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Huh. I wonder how they are able to do this.
FTA:
Now Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George GascĂłn is launching an investigation into working conditions for migrants hired at hotels based on information brought to him by Unite Here Local 11, which represents workers involved in the largest U.S. hotel strike. GascĂłn said he is concerned about potential wage theft and violations of child labor law.
Oh you bet yer sweet bippy there better be some scrutiny about those.
The hotelâs actions are âindefensible,â said Angelica Salas, executive director of the advocacy organization Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles. âStaffing agencies, companies taking advantage of the desperation of the individual to try to begin their life, and then not pay them their proper earnings, not give them a full accounting of their hours worked â we see this every day here in L.A.â
Since more than 15,000 workers began intermittent strikes at about 60 Southern California hotels in early July, employers have been replacing those union members with managers and temporary workers recruited through apps, such as Instawork, staffing agencies and by other means.
Oh âand by other meansâ --uh huh. Late Stage Capitalism 101. Stay classy Sheraton, Holiday Inn, Meridien, etc. Weâre watching and we will remember.
Related:
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Thereâs movie called The Exterminator (1980) it has a famous scene featuring a meat grinder.
Weird what pops in to your head when reading stuff isnât it?
Funny thing there was a christian pacifist anarchist assassin once.
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Speaking as someone who has done 70+ hour weeks, it does not work. Your productivity, alertness and attention drop, your error rate increases along with emotional lability and things go off the rails way too easily. Humans are not machines. As much as our âbetterâ would like us to be, we just donât work that way. Please do not go down this path!
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The strike against Tesla in Sweden is on! IF Metall has called in a sympathy strike from the transport workers union who will blockade unloading of Tesla cars in the four major Swedish ports.
I seldom feel any kind of patriotism, but this makes me proud! The Swedish unions show some back bone and donât back down faced with a bully such as Elon Musk and his underlings.
Some links in english:
Strike action at Tesla in Sweden - Radio Sweden | Sveriges Radio
Background information on IF Metallâs conflict at Tesla - IF Metall
Dear Elon Musk and Tesla, this is Sweden and we strike when we need to â Arbetet
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All someone needs to do is watch the British reality show The 1940s House to see that in fact, people (especially the women) were run down frequently and often from the amount of work involved with both taking care of family and piling âcivic dutyâ on top of that.
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Putting these reports here because chocolate production involves workers not being paid (or paid less than a living wage), child labor, and other forms of exploitation. This CBS Sunday Morning report highlights fairtrade and âbean to barâ operations in Ghana:
John Oliver also puts a spotlight on the actions (and inaction) of corporations:
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Tonyâs has an online shop, too!
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Bungie is about to lay off a ton of workers this week. They have been on the forefront to the push for the âgames as a serviceâ model that was shoved in the faces of game companies, developers and many times to the disgust of the game playing public. The following was sent out by the community manager for Destiny 2 who had tweeted and then deleted about being laid off
The next big domino of video game company layoffs. Bloombergâs writer about the game biz said this
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