I'm for the preemptive de-federation.
Having just completed the ARRL RTTY Roundup, I thought I'd update my QSO map.
The tool I used is: http://tools.adventureradio.de/analyzer/.
PEF sues Employee Relations Office over worker classification
The union said the state is violating the law when "unilaterally" designating workers as management
By Molly Burke Dec 9, 2023
The Public Employees Federation filed a lawsuit against the state's Office of Employee Relations over a categorization of employees as "managerial or confidential." The union, whose president Wayne Spence, is shown in March at the Capitol, represents more than 50,000 state workers.
ALBANY — The Public Employees Federation filed a lawsuit this week against the state’s Office of Employee Relations for deeming employees as management without going through the legal classification process, the union said.
The union, which represents more than 50,000 state workers, alleges the state is violating the Public Employees' Fair Employment Act, commonly known as the Taylor Law, which requires that a public employer must go through a “detailed process” to classify an employee as managerial or confidential.
The classification requires the employer to file an application with the Public Employee Relations Board. The employee is notified and — often with PEF’s representation — given a chance to respond. The board then decides whether the position should be designated as “management or confidential” or stay within PEF’s bargaining unit, said Rob Merrill, a spokesman for PEF.
PEF claims in the lawsuit that the state Office of Employee Relations' designation of positions as “managerial or confidential was done unilaterally and without any authority.”
The lawsuit names eight employees who PEF claims have been affected by the changed designations since the current collective bargaining agreement was ratified in the summer.
The union is concerned with the process of changing a position’s designation as “employees lose all benefits of union membership” upon being deemed managerial or confidential in these positions. Merrill said the affected employees lose representation, bargaining power, union benefits including discounts, and a sense of solidarity with their coworkers.
Merrill said that the union found out about the state’s designations through a Freedom of Information Law request. PEF says the state has not been notifying the union nor, to their knowledge, the affected employees until the designation has already been made.
The lawsuit, filed in state Supreme Court in Albany, asks the court to overturn the eight named employees' designations and to order the state to follow the Taylor law.
For anyone who is interested in testing for their Technician license or upgrading to General or Amateur Extra:
The Troy Amateur Radio Association will be holding a VE session this Saturday at the Watervliet Senior Center (1501 Broadway, Watervliet).
Doors open at 9:30am and the session begins at 10am. Don't be late!
Bring your FCC-supplied FRN #, current license (if you have one), $15 test fee, and photo ID. Links and more relevant information can be found at www.N2TY.org/tvet.htm.
I'm sure they'd vote against a bill for colorblind people too.
Not my kid. She only had it on for a specific reason and she only accepts she had to put up with it for now.
She's more than happy to bring it up as an issue from time to time.
Ok. I've put in a SSD, I'm looking to add RAM (I may be already maxed out), and run zswap, etc. I guess I'll be sticking with LibreOffice.
I use the laptop for ham radio stuff, mostly, and things like an office suite are secondary.
How is it on resources? I have a i386 project computer running Debian 12 and I'm looking to make it as "modern" as possible. Right now, my fight is with slow browsers and LibreOffice (I'm trying to avoid the Abiword, etc route).
Increasingly, it really doesn't need to die. Digital modes are available for enhanced AM which could provide shudder stereo and more.
It does provide a benefit - but to the very greedy, very few. If there was ever parity, the bands would be filled with their greed noise.
Until another company gets a license and does it themselves which will lead to more looking for licenses.... until the band is useless trash filled with interference.
And we thought the woodpecker was bad.
I'm hoping the comments against this terrible are heard over the filthy lucre the "liquidity generators" are throwing at politicians.
The radio spectrum is a common good and needs to be regulated accordingly.
These videos exist for monetization purposes.
Does anyone know if one where to view videos through Piped, NewPipe, FreeTube, etc the view would count towards engagement?
I just got my HW-101 back on the air. When I was a kid, my dad got he, my brother, and me one of these at a Hamfest for $50 after we outgrew our HW-16. This isn't that rig, though. We can't find it.
I picked this one up and, even though it still has issues, I've been making DX, POTA, Route 66 QSOs with it. Been getting good signal reports too! It's fun but, after tuning and not having any audio filtering, I've really come to appreciate modern radios.
If you're just getting started in the hobby but are intimidated by tube rigs, don't be. They're worth considering (tube availability might be a challenge though).
(For those who are curious, that is a real Astatic D-104 mic but the amp has been removed so it can work with the HW-101).
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