#workers
The #Teamsters take #Amazon
https://therealnews.com/teamsters-amazon-ups-contract-union
Amazon’s #nonunionized #workforce is an existential threat to the Teamsters—but signs of Amazon #workers #unionizing with the #IBT could change the game.
The #Unions and #Workers Supporting #CopCity Protestors
https://workdaymagazine.org/the-unions-and-workers-supporting-cop-city-protestors/
More on #GMB #union's attempts to unionise the #workforce at #Amazon in #Coventry.
To dilute the claim that the union represented over half the #workers, managers 'recruited' extra staff to depress the proportion the GMB could easily claim.
Looking across the Atlantic at the first other anti-union manoeuvres, I think we can safely discount their denials.
Amazon thinks it workers should just be grateful fo a job & workers' rights are an annoying impediment
#DollarGeneral workers have "won a victory for workplace safety after shareholders voted for an independent audit to review the company’s health and safety policies." via @TheProgressive #workers #solidarity https://progressive.org/latest/dangerous-conditions-driving-dollar-general-workers-kuhlenbeck-230607/
Darkrace revendique des attaques informatiques à l'encontre de:
🇮🇹 CO.NA.TE.CO. S.p.A (conateco.it)
🇵🇹 ERT (ertgrupo.com)
🇵🇰 Punjab Employees Social Security Institution (pessi.punjab.gov.pk)
🇮🇹 Pluriservice S.p.A (pluriservice.it)
🇩🇪 hep global GmbH (hep.global)
🇵🇱 Rzepecki Mroczkowski Sp. Z o.o. (rzepeckimroczkowski.pl)
🇺🇸 Pictures Plus & O'Roke School Photography (picplus.com)
🇨🇭 L'Association Vaud Promotion (vaud-promotion.ch)
🇺🇸 Cooperative Technologies, Inc (cooperativetechnologies.com)
#italy #usa #switzerland #japan #germany #poland #portugal #suisse #pakistan #automotive #industries #ransomware #business #software #threats #awards #components #interiors #manufacturers #products #darkrace #firms #market #technologies #customers #informatica #services #laws #workers #innovative #marketplace #clienti #databreach #tracciabilità #safety #photography #events #employees #identificazione #medical #photovoltaic #careers #clients #insights #funds #innovativo #management #pictures #plateform #healthcare #financial #solar #solutions #corporate #produkte #autoryzowany #assistance #prodotti #semiconductor #supply #finanzieren #energies #informatique
Many #workers supporting families in northeast #Wisconsin are just squeaking by, especially at a time when the cost of living is increasing. #press https://wisconsinwatch.org/2023/06/rising-cost-of-living-northeast-wisconsin-families/
Exclusive story by me for The Evening Standard this morning — one of the drivers who took #Uber to the UK Supreme Court and won a judgement that drivers are "workers" is now headed back to employment tribunal later this month to get a judgement on how minimum wage is calculated by Uber.
This comes amidst Uber's big press conference in London today announcing a raft of sustainability changes including live programming for drivers so they can integrate their trip planning and show them how much battery they have left.
#Uber #gigeconomy #workers #supremecourt #london #uberdriverrights #ridehailing #technologynews
activist · kidnapping · killings · mexico · workers
https://papercliff.github.io/redirect/?q=activist+kidnapping+killings+mexico+workers&tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:6/6/2023,cd_max:6/8/2023
#news #mexico #workers
#BenefitsBoard #blocks #genderaffirming #Healthcare #coverage for #city #workers.
Mayor #JohnCooper had urged the board to support the #procedures for #transgender #employees. Some mentioned religious arguments and doing their own research.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Tennessee #RepublicanParty #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #EmptyThePews #ThePartyOfHate
#Workers are less #productive in key states. What it means for the #economy.
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/06/07/workers-are-less-productive-in-key-states-what-it-means-for-the-economy/
🚙The @EU_CoR Alliance for Automotive Regions calls for the establishment of a European mechanism for automotive regions comparable to the Just Transition Fund. This is particularly important in the field of employment.
@NicolasSchmitEU
RT @ThierryBreton: We need all #workers on board for a successful automotive industry transition 🇪🇺
G…
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EPP_CoR/status/1665977196475817984
Last year, Farmers Insurance told employees they could work remotely.
Many made significant lifestyle changes in response.
Then the new CEO said they have to go into the office.
