Workers' struggle against money-loving company continues (lemmy.world)
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New Survey Reveals That Many Game Developers Consider Their Career Unsustainable (www.ign.com)
IGN can exclusively reveal the details from IATSE's 2023 Gameworkers.org Rates and Conditions Survey, where the organization asked hundreds of video game developers about their pay, benefits, and working conditions.
Workers stage Japan's first strike in decades over department store sale (www.reuters.com)
63% of US workers unable to pay a $500 emergency expense, survey finds (www.cnbc.com)
Millions of additional salaried workers could get overtime pay under Biden proposal (www.npr.org)
A proposal from the Labor Department would make an estimated 3.6 million salaried workers newly eligible for overtime pay. It covers workers earning less than $55,000 per year.
Amazon CEO says 'it’s probably not going to work out' for employees who defy return-to-office policy (apnews.com)
The salary a single person needs to get by in every U.S. state (www.cnbc.com)
Amazon CEO Tells Workers: Return to Office or 'It’s Probably Not Going to Work Out for You' (gizmodo.com)
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.”
Biden’s NLRB Brings Workers’ Rights Back From the Dead (prospect.org)
FYI: Ed Sheeran is a scab. (jezebel.com)
What if employers could gauge the ‘moods’ of workers? A dangerous new tech gains ground in India (scroll.in)
Emotion recognition systems are finding growing use, from monitoring customer responses to ads to scanning for ‘distressed’ women in danger.
Return-to-office orders look like a way for elite, work-obsessed CEOs to grab power back from employees (www.businessinsider.com)
White-collar workers temporarily enjoyed unprecedented power during the pandemic to decide where and how they worked.
National Labor Relations Board slams union-busting tactics by employers (www.courthousenews.com)
The new ruling forces employers found interfering with a union election to immediately recognize the union without a new election.
Outdoor Workers Are Climate Victims (newrepublic.com)
How extreme weather could unite the environmental and labor movements
Why Managers Exist (It's Not Why You Think) - Second Thought (youtu.be)
150,000 Workers Vote to Authorize Strikes at Stellantis, GM, and Ford (www.investopedia.com)
150,000 workers vote to authorize strikes at Stellantis, GM, and Ford — Workers are fighting for increased pay, retirement pensions, and better benefits::Workers at the automotive Big Three have voted to authorize a strike when contracts expire on Sept. 14, bringing the nation one step closer to a major labor stoppage costing...
Companies That Try to Union-Bust Will Be Forced to Recognize Union, NLRB Says (newrepublic.com)
CEOs of top 100 ‘low-wage’ US firms earn $601 for every $1 by worker, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
These companies paid their employees a median wage of $31,672 in 2022, while their CEOs took home an average $15.3m
What the AMPTP is refusing to grant the WGA vs. their revenues (lemmy.world)
Kaiser Permanente frontline workers to vote on strike (thehill.com)
Since the International Brotherhood of Teamsters averted a strike when it ratified a new contract with UPS on Tuesday, the Kaiser coalition is currently embroiled in the largest single-employer negotiations in the U.S....
Construction Bids for EV Projects in Georgia Go to Gov. Kemp’s Donors (prospect.org)
What the electric car transition really means for autoworkers (www.axios.com)
A big sticking point in contract talks between Detroit automakers and the United Auto Workers union is the popular assertion that it takes fewer workers to manufacture electric vehicles (EVs) than conventional cars.
127,000 New York Workers Have Been Victims of Wage Theft (www.propublica.org)
An analysis of federal and state databases sheds new light on the prevalence and scale of wage theft in New York restaurants and other industries, placing the total wages stolen in one five-year period at more than $203 million.
WGA & SAG-AFTRA Join Labor Organizations Calling On California To Grant Unemployment Benefits To Striking Workers (deadline.com)
SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America West are among more than 20 labor organizations lobbying for passage of a bill pending in the California legislature that would make striking workers in t…
