“Working at an Amazon warehouse is no easy thing. The shifts are long. The pace is super-fast. You are constantly being watched and monitored. They seem to think you are just another machine.”
So testified Jennifer Bates before a US Senate Budget Committee hearing into income and wealth inequality on March 17. Less than a month later her co-workers at Amazon’s fulfilment centre in Bessemer, Alabama, voted 1,798 to 738 against allowing the Retail, Wholesale and Department Stores Union into their workplace to represent them.
That might seem a surprising outcome. But Bates’s testimony hinted at the odds of workers voting against the company’s wishes – which was heavily anti-union:
Jim Sadler At 90 Still Reports For Duty At The Chattanooga Funeral Home Thursday, April 22, 2021 - by Earl Freudenberg
Jim Sadler is turning 90
Jim is presented with the Quilt of Valor, with Steve Pike in the background
Jim Sadler with his Quilt of Valor
Gail Pike wishing Jim and Peggy Sadler Merry Christmas at a veterans dinner
Jim with his daughter Cynthia
Jim Sadler is celebrating his 90th birthday (April 24) and he knows just about everybody in Chattanooga. Mr. Sadler has worked in the funeral home business for over 50 years conducting thousands of funerals. He was raised in North Chattanooga on E. Manning Street and graduated from Central High School in 1949.
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Any legislation to alter the size of the Supreme Court should include a provision that it will not take effect until after the next presidential election.
Deseret News
Public confidence in institutions is already low. Adding justices to the Supreme Court would make it worse
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The debate over enlarging the U.S. Supreme Court would be largely unnecessary if Congress would take its power to legislate seriously.
Even so, history has plenty to offer on the subject, clearly demonstrating that court size has been used as a political weapon before. No one should doubt that, once unsheathed again after lying dormant for 152 years, it would be weaponized again.
The nation’s high court has, in recent decades, become pivotal in battles over culture-war issues. That includes cases involving limits on abortion rights, such as a recent one striking down a Louisiana state law that imposed hospital-admission requirements on abortion clinic doctors. And in the Hobby Lobby case that exempted private corporations from regulations its owners objected to on religious grounds. And i