Union With Labor Dispute of Its Own Threatened To Cut Off Workers’ Health Benefits (kffhealthnews.org)
Video game performers are becoming Hollywood stars in their own right − and are on strike to be paid and protected accordingly (theconversation.com)
Union for Apple workers in Towson reaches ‘historic’ contract with tech giant [Cody Boteler | 7/26/24 | The Baltimore Banner] (lemmy.world)
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1 in 3 companies have dropped college degree requirements for some jobs. See which fields they're in. (www.cbsnews.com)
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Video game performers call strike against gaming companies (www.npr.org)
SAG-AFTRA Calls Strike Against Major Video Game Companies After Nearly 2 Years Of Contract Talks (deadline.com)
Video game performers will go on strike over artificial intelligence concerns (apnews.com)
Hollywood’s video game performers voted to go on strike Thursday, throwing part of the entertainment industry into another work stoppage after talks for a new contract with major game studios broke down over artificial intelligence protections....
AFT Signs On to UAW's Push for 2028 General Strike (www.commondreams.org)
Unions who think Republicans are warming to labor rights are getting played (www.theguardian.com)
Sam Altman's UBI study finds that money can buy happiness • The Register (www.theregister.com)
AI Is Already Taking Jobs in the Video Game Industry (www.wired.com)
US Teachers Pushed Their Union to Divest From Israel. What Happened? (truthout.org)
Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO (finance.yahoo.com)
Can Engineers Stage a Coup and Take Over Their Company? (utkusen.medium.com)
The workers at Bethesda Game Studios have fully unionized (www.engadget.com)
Colombia's president pushes for health and labor changes as he opens new session of congress (apnews.com)
Satnam lost his arm and was allegedly left to die on the roadside. This is the horror of exploitation on Italian farms (www.theguardian.com)
Disneyland workers in Anaheim, California, vote to authorize strike (www.theguardian.com)
Disneyland workers say they live in cars, motels due to low pay (www.bbc.com)
Never believe the hype. (lemmy.world)
Teamsters president challenges GOP on union support at RNC [17:41 | JUL 15 24 | NBC News] (youtu.be)
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Thousands of Disneyland workers are expected to authorize a potential strike. It would be the first in 40 years (www.cnn.com)
Are there any political or social movements that try to mandate all business be worker owned cooperatives and how can we support them?
I’m all for higher minimum wages, unions, paid leaves and other forms of worker protection, but it seems like the most forms of worker protection focus on maintaining a division between an employer(s) who owns the business and the employee who makes money for the business but does not own it. IMO, this division is unethical...