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Welcome to 'The Great Detachment': Workers are checked out—and so are their bosses (fortune.com)

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Escaping Oklahoma: A Worker’s Story From Inside an Illegal Marijuana Operation (www.propublica.org)

Actors demand action over 'disgusting' explicit video game scenes (www.bbc.com)

How Donald Trump Undermined the Health and Safety of American Workers (www.commondreams.org)

National Black farmers group says supporting GOP ticket "off the table" after JD Vance's attack (www.motherjones.com)

How extreme heat burns chronically ill workers (www.motherjones.com)

Californians will vote on a $18 minimum wage. Workers already want $25 and more (calmatters.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....

Starbucks is giving incoming CEO Brian Niccol $85 million in cash and stock as he departs Chipotle (www.cnbc.com)

Starbucks plans to pay incoming CEO Brian Niccol $10 million in cash and $75 million in equity awards when he joins the company from Chipotle. Niccol will be paid a base salary of $1.6 million annually, with the opportunity to earn up to $7.2 million more in cash.

Bromley: Cleaner 'wins' holiday after bosses ban fundraiser cash - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)

As Trump and Harris call to end tip taxes, a wider minimum wage war heats up (www.nbcnews.com)

Google’s ex-CEO blames remote working on the company’s AI woes (fortune.com)

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UN envoy doubles down on criticism that Canada’s foreign worker program is a ‘breeding ground’ for slavery (www.thestar.com)

Tim Hortons criticized for looking abroad to staff Ontario cafes (www.blogto.com)

UAW Files Federal Labor Charges Against Donald Trump and Elon Musk, Alleging They Tried to ‘Threaten and Intimidate Workers’ (www.wired.com)

‘We know who built this country’: Walz courts union workers in first solo event (www.theguardian.com)

UAW Files Federal Labor Charges Against Donald Trump and Elon Musk for Attempting to Intimidate and Threaten Workers (uaw.org)

Remote Walmart Employees Slam Company After Being Forced To Relocate To Arkansas; Several Already Quit (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

Remote Walmart employees across the United States are now questioning the company’s newly implemented in-person work policy. Some employees who have been ordered to relocate are even considering resigning....

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In 2019, Microsoft tried a 4-day workweek in Japan. Productivity jumped 40% (www.cnn.com)

Harris says she supports eliminating federal taxes on tips (www.nbcnews.com)

Dallas Black Dance Theatre fired its entire company of dancers, after they unionized (www.dallasnews.com)

Dallas Black Dance Theatre terminated its entire company of dancers Friday, according to a statement posted on social media by the labor union representing the dancers. A national organizer for the union confirmed Saturday that nine dancers were impacted....

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