The upset #employees protested.
The CEO sent a companywide email: “We read all your comments. We understand and we appreciate them. But we’re still moving forward”
#UPSstrike looms in a world grown reliant on everything delivered everywhere all the time
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/ups-strike-looms-in-a-world-grown-reliant-on-everything-delivered-everywhere-all-the-time/3579324/
The #Teamsters, representing about 350,000 #UPS #workers, say they'll #strike if there's no deal by the time the current contract expires July 31
The New Bloom Magazine published my article on Indonesian migrant factory workers in Taiwan, their metalhead scene, and the band Jubah Hitam: https://newbloommag.net/2023/06/05/indonesian-migrant-metal-musicians/
#taiwan #indonesia #heavymetal #migrants #workers
Thomas Schmidt, President of the #AutomotiveRegionsAlliance met today with Commissioners @ThierryBreton and @NicolasSchmitEU to discuss upskilling and reskilling in the automotive sector to ensure a just and socially sustainable transition.
RT @ThierryBreton: We need all #workers on board for a successful automotive industry transition 🇪🇺
Glad to meet together w/ @NicolasSchmitEU automotive representatives:
✔️progress on #PactForSkills objectives
✔️KPIs on soc…
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_CoR/status/1665747007665831944
Workers at the #Austin-American Statesman are on #strike today as part of a broader strike at #Gannett-owned papers, reports our Staff Writer @gusbova on #birdsite: https://nitter.nl/gusbova/status/1665754356845510659#m
#Union #journalism #JournoLife #labor #workers #news #politics #USpol #protest #Texas
#LGBTQ vs. #Religion: How a #gay #guidancecounselor's #firing could affect millions of #Workers.
— The #court should #revisit their earlier rulings that allowed the #church to massively expand who is considered a #minister, limiting it due to abuse to #religiously #ordained #individuals only!
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
🇬🇧 Zellis (zellis.com) #uk #workforce #cloud #ransomware #skills #manufacturers #workers #gap #digital #commercial #consulting #hcm #retails #employees #industries #databreach #careers #business #partnership #customers #financial #threats #payroll #systems #software #clients #employees #management #market #informatique
We need all #workers on board for a successful automotive industry transition 🇪🇺
Glad to meet together w/ @NicolasSchmitEU automotive representatives:
✔️progress on #PactForSkills objectives
✔️KPIs on socially-inclusive industry
✔️ Next steps for EU competitiveness
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ThierryBreton/status/1665716513704144898
@joehumphrey Thank you for further context. And further philosophical food for thought.
"A lot of oversharing of overtly sexual stuff with his employees..."
Isn't it funny how being paid allows us to tolerate what we otherwise would not? Work for many people is a different space, a different experience, than any they'd otherwise choose—and it transforms them into somebody they might not otherwise like.
Additionally, let's observe that words are very powerful. As writers and authors and speechwriters, we are well aware of that. Readers, or the audience for the spoken word... not so much.
#writing #writer #writers #writingcommunity #writersofmastodon #philosophy #work #workers #workersrights #work #spokenword
‘#Masks, #Misinformation, and Making Do’ Chronicles Experience of #Appalachian #Healthcare #Workers during the #Pandemic
https://dailyyonder.com/masks-misinformation-and-making-do-chronicles-experience-of-appalachian-healthcare-workers-during-the-pandemic/2023/05/25/
The #HardHatRiot: A Forgotten Flashpoint in #America’s #CultureWars
https://youtu.be/AF-G9Iov28M
#wages #labor #workers #construction
#Tyson Says Its Nurses Help #Workers. Critics Charge They Stymie #OSHA.
https://civileats.com/2022/11/17/injured-and-invisible-worker-safety-chicken-hospital-healthcare-osha-injury/
https://gatopardo.com/reportajes/tyson-trabajadores/
#Southern #Workers Are Defying #History
https://otherwords.org/southern-workers-are-defying-history/
Successful #union campaigns could raise #wages, reduce #poverty, and spread #democracy in the former #Confederacy.
From Clinton gutting welfare, to Obama cutting food stamps, to Biden again cutting food stamps, it seems like social programs get attacked more when Democrats hold the presidency. Of course both parties cut cut cut & never ever expand but the biggest cuts happen under Democrats. Am I wrong?
Same with fossil fuel. For some reason, projects seem to be accelerated under Dem presidents.
