168 – Unions Are Governments

We speak with Levi/Ferb, learning about labor law in the USA. Turns out it’s not what we thought.

Links:

What would a general strike look like today?

Biden intervenes in railroad contract to block strike

Truckers strike at Port of Oakland

Taft–Hartley Act

A People’s History of the United States

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

United Mine Workers of America to pay more than $13 million in compensation to an Alabama coal company

African American Workers Historic Struggle Against Segregation

Labor News:

Who Gets the Bird?

PayDay Report

Working People Podcast

“You are GPT-3,” a long-form prompt directly instructing GPT-3 on desired usage of a scratchpad to suppress hallucinatory answers

Craiyon

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