Private employers are not required to voluntarily recognize unions, but that doesn’t mean they cannot be forced to do so. In this case, it is evident that the union is already formed and acts as a bargaining unit (as evidenced by the contract dispute) which means that it has already been recognized.

It’s a good thing that management doesn’t get to make that call, as striking is legal, and firing someone for going on strike is illegal.

No, I didn’t, because Hacksaw Jim Duggan is fucking garbage.  I would literally rather cheer for Volkov every time.

I didn’t adequately separate my thoughts there, but in the absence of a Yield (or the tiny sign that signifies a legal right on red here) the requirement to wait for a green light makes traffic flow more predictable.

I do in fact live in Western Germany. We also have the same arrow, but it’s evidently way more rare here it seems like. I only know of like 2 intersections where they appear within an hour or two of where I live.

Was the moped driving on the sidewalk as though it were the road?  That’s how I got hit by a moped (the first time) when I was in Rome.

I live in Germany and I rarely miss turning right on red. A lot of times a 3 or more-way intersection here has a separate turning lane for those turning right that’s on a yield sign rather than a light.  Also, it makes traffic flow more predictable.

As someone who has also driven in those areas of Europe, and lives in Germany, that statement seems absolutely bananas. Obviously, everyone’s personal experience is going to vary, but I find French and Italian drivers to be consistently problematic, such that I steer clear of them on the Autobahn if I see their plates.

As a fellow jeans wearing white guy, my life doesn’t swing much due to politics. Sure, shit changes, but most of the time stuff that’s big for other people, gay marriage, civil rights, I’ve already got all that stuff. So as a practical concern, if I ignored it nothing would happen probably.

Horseshit. The notion that acknowledging our differences is in some way reinforcement of prejudice is transparent nonsense. If I refuse to acknowledge that the guy next to me is in a wheelchair because I don’t want to “pigeonhole” him as someone who can’t walk, that doesn’t mean that motherfucker is going to climb the…

Al of this falls apart when you realize that, to most actual human people, not all jobs or cities are the same. For example, New York is a cultural hub, whereas Louisville is a city founded mainly so someone could unload coal and/or actual chained human people. No one is suggesting that there shouldn’t be differing…

Any of the writers for this NYC-based site could tell you that the MTA is garbage and the subway sucks and is bad.  Public transit expansion and modernization is vital, but suffers from the same lack of political emphasis as the housing issue.  Rich people don't take the bus.

Someone else pointed this out as well, but Lee’s storied acumen as a general owes a colossal debt to the sheer staggering incompetence he faced for much of the war. To use a sports analogy, Lee wasn’t Peyton Manning, gunslinging to victory against someone competent, like Joe Flacco. Lee was more like Jay Cutler if he…

Is attempting to shame a columnist on the internet a valuable use of your time? One presumes that your finger wagging stems from a belief that other people aren’t doing as much as you are to stand up for/against various causes and/or issues. Is picking apart a blog post to cast aspersions on its author an effective…

Probably unnecessary.  Biles must be well aware that mere humans are no longer her rivals. Immutable natural forces are now the only opponent she acknowledges.

I’m not sure what was so different about 10 years ago that there’s some “historical context” that makes The Office less shitty. Like, was workplace harassment not invented yet or something? Or is it that we were allowed not to care about it back then, because we hadn’t yet been forced to confront it?

What exactly is wrong with modern BMWs? Like, aren’t they still great to drive? Aren’t they still near the forefront of automobile technology? Has anything actually changed about the philosophy of how they make cars? BMW seems to be making cars exactly as they always have: build cutting edge luxury sports cars. The…

Politics is definitionally zero-sum, someone has to lose for you to win.

How do you meaningfully make the device smaller without having to create entirely new docks, joycons, etc? Like it’s one thing to refresh the GBA with the SP, but creating a new Switch form factor where your old peripherals aren’t compatible? Ouch.

Yeah, nothing develops good, mentally healthy people like isolation, prejudice and violence!