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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/
RANDOM #LABOR REMINDER
USA labor statistics are shoddy as fuck and that's by design since the Reagan/Bush era.
used to be you'd go to your local DoL to register when seeking employment. then, if needed, they'd add you to welfare rolls so you could get food stamps, Medicaid, rent-relief, etc.
Unemployment office + welfare is how we got data for #unemployment numbers.
Since Reagan/Bush era, most of that has been privatized & dismantled and for a reason... similar to #COVID19
1/3
— 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/
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.
African AI workers, mostly from Kenya, released an open letter to Joe Biden this week asking him stop US tech companies from “systemically abusing and exploiting African workers” and to end the “modern day slavery” they’re subjected to.
https://www.wired.com/story/low-paid-humans-ai-biden-modern-day-slavery/
The #Immigration Story Nobody Is Talking About
The #UnitedStates does need a more orderly #border. It also needs more #immigrants, who are critical to the country’s #economic strength.
#law #policy #labor #economy
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/the-immigration-story-nobody-is-talking-about
Unionize before right-wing jerks obey their funders elsewhere and do this, too...
https://www.dw.com/en/greece-introduces-the-six-day-work-week/a-69439050
“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
It's still a slave plantation...
Prisoners fight against working in heat on former slave plantation, raising hope for change in South
https://apnews.com/article/prisons-labor-lawsuit-investigation-b41d72f87dc22e0a351a1a8f5345b9bc
#news #USnews #Louisiana #prison #PrisonReform #justice #law #labor #WorkersRights
"The U.S. bird-flu outbreak in dairy cattle is much larger than official figures suggest due to farmers' reluctance to test their animals and risk the economic consequences of a positive result, according to Reuters interviews with dairy experts, veterinarians, and farmers in six states with known cases."
#PublicHealth #BirdFlu #cows #dairy #farmers #farmworkers #labor #OccHealth
Solidarity with #Boeing workers. that 33,000 workers walked out in a #strike is one of the most powerful direct actions #tech workers have done, ever.
workers that techbros for eons have said shouldn't have to be unionized because they work not just in #tech; but the kind of eternal, war-mongering growth that has airplanes literally exploding and two people stranded in space for stockholders profits.
this may be one of the most important #labor strikes of our lifetime.