The company hired the Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency to protect the new workers and harass the strikers.
Baldwin–Felts had a reputation for aggressive strike breaking. Agents shone searchlights on the tent villages at night and fired bullets into the tents at random, occasionally killing and maiming people. They used an improvised armored car, mounted with a machine gun the union called the "Death Special," to patrol the camp's perimeters. The steel-covered car was built in the CF&I plant in Pueblo, Colorado from the chassis of a large touring sedan. Frequent sniper attacks on the tent colonies drove the miners to dig pits beneath the tents where they and their families could be better protected.
Did you?
Here's a photo of the "Death Special" if you're too lazy to read it all.
Because cancer actually refers to a huge group of different diseases. They share the common characteristic of unregulated cell growth but they are distinct diseases nevertheless. Each specific type of cancer don't actually receive disproportionate "newstime and general attention".
What if every store tried to unionize at the same time... Would it be possible to kill the Walmart of today?
That's why I mentioned "huge number of distinct locations across many different countries". If somehow I used social networking to reach a majority of Walmart workers in US in total secrecy, Walmart can afford to fire them all, relocate if necessary, and start over in US. They can afford to do that because they have huge cash reserves ($3.4 billion as of Q3 quarterly) and operate in 14 other countries.
Now suppose I targeted Walmart in all 15 countries, that would mean I need to retain 15 different sets of legal counsels and almost as many translators, plus physical presence in countries where social networking isn't as wide-spread. All of that require a large amount of capital and the introduction of such a sum of money would completely destroys the image of "the little guy standing up for workers' rights". Plus the fact that there's a huge financial incentive in unionizing Walmart (shorting WMT) would make people start questioning my motives.
iANAL, but I think "including, without limitation" means "specifically the following list of things, but also generally applies to everything not specifically listed.".
I know this is just legal boilerplate, but it makes my laugh every time a military–industrial complex related story comes up:
SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR XCODE
8. Export Control... You also agree that you will not use the Developer Software for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of missiles, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.
Why aren't there software engineer unions? (I've seen that mentioned here before.)
Because the software industry is relatively new and treats its employees relatively well. Some industries with high percentage of unions used to mow down their workers with machine guns, so the unions were originally a self-defense mechanism of the workers that was born out of necessity.
I think Walmart is one example (and yes, I know a lot of people hate them). Walmart does not seem to be in any danger of losing employees.
Walmart will close entire stores if the workers tries to unionize. So yes, they've probably lost millions of workers and thousands of stores across globe due to this tactic. But so far, like you pointed out, it's been quite effective (at a huge cost to Walmart).
However keep in mind that this tactic only works if you have a huge number of distinct locations across many different countries. Not many companies fit that criteria.
Yes, of course. But two problems will manifest itself:
1. If you hire someone on the condition that they will not join the union, then union will simply strike until that person is removed. This prevents you from getting new employees.
2. Employees will retire or jump ships.
Problem #1 means you can't add new employees, and problem #2 means you gradually lose employees, therefore you will eventually end up with 0 employees.
'We've been using the flow of energetic charged particles at Voyager 1 as a kind of wind sock to estimate the solar wind velocity. We've found that the wind speeds are low in this region and gust erratically. For the first time, the wind even blows back at us.
Arrrgh, trim yer sails, and steady on, mate.
Next fortnight we shall leave the solar system and finally escape from the RIAA.
While I share your distaste of unions, there's no really way to avoid them in a democratic society. Democracy require the freedom of association, which will inevitability lead to unions if a majority of your workers are dissatisfied enough.
So if Congress disbanded all the law enforcement agencies in the country and incorporated Cops Inc, FBI LLC, and DHS Corp they can enact whatever "corporate policy" they want then?
And, that's why I'm using a "dumb phone"*, with no plans to upgrade. I'm not about to pay the phone company hundreds of dollars, PLUS an exorbitant contract fee, so that they can spy on me.
So you think they can't spy on you with the proprietary code on your dumb phone?
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The company hired the Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency to protect the new workers and harass the strikers. Baldwin–Felts had a reputation for aggressive strike breaking. Agents shone searchlights on the tent villages at night and fired bullets into the tents at random, occasionally killing and maiming people. They used an improvised armored car, mounted with a machine gun the union called the "Death Special," to patrol the camp's perimeters. The steel-covered car was built in the CF&I plant in Pueblo, Colorado from the chassis of a large touring sedan. Frequent sniper attacks on the tent colonies drove the miners to dig pits beneath the tents where they and their families could be better protected.
Did you?