#Clinton #Obama #Biden #Welfare #Poverty #Workers #Hunger #FoodStamps #BudgetCuts #FossilFuel #Democrats Climate
#Overworked and understaffed #DollarGeneral #workers rally against cost-cuts on #safety
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/05/31/overworked-and-understaffed-dollar-general-workers-rally-against-cost-cuts-on-safety/
For #women #workers at #UPS, fighting the #bosses means fighting the #patriarchy
https://therealnews.com/for-women-workers-at-ups-fighting-the-bosses-means-fighting-the-patriarchy
With Glacier, eight justices sabotaged the most powerful weapon unions have: the strike.
The Teamsters got whacked by the Supreme Court and now the right to strike is on life support. And only Ketanji Brown Jackson stood up to say that what the Court is doing is wrong. The latest in #thenation
#labor #strike #workers #Corrupt #SCOTUS #corruption #darkmoney #harlancrow #lenardLeo #Fascist
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/glacier-supreme-court-unions-strike/
#AsianCanadian #workers have played an integral role in shaping #Canadian #labour history. But members of #AsianCommunities still face acts of #racism & #discrimination today. Committed individuals, organizations & coalitions continue to fight for the #rights of #Asian workers – including #MigrantWorkers many of whom are Asian – here in #Canada
#AsianMastodon #AsianHistoryMonth #AsisnsInCanada #AsianLabour #HumanRights
Global News BC: Businesses see red as B.C.’s minimum wage climbs, but labour says it’s not enough https://globalnews.ca/news/9739542/bc-minimum-wage-increase-6-9-per-cent/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #b.c.costofliving #HighCostOfLiving #B.C.minimumwage #CostofLiving #MinimumWage #b.c.wages #Business #Economy #Workers #Labour #Profit #Pay
My local Chick-fil-A is hiring! Any takers?
The sad part is, this is relatively decent pay compared to other local places.
It's still poverty wages, but upper class poverty! 👍😎
Here you go 😤
#Striking #workers can be #sued by #employers for #damages, Supreme Court says - UPI.com
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/06/01/Supreme-Court-workers-activism-strike/9841685650243/
Daniel Costa, Director of Immigration Law and Policy Research @epi, testified yesterday before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on the importance of the immigrant workforce, the need to invest in improving labor standards enforcement to protect all workers, and the flaws in the US temporary work visa programs.
Written testimony here:
https://www.epi.org/publication/testimony-prepared-for-the-u-s-senate-committee-on-the-judiciary-for-a-hearing-on-from-farm-to-table-immigrant-workers-get-the-job-done/
Video here:
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/from-farm-to-table-immigrant-workers-get-the-job-done
As soon as the DMK said the legislation was to be withdrawn, the unions called off the protests and the proposed May 12 general strike.
While the Stalinists have rushed to hail the DMK-led government’s reversal, workers should anticipate that it will revive a version of its anti-worker Factories Act at the first available opportunity, most probably following next year’s general elect…
Tamil Nadu state government rescinds its Factories Amendment Act—a political fraud
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story, I'm looking to speak with disabled workers about their experiences requesting accommodations. What are the workplace barriers to accessibility? What could be better? My DMs are open (for the first time in years!) or email wendyluwrites@gmail.com. Thank you!
#covid #covid19 #LongCOVID #MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver #usa #news #canada #workers
The #EnergyTransition is a transition to better and cleaner #jobs. The #OffshoreWind industry benefits from the expertise of #FossilFuel workers.
"Along the #Louisiana and #Texas coasts, experienced #oil and #gas #workers are happily picking up #jobs in the growing #wind industry."
The #GMB & #Amazon have been in a dispute over #workers pay & conditions, centred on #Coventry for some time... now, Amazon is making new contracts available that 'respond' to workers requests over their shifts (as well as raising wages).
As Amanda Gearing, from the GMB says: “It is no surprise that Amazon have discovered flexible working offers after Coventry workers have found their voice & their strength. It’s no coincidence that 16 days of strike action have come before this offer'!
How some #Amazon shareholders allied with the #labour movement
https://rabble.ca/labour/how-some-amazon-shareholders-allied-with-the-labour-movement/
#amazoncom #labor #workers
No organisation in crisis can afford to keep losing experienced #workers with extensive tacit knolwedge.
