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How the 'lazy girl job' took over work (www.bbc.com)

This article is quite light on details. Is this anything new, or just people looking for easy, flexible jobs with a different name?

Anatomy of a sellout: UPS tentative agreement includes two-tier wages for part-timers, freezes to pension contributions for some (www.wsws.org)

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Snoop Dogg shows support for striking actors by canceling 'Doggystyle' concerts (thegrio.com)

The "Snoop Dogg & Friends: 30th Anniversary of Doggystyle" concerts have been canceled in support of the WGA and SAG/AFTRA strikes.

Costco Japan Pays Workers a Fair Wage, Local Businesses Seethe - Unseen Japan (unseen-japan.com)

Costco Japan says it'll pay a higher than market wage in all its warehouses countrywide. That has some local business owners fuming.

I hope memes are allowed here, sorry if not (slrpnk.net)

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“We’ve Changed the Game”: Teamsters Win Historic UPS Contract (teamster.org)

Today, the Teamsters reached the most historic tentative agreement for workers in the history of UPS, protecting and rewarding more than 340,000 UPS Teamsters nationwide. The overwhelmingly lucrative contract raises wages for all workers, creates more full-time jobs, and includes dozens of workplace protections and improvements....

FedEx pilots reject 30% pay hike proposal, but a strike isn't imminent (edition.cnn.com)

Pilots for FedEx have rejected a tentative labor deal. But that doesn’t mean they’re about to walk off the job just as UPS is threatened with its own strike by 340,000 drivers and other hourly ground workers.

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

Why is technology not making us more productive? (www.bbc.com)

Cartoon Network & WB Animation staff file to unionize (www.polygon.com)

DoorDash fired an employee for trying to organize a union, NLRB alleges (www.theverge.com)

[In These Times] Workers at The Trevor Project unionize (inthesetimes.com)

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N.J. nurses vote to strike, reject hospital’s settlement (www.nj.com)

Nurses voted to strike Monday night, seeking greater hiring, pay hikes and more

Landlord Hires Three Men To Break Into Tenant's Apartment and Threaten Her to Settle Dispute. Isn't Arrested. (www.wmtw.com)

Leslie Jones Speaks On The Actors and Writers Hollywood Strike (youtube.com)

Got tipping rage? This barista reveals what it's like to be behind the tip screen (www.npr.org)

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Writers Requesting David Zaslav Pay Up on Lost Wages via Venmo (www.themarysue.com)

Writers found David Zaslav's Venmo and successfully interrupted his time at billionaire summer camp with payment requests for lost wages.

[Texas Tribune] “We are dying”: Houston workers protest new state law removing water break requirements (www.texastribune.org)

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[Galveston Daily News] La Marque UPS workers rally for better conditions as strike looms (www.galvnews.com)

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Jamie Dimon says employees can go work somewhere else if they don't like long commutes into the office, thinks remote work doesn't cut it (www.businessinsider.com)

Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas — for free, forever (www.theverge.com)

“This ‘groundbreaking’ AI proposal that they gave us yesterday, they proposed that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get one day’s pay, and their companies should own that scan, their image, their likeness and should be able to use it for the rest of eternity on any project they want, with no...