Isn’t that a pre requisite for their job?

Nope, a sector based union have far, far more power and resources than a site or company based union, simply due to having far more members.

One of my favourite unions stories was when Toys 'R Us wanted to get into the Swedish market.

First of all, you might not realize it, but Sweden has a highly unregulated labour market, we have no minimum wage and the government doesn’t really interfere in the labour market.

Our system is based on our strong unions negotiating with employers and employer organizations.

The vast majority of medium and large workplaces have signed collective bargaining agreements with the largest unions, for the most part it is a formality, but a very important one, with consequences if the parties fail to come to an agreement. There have been several times with large strikes, that closed or severely reduced services due to this, these negotiations and especially the strikes does show up on the national news.

Anyway, Toys 'R Us refused to sign a CBA with the store workers union, and hired staff that wasn’t in a union instead, this is allowed, so the union called a strike against TRU.

Well, other unions saw this and wasn’t happy, and started sympathy strikes, the transport workers union refused to deliver goods to TRU stores, the financial workers union refused to process payments for TRU, the printer workers union refused to print materials for TRU and do on.

All of this successfully pushed TRU back to the negotiation table, and finally got them to sign a CBA.

As soon as that was done, the sympathy strikes ended.

Nope, Unions should be sector based, not company based or site based.

I have been part of the white collar union here for 15+ years now, so far I have not really had to use them, but I’ll happily pay my dues for the membership.

Also, sympathy strikes should be legal everywhere.

I have since updated my comment with actually helpful comments, for future reference, if you complain about someone being wrong, it is quite helpful to include the change you wish to make and why it should be made.

I have updated my comment, with correct data, you are still wrong, but less wrong. As 60dB is about 3 times louder than 55dB.

I am sorry for the confusion.

Ah, that is what I missed!

Look up what logarithmic means next time

Wow, you have no idea of how decibel works do you?

The decibel scale is not linear, it is logarithmic.

The power of a sound at 60dB is about 3 times that of a sound at 55dB.

[EDIT]

Corrected my estimate based on correct data in the comments.

I see only a very brave woman, and a bunch of cowards.

Might I suggest Persol?

Sadly, they are expensive, but they look good and have great quallity in my experience.

As for glasses, five years ago, I got my first Lindberg glasses, and I am never going back to other brands.

I am currently on my third pair of black Lindberg Aaron and my current sunnies are a pair of gunmetal Persol PO1027S with custom brown lenses.

I have all of my pervious Lindberg frames and will start reusing them next time, as for the Persol, I lost my earlier pair of an earlier model of Persol sunglasses, but I plan on getting new models or a new pair of the same model to have some spares or variation.

Wait, are you still running a SunRay at work?

Wow, I thought they were all scrapped

Looking back at computing history, cloud computing is basically reverting back to the original mainframes and dedicated terminals.

There was a hype of using thin clients, the concept is that you get just enough hardware and software to be able to connect to a session running on a shared server, the admin can allocate more resources like CPU cores, RAM and storage as individual needs change over time.

As an IT guy, I do like the concept in a corporate environment, especially when looking at the SunRay system from Sun, which used smartcards for easier access, you put your card into the client and if configured properly, you got your old session loaded and ready in a few sec, regardless of which client you put your card into.

The YT channel Clabretro has several interesting SunRay videos.

While I agree with you, the vast majority of users are still AI pilled.

Those users are what they are scared of loosing.

There ARE extremists on both sides, but the entire US political spectrum is so skewed toward the right that these “centrists” are standing JUST outside of the extreme right, and several miles from the closest social democracy proponent, while screaming “DON’T COME ANY CLOSER” to the left, shaking in fear.

And those who actually need them would be far better served by a VW Transporter with an aluminium bed.