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« Reply #10160 on: July 10, 2019, 11:56:56 AM »
It is not always so easy for the far removed management to be able to tell who of the many employees is more hard working thatnthe other or be in touch enough to properly give thenm credit.
In some instances that may be right. But Amazon has it down to a science. And I'm sure many other companies do too nowadays.

If a company is blindly axing workers it's usually when they are doing serious cuts (during a merger or such) and the union is helpless then. One of the things that many unions force is that the company must hold on to useless workers that they would fire one at a time based on performance, unless the person did something clearly very wrong. And then even then some still stay on board (research the teachers union for example).
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« Reply #10161 on: July 10, 2019, 11:58:40 AM »
In some instances that may be right. But Amazon has it down to a science. And I'm sure many other companies do too nowadays.

If a company is blindly axing workers it's usually when they are doing serious cuts (during a merger or such) and the union is helpless then. One of the things that many unions force is that the company must hold on to useless workers that they would fire one at a time based on performance, unless the person did something clearly very wrong. And then even then some still stay on board (research the teachers union for example).
The biggest benefit of unions is working conditions. Just take a look at how the football players unions have negotiated with the NFL.
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« Reply #10162 on: July 10, 2019, 12:09:07 PM »
If hes hard working he shouldn't need a union.
You are clueless. I knew a great worker but he was fired for banging the bosses daughter.
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Re: Interesting Articles...
« Reply #10163 on: July 10, 2019, 12:09:50 PM »
How often have you worked for a large corporation?
Even a small one.
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« Reply #10164 on: July 10, 2019, 12:11:49 PM »
In some instances that may be right. But Amazon has it down to a science.
Stop as you are sounding so foolish. Amazon is becoming the PO and just doesn't know it yet.
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« Reply #10165 on: July 10, 2019, 12:18:00 PM »
The biggest benefit of unions is working conditions. Just take a look at how the football players unions have negotiated with the NFL.
I would put wages as #1. That is where many unions earn their keep at the national level. Locals are thieves!
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« Reply #10166 on: July 10, 2019, 12:21:08 PM »
I would put wages as #1. That is where many unions earn their keep at the national level. Locals are thieves!
The anti-union argument seems to be much stronger regarding wages though.
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« Reply #10167 on: July 10, 2019, 07:22:31 PM »
Speaking of unions, the UAW ruined the US auto industry. Workers hired before 2007 get paid at least $28 an hour plus benefits regardless of their skill level. The American car companies couldn’t stay comptetitive because it was costing them around $1500 (IIRC) more per car than their foreign counterparts. So many people stopped buying American cars.

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« Reply #10168 on: July 10, 2019, 07:28:59 PM »
Speaking of unions, the UAW ruined the US auto industry.
So it was UAW fault the big three were making gas guzzling big cars when they were not selling? Don't let facts get in the way of your argument.  :)
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« Reply #10171 on: July 12, 2019, 12:59:19 PM »
http://crownheights.info/chabad-news/673296/survivors-of-fiery-crash-meet-for-50th-anniversary/

The article isn't so interesting because it tells pretty much dry facts. I've heard the story a couple of time from R' Yosef Minkowicz (most recently during a Farbrengen last Shabbos, in which @Yard sale and many other might have heard me proclaiming that we should start a campaign for all to announce that we don't want Moshiach) with many more details and miraculous background.
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« Reply #10173 on: July 16, 2019, 12:58:46 PM »
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-16/a-leveraged-loan-collapses-and-reveals-key-risk-in-credit-market?srnd=premium

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Clover had been operating since 1996 when it was acquired by Golden Gate in 2010 for an undisclosed price. Golden Gate followed the usual path of private equity buyouts -- it piled debt on the underlying company to extract dividends.

Using the leveraged loan market as a wallet, the company took loans that funded dividend payments totaling at least $278 million -- $100 million in 2013 and $178 million in 2014. (Portions of the overall proceeds went to shareholders as well as to refinance the company’s existing debt and certain fees, according to a Moody’s report.) Clover also asked lenders for a further $100 million in 2014 to pay for an acquisition.

Maybe this should be posted in Ask the Accountant or Ask the Lawyer threads, but the question that begs to be asked is: Why isn't this illegal?
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Re: Interesting Articles...
« Reply #10178 on: July 18, 2019, 12:36:32 PM »
http://torasaba.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-london-times-july-201916.html
FTFY

Why did you have it going to an FTP?

ETA: and once link fixed, I don't really find the story one bit interesting.
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« Reply #10179 on: July 18, 2019, 01:34:17 PM »
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-18/are-cellphones-a-flight-danger-they-are-on-these-boeing-jets?srnd=premium

Misleading title. The danger isn't from cellphones, but from bad units from Honewell in the cockpits. Based on article, the danger coming from cellphones to those, might as well come from many other sources beyond anyone's control.
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