Summary of the 2023 WGA MBA (www.wgacontract2023.org)
The following is a summary of the deal terms for the 2023 MBA. It is a simplified version of the Memorandum of Agreement (“MOA”), which contains the full text of the new provisions.
Turkopticon and The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute Applaud Congressional Letter Holding Big Tech Accountable for Data Worker Abuse (www.dair-institute.org)
Turkopticon and the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) applaud the Congressional announcement of a letter by Sen. Markey (D-Mass) and Rep. Jayapal (WA-07) which demands that Amazon, Google, OpenAI, and other tech giants answer questions about the working conditions of data workers, especially those involved in training and...
Thousands of Greek workers take to the streets in national strike against government's anti-labor bill : Peoples Dispatch (peoplesdispatch.org)
Unions organized a country-wide strike against a bill introduced by the conservative New Democracy government in Greece. The bill seeks to increase daily and weekly working hours, among other changes
UAW on Strike! At the Picket Line in Toledo (youtu.be)
Top 20 CEO pay in S&P 500 is disgusting (www.visualcapitalist.com)
If Ryan Choen had taken a salary in that leauge GameStop’s turnaround would be delayed by several quarters or possibly years. My executive chairman has other plans 🙌
Labor’s Militant Creativity (prospect.org)
English teacher to return to Nagasaki Univ. indefinitely after employment suit settlement (mainichi.jp)
NAGASAKI -- An English teacher whose employment contract with Nagasaki University was terminated just before he would have been eligible to claim an unfixed term is set to return to work indefinitely after a court settlement.
Durham city workers are striking (pbs.twimg.com)
More info at nitter.net/ue150union
Kentucky Autoworkers at Ford Are Preparing for a Strike (jacobin.com)
In past negotiation cycles, the UAW has chosen one of the Big Three legacy automakers (Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis) as a strike target, picking the company the union believed would agree to the best deal in order to set a pattern for the remaining two....
New Survey Reveals That Many Game Developers Consider Their Career Unsustainable (www.ign.com)
IGN can exclusively reveal the details from IATSE's 2023 Gameworkers.org Rates and Conditions Survey, where the organization asked hundreds of video game developers about their pay, benefits, and working conditions.
Workers stage Japan's first strike in decades over department store sale (www.reuters.com)
WGA & SAG-AFTRA Join Labor Organizations Calling On California To Grant Unemployment Benefits To Striking Workers (deadline.com)
SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America West are among more than 20 labor organizations lobbying for passage of a bill pending in the California legislature that would make striking workers in t…
WGA Slams Studios’ Latest Offer & Meeting As Attempt To Make Guild “Cave”; “Not To Bargain, But To Jam Us” (deadline.com)
Just hours after the studios and streamers made public their latest “comprehensive package” towards a deal with the striking WGA, the guild has responded – and its seems the AMPTP and top CEOs may …
New York Workers Are Waiting on $79 Million in Back Wages (www.propublica.org)
Nearly 4m fewer UK working days in past year due to strike action, study says (www.theguardian.com)
Resolution Foundation report says much of industrial action ‘fuelled’ by public sector workers’ anger over falls in real-terms pay
The Very REAL Victims of Wage Theft | The Humanist Report (www.youtube.com)
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Hollywood writers union mulls proposal from studios that would end strike (www.theguardian.com)
The Climate Culprits Blocking Workers’ Heat and Wildfire Protections (www.levernews.com)
Rerum Novarum (On Capital and Labor) by Pope Leo XIII in 1891 (www.papalencyclicals.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/2861986...
Google Illegally Cut Contract Staffers Who Worked on AI, Union Alleges (www.bloomberg.com)
The Alphabet Workers Union accused Google and Accenture of violating federal labor law, which prohibits retaliation against employees for organizing
Biden Admin to Restore Labor Rule Gutted in 1980s (prospect.org)
All I want is a job with a decent number of hours – why is that so hard to find? - Sharron Spice, The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/ZfHr3...
Strikes spiked in July, as workers seek higher wages to keep up with inflation (www.washingtonpost.com)
The chicken industry’s worker safety problem (youtu.be)
Indian state’s new tax on digital platforms sets gig workers against firms (www.aljazeera.com)
Gig workers have welcomed a new law in India’s largest state Rajasthan to impose a tax on revenue earned by digital platforms that operate in the state, including global giants Uber and Amazon, even as industry groups have warned it will eventually hurt customers and derail business in the state....
