Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
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I can envision Italian workers making obscene Italian gestures after receiving this email. Yes, it reached as far as Italian workers that had .gov addresses. They are telling Musk to eff-off.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/world/europe/mu...Employees at the Aviano Air Base who serve American forces got a familiar demand to list their achievements. Unions say Italy “is not the Wild West like the U.S.”
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“Ours is a system built on democracy, safeguards, and protections provided by contracts that must be respected,” Pierpaolo Bombardieri, the secretary general of Italy’s Uil union said in a statement.
Mr. Bombardieri called the emails “unacceptable” and the method “aberrant.” Italy’s unions wrote to the Italian government and the U.S. Embassy asking for explanations.
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They got a pretty hot Prime Minister there.
Her voice not so much but the rest is not bad at all.
She wants to maul Musk.
Makes me a bit jealous really.
No. of Recommendations: 1
“Ours is a system built on democracy, safeguards, and protections provided by contracts that must be respected,” Pierpaolo Bombardieri, the secretary general of Italy’s Uil union said in a statement.
Mr. Bombardieri called the emails “unacceptable” and the method “aberrant.” Italy’s unions wrote to the Italian government and the U.S. Embassy asking for explanations.
So it's against democracy, safeguards and protections to ask for 5 things that were accomplished in a week?
tecmo
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No. of Recommendations: 3
You're right it is anti-democratic unless he has legal authority to do that. That authority appears to be under judicial review.
No. of Recommendations: 2
So it's against democracy, safeguards and protections to ask for 5 things that were accomplished in a week?
I’ll let the Italians decide what is or isn’t in line with their vision of democracy. But I will say that this is a dumb request. It serves no purpose other than to try to appease Musk’s need to show his power over front line workers.
—Peter
No. of Recommendations: 1
It serves no purpose other than to try to appease Musk’s need to show his power over front line workers.
Yah, it's just vanity. No one has the time to read all if them. So everyone comes up with boilerplate that's modified. What did I accomplish last week?
People still getting hurt and stressed. Wheels take too long to turn.