Here's a photo of the "Death Special" if you're too lazy to read it all.
Because cancer actually refers to a huge group of different diseases. They share the common characteristic of unregulated cell growth but they are distinct diseases nevertheless. Each specific type of cancer don't actually receive disproportionate "newstime and general attention".
The 14 nuclear power plants currently operating in China haven't exploded yet, so that least they're doing something right.
I'm pretty sure Apple lawyers can survive a WMD attack. I've heard... stories.
What if every store tried to unionize at the same time... Would it be possible to kill the Walmart of today?
That's why I mentioned "huge number of distinct locations across many different countries". If somehow I used social networking to reach a majority of Walmart workers in US in total secrecy, Walmart can afford to fire them all, relocate if necessary, and start over in US. They can afford to do that because they have huge cash reserves ($3.4 billion as of Q3 quarterly) and operate in 14 other countries.
Now suppose I targeted Walmart in all 15 countries, that would mean I need to retain 15 different sets of legal counsels and almost as many translators, plus physical presence in countries where social networking isn't as wide-spread. All of that require a large amount of capital and the introduction of such a sum of money would completely destroys the image of "the little guy standing up for workers' rights". Plus the fact that there's a huge financial incentive in unionizing Walmart (shorting WMT) would make people start questioning my motives.
I agree. He knows a lot more about censorship than I do. So did every dictator and totalitarian scum. That's how they managed to keep their jobs.
including, without limitation,
iANAL, but I think "including, without limitation" means "specifically the following list of things, but also generally applies to everything not specifically listed.".
SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR XCODE
8. Export Control... You also agree that you will not use the Developer Software for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of missiles, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.
Why aren't there software engineer unions? (I've seen that mentioned here before.)
Because the software industry is relatively new and treats its employees relatively well. Some industries with high percentage of unions used to mow down their workers with machine guns, so the unions were originally a self-defense mechanism of the workers that was born out of necessity.
I think Walmart is one example (and yes, I know a lot of people hate them). Walmart does not seem to be in any danger of losing employees.
Walmart will close entire stores if the workers tries to unionize. So yes, they've probably lost millions of workers and thousands of stores across globe due to this tactic. But so far, like you pointed out, it's been quite effective (at a huge cost to Walmart).
However keep in mind that this tactic only works if you have a huge number of distinct locations across many different countries. Not many companies fit that criteria.
Yes, of course. But two problems will manifest itself:
1. If you hire someone on the condition that they will not join the union, then union will simply strike until that person is removed. This prevents you from getting new employees.
2. Employees will retire or jump ships.
Problem #1 means you can't add new employees, and problem #2 means you gradually lose employees, therefore you will eventually end up with 0 employees.
'We've been using the flow of energetic charged particles at Voyager 1 as a kind of wind sock to estimate the solar wind velocity. We've found that the wind speeds are low in this region and gust erratically. For the first time, the wind even blows back at us.
Arrrgh, trim yer sails, and steady on, mate.
Next fortnight we shall leave the solar system and finally escape from the RIAA.
number 2, to avoid labor unions
While I share your distaste of unions, there's no really way to avoid them in a democratic society. Democracy require the freedom of association, which will inevitability lead to unions if a majority of your workers are dissatisfied enough.
Nuclear reactors unlock energy by splitting atoms of the material stored in fuel rods. This process is called fission.
This is /. I'm pretty sure everyone here knows about fission.
Didn't Mr. Sibal suggest that they will use humans to screen the contents?
Here's my suggestion: tie him down to a chair and pry open his eyelids clockwatch orange style, and then have him screen youtube comments for 8 hours.
You guys have it easy. Sometime when I write a comment I for-SQUIRRELS!
So if Congress disbanded all the law enforcement agencies in the country and incorporated Cops Inc, FBI LLC, and DHS Corp they can enact whatever "corporate policy" they want then?
I'm sorry I don't follow your logic. What's stopping these from becoming nuclear armed? Absolutely nothing.
For those who didn't get the reference.
My apologies.
And, that's why I'm using a "dumb phone"*, with no plans to upgrade. I'm not about to pay the phone company hundreds of dollars, PLUS an exorbitant contract fee, so that they can spy on me.
So you think they can't spy on you with the proprietary code on your dumb phone?
Ooops, disregard that. I didn't read his baseband exception. Baseband is software, so it's part of the software stack.
1. this
2. Yes
3. Yes, see above link.
What part of a "fully open software stack" don't you understand?
Except both Bush and Obama enacted laws to give those telecoms retroactive immunity. What now?
What you don't know can't possibly hurt you, right?