Shill accounts have been pushing pro-corporate propaganda aimed at stopping workers unionizing. Instead of treating their workers like human beings and letting them negotiate their rights, big companies resort to disinformation campaigns to make sure that their workers have as …
NEW YORK (WPIX) — Police on Tuesday arrested two former employees of the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office on allegations they stole credit cards from multiple bodies in the city’s custody and charged thousands in unauthorized purchases, according to …
As the political battle over working conditions heats up, tech giant Amazon is rewarding warehouse workers who tweet positively about their work. The practice was originally reported in 2018 by TechCrunch, which described how Amazon gave “fulfillment center ambassadors” rewards such as paid days off …
Amazon, the most powerful e-commerce company in the world, has a weak history of trying to correct its dangerous labor practices that often lead to the exploitation of blue-collar workers. Not only is the e-commerce company using its power to censor and deplatform content and organizations …
https://twitter.com/scootdooby/status/1370708245187289089 Two-thirds of entry-level tech jobs go to compliant foreign guest-workers, not to the young American professionals who may create a new wave of establishment-shaking companies, according to a report from Bloomberg. In 2018, “the U.S. had between 96,000 and …
President Biden was elected on a promise that he would not raise taxes on people earning less than $400,000. The administration’s recently announced tax hike on “big business” will break this promise in practice, if not under the letter of …
Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio threw his weight of support behind the Amazon workers attempting to unionize at a Bessemer, Alabama warehouse. Rubio endorsed the Bessemer warehouse workers’ effort to unionize in a USA Today editorial Friday morning, in which he sharply …
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by DCG I’d say it’s more of a reflection of the feckless demorat leaders in King County. From MyNorthwest.com: Homelessness is an issue that’s gripping the state, and of course, most predominately here in Seattle. Now, a King County judge is sounding …
via visualcapitalist: For the world’s most innovative companies, the stated goal of attracting top talent is not simply an HR mantra – it’s a matter of survival. Whether we’re talking about a giant like Google that is constantly searching to add …
Earlier this month, Amazon announced plans to hire 3,000 remote workers in 18 states. The job listing for customer service associates, posted on March 4th, indicates that the role pays $15 an hour, provides health care coverage after 90 days of …
via moneymaven: Despite a contract that prohibits MGM from using robots to displace workers, the casino seeks to implement those plans. VegasSlotsOnline reports MGM Could Replace Many Employees with Robots MGM, one of the major global casino companies, is considering replacing some …
via latimes: After 36 years as a California government transportation engineer, Bijan Sartipi retired with much more than a goodbye party: He was paid $405,000 for time off he never used — one of more than 450 state workers who took …
Of course this is blacked out in the U.S. MSM because in the context of the Class War the media is the tool of the corporate masters. When the worker class starts winning the real war, The Class War, the …
by DCG The Hollywood Reporter reports that many entertainment workers are living out of their cars due to worsening income inequality. According to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, 15,748 Angelenos currently live in his or her vehicle. Those in the entertainment industry …
Via Marketwatch Robots aren’t replacing everyone, but a quarter of U.S. jobs will be severely disrupted as artificial intelligence accelerates the automation of existing work, according to a new Brookings Institution report. The report, published Thursday, says roughly 36 million …
Via The Week Humiliating stunt is latest in a series of headline-grabbing workplace punishments Video footage shows employees at a Chinese beauty company crawling along the street on their hands and knees after failing to meet targets. Pedestrians in Tengzhou, …
The government shutdown faces mounting lawsuits, including over ‘involuntary servitude’ from CNBC. via CNBC: If the partial government shutdown continues through this week – and there is no end in sight – Friday will mark the second paycheck missed by …
via pjmedia: Well, well, well. In a case of “we told you so,” liberals who work in the restaurant industry are finding that 2019 has brought them fewer hours at work. Sure, they now get that beloved $15 an hour (why …
via Bloomberg: PG&E Corp., the California utility giant facing billions of dollars in wildfire liabilities, may notify employees as soon as Monday that it’s preparing a potential bankruptcy filing, according to people familiar with the situation. The San Francisco-based utility …
by howmuch The U.S. economy is booming. Republicans think President Trump deserves much of the credit for cutting business and individual tax rates combined with a deregulation agenda. And Democrats believe former President Obama rightfully deserves ownership for America’s recovery. Regardless of who gets credit, …
Shutdown Crisis: Unpaid Government Workers Owe $400M in Mortgage and Rent This Month For many federal workers, keeping a roof over their heads got a lot harder in January thanks to the partial government shutdown that is approaching its third …
via nbcnews: Millions of U.S. workers will see increased pay in 2019 due to minimum-wage hikes in 20 states and 21 cities. With the federal minimum wage stuck at $7.25 an hour since 2009, many states and cities have taken it …
The agency that oversees the government’s civilian workforce is facing scrutiny after suggesting federal employees affected by the partial government shutdown barter with their landlords if they can’t make rent payments, advice that it later said was posted “inadvertently.” https://marygreeley.com/?p=79573 …
by Michael Snyder After just 4 days, federal workers are flocking to social media to share heart-wrenching stories of the misery and pain that they are suffering through because of the current government shutdown. As you will see below, it …
So the employees get the shaft while the executives who drove the company into bankruptcy get bonuses. Sounds about par for the course in the good ole U S of A. Via Money When Sheila Brewer heard Sears got approval …
from Zero Hedge The world is about to get a whole lot dirtier. On Monday, global cleaning giant Denmark’s ISS A/S, which is also one of the world’s largest private employers, pulled a page right out of the Fifth Element when it announced …
via Meadow Clark: China is deploying emotional surveillance technology that mines data from the minds of its citizens. Essentially, they’re data mining by reading their brains. The light-weight sensory helmets have been rolled out on an industrial scale. The mind data-mining …
by Geoffrey Grider Ariel sings! She sparkles! And she’s made by Chinese factory workers, mostly women, and paid just 1 penny by Disney for each doll that shimmers off shop shelves. Unless you support legal Chinese slave labor and exploitative factory …
