Dell tells remote workers that they won’t be eligible for promotion unless they go hybrid (arstechnica.com)
Richest 1% own more than 40% of country's wealth: Report (www.livemint.com)
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
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.”...
Hotel sued over claim they ignored Black man’s resume until he used a white name (www.independent.co.uk)
Joe Biden is old. So is Donald Trump. So are millions of other American workers (www.usatoday.com)
This article gets so close to an important point and then misses it.
Student Debt Has Reached $1.3 Trillion, compared to just $243 billion in 2003 (medium.com)
Kotak’s CEO says Indians should work 84 hours a week (hellobanker.in)
Why ‘poly-employment’ may be 2024’s next big work trend, working more than one job is getting a re-brand (www.fastcompany.com)
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‘In the US they think we’re communists!’ The 70,000 workers showing the world another way to earn a living (www.theguardian.com)
The Basque Country’s Mondragón Corporation is the globe’s largest industrial co-operative, with workers paying for the right to share in its profits – and its losses. In return for giving more to their employer, they expect more back.
Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits (www.nola.com)
A Louisiana House committee voted Thursday to repeal a law requiring employers to give child workers lunch breaks and to cut unemployment benefits — part of a push by Republicans to remove constraints on employers and reduce aid for injured and unemployed workers....
Dell finding ways to absolutely suck as an employer (arstechnica.com)
'I'm furious.' Prime Minister calls Bell's mass layoffs a 'garbage decision' (mobilesyrup.com)
Labor Unions Are Industrial Policy (www.thebignewsletter.com)
Judge: Starbucks violated federal labor law by withholding pay hikes from unionized workers | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
Starbucks violated federal labor law when it increased wages and offered new perks and benefits only to non-union employees, a National Labor Relations Board judge found Thursday.
‘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)
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)
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
