Biggest U.S. ports union suspends labor talks, with East Coast, Gulf Coast strike risk rising ( www.cnbc.com )
American Airlines flight attendants say their pay is so low, they fight for airplane meals to save money and sleep in their cars—and they're ready to strike ( fortune.com )
Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped Return to Office would make staff quit ( www.theregister.com )
HR software biz BambooHR surveyed more than 1,500 employees, a third of whom work in HR. The findings suggest the return to office movement has been a poorly-executed failure, but one particular figure stands out - a quarter of executives and a fifth of HR professionals hoped RTO mandates would result in staff leaving....
Study: From 1979 to 2013 Wages of Low-Wage Workers Fell 5%; While Wages of High-Wage Workers Rose 41% ( medium.com )
Saw this and thought it was fake until I googled. It's real. ( lemmy.world )
The QR code...
A labor win at Georgia school bus factory shows a worker-led EV transition is possible ( grist.org )
'Quit Or Accept Minimum Wage': Chinese Company's Ultimatum To 1000 Autoworkers As EV Sales Drop ( www.ibtimes.co.uk )
Amid China's struggles with excess manufacturing of various products, workers at a domestic auto plant are confronted with a tough decision regarding their employment....
Do memes from 1911 count if they're still true? ( lemmy.world )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16249582...
Samsung Electronics union in South Korea stages first ever walkout ( finance.yahoo.com )
Young job seekers are finding it tougher to find employment, despite a bustling labor market: 'It was brutal' ( www.cnbc.com )
World's richest have never been so wealthy: study ( finance.yahoo.com )
This is why we need reform over worker pay.
Report: Employers Spend $340 Million per Year on “Union Avoidance” Consultants Who Teach Tactics to Discourage Unionization ( medium.com )
Employees Who Stay In Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less ( www.forbes.com )
America’s Commute to Work Is Getting Longer and Longer ( www.wsj.com )
Why ‘poly-employment’ may be 2024’s next big work trend, working more than one job is getting a re-brand ( www.fastcompany.com )
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Job scarcity is even affecting animals ( lemmy.world )
https://www.insidescience.org/news/urban-foxes-are-starting-resemble-domesticated-animals
Private Equity Firm Bought My Employer
It was majority employee-owned before the acquisition but is now majority owned by private equity firm. The main change I'm noticing is that everyone is being pressured to work uncompensated overtime (we're all on salary here) and requests for training/professional development have been all but eliminated. They also initially...
The world’s 8 richest billionaires have the same wealth as the poorest 50% of the global population of 3.8 billion people ( medium.com )
It’s a summer of playing hooky: feeling pressured not to take their earned vacation, Americans are finding a loophole ( fortune.com )
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Communist China Just Cured Diabetes and America’s Insulin Industry is Not Happy About it ( medium.com )
Burnout Is Pushing Workers to Use AI—Even if Their Boss Doesn’t Know ( www.wired.com )
Non paywall: https://archive.is/DCIVo
I’m 43 but everyone at the workplace thinks I’m 25. Is this something I need to change?
I’m 43 years old but apparently I have a baby face, good hair for my age and everyone believes I’m in my mid 20s, even though I already have some gray hairs nobody seems to notice (so far)....
U.S. workers are less satisfied with nearly every aspect of their jobs than they were a year ago, survey finds ( www.cnbc.com )
In an Historic Show of Labor Solidarity with Palestine, UAW Local 4811's Stand-up Strike Grows by 12,000 [Hannah Bowlus | May 28 2024 | In These Times] ( inthesetimes.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15914243...
From 2017 to 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor recovered $3 billion in stolen wages from employers ( medium.com )
