Accurate (lemmy.world)
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)
cross-posted from: feddit.ch/post/1259391...
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,...
United Flight Attendants Vote 99.99% to Authorize Strike (www.commondreams.org)
FTC effort to ban noncompete agreements for employees rejected by federal judge in Texas (www.pbs.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....
House Dems Unveil Sweeping Bill to Protect Worker Rights and Safety (www.commondreams.org)
Your opinion on HSE
Hi....
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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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.”...
Is anyone else tired of “employee engagement”?
I am so sick of employee engagement surveys and the resulting exercise in futility around soliciting changes that never get made. It’s honestly one of the more evil and deceitful processes that capitalism and academia have ever teamed up to create.