curmudgeonthefrog [he/him]

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Cake day: August 14th, 2020

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  • To add on, the status quo period, at least for our union, doesn’t mean you can’t still file grievances (formal process for remedying contract violation). It just means you can’t take those cases to arbitration (third party judge decides on case). Its usually good to use unresolved grievances and any unfair labor practices (like the aforementioned unilateral changes in working conditions) to add leverage to negotiations and use settling them as part of the final agreement with the employer.



  • Look i dont know the month to month military capabilities of the western front. But what i do know is that the west was incentivized to delay invasion for as long as possible. Yes, part of that was military build-up, but part of that was also just letting the USSR and Nazi Germany tire each other out. And after the war, instead of recognizing the wins, losses and efforts the soviets made during the war, the US almost immediately jumped into cold war posturing.



  • Way too late. Stalin had asked Churchill to restart the second front in 1942. Several eastern front battles and 25 million soviet deaths later, the USSR was finally pushing the nazis back. Thats when D-day happened. A cynical take might be that Britain, France and US invaded at that time not for military strategy against the nazis or the goodness of their hearts. But instead to prevent the soviet union (and thus communism) from freeing western europe and winning the ideological victory.