The Jungle. By Upton Sinclair.
It’s Chicago, almost to the start of the 20th century, and you’re a brand new Lithuanian immigrant trying to support a new wife, child, and relatives by working in the stockyards, but the system is structured to wear you down, trap you in poverty, and when things are worst, replace you with new immigrants.
4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈
CW: anti-semitism
@bookstodon #bookstodon #books #reading #immigration #chicago #labor #capitalism
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
"One of the core goals of Wiki Workers United is to improve the Wikimedia Foundation's transparency and accountability toward the Wikimedia movement community.
This issue has been a long-standing concern for many workers at the Wikimedia Foundation, and a key reason for forming this union."
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via https://federation.p1k3.com/@brennen/116094042817592498
#WorkersRights #unions #labor #wikimedia #WikimediaFoundation #WikiWorkers #WikiWorkersUnited
RE: https://tech.lgbt/@iamada/116455437413475828
a good time to remind y’all
MAYA ANGELOU ―the poet laureate, 3 time Grammy winner, National Medal of Arts and Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree― once worked as a SEX WORKER; both as labor and management.
there’s a whole generation of BLACK nanas and aunties that had to do what they had to do to care for our families. sex work isn't just the sex. many Black brothels were social, cultural, health centers for our communities.
true allies stand by all sex workers.
Who would’ve thought? Oh yeah, EVERYONE!
#Trump’s #tariffs are hurting #US manufacturers instead of helping them
#law #economy #policy #inflation #labor #employment #business #recession
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-manufacturing-china-030d58f482ce2505721a3ce86820d1da
#Meta to cut 10% of staff as it pours billions into #AI
Meta said Thursday it plans to lay off roughly 10% of its workforce, or about 8,000 people, the latest in a string of #tech industry #layoffs fueled in part by #ArtificialIntelligence.
The company is also closing around 6,000 open roles, Janelle Gale, Meta’s chief people officer, wrote in a memo published by Bloomberg.
The layoffs will go into effect on May 20.
#jobs #labor #AIisComingForYourJobs
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-23/meta-tells-staff-it-will-cut-10-of-jobs-in-push-for-efficiency
❝ … if ICE descends on the stadiums where the soccer matches are played, particularly in Los Angeles and D.C.—where the agents are still Trump’s occupying army—the federation’s unions may have to counter with job actions to protect its members, Shuler warns in a letter to FIFA President Gianni Infantino.
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/afl-cio-demands-soccer-group-ban-ice-from-world-cup-host-cities/
Grew up in a lily-white small town surrounded by entitled, mediocre, uneducated men born at their empire's glorious peak. Even as they tumbled out of Reagan's, and Clinton's, shrinking middle class, they were as certain of their destiny as future millionaires as they were certain of their deserving this birthright in their very essence.
I fled.
Made my way to the wicked city and found my tribe, that global cadre of thinkers, of scientists and artists. Those who expect no handouts, who wait for nothing and no one, who create and invent and enrich and ennoble by the sweat of their brow. Passed though the Olympus of Berkeley on the way to the bucolic Ivory Tower.
And had to watch as they settled themselves, with all of their accents and skin tones and creeds, into ignominy and servility as arrogant demagogues for the status quo, as fuck chimps for their billionaire patrons, as apologists for every crime, cosplaying the ruling class and blaming everyone but the ruling class when the ruling class pushed them down an elevator shaft.
For which of these two categories of willful slaves I have more contempt is a question that depends on my mood from moment to moment.
We should be wise about what we labor for.
We do too much for nothing.
Too much labor, too many resources, too much waste. For not much good, but a lot of generational & existential harm. We could get rid of 90% of it and live better.
Working not because we must ‘make a living’ but work to make a better life for all.
Choosing what we extract from the earth more responsibly.
Raise your standards! (Pun intended)
RE: https://indieweb.social/@permafriday/116561082682363965
THIS IS A LABOR ISSUE
now that Google doesn't have to pretend #android is not the #backdoor #surveillance system Snowden warned us about, it has a problem:
app developers.
the app store was always a honeypot for free #labor. without #apps there is no android. so Google has to rein in app devs, if they don't want their #spyware broken.
but if you give up your encryption keys, the app isn't yours. this isn’t about #privacy.
Google wants app devs to be employees without labor rights.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@FluentInFinance/116575326620964772
but #LiberalArts degrees are a waste of time!!! #STEM is the future of job security, and you won't even need #labor #unions because you’ll have real good jobs.
―every asshole #GOP #Republican #neoliberal looking to close universities all across the land since the 1980s because they were graduating people with “useless” diplomas
with the #AppDriversUnion organized, now more than ever there needs to be an #AppDevelopersUnion
but let me just say that 70,000 gig drivers just in Massachusetts is absolutely bonkers.
❝ Some 70,000 rideshare drivers unionize in Massachusetts https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/some-70000-rideshare-drivers-unionize-in-massachusetts/
RE: https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/116811843895106716
those 350 engineers should join line workers and unionize with the United Auto Workers #UAW
like #baseball players and #Hollywood actors, #engineers #architects #physicists #scientists are the working class and deserve to be represented and defended by a #labor union
RE: https://post.lurk.org/@loriemerson/116698844776482762
ATTENTION EX-CATHOLIC ATHEISTS
once baptized, you’re catholic. if you took communion and/or took your confirmation vows, you are ―for all intents and purposes― a (lapsed) catholic.
excommunication is, technically, the only way out of catholicism.
would be interesting to test title VII from a secular catholicism point of view.
#US #economy added just 57,000 #jobs in June — far below expectations — amid elevated #inflation, global turmoil
US employers pulled back on hiring last month & added only 57,000 jobs, less than half the previous month’s total & a sign companies still have a cautious economic outlook.
#labor #CostOfLiving #affordability #trumpcession #recession #trump
https://apnews.com/article/jobs-economy-hiring-labor-49c7a993b394e6ae3f801c8e3c0d39dd
I fully support #Ukraine in the #UkraineWar
Ukraine has to fight. #Russia can just go home. If Russia wins, their #ethnofascist #imperialism and #colonialism means #genocide for Ukrainians
However they have limited #labor. So they turbocharge #innovation
From such efforts, something horrible is born with terrible implications for the world
Literally #Skynet from "The #Terminator" movies
"Fully #autonomous #drones have killed human soldiers for the first time"
My new video is up!
In this one, I discuss the recent firing and then rehiring of experienced workers at Ford after their AI experiment failed spectacularly. I also touch on the real world impacts to people and the importance of institutional knowledge.
If you enjoy the video please give me a like. This is a free, easy way to support a small creator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1HpxS3L858
#YouTube #AI #Labor #Layoffs #Ford #Auto #Video #SocialMedia