So, of course, a key part of the #Tory engineered #NHS crisis is the continuing rise in staff resignations... which other than a short reprieve during #Covid has continued to rise over the last decade.
Abuse staff, under-pay them & over-work them and this is the result... and don't be thinking this is an unfortunate accident, its what the #Tories want!
Some #Target #Stores Are #Scrapping #Pride #Displays Entirely, #Employees Say
Some #workers say they were given 36 hours to move or #takedown #LGBTQ-#themed #Displays
- Please note #Target isn't an ally.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #DomesticTerrorism #DomesticTerrorists #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia
https://themessenger.com/news/some-target-stores-are-scrapping-pride-displays-entirely-employees-say
#Conservatives Reveal Why They’re So #Triggered By #Pride #merchandise.
After #threatening #boycotts of #companies and #violence against #retail #workers, #conservatives explain why they’re so #triggered by #products celebrating #PrideMonth.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Hate #Bigotry #Homophobia #Transphobia
https://www.theonion.com/conservatives-reveal-why-they-re-so-triggered-by-pride-1850476864
Employers: We can’t find employees! Now Hiring!
Worker: *hands Resume*
Employer: You would be cool, but I can’t accept this. Please apply online.
Worker: Applies online. Asks Employer, “Did you get my resume?”
Employer: No. But we are still hiring!
Worker: *Hands Resume*
Employer: No, Please apply online.
……..
#jobHunting #jobs #workers #employment
#Iowa teenagers could work more #jobs and for longer hours under a bill signed into law Friday by Gov. Kim #Reynolds.
The Republican governor signed the law after it was approved by the Legislature earlier in May with only #Republican support. Several states are embracing a rollback of #childlabor laws in response to complaints from #business owners that they can’t find enough #workers 👉🏼 https://apnews.com/article/iowa-governor-child-labor-laws-e8cb29e2a45b956489c4a192b7ddeba5
How We Reached Workers While Reporting on Dairy Farm Conditions
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As we reported on dairy farms in #Wisconsin, we knew we’d have to get creative in how we got our articles to the affected workers.
Here’s how ProPublica reporters Melissa Sanchez & Maryam Jameel went beyond a simple translation to reach dairy farm workers.
#Journalism #Newstodon #Reporting #Dairy #Farms #Farm #Safety #Labor #Children #Workers
Sarah O'Connor (FT) is concerned that we're lapsing into a reactive technological determinism on #ArtificialIntelligence' impact on #workers... rather we should be planning to re-organise work in a proactive way before the impact of any changes arrive.
The idea that #technology drives (economic) history is a commonplace (if often mistaken) position, but as so often the real Q. is why we feel we cannot control tech?
We made it & we CAN control it, its just often it controlled by anti-democrats
Its all very well blaming the global context for #inflation, but what the data shows is that the contribution made to inflation by goods with a low imported element is rising;
goods & services made in the UK, using UK sourced inputs are increasingly significant element in the UK's persistent inflation.
You might want (as the BoE & #JeremeyHunt periodically do) to blame this on #workers' pay rises, but it is profits that seem to be less likely to lag prices rises...
#greedflation revealed?
#Workers Make #Amazon PAY With Choke Point #Organizing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M75-gBVLBdk
i'd love to save the world, but i think i'll just play 'tonight we riot' instead. consider it training.
#videoGame #antiCapitalism #cooperative #workers #riot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72xf32FYiQo
From the FT:
'The world’s 1,200 biggest public companies collectively issued $326.7bn in dividends in the first quarter of 2023, a rise of 12% on the same period a year ago, according to a quarterly report from fund manager Janus Henderson'!
So while you & I are suffering a #Costoflivingcrisis, #investors are, in cash terms keeping up with #inflation, unlike #workers (even those that have managed to secure raises).
No wonder many investors cannot quite see what the current problem(s) might be
An expert explains what just 1℃ of #warming could mean for people who work #outdoors around the world.
"The places where Parsons worries most about #workers are tropical #SouthAmerica, Sub-Saharan Africa, #Pakistan and northern #India, #Bangladesh, #Cambodia, southeast #Asia, eastern #China, #Indonesia and northern #Australia.
“These are places where the hottest parts of the day are so hot that people shouldn’t be doing work at all if it’s heavy labour,” he says."
As large scale #layoffs continue & the threat of #ArtificialIntelligence suggests this will continue, Pitta Clark (FT) suggests employers are confronting a more 'quit friendly' workforce.
