Yep. That’s just money they find in the sofa.
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As someone who’s been active in fandoms, i’m not entirely sure how to take this article. Interesting tho.
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With $350 million in benefits at stake, the petition said, by withholding payment, Chester is “creating an uneven playing field that unfairly exposes the rights of retirees,” who “do not have the economic ability to hire counsel and protect themselves.” As per bankruptcy procedures, the city is paying for their representation.
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Helsingin Sanomat has a comparison of pay rise figures from a number of countries with similar pay bargaining to Finland.
No wage earner will be surprised to learn that the Finnish figures (3.5 percent this year, two percent next for industrial workers) are the lowest of the lot, and well below inflation.
In Sweden industrial workers’ agreed pay rises were 4.1 percent this year and 3.2 percent next year, in Germany workers get more than five percent this year and three percent next plus a 3,000 euro tax-free one-off payment to help with the cost of living.
In Belgium, pay rises are automatically linked to inflation so they have been set at 12 percent this year.
That number gets to the heart of the problem, according to HS. Consumer prices have risen some 15 percent over the last two years, and pay in Finland has not kept pace.
Collective agreements do not reflect the complete picture. Some of the comparison countries do not apply the rises to everyone, and in Finland the sum of wages is a better guide to how salaries have risen.
It includes wage increases for people who change jobs and for those who otherwise get a better deal than the minimum levels agreed by unions.
But even so, the paper carries quotes from the labour unions think tank suggesting the time for pay restraint has passed, and workers in Finland need a salary uplift.
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[…]
We have asked Meta what percentage of staff are coming in for the requisite three days, how the policy fits with the UK’s recently passed Flexible Working bill, and for more details on how it will be policed.
A spokesperson sent a statement to The Reg : “We believe that distributed work will continue to be important in the future, particularly as our technology improves. In the near term, our in-person focus is designed to support a strong, valuable experience for our people who have chosen to work from the office, and we’re being thoughtful and intentional about where we invest in remote work.”
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What’s next when it comes to tracking workers? 
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This episode of remap radio has former employees of vices motherboard and waypoint going into the behind the scenes of all the grotesque and icky things that happened there as it fell apart. Well worth listening to
ETA: At one point the waypoint people learn that their being layed off might have been an accident, but everybody is ok with it since it got them out of Vice just in time.
Of course, after months no one has received their severance from Vice
The discussion is up front - the games stuff is only after the ex–Motherboard folks leave)
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Here’s the clip…
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While AI is often thought of as human-free machine learning, the technology actually relies on the labor-intensive efforts of a workforce spread across much of the Global South and often subject to exploitation…
Scale AI has paid workers at extremely low rates, routinely delayed or withheld payments and provided few channels for workers to seek recourse, according to interviews with workers, internal company messages and payment records, and financial statements. Rights groups and labor researchers say Scale AI is among a number of American AI companies that have not abided by basic labor standards for their workers abroad.
(free link)
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