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Uber says it finally made an annual profit after 15 years, but who paid the price to get it there?
The company fired 6,700 workers, hiked fares for customers, and squeezed drivers even harder. Now the stock is up and investors will get a $7 billion share buyback. It turns your stomach.
https://disconnect.blog/the-high-cost-of-ubers-small-profit/
— pssst... pssst.... hey, kid, you.. do you want an "S"?
— an S? what for?
— an S like in STRIKE.
— strike? like baseball?
— No! an S like in STRIKE!
(muppets in a picket line suddenly appear)
— STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!
(THUNDER)
— YAHAHA! ONE #STRIKE TWO STRIKES! THREE STRIKES! THREE MARVELOUS STRIKES AND A PICKET LINE!
(THUNDER)
— YAHAHAHAHA!
(EXUNT)
'Sesame Street' Writers Unanimously Support Strike Authorization Vote
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/sesame-street-writers-strike-authorization-vote-wga-east-1235972886/
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Workers at a Volkswagen factory in Tennessee voted solidly to unionize with the UAW, after twice in the past voting down the #union.
This time, they may have noticed that union workers won higher pay and better benefits from US automakers in their strike last year.
https://theconversation.com/uaw-wins-big-at-volkswagen-in-tennessee-becoming-the-first-foreign-owned-factory-in-the-american-south-to-unionize-228319
#News #BreakngNews #Labor #Business
GENTLE REMINDER TO ALL #TECH WORKERS
before you go hustling for new work on these internets and fediverses, if you were laid off, HEAD TO THE CLOSEST #LABOR DEPARTMENT OFFICE AND DEMAND YOUR #UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
you pay for #unemployment #benefits with each paycheck. DEMAND THAT MONEY.
here's a thread about what to do & what happens when you don't demand all your accumulated money & benefits.
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/111607803802146802
tell #techbros laying off people, fuck you pay me.
“The South really did not lose [the Civil War] when it came to maintaining this form of free labor.”
New from @josephinelee and Michelle Pitcher in our magazine, tracing two centuries of forced labor in Texas: https://texasobserver.org/texas-prison-plantations/
#prison #slavery #history #news #politics #HumanRights #labor #WorkersRights
Simone Weil: Voluntary Worker
The weeks Weil spent working in French factories helped to develop her ideas about the meaning and value of labor.
By: Emily Zarevich
Okay, I finally did it, I started a Labor & Unions starter pack. I'm sure it's incomplete, so help me out, tell me who I'm missing!
(If you're on the list and want to be removed, I apologize, please tell me that as well. It does respect discoverability settings but I realize that's not everything.)
🦊
I am downright delighted to announce that my latest book, YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION, has a brand new look. I really love it, and I hope you do too.
Here’s a look at what’s changed and—maybe more importantly—what’s stayed the same:
https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/refresh-a-new-look-for-you-deserve-a-tech-union/
#YDATUbook #books #bookstodon #blogging #labor #TechLabor #unions #TechUnions #1u
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#TNI #TransnationalInstitute is a group that mostly releases great reports, analysis, etc, on #techgiants, #capitalism #resourcecolonialism #labor etc
But when it comes to #China, they'll somehow willingly publish pro-CCP propaganda-lite, factually dubious BS like this, romanticizing the #Mao era, regurgitating South-South solidarity talk points & of course, ignoring the #CCP's glaring similarities to Israel in its treatment of #Uyghurs #Tibetans & #HongKongers
https://www.tni.org/en/article/from-global-anti-imperialism-to-the-dandelion-fighters
Nike Says Its Factory Workers Earn Nearly Double the Minimum Wage. At This Cambodian Factory, 1% Made That Much.
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Nike has made an expansive effort to convince consumers, investors and others that it is improving the lives of factory workers who make its products, not exploiting them. A rare view of wages at one Cambodian factory tests this claim.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-wages-clothing-factory-cambodia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Nike #Cambodia #Labor #Work #Abuse #Exploitation #Business
Since taking office, #Trump has moved aggressively to revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of #immigrants who were allowed into the country under President #Biden.
Now, the admin is taking drastic steps to pressure some of those immigrants & others who had legal status to “self-deport” by effectively canceling the #SocialSecurity numbers they had lawfully obtained….
#law #immigration #labor
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/politics/migrants-deport-social-security-doge.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=2E999096-F869-486C-80A2-740E7C065EBC
#Trump admin overrode #SocialSecurity staff to list immigrants as dead
A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office & put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency’s deaths database were ignored.
Two days after the SSA purposely & falsely labeled 6,100 living immigrants as dead, security guards arrived at the office of a well-regarded senior executive in the agency’s Woodlawn, MD, headquarters.
#law #immigration #labor #Musk #DOGE
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/12/trump-immigrants-dead-social-security/
#Whistleblower details how #DOGE may have taken sensitive #NLRB data
In the first days of March, a team of advisers from #Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the Southeast Washington, DC, headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board.
The small, independent federal agency investigates & adjudicates complaints about unfair #labor practices.
#law #InfoSec #privacy #NationalSecurity #Musk
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security
The #TrumpOrganization has consistently made use of temporary #visa programs to hire #ForeignWorkers for #MarALago, 4 #Trump #GolfClubs & his Virginia #winery — filing to bring in at least 1,880 seasonal workers since 2008, including 382 during Trump’s 1st term, acc/to Dept of #Labor data.
The company’s use of short-term, temporary visas has increased steadily in recent years, from requesting 121 in 2021 to asking for a high of 178 in 2024.
#law #immigration #hypocrisy
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/06/12/trump-organization-foreign-workers-visa-hiring-mar-a-lago-golf-clubs-winery/
The only hike I'm ever interested in taking. 📈
#Corporatism #Samsung #Labor #Union #UnionsStrong #UnionsMatter #Strike #WageHike #SouthKorea
The #Trump #Labor Dept is aiming to rewrite or repeal >60 “obsolete” #workplace #regulations, ranging from #MinimumWage requirements for home #healthcare #workers & people w/ #disabilities to standards governing exposure to harmful substances.
The wide-ranging changes…would also affect working conditions at #constructions sites & #mines, & limit govt ability to penalize #employers if #workers are #injured or #killed while engaging in inherently risky activities…
#law
https://apnews.com/article/labor-department-deregulation-worker-safety-wages-223309692fecb3721ef377154e7689ed?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-07-22-Labor+laws