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Trump as Dictator Is a Classic Case of Projection
11Dec By adminNo Comments
Business

Trump as Dictator Is a Classic Case of Projection

If you haven’t heard, Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans are planning a coup. “A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable,” Robert Kagan, an editor at large at the Washington Post, writes in a recent 6,000-word essay that compares America’s fractious democracy with Weimar Germany.Budding opinion writers are instructed not to draw inapt comparisons to Hitler, yet Mr. Trump’s opponents are casting aside such conventions in much the same way they’re jettisoning political and legal ones. Only by convincing themselves that Mr. Trump threatens the existence of the republic can they justify their own weaponization of government to stop him. “When a marauder is crashing through your house, you throw everything you can at him—pots, pans, candlesticks—in the hope of slowing him down and tri...
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Medieval Times Accused Of Illegal Union-Busting
22Nov By adminNo Comments
Business

Medieval Times Accused Of Illegal Union-Busting

Federal labor prosecutors have accused Medieval Times of retaliating against a worker who raised concerns about working conditions, including “the sexual assault of employees by customers,” according to a new complaint obtained by HuffPost.A regional director for the National Labor Relations Board in Illinois issued the complaint against the dinner theater chain Monday. It alleges that Medieval Times interrogated workers at an Illinois castle about their union activity, illegally disciplined workers and fired the worker who spoke up about alleged sexual assault.Workers at castles in New Jersey and Southern California unionized with the American Guild of Variety Artists last year. The labor board complaint accuses Medieval Times of “restraining” and “coercing” employees as they tried to ex...
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A Labor Right to Work From Home
18Oct By adminNo Comments
Business

A Labor Right to Work From Home

Good news for workers grumbling about return-to-office mandates, if not for employers who want to enforce a common work culture: The National Labor Relations Board has declared that employees can’t be fired for staying home.On Friday the labor board charged X, formerly Twitter, with violating the National Labor Relations Act by terminating a software engineer who complained about new owner Elon Musk’s return-to-office policy. “If you can physically make it to an office and you don’t show up, resignation accepted,” Mr. Musk allegedly told workers.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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The NLRB Doesn’t Like Starbucks
14Oct By adminNo Comments
Health

The NLRB Doesn’t Like Starbucks

We told you last summer about Starbucks’ complaint that the National Labor Relations Board was colluding with union representatives to tip organizing elections at its coffee stores in the union’s favor. Now the suspicions are confirmed, and the NLRB has some housecleaning to do.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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