Combined with bad #management & post-#Covid realignment(s) of #worklifebalance, for many employers this now means they're losing control of (& access to) workers' tacit knowledge, experience & loyalty;
they may find these #workers' attributes were more central to the business' success than they realised!
Apparently #RishiSunak believes that people in the UK have moved on from judging people just for being rich.... I think he may be right:
we're judging him for being head of a party that is #corrupt & incompetent, that is fighting a #classwar against #workers, is destroying the #NHS & has presided over a material decline in our standard of living.
But he's right I don't judge him merely for being rich, even if that means he has little appreciation of living through the #costoflivingcrisis
Solidarity to the pilots! Strike action is the *only* way workers have to level the playing field with employers. I hope the threat of a strike on May Long Weekend is enough for the company to come around. If not, then here’s hoping the Feds stay the heck out of it. #workers #unionism #workersRights #solidarity #AirTravel #CanPoli https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-18/canada-s-westjet-cancels-flights-ahead-of-holiday-weekend
I've said it before but its worth repeating:
as the UK firms struggle to find a way to maintain #hybridworking and/or the #workingfromhome that many #workers prefer, they're missing a trick if they don't look at (and seek to learn) from the decades of experience in the #university sector.
University academic staff have worked in a hybrid manner for decades; the embedded & tacit knowledge across the sector would be useful to those now seeking to manage this working environment.
Just ask them!
Actually... we could do something. We could reduce the number of hours in a standard workweek so the need for human labor is distributed to more people.
#Solidarity w #workers #Boycott of #DeSantis #Florida #Fascism
You can't build an #Economy on slave #Labor & then tell the slaves they're not welcome
https://www.vox.com/2023/5/17/23725952/ron-desantis-immigration-law-florida
Did you know that the Gotthardt Tunnel was a nightmare for those who built it?
The tunnel connects the #German & the #Italian part of #Switzerland.
The #workers were #poor Italians, who throughout its 6 yrs built (1872-80), lived in single-room houses without running water, no ability to open windows & feces everywhere.
Many got incurable lung #diseases & ancylostomiasis, a severe hookworm #infection.
171 others were #killed by crushing & dynamite. 4 were shot.
This is really something - content moderators forming unions.
Workers for third-party outsourcing companies contracted to OpenAI, FB & TikTok establishing African Content Moderators Union.
https://time.com/6275995/chatgpt-facebook-african-workers-union/
Well done to billyperrigo.com for his important journalism exposing what has been happening
#resistance #bigtech #AI #ChatGPT #Kenya #union #workers #Meta #TikTok #law
9. Non-masking has destroyed both disability rights and workplace health & safety & therefore #Workers rights.
10. Workers rights are FROM disability activism & always has been. From safety best practices, to sexual harassment, bullying, time off, maternity leave.
1. Disability benefits are at sub-poverty level. If you are, or become disabled (chances are increasingly high these days you will) you will become poor quickly, even in countries with healthcare.
3/3
People on left and right should learn that
1. Disability rights & worker rights are linked.
2. PWD include those injured on the job mentally &/or physically by capitalist excess & injustice.
3. Workers rights were gained by work of disabled people fighting against poor working conditions.
4. Many ppl are disabled in ways they cannot work for others, but can do things, if supported, to participate & live a full life.
1/3
#workplace #workers #disability #justice #humanrights #disabled
“Texas is just a really terrible place for construction workers to do their job."
Antelmo Ramirez was one of more than 1,300 construction workers to die in #Texas between 2011 and 2021, more than California and Pennsylvania combined, reports @gusbova in this week's top story:
https://www.texasobserver.org/tesla-texas-worker-death-heat/
#Tesla #ElonMusk #HumanRights #safety #health #workers #news #politics #immigration
It is inaccurate to think replacing a few rich people can solve #capitalism. No point being edgy for no reason. Remember:
-> Systems, not people.
Systems of #inequality forge the owning class. The stock market trades the rights to stolen wages & autonomy. Only a worker-run grassroots economy can dissolve the owning class.
Abolish the owning class by making them join us as #workers too. A better world for all, not just those we like.
—-
In response to: @breadandcircuses
https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/110355955159926490
#socialism #anarchism #communism #marxism #leftist #progressive #democracy
Thank you @damemagazine for getting us going!
