American Verizon workers say mass layoffs are coming as soon as next week in exclusive statements to Breitbart News. In interviews with multiple Verizon employees, the American workers said 44,000 employees are being offered a lucrative severance package to leave …
The Story of your Enslavement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbp6umQT58A TED talk on Kindergarten social reconstruction. Jacque Fresco – Transition, Changing People’s Values, Advancing Education Jacque Fresco – What the Future Holds Beyond 2000 – Nichols College (1999) …
via stockboardasset: Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder, earns $268,000,000 every day, while regular Amazon and Whole Foods Market employees make an average of $15 per hour. Reports have uncovered the horrible working conditions inside Amazon’s massive warehouses — as some employees had …
via Joe Guzzardi: A telling Mercury News story pits high-tech industry leaders against the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and its Director Francis Cissna. According to the story, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Salesforce co-CEO Marc Benioff are among the many tech industry executives …
Pretty creepy 2016 patent for workers in a cage, operating a robot arm. Yes, one can say the cages are to protect the worker from a malfunctioning arm, but with Amazon’s track record you know that person would be trapped …
Democrats are screaming about Trump putting a halt to federal employees pay raises, but it turns out that Obama did the same thing.
Outsourcing corporation IBM laid off about 20,000 older Americans in the last five years, a new investigation reveals, while the tech multinational sought to import at least 37,000 foreign workers to take U.S. jobs. A joint investigation by ProPublica and …
via freebeacon: A video taken Tuesday of the incident along State highway 78 in San Diego County shows a Caltrans contracted worker responding to a driver’s questions about why he and other workers are stopping traffic with hand-held stop signs and approaching cars …
by sundance What happens when the silent majority stand up in full force and elect a president entirely focused on advancing the interests of Main Street over Wall Street? What happens when that President takes office and begins systematically instituting a …
by Chris Black Despite the artificial political turmoil created and perpetrated by the sore-loser left, and I am talking about the never-ending state of hysteria that’s been engulfing America’s public life since The Donald entered office back in 2016, the …
Chipotle Mexican Grill plans to retrain all of its restaurant workers nationwide on food safety after nearly 650 customers became ill after eating recently at one of its Ohio restaurants. The company confirmed Thursday to USA TODAY that it would launch the …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iukCwnpburs The vote taken at the end of the video was to pass a balanced budget. Part of balancing the budget included cutting 21 people from the maintenance department. One of the problems in our city is instead of using …
by DCG No more free food for you! Sponsors of the law: Safai (l) and Peskin (r) San Francisco’s rents are so outrageous that many workers cannot afford an apartment much less a home. Companies providing free/reduced cost meals are …
I see lots of stressed out faces in the American workplace. Seems like a conspiracy against us. Just sayin’. Article is “The Way We Work Is Killing Us”, with the author of Dying for a Paycheck My colleagues and I looked …
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A new state program will automatically deduct money from the paychecks of about 1.2 million Illinois residents for retirement savings. The move could reduce the use of food stamps, Medicaid and other publicly funded social programs, …
via businessinsider: For now, the coming “labor shortage” is good news for workers. We should root for it to continue. It’s undoubtedly a headache for some owners and managers. But it’s one they should, hopefully, be made to live with for …
by David Haggith No, the Trump tax breaks for major corporations are not going to bonuses and wage increases. Sure we’ve seen some token $1,000 bonuses go out to laborers with hyuge orchestrated fanfare. The stint of articles you saw all over …
by howmuch We recently released a new visualization highlighting companies with the largest pay gaps between their CEOs and their average worker. The latest SEC rule requiring companies to publish these figures doesn’t always mean that a company is put in a negative light. …
by Antonius Aquinas Fed Chair Jerome Powell apparently doesn’t see the pernicious effects of inflation At one time, the Federal Reserve’s sole mandate was to maintain stable prices and to “fight inflation.” To the Fed, the financial press, and most everyone …
by howmuch A few years back, the SEC passed a rule forcing publicly traded companies to disclose the ratio between CEO compensation and median worker pay. Many observers thought the rule would go away with President Trump’s election, but they were wrong—companies are now …
Why is the Government subsidizing billionaires? Don’t forget his sweetheart contracts with the 3 letter Gov agencies and his friends on capital hill that protect him…. all while running a company that hardly ever makes a profit. via time: Amazon founder and …
The rising wages also give employees a greater share of the productivity gains achieved by adding many robots to Amazon’s warehouses. The rising wages for warehouse workers is a financial problem for Jeff Bezos, whose Amazon retail empire employs a reported workforce of …
by COMPUTER1313 via Bloomberg: …drillers, service providers and trucking companies have been poaching in all corners, recruiting everyone from police officers to grocery clerks. So many bus drivers with the Ector County Independent School District in nearby Odessa quit for the …
by DCG Bill sponsor Phil Ting wearing his Planned Parenthood fighting gloves. What could possibly go wrong? From Yahoo: Lawmakers in the California Assembly voted Monday to advance a bill that would authorize employers, co-workers and school personnel to request the temporary confiscation …
from Zero Hedge Well that escalated fast: one month after Bloomberg reported that Deutsche Bank would cut 1,000 jobs in the US, roughly 10% of its total US labor force, as part of new CEO Christian Sewing’s restructuring process, the WSJ this morning …
by howmuch Tax season has finally come and gone, and by now most Americans have either gotten their refund or established a payment plan for taxes owed to the government. Here’s a nice thought experiment: go back and look at …
Last year an American company microchipped dozens of its workers. In a “chip party”, employees lined up to have a device implanted under the skin between their thumb and forefinger. At first, Todd Westby, the CEO of Three Square Market, …
‘Store count isn’t everything,’ CEO Suzanne Greco says Sandwich maker has plans for U.K., China, India, Latin America Subway Restaurants, the world’s most ubiquitous dining chain, will continue closing U.S. stores as it expands internationally. After peppering the nation with …
by Dr. Eowyn Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post, may be the world’s richest person, with a net worth of about $112 billion. But workers in his warehouses are so desperate to keep their jobs that they don’t …
Teachers, first responders, restaurant workers and, surprisingly, computer programmers have the hardest time affording a home near their jobs. Real estate listing company Trulia defines affordability as one’s monthly payment on housing taking up no more than 31 percent of …