{"id":134267,"date":"2022-12-02T14:45:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T19:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=134267"},"modified":"2022-12-02T13:37:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T18:37:30","slug":"friday-quickies-rail-strike-usm-wnt-money-az-elections-tire-deflations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=134267","title":{"rendered":"Friday quickies: Rail strike, USM\/WNT money, AZ elections, tire deflations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Senate joined the House in passing a bill causing the rail unions to abide by the Biden-negotiated settlement reached in September… whether the union agreed to the contract or not.<\/p>\n

The Senate vote was 80-15. It came one day after the House voted<\/a> to impose the agreement. The measure now goes to President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature.<\/p>\n

\u201cI negotiated a contract no one else could negotiate,\u201d Biden said at a news briefing with French President Emmanuel Macron. \u201cWhat was negotiated was so much better than anything they ever had.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yahoo News<\/a><\/p>\n

Biden signed the bill Friday morning.<\/p>\n

Damned if Biden doesn’t sound positively Trumpian.\u00a0 The workers get their sick time improved from 0 days to 1 day… yeah, helluva improvement. Wonder what “blue flu” sounds like in Railroadese?<\/p>\n

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The US Women’s National Team will collect $6,500,000 for not playing in the World Cup. Under the new collective bargaining agreement this year, the WNT gets 50% of the MNT prize money. The MNT also gets a share of whatever the WNT wins, so it’s fair.<\/p>\n

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For context, the $6.5m coming to the women\u2019s team is more than they won in total for their last two World Cup victories. The USWNT earned $4m<\/a> for winning the 2019 World Cup and $2m for their title in 2015<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The prize money for the 2023 Women\u2019s World Cup has not yet been set, although Fifa president Gianni Infantino has said he wants to \u201cat least double\u201d the pot from 2019<\/a>. However, even if the prize money doubles to $60m, it would still be dwarfed by the $440m handed out<\/a> to men\u2019s teams in Qatar.<\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The primarily Republican election board in Cochise County AZ is refusing to certify its election results, citing concerns over voting machines. Now for the fun part – if they continue to refuse, those votes will disallowed: they are primarily REPUBLICAN and if thrown out will throw the Congressional seat to the Democrat in the race. So the Democratic Secretary of State is suing the Republican board to certify its votes for a Republican, and they don’t want to. My head hurts. Forbes<\/a><\/p>\n

This is what happens when you write a column and schedule it for later release….a judge ordered the results certified and the board has done so. I would suspect the Republican Party might have a few words for the numbnuts who held up the process and emperiled the elected seats.<\/p>\n

This week, former Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, a Democrat, joined Richard Romley, a Republican former Maricopa County attorney, in asking for probes<\/a> by Arizona’s attorney general and the Cochise County attorney. Goddard and Romley say in a letter that the GOP supervisors likely broke at least three of the state’s criminal laws by willfully refusing to perform their legal duty to certify the election results. NPR<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Seems climate activists are using an even more questionable tactic than gluing themselves hither and yon: activists from “Tyre Extinguishers” deflated tires on as many as 900 large SUVs worldwide over the weekend to make it harder for them to be driven in the name of the usual, Mother Earth etc.\u00a0 I note that the cities cited are not places with high legal gun ownership rates. Wonder why?\u00a0\u00a0 Business Insider<\/a><\/p>\n

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