This week let's highlight @gusbova's moving report on the death of a worker from exteeme heat conditions at the #Tesla gigafactory, and how the company tried to hide his death: https://www.texasobserver.org/tesla-texas-worker-death-heat/
#news #ElonMusk #workers #Texas #politics #ClimateChange #health #Newstodon
@ProPublica @TheConversationUS @mongabay @gbhnews @thexylom @heiseonline
#Ethiopia is forcing anyone buying #fuel to use #MobilePayment. It's not going well, resulting in multi hour wait times, and for the #workers at #gas stations it means a serious pay cut: no more #tips.
https://addisfortune.news/mandatory-reflex-to-digitised-payment-system/
Mustafa Suleyman, a co-founder of #ArtificialIntelligence lab DeepMind, thinks that as #AI will likely have a massive negative impact on #workers, the state should step in to offer both support & compensation to help staff put out of work
As always, on the one hand #technology geeks claim they want a small state, low taxes & technology can solve our problems;
at the same time that they want the state to pick up the pieces & find the money to resolve the crises they cause.
More tech-hypocrisy!
The #NHS is in meltdown, the #police are in a crisis of mistrust, the #costoflivingcrisis is going to be compounded by rising #interestrates on #mortgages, the water firms are pouring sewage into our water ways with seeming impunity, while the #railways continue to fail to find a way froward with their #workers (not to mention the #postoffice, #energycrisis & #foodinflation).... but what does #MichaelGove want to focus on?
Yup, stopping #councils & other public bodies boycotting #Israel.
#Employers increasingly realise that #workingfromhome & #hybridworking are valued by potential applicants for jobs & this is now reflected in the frequency that such terms appear in job adverts.
Sarah O'Connor (FT) then draws an interesting conclusion: its those #professions where #WFH is not really feasible that seem to have become most militant about pay & conditions;
those #workers able to adopt hybrid working see it as an extra non-monetary benefit & so are less militant on #wages (?)
Research on the US labour market by the Brookings Institute suggests that since the #pandemic, many #workers having re-evaluated their #worklifebalance are starting to demand that employers fit round the staff's needs not the other way round....
How far does this shift reach?
For those in the #gigeconomy & in other forms of precarious work, the power of the #professions to makes such demands must seem like a pipe dream...
elsewhere such a request would likely result in no work at all
More on this story:
On a 96-degree day in 2021, Antelmo Ramirez died of hyperthermia while working on #Tesla’s Gigafactory construction site just southeast of #Austin—making him one of 1,306 Texas construction workers to perish between 2011 and 2021, which is more than California and Pennsylvania combined, reports @gusbova:
https://www.texasobserver.org/tesla-texas-worker-death-heat/
#HumanRights #ElonMusk #labor #workers #news #death #ClimateChange #Texas
Antelmo Ramirez was a dad, grandpa and husband. When he died of hyperthermia while building #Tesla’s Gigafactory, they didn't tell local officials. @gusbova brings us his last hours in this important new investigation into heat deaths on the job:
https://www.texasobserver.org/tesla-texas-worker-death-heat/
#workers #Texas #Austin #news #HumanRights #labor #death #health #ElonMusk #ClimateChange
Increasing interest rates to cool inflation assumes inflation is being driven by credit-fueled spending. But corporations are flush with cash...
#Workers Fight Back On #MayDay, International Workers’ Day
https://popularresistance.org/workers-fight-back-on-may-day-international-workers-day/
The movement which led to #MayDay was driven by the 8 hour campaign
#Workers were exhausted & The few #unions of the time were not able to challenge capital
Karl #Marx wrote the following in Das Kapital:
By extending the working day, therefore, capitalist production...not only produces a deterioration of human #labour power by robbing it of its normal moral & physical conditions of development & activity, but also produces the premature exhaustion & death of this #labor power itself
On May Day, workers rally for better labor conditions
"May Day, which falls on May 1, is observed in many countries as a day to celebrate workers’ rights with rallies, marches and other events. This year’s events had bigger turnouts than in previous years, as COVID-19 restrictions were drastically loosened and activists in many countries argued governments should do more to improve workers’ lives."
May Day is perhaps the only major holiday that was self-created and actualized by a mass movement of the proletariat - the #workingclass, the poor, the too proud to take it & not created by a government, church, or corporate goons.
Historian Eric Hawbsbawm said this
"The priests have their festivals,the Moderates have their festivals. The First of May is the festival of the #workers of the entire world."
