Workers rights and unions

So, this labor shortage thing we keep hearing about…?
:roll_eyes:

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Around two thirds of Winnipeg’s municipal workers are set to strike for the first time since 1919.

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Pinkerton’s - all the way down. Except when it’s the police union.

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Uber, Lyft stock decimated as US aims to classify gig workers as staff

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Is DeNiro’s next movie called Scabface?

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“Anytime we have training contracts for low-skilled workers, we should be asking why,” he said. “If you have a good job, you don’t need a training contract. People are going to want to stay.”

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It’s almost as if treating your employees like shit is bad for business

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:thread:

(not new but still relevant)

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Ugh, I saw this, realizing I have to get a few packages out to farflung friends, offspring, etc. and the USPS has an upcharge now for all packages sent (via USPS) until “the end of the holidays” WTFTM.

I wish I could send stuff from Texas to places not in Texas in an ethical way that’s not going to charge me an even more onerous rate than my options here now.

:slightly_frowning_face:

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TERs are trying to take over the Society of Authors

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I couldn’t go through all of those links, but i bet there’s nary a word of blame, yet again, for those doing the hiring. The highlighted “lawbreakers” always seem to be the workers instead.

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I think Ayn Rand is spinning in her grave.

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If you were to harness Ayn Rand’s spinning body to a dynamo and use it to provide free power to poor people, would that make her spin faster?

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