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RT @chopracfpb: All people should be treated fairly and with dignity in their jobs. Today, the @CFPB and @USDOL held a joint hearing focuse….
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🚨Big news! Our very own will be speaking at the @CFPB & @USDOL field hearing on workplace data and surveillance. Join us virtually, share your experiences, and help drive change. More info here:
consumerfinance.gov
On October 24, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau invite you to a joint field hearing Okemos, MI with Acting Secretary of Labor Julie A. Su and CFPB...
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🎉 VICTORY: Workers @naturalgrocers have won their vote to form a union in their first store! Now they’re part of @ufcw’s local 1000 to push this massive publicly listed company for raises, better health care and more. #NGCommunityUnited #NaturalGrocers.
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🔊 Natural Grocers workers are forming a union and need YOUR help! Learn more and sign their petition to show your support.
coworker.org
We believe that these firings and targeting of employees, the affects these have on the wider community, and the steps Natural Grocers has taken to impede the rights of their workers to organize...
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Coworker's @WilneidaNegron weighs in on invasive tech that is possibly being used to track and deter students who are protesting the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
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RT @jamieson: After losing its case in a hearing, Trader Joe's has filed another appeal trying to get the union's election victory thrown o….
huffpost.com
An attorney for the union called the company’s challenges a “replay of the 2020 presidential election.”
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AI is responsible for creating more mission-critical roles that are hired through third-party contracting agencies. These roles are often of much lower quality than the ones that were lost through layoffs. Check out this new paper from @techequitycollab
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Our partner @techequitycollab released a new paper shining a light on tech’s shadow workforce! This comes at a crucial moment as the use of AI—which contract workers train AND shapes the conditions in which they do it—is on the rise. Check it out:
techequity.us
AI is changing the tech labor force. We highlight some key dynamics in that shift and hear from contract workers who have been affected by it.
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2023 reviewed:. “Those stoppages and the threat of other strikes… helped workers—from automotive makers to actors, casino workers and package deliverers—score gains such as pay increases and protections from the use of generative AI.”.
wsj.com
A sector-by-sector look at this year’s work stoppages and what some labor groups have gained.
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Why was 2023 such a big year for labor #organizing? The story actually begins earlier:. “Reform movements led to bolder contract demands, which led to winning contract campaigns and strikes, which are giving workers hope in new organizing.”.
Quite a year in labor. Here's my take in @labornotes.
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Basically @OSHA_DOL is saying that taking money out of immigrant workers pockets is literally the business model:. “a “loser-pays” practice that the US Department of Labor has argued is coercive and likely to dissuade immigrants from pursuing legal action”.
mcknights.com
Immigrant nurses are already a key demographic in long-term care, and are likely to become more vital in the future. But allegations of coercive labor practices by some providers and staffing...
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Interested in what it’s like having an #AI boss? Check out this talk between @jomc and @parismarx #bossware.
It’s always a joy to speak with @parismarx. in today’s episode, I talked about how my past experience working in a call center went into my novel and shaped my reporting on the gig economy.
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A great overview of animation workers #organizing in Hollywood. Workers say they have to “forgo having the ability to start a family because the healthcare is inadequate; they have to continue renting with roommates long into a time in their life. ”.
latimes.com
Thanks to key wins by production workers at Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Nickelodeon and other animation giants, animation guild membership is booming.
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With so much anti-immigrant #racism out there every little bit counts:. “A newly formed coalition of labor and business stakeholders have launched an initiative to combat anti-migrant sentiment”.
timesunion.com
The Ellis Island Initiative lists among its members major unions and business...
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Workers @usps are working tirelessly this Christmas knowing it might be their last on the job:. “Thousands of postal jobs will be eliminated, and tens of thousands of employees will be faced with relocating to a new job”.
theguardian.com
Trump’s postmaster general appointee is implementing a 10-year austerity plan that will slash jobs and close sorting centers
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Patients are being put at risk for healthcare profit:. “Doctors, nurses and pharmacists said they were being asked to do more as staffing dwindles, leading to exhaustion and anxiety about putting patients at risk”.
nytimes.com
Once accustomed to a status outside the usual management-labor hierarchy, many health professionals now feel as put upon as any clock-punching worker.
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Can we take @starbucks offer to resume talks at face value?. “Let’s not forget that Starbucks first insisted that it wasn’t anti-union even as it mounted one of the most elaborate and expensive anti-union campaigns in the United States in decades”.
inthesetimes.com
Starbucks says it wants to bargain. Its behavior suggests otherwise.
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