Will Billionaires Destroy Worker Rights? | Robert Reich (www.youtube.com)
Southwest Airlines flight attendants land new contract with immediate 22% raise thanks to the Transport Workers Union Local 556 (www.msn.com)
From layoffs to lawsuits, billionaires are striking back to crush worker power (therealnews.com)
The absurdity of the return-to-office movement (www.cnn.com)
Health care workers picket outside US hospitals in multiple states, kicking off 3-day strike (apnews.com)
Video on subject, The Hill:...
It’s A Deal! WGA & AMPTP Reach Tentative Agreement To End Writers Strike (deadline.com)
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Tesla is the next biggest union target in the United States. Sorry, Elon Musk | Hamilton Nolan (www.theguardian.com)
The carmaker is now US labor’s most important target. If Musk doesn’t like that, he’s welcome to settle it with an auto worker by cage match
‘We are burned out’: UAW ready to take on automakers in contract negotiations (www.theguardian.com)
"The forced overtime – we are working to death. We are working 12-hour shifts, seven days a week, every day, week after week, month after month, year after year. We are burned out,” added Ferdinandsen. “These companies are profiting the way that they are and trying to convince the American people that they’re hurting,...
If you ever worked shifts and transitioned to a 9 to 5 job, how difficult was the change?
I’m a nurse working shifts and sometimes 5 days without a pause and I still don’t know if I’m gonna take one of the 2 9 to 5 jobs my hospital system has offered. I’d earn less money, but I’m already 45 years old and I don’t know if I should call it quits and settle for a regular job 5 days a week and free weekends...
Biden Urged to 'Put Up a Major Fight' Over Mass Layoffs at John Deere (www.commondreams.org)
According to the Federal Reserve Americans owe over $1.6 trillion in student loan debt, with the average borrower owing $37,667 (medium.com)
Why is this Community on the Boot-Licker Instance?
Title says it all. How are you going to manage workers reform from the neolib trashy reddit clone taht is LW?
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)
I walked out today
Got laid off in June and have been fortunate enough to be on gardening leave until the end of this month. The job search has not gone well so far and I started getting desperate....
Workers of the world unite! Happy Labor Day! (lemmy.world)
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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)