Workers own this day. Take it back!
#labor #MayDay #proletariat #internationalWorkersDay
May Day / International Workers Day commemorates the Haymarket Square Massacre where #Chicago cops did what they've always done best and turned a protest for the 8-hour workday into a bloodbath 1/*
#mayday #internationalworkersday #acab #allcopsarebad #abolishthepolice #pinkertons #haymarket #haymarketsquare #haymarketmassacre #haymarketsquaremassacre #haymarketmartyrs #classwar #labor #workers #emmagoldman #alexanderberkman #anarchy #anarchism
#Irish #workers #pay fell 3.9% behind inflation last year, equivalent to a €2,107 pay cut or working 8.3 days for free.
Most alarmingly, extreme #wealth and extreme #poverty have both increased - for the first time in 25 years
#Oxfam said there is an urgent need for#Ireland to discuss taxing #ExtremeWealth to balance #executive pay and #workers pay.
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2023/0501/1380010-inflation-oxfam/
Happy May Day! ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻✊
#MayDay #MayDay2023 #workers
"Dropkick Murphys - "Worker's Song"
https://youtu.be/Clj8htWcFho
“Currently, inmates working for TCI are not paid for the work done while serving their time; the only inmates who are paid anything are the small fraction who are employed by TCI’s private sector #prison industries program.”
From the archives: Activists confront prison #slavery in #Texas, an early submission from our Digital Editor Kit @oconnell https://www.texasobserver.org/austin-iwoc-protest/
#news #politics #USpol #HumanRights #workers #activism #protest
This morning, as so often, Sarah O' Connor (FT) hits the nail on the head:
The problem for many #workers is not so much un(der) regulated work relations as a lack of competent & effective enforcement.
As she puts it, rather than spend time developing new laws for emerging problems that are grabbing the headlines, 'can we start by just enforcing the laws we’ve already got?'
Indeed, many #workers' problems are already covered by law but are under-enforced; the #minimumwage being a key example!
#Meatpacking #workers in southeast #Iowa are now—officially—gearing up to organize into labor #unions at their respective #workplaces.
https://iowastartingline.com/2023/04/24/southeast-iowa-meatpacking-workers-forming-union/
UPDATE—We've added more from the leaked #Texas Department of #Agriculture dress code to Kit @oconnell's story. Specifically the closing section where standards for men and #women are outlined as well as penalties for violating the policy. This should add more context to discussions: https://www.texasobserver.org/sid-miller-department-agriculture-dress-code-transgender/
#transphobia #LGBTQIA+ #news #politics #USpol #trans #queer #workers
I've a new story out today @TexasObserver based on a document leaked to me from the #Texas Department of #Agriculture.
Workers are now expected to dress "in a manner consistent with their biological gender" (whatever that means!) according to a memo released April 17. An employee told us they fear for #LGBTQIA+ coworkers: https://www.texasobserver.org/sid-miller-department-agriculture-dress-code-transgender/
#transphobia #LGBTQIA+ #trans #gender #queer #news #Workers #politics #HumanRights #transgender #Republicans
Already we are starting to see how a shift of #management functions to #ArtificialIntelligence might play out for vulnerable #workers...
Of course, the attempt by managers to lay the blame on #AI is to a large extent disingenuous; they (managers) have set the criteria against which AI examines the work data received...
but nonetheless using AI as a technological buffer for cruel & harsh management will be a growing tendency by the UK dysfunctional managerial class!
And just in case you're interested about how things look over the channel (remember Europe, we used to be in it); here's the regional variations in #Inflation.
You can draw your own conclusions about the claims from leading #Tories that the current inflationary period is an international phenomenon - nothing to do with #Brexit, or the labour market problems caused by the #NHScrisis' impact on ling-term sickness fo #workers... no no, nothing to see here
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A dozen workers at a Taco Bell restaurant in northwest Iowa will get double their back pay after the restaurant’s manager was found to have shorted their checks.
#wagetheft #iowa #tacobell #workers
https://iowastartingline.com/2023/04/18/12-taco-bell-workers-in-spencer-win-double-back-pay-in-wage-theft-case/
in this week's #Iowa #Worker's Almanac:
- worked during 2015 bird flu? get your money!
- #nursinghome closures (and #job losses) accelerating
- more WDM strip club #workers suing for #wagetheft
& more