🌎 Discussion: Labor, Unions, and Workers' Rights

[blueharvest]

 

[blueharvest]

New Boeing CEO promises ‘fundamental’ culture shift amid strike and cash crunch

Kelly Ortberg presented turnaround plan for planemaker ‘at a crossroads’ after 737 Max fiasco and ongoing strike

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

Boeing workers vote to reject deal to end strike, union says

More than 30,000 workers at the troubled aviation company represented by the union began striking in mid-September

www.theguardian.com

 

[Lily Adler]

Canada was the last place I expected something like this to happen.

 

[squeekness]

Say what? What a terrible way to go.... assuming it was plugged in.

 

[Lily Adler]

Say what? What a terrible way to go.... assuming it was plugged in.

'The mom is shattered': Body of employee who died at Halifax Walmart was found by her mother

The Maritime Sikh Society says the body of a young employee who died at a Walmart in Halifax last weekend was found by her mother.

atlantic.ctvnews.ca

 

[squeekness]

'The mom is shattered': Body of employee who died at Halifax Walmart was found by her mother

The Maritime Sikh Society says the body of a young employee who died at a Walmart in Halifax last weekend was found by her mother.

atlantic.ctvnews.ca

That's gotta be some kind of OSHA safety violation. There should be no way to get trapped inside like that.

 

[Lily Adler]

That's gotta be some kind of OSHA safety violation. There should be no way to get trapped inside like that.

That's why they shut down the store.

 

[squeekness]

That's why they shut down the store.

Wal-mart is going to be sued big time for this.

 

[blueharvest]

No, Raising the Minimum Wage Does Not Hurt Fast-Food Workers

Fast-food corporations opposed a California minimum wage increase under the guise of concern for workers, claiming it would result in lost jobs. The bill passed, and the numbers are in: that concern was just scaremongering.

jacobin.com

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[squeekness]

No, Raising the Minimum Wage Does Not Hurt Fast-Food Workers

Fast-food corporations opposed a California minimum wage increase under the guise of concern for workers, claiming it would result in lost jobs. The bill passed, and the numbers are in: that concern was just scaremongering.

jacobin.com

Of course it was. The masters just don't want to pay the slaves.

 

[blueharvest]

 

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[Lily Adler]

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

Sounds like more reasons for them to strike.

 

[squeekness]

Capitalism at its worst. ;(

 

[InCali]

Ya gotta pay for the CEO's salary somehow. Money doesn't just grow on trees.

 

[squeekness]

Makes me sick. The peons get nothing and they do most of the work.

 

[Lily Adler]

Ya gotta pay for the CEO's salary somehow. Money doesn't just grow on trees.

He needs it for his penthouse.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[blueharvest]

Harris Is Struggling With Blue-Collar Union Members. This Union Is Doing All It Can To Change That.

A win for Donald Trump would jeopardize organized labor's gains — and its ascendant place in the Democratic Party.

www.huffpost.com

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[Lily Adler]