Bill Maher postpones return to the air, the latest TV host to balk at working during writers strike (apnews.com)
Bill Maher has delayed returning to his HBO talk show during the ongoing strike by writers and actors, a decision that follows similar pauses over the weekend by “The Drew Barrymore Show,” “The Talk” and “The Jennifer Hudson Show.”...
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Pluralistic: Bill Willingham puts his graphic novel series "Fables" into the public domain (pluralistic.net)
This was the culmination of a string of wage-thefts in which the company misreported his royalties and had to be dragged into paying him his due. When the company "practically dared" Willingham to sue ("knowing it would be a long and debilitating process") he snapped.
Labor’s Militant Creativity (prospect.org)
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UAW justifies wage demands by pointing to CEO pay raises. So how high were they? (apnews.com)
The United Auto Workers union has made CEO pay a central part of their argument for a big worker wage increase.
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Flight attendants threaten strikes over low pay and unpaid work (www.theguardian.com)
Alaska Airlines, American and United could all be disrupted as air crew demand fairer share of vast profits
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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...
Jim Cramer Says OEMs Should Move American Auto Manufacturing To Mexico For $5/hour In Response To UAW Demands (jalopnik.com)
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Ubisoft Montreal's mandatory return-to-office order reportedly leaves staff in "turmoil" (www.eurogamer.net)
Ubisoft Montreal - the studio behind the likes of Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Far Cry 5 - has been accused of leaving…
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A pastor invited to DeSantis' Disney board meeting quoted the Bible telling people not to 'resist authority' as it strips workers' park perks (www.businessinsider.com)
Retirees and employees at Disney World are losing their perks under the new district board, which says benefits like park passes are unethical.
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McDonald's franchisee group says new $20 minimum wage California fast-food bill will cause 'devastating financial blow' (www.cnbc.com)
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Automaker CEO Elon Musk Strips UAW Twitter Verification as Union Strikes Against Big Three (theintercept.com)
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Unionize Amazon Everywhere - On the Ground at the Most Important Union Drive in the Country (youtu.be)
On Strike! is a news show that covers the labor movement that mainstream media refuses to honestly cover.
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Frontier Airlines CEO says the pandemic made workers 'lazy' and less productive: 'People are still allowing people to work from home, all this silliness, right?' (www.businessinsider.com)
Frontier Airlines CEO Barry Biffle blamed higher overhead costs on workers being less productive, calling it a "society-wide" problem.
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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.
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UAW workers launch unprecedented strike against all Big Three automakers | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
The United Auto Workers union is on strike against General Motors, Ford and Stellantis, the first time in its history that it has struck all three of the nation’s unionized automakers at the same time.
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Is this significant? (www.npr.org)
I have questions about this event....
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Marvel Studios' VFX Staff Unanimously Votes to Unionize (gizmodo.com)
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Class catastrophe (lemmy.world)
@saraqaed
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NLRB Complaint Calls a Noncompete Agreement an Unfair Labor Practice (prospect.org)
The NLRB’s action adds another dimension to the Biden administration’s assault on noncompetes. The FTC proposed a ban on most noncompete agreements earlier this year.
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Durham city workers are striking (pbs.twimg.com)
More info at nitter.net/ue150union
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Tim Gurner apologises over call for more unemployment to fix worker attitudes (www.bbc.com)
Sorry not sorry teehee
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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....
CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978 (www.epi.org)
“average top CEO compensation was $15.6 million in 2021, up 9.8% since 2020. In 2021, the ratio of CEO-to-typical-worker compensation was 399-to-1 under the realized measure of CEO pay; that is up from 366-to-1 in 2020 and a big increase from 20-to-1 in 1965 and 59-to-1 in 1989”
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Marvel VFX Workers Unanimously Vote to Unionize In Industry First (www.vice.com)
Visual effects workers at the studio voted 32-0 to unionize, marking a historic milestone in their field....
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