‘We Can't Defend Ourselves’: Amazon Isn’t Doing Enough About Its Dog Bite Problem, Drivers Say (www.vice.com)
Drivers who spoke to Motherboard described not being allowed to carry defensive spray and inadequate training....
Confused Automakers Braced for Strike at the Wrong Plants (theintercept.com)
The Big Three automakers stalled production and moved parts out of plants across the country ahead of the strike, according to rank-and-file UAW members.
An Introduction To Class Warfare For The Software Engineer (medium.com)
If you work at one of the large tech companies that, in the last few weeks [or months], have laid off thousands of employees, you may be wondering what the hell is going on. Especially if the company you’re working for is not actually struggling economically right now. If you work for Google, say, you must be thinking, “What...
Union leaders demand change following Kroger employee death (www.fox13memphis.com)
“Them guys said he was dripping in sweat. Them guys said that guy was asking for water,” said Teamster 667 Union Chief Maurice Wiggins. “He did walk to produce a couple of times to cool off, and that’s where he ended up passing at, in the produce section on the dock in front of all his coworkers.”
Companies That Try to Union-Bust Will Be Forced to Recognize Union, NLRB Says (newrepublic.com)
Everyone is Broke and Tired - Tiktok Vents About Inflation (youtu.be)
Grindr Tells Unionizing Workers: Move Across The Country or Be Fired (www.vice.com)
Two weeks after workers at the company announced a union drive, Grindr management has issued a return-to-office policy that workers say is retaliatory....
How Microsoft's ruthless employee evaluation system annihilated team collaboration (tryingtruly.substack.com)
What was the most illegal thing your workplace has done?
Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas — for free, forever (www.theverge.com)
“This ‘groundbreaking’ AI proposal that they gave us yesterday, they proposed that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get one day’s pay, and their companies should own that scan, their image, their likeness and should be able to use it for the rest of eternity on any project they want, with no...
Sega of America workers overwhelmingly vote to unionize (www.engadget.com)
They say AEGIS-CWA is the 'largest multi-department union of organized workers in the entire gaming industry
Gen Z are the most disgruntled workers and that's a problem for employers (finance.yahoo.com)
The workers at Bethesda Game Studios have fully unionized (www.engadget.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....
The hidden cost of your Prime Day purchases (www.vox.com)
Uber is locking New York drivers out of its apps and blaming a city pay rule (www.engadget.com)
California to become third state to mandate heat protections for indoor workers (www.nbcnews.com)
Gig companies spent $224 million to write their own labor law. The state Supreme Court could throw it out (calmatters.org)
Why IBM employees in Brazil are suing to be classified as tech workers. The company registered itself as a sales company, making the employees work 4 more hours a week and get paid less. (restofworld.org)
IBM registered itself (in Brazil) as a sales company....
Those of you who are friendly with your coworkers but no friends, where exactly do you lay the boundary?
C'mon Charlie! (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14361659
[United States] Gender wage gap persists in 2023: Women are paid roughly 22% less than men on average (www.epi.org)
California’s minimum wage isn’t enough to keep up with workers’ costs of living, new report says (calmatters.org)
Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands (apnews.com)
The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes to Coca-Cola.
'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs (www.pcgamer.com)
I assume that somebody, somewhere, has done the detached corporate penny-pinching to make this all make sense on paper. But this is a disastrous move from a consumer goodwill standpoint. If you have the CEO of a studio which handed you a major commercial success publicly mourning the depth and scope of your layoffs, something's...
