Starbucks’ new CEO faces backlash over 1,000-mile commute to Seattle office (www.theguardian.com)
U.K. might follow Europe in fining employers who message staff after-hours (fortune.com)
The U.K. is considering joining a host of other European countries in making it more costly for restless employers to contact their employees after the working day ends....
Investors Brace for a Jobs Wipeout (www.nytimes.com)
FTC effort to ban noncompete agreements for employees rejected by federal judge in Texas (www.pbs.org)
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'Fed Up With Being Exploited,' Unionized Cornell Workers Strike as Students Arrive (www.commondreams.org)
As Trump and Harris call to end tip taxes, a wider minimum wage war heats up (www.nbcnews.com)
UAW Threatens Strike, Accusing Stellantis of Contract Breach (www.commondreams.org)
Project 2025 would make workplace discrimination a lot easier (www.motherjones.com)
'Enough Is Enough': Indian Doctors Stage Nationwide Strike After Rape, Murder of Trainee (www.commondreams.org)
Welcome to 'The Great Detachment': Workers are checked out—and so are their bosses (fortune.com)
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Starbucks is giving incoming CEO Brian Niccol $85 million in cash and stock as he departs Chipotle (www.cnbc.com)
Starbucks plans to pay incoming CEO Brian Niccol $10 million in cash and $75 million in equity awards when he joins the company from Chipotle. Niccol will be paid a base salary of $1.6 million annually, with the opportunity to earn up to $7.2 million more in cash.
UAW Rips 'Corporate Greed' of John Deere as Mass Layoffs Follow $43 Billion in Stock Buybacks (www.commondreams.org)
Google’s ex-CEO blames remote working on the company’s AI woes (fortune.com)
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Remote Walmart Employees Slam Company After Being Forced To Relocate To Arkansas; Several Already Quit (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
Remote Walmart employees across the United States are now questioning the company’s newly implemented in-person work policy. Some employees who have been ordered to relocate are even considering resigning....
The dark side of the ‘summer of a lifetime’: young Britons exploited in jobs at Mediterranean party resorts (www.theguardian.com)
How Donald Trump Undermined the Health and Safety of American Workers (www.commondreams.org)
Escaping Oklahoma: A Worker’s Story From Inside an Illegal Marijuana Operation (www.propublica.org)
National Black farmers group says supporting GOP ticket "off the table" after JD Vance's attack (www.motherjones.com)
How extreme heat burns chronically ill workers (www.motherjones.com)
Californians will vote on a $18 minimum wage. Workers already want $25 and more (calmatters.org)
AI stole my job and my work, and my boss didn’t know or care (www.theregister.com)
Earlier this year I got fired and replaced by a robot. And the managers who made the decision didn’t tell me – or anyone else affected by the change – that it was happening....
Bromley: Cleaner 'wins' holiday after bosses ban fundraiser cash - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
‘We know who built this country’: Walz courts union workers in first solo event (www.theguardian.com)
UN envoy doubles down on criticism that Canada’s foreign worker program is a ‘breeding ground’ for slavery (www.thestar.com)
