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3-5% required for social change (piped.video)

Do we really need just 3-5% to change the country for the better?

4 careers where workers will have to change jobs by 2030 due to AI and shifts in how we shop, according to a McKinsey study (www.businessinsider.in)

Max Alvarez of Breaking Points interviews whistleblower Michael Lindesy II on the greed and corruption of the rail industry (www.youtube.com)

Whistleblower SPEAKS OUT On Corrupt Rail Industry | The Art Of Class War Max Alvarez interviews Michael Paul Lindsey to discuss the greed and corruption of the rail industry in the US.

Hiroshima garbage-collection firm attracts women with free day care to find success (mainichi.jp)

HIROSHIMA -- After a garbage collection company in this west Japan city made efforts to improve its working conditions and go beyond a male-oriented atmosphere, women, including many with children, now represent around 40% of its workforce.

Our generation was told liberal economics would make us free. Look at us now. We were misled (www.theguardian.com)

We switched close but stifling social networks for a capitalist safety net that offered modern life choices. Now we don’t have either

The Labor Organizing Summit | Part 1 - Featuring Chris Smalls (piped.video)

Has anyone heard of this summit going on?...

How Microsoft's ruthless employee evaluation system annihilated team collaboration (tryingtruly.substack.com)

Why is technology not making us more productive? (www.bbc.com)

How the 'lazy girl job' took over work (www.bbc.com)

This article is quite light on details. Is this anything new, or just people looking for easy, flexible jobs with a different name?

What was the most illegal thing your workplace has done?

Cartoon Network & WB Animation staff file to unionize (www.polygon.com)

I hope memes are allowed here, sorry if not (slrpnk.net)

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/942202...

Anatomy of a sellout: UPS tentative agreement includes two-tier wages for part-timers, freezes to pension contributions for some (www.wsws.org)

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Costco Japan Pays Workers a Fair Wage, Local Businesses Seethe - Unseen Japan (unseen-japan.com)

Costco Japan says it'll pay a higher than market wage in all its warehouses countrywide. That has some local business owners fuming.

Snoop Dogg shows support for striking actors by canceling 'Doggystyle' concerts (thegrio.com)

The "Snoop Dogg & Friends: 30th Anniversary of Doggystyle" concerts have been canceled in support of the WGA and SAG/AFTRA strikes.

“We’ve Changed the Game”: Teamsters Win Historic UPS Contract (teamster.org)

Today, the Teamsters reached the most historic tentative agreement for workers in the history of UPS, protecting and rewarding more than 340,000 UPS Teamsters nationwide. The overwhelmingly lucrative contract raises wages for all workers, creates more full-time jobs, and includes dozens of workplace protections and improvements....

FedEx pilots reject 30% pay hike proposal, but a strike isn't imminent (edition.cnn.com)

Pilots for FedEx have rejected a tentative labor deal. But that doesn’t mean they’re about to walk off the job just as UPS is threatened with its own strike by 340,000 drivers and other hourly ground workers.

The hypocrisy of wage inequality (masto.ai)

Powerful poetry read by Porsha O. On "Capitalism". (youtu.be)

Pettiness as its peak. Trimmed trees at universal studios picket lines. (lemmy.world)

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Hollywood Studios’ WGA Strike Endgame Is To Let Writers Go Broke Before Resuming Talks (deadline.com)

“The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,” a studio executive told Deadline. Acknowledging the cold-as-ice approach, several other sources reiterated the statement. One insider called it “a cruel but necessary evil.”...