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Anatomy of a sellout: UPS tentative agreement includes two-tier wages for part-timers, freezes to pension contributions for some ( www.wsws.org )
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Costco Japan Pays Workers a Fair Wage, Local Businesses Seethe - Unseen Japan ( unseen-japan.com )
Costco Japan says it'll pay a higher than market wage in all its warehouses countrywide. That has some local business owners fuming.
Snoop Dogg shows support for striking actors by canceling 'Doggystyle' concerts ( thegrio.com )
The "Snoop Dogg & Friends: 30th Anniversary of Doggystyle" concerts have been canceled in support of the WGA and SAG/AFTRA strikes.
“We’ve Changed the Game”: Teamsters Win Historic UPS Contract ( teamster.org )
Today, the Teamsters reached the most historic tentative agreement for workers in the history of UPS, protecting and rewarding more than 340,000 UPS Teamsters nationwide. The overwhelmingly lucrative contract raises wages for all workers, creates more full-time jobs, and includes dozens of workplace protections and improvements....
FedEx pilots reject 30% pay hike proposal, but a strike isn't imminent ( edition.cnn.com )
Pilots for FedEx have rejected a tentative labor deal. But that doesn’t mean they’re about to walk off the job just as UPS is threatened with its own strike by 340,000 drivers and other hourly ground workers.
The hypocrisy of wage inequality ( masto.ai )
Powerful poetry read by Porsha O. On "Capitalism". ( youtu.be )
Pettiness as its peak. Trimmed trees at universal studios picket lines. ( lemmy.world )
Photo @ChrisStephensMD Power to the writers and the actors. Support the workers if you can: secure2.convio.net/afa/site/Donation2?df_id=8117&…
Hollywood Studios’ WGA Strike Endgame Is To Let Writers Go Broke Before Resuming Talks ( deadline.com )
“The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,” a studio executive told Deadline. Acknowledging the cold-as-ice approach, several other sources reiterated the statement. One insider called it “a cruel but necessary evil.”...
Meanwhile in my country, employers are unionised. ( lemmy.world )
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OSHA protections don’t apply to 96 percent of the animal agriculture operations that hire workers in America ( i.imgur.com )
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Got tipping rage? This barista reveals what it's like to be behind the tip screen ( www.npr.org )
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[Texas Tribune] “We are dying”: Houston workers protest new state law removing water break requirements ( www.texastribune.org )
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[In These Times] Workers at The Trevor Project unionize ( inthesetimes.com )
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N.J. nurses vote to strike, reject hospital’s settlement ( www.nj.com )
Nurses voted to strike Monday night, seeking greater hiring, pay hikes and more
Landlord Hires Three Men To Break Into Tenant's Apartment and Threaten Her to Settle Dispute. Isn't Arrested. ( www.wmtw.com )
Writers Requesting David Zaslav Pay Up on Lost Wages via Venmo ( www.themarysue.com )
Writers found David Zaslav's Venmo and successfully interrupted his time at billionaire summer camp with payment requests for lost wages.
Leslie Jones Speaks On The Actors and Writers Hollywood Strike ( youtube.com )
Gen Z are the most disgruntled workers and that's a problem for employers ( finance.yahoo.com )
Why companies say you're 'family' while underpaying you ( therealnews.com )
Felix Allen, a recently fired New Orleans-based organizer at Lowe's, recounts the measures taken by his employer to prevent his store from unionizing.
An ‘average’ American income may no longer cut it - Lemmy.world ( lemmy.world )
The typical U.S. family earns about $71,000 per year, according to the Census. Yet, the average American believes a family needs at least $85,000 in annual household income to get by, according to a recent Gallup poll....
Hollywood Shuts Down After 160,000 Actors Walk Off the Set ( youtu.be )
I think what needs to reform is the ecosystem of working
Millions of us, everyday of every hour, are working a multitude of hours at different periods in the day. All so that we, can prop and propel the few lives that are on top. The few who’s lives we’re both knowingly and unknowingly sustaining. Who’s lives that have children that we’re indirectly supporting through our...
Wabtec workers, day 23 on strike against a company that refuses to cover workers' basic needs (Photo credit: "UE Members 506" FB) ( lemmy.world )
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