Are there any political or social movements that try to mandate all business be worker owned cooperatives and how can we support them?
I’m all for higher minimum wages, unions, paid leaves and other forms of worker protection, but it seems like the most forms of worker protection focus on maintaining a division between an employer(s) who owns the business and the employee who makes money for the business but does not own it. IMO, this division is unethical...
The hidden cost of your Prime Day purchases (www.vox.com)
My work is organizing right now, this afternoon, and I don't know what I'm doing. What are the best practices? What are the pitfslls?
I work in a restaurant, high-end, multiple locations across the US. We are in Chicago, specifically. We have corporate in for the week as we launch a new menu with training for the whole team every day. Yesterday, second day, right before the end of the day, they sprung on us that they are changing our pay structure....
Teamsters social media attacks leader over Republican convention speech (www.theguardian.com)
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Dollar General has 48hrs to make stores safe or face more penalties after $12m fine (www.independent.co.uk)
90% of billionaires are men, and only 15% of female billionaires are self-made (medium.com)
Michigan’s thousands of farmworkers are unprotected, poorly paid, uncounted and often exploited (theconversation.com)
Zoom exec calls in-office work mandate a ‘success’ — despite working remotely himself (www.kron4.com)
Restaurant group in Massachusetts is trying to reject a public vote on paying tipped workers (lemmy.world)
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The Supreme Court Is Demolishing Decades of Precedent on Workers’ Rights (truthout.org)
Hotel sued over claim they ignored Black man’s resume until he used a white name (www.independent.co.uk)
Nearly 90% Amazon India workers don’t get time for bathroom breaks, survey finds (www.independent.co.uk)
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The retirement savings crisis: Why more Americans can’t afford to stop working (www.usatoday.com)
A million more U.S. workers can now get overtime pay: 'Most employers absolutely do want to get this right' (www.cnbc.com)
Petition to pass paid leave nationwide delivered to all members of congress (abcnews.go.com)
The United States is one of seven countries globally that does not have any guaranteed form of paid leave, the petition states.
'War on Workers': Unions Denounce GOP Efforts to Undo Pro-Labor Biden Rules (www.commondreams.org)
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Why Did the National Education Association Just Lock Out Its Own Staffers? (truthout.org)
How Japan has avoided the gaming industry’s persistent layoffs (www.theverge.com)
Pay for Lawyers Is So High People Are Comparing It to the N.B.A. (www.nytimes.com)
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Growing number of ‘unemployables’ frustrated by the job market (www.theglobeandmail.com)
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Federal judge partially blocks U.S. ban on noncompetes (www.npr.org)
Federal judges have blocked so much progress that Biden, his administration, and appointees have attempted to make. It’s absurd