead do everything you can to push wages for the lower half of the economy. It's easier to build winning political coalitions for those things. Even if it is somewhat inflationary, increasing economic equity is simply more important to holding togeher the fraying social cohesion in the US than another 0.5% on the inflation rate. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smr-nj Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 11 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said: Even if it is somewhat inflationary, increasing economic equity is simply more important to holding togeher the fraying social cohesion in the US than another 0.5% on the inflation rate. From your mouth to the ears of (hopefully) most Americans. I’m probably delusional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted May 14 Share Posted May 14 4 hours ago, Tiger337 said: The wealthy don't want that and they always get what they want. We live in a world designed by the weathy for the benefit of the wealthy. That’s why I led with “if”. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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