![]() Amazon's lawyers, who are participating from a hotel conference room on Staten Island, argued that there was no way to police who was watching the proceedings, including potential witnesses who should not have access to other witnesses' testimony. NLRB hearings, normally held in-person, have been conducted online since the early in the pandemic. Prior to the start of the hearing on June 13, Amazon sought to close the proceedings to the public. Following the tally of ballots on April 1, Amazon filed 25 objections to the election, including charges that the regional office of the NLRB overseeing the election favored the union, and that union leaders bribed workers with marijuana and threatened and harassed those who did not support the union. The virtual hearing is taking place four months after the election in which warehouse workers voted 2,654 to 2,131 to join the Amazon Labor Union. Lisa Dunn, the NLRB attorney presiding over the hearing from her home in Phoenix, has handled the stream of technical and other issues with calm and patience, allowing herself the occasional exasperated chuckle after yet another problem is dispensed with.Īmazon had sought to close the hearing to the public On Tuesday, a lawyer representing Amazon stopped witness testimony to report a breach, leading to yet another delay as parties investigated. While the NLRB has made abundantly clear that any kind of recording, live-streaming or photos of the Zoom hearing are strictly prohibited, screenshots of the hearing have popped up on Twitter. There have also been more serious issues. Members of other unions are joining the hearing in a show of supportĭuring the lunch break, members of other unions took advantage of the lull in the proceedings to shout out support for their comrades at Amazon, with cries of "Teamsters in the house!" "UAW in the house!" "When we fight, we win!" briefly taking over the Zoom call. Turn off your video, mute yourself, and do not use emojis or any other distractions." That led to repeated warnings delivered by the bailiff via the chat box, asking participants to "please provide just your first and last name to be admitted. Some participants turned on their cameras to display union swag in signature red while others changed their screen names to messages like "RECOGNIZE ALU." ![]() Someone grabbed control of the screen share and scrawled "UNION" across a video being presented as evidence by Amazon's lawyers. ![]() Good Morning ☀️ Labor let’s show em how we show up for one another we’re in court today log on 10am est ✊□‼️□ #Hotlaborsummer - Christian Smalls June 21, 2022 On Tuesday, the hearing grew to more than 300 participants, many of them apparently joining at the invitation of Amazon Labor Union leaders Chris Smalls, Derrick Palmer and Angelika Maldonado, who tweeted out the Zoom link. In the opening week and a half of the hearing, there's been the kind of sparring and haggling between lawyers that one would expect in any legal case.īut the proceedings have also been punctuated by an array of problems that any Zoom user would find familiar: a witness unable to connect to the Zoom meeting lawyers unable to unmute the hearing officer's camera suddenly freezing.Īnd of course, whenever there's a large number of people congregating on Zoom, there are opportunities for antics. The NLRB will ultimately rule on whether a do-over election is warranted. It was a typical day in the marathon National Labor Relations Board's hearing that's considering Amazon's objections to the historic union election win at a Staten Island warehouse. Rogue additions to a screen share.īut it wasn't just any Zoom meeting. People muted and unmuted at the wrong times. ![]() It's had all the hallmarks of a Zoom meeting gone awry.
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It’s been obvious for half a decade now that anyone who is not literally a statue should bunt down the opposite line as soon as they see a shift to their pull side. Some of the blame for the drop in offense related to shifts definitely falls on hitters themselves and especially management. Would you use them early in the game on the #8 hitter, or want to save them for late-game situations against the likes of Cody Bellinger? To me, that’s a far more interesting and balanced system than what the game has evolved into now, which is basically a mashup of beer league softball positioning and watching an AI spit out data-mined graphs. Say the limit is three totally free form shifts per game. ![]() If you think about it, that would actually add some drama and intrigue. You could also go the way of replay challenges and give each team a set number of times to break with the above rules per game. That keeps a meaningful distinction between IFs and OFs but still allows for some data-based creativity on the defensive side. His general rules about infielders having no more than one foot on the OF grass for each pitch and requiring two IFs somewhere on each side of second base are reasonable to me. I actually agree with Ban the Shift Guy for the most part. OT: Novak Djokovic has been defaulted from the US Open for hitting a linesperson with a tennis ball. The Dodgers fan who had his cardboard cutout decapitated earlier this season has been resurrected. I somehow missed this piece from a columnist to ban the shift… Who will come out on top? Quite memorably, Trout hit his 300th homer over the weekend, making him the franchise leader…Does Trout still have a shot at the AL MVP?įrom Emma Baccellieri: read about how fake crowd noise is used in stadiums! are vying for the home run crown, but other players are much in play. 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Please send your written application with the reference number and the usual documents (letter of motivation, CV, reference letter, certificates (PhD, Master, Bachelor), list of publications and link to PhD, all combined in a pdf file, max. A nutrient-reduction management scenario indicates that Anabaena densities increase because they are less sensitive to water column nutrient levels (because of the sediment bed source) than other species. Ferdi L Hellweger 1 Affiliation 1 Specialty Area of Water Quality Engineering (Wasserreinhaltung), Institute of Environmental Science and Engineering, Technical University of Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany email: . I am interested in microbial ecology, focusing mostly on surface waters. Loop enables you to stay up-to-date with the latest discoveries and news, connect with researchers and form new collaborations. Hellweger, Population Dynamics of Escherichia coli in Surface Water, JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 10.1111/j., 47, 3, (611-619), (2011). Loop is the open research network that increases the discoverability and impact of researchers and their work. An in silico gene knockout experiment (akinete formation is prohibited) showed that the formation of resting stages is of critical importance to the survival of the population on an annual basis. Vanni Bucci, Marin Vuli, Xiaodan Ruan, Ferdi L. Code and User Guide for model presented in: Dynamic carbon flux network of a diverse marine microbial community Mayerhofer, et al. An in silico tracing experiment showed that most water column cells (~90%) originated from cells located in the sediment bed during the preceding winter. However, most of the long-term nutrient uptake for Anabaena occurs in the sediment bed, which suggests that the sediment bed is not just a convenient overwintering location but may also be the primary source of nutrients. Model analysis shows that the internal loading of phosphorus (P) due to germination from the sediment bed is ~10% of the total input. The model is part of a coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian model and can reproduce the main features of the observed seasonal and interannual population dynamics in Bugach Reservoir (Siberia), including an unexpectedly large bloom in a year with low nutrient concentrations. THE INDIVIDUAL MICROBE: SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS AND AGENT-BASED MODELLING. We present a new agent-based (also known as individual-based) model of Anabaena that includes the formation and behavior of akinetes. I am an Associate Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and Acting Director of the Center for Urban Environmental Studies at. 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