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Emeritus Prof Christopher May
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

More evidence (this time from the public sector in Scotland) that the four day week not only improves workers' wellbeing, it also improves productivity. Moreover, this is a proper four day week - rescued hours but no loss of pay - making it a powerful example, both for the Scottish government's management of its civil service & more widely.

The momentum is building for the four day week & its social benefits....

#workers #politics#FourDayWeek

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/27/scottish-government-trial-of-four-day-week-improves-productivity-and-staff-wellbeing
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

More evidence (this time from the public sector in Scotland) that the four day week not only improves workers' wellbeing, it also improves productivity. Moreover, this is a proper four day week - rescued hours but no loss of pay - making it a powerful example, both for the Scottish government's management of its civil service & more widely.

The momentum is building for the four day week & its social benefits....

#workers #politics#FourDayWeek

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/27/scottish-government-trial-of-four-day-week-improves-productivity-and-staff-wellbeing
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@ncoca@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

I'll go a step further - won't buy #Starbucks coffee ever, as I haven't for at least 5 years now (and even then, when I was forced to during a business meeting)

#Strike#Labor#Workers #coffee#SBUX

https://starbucksworkersunited.controlshift.app/petitions/no-contract-no-coffee-pledge-to-act-in-solidarity-with-starbucks-workers-united
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Phillip Inman's suggestion for a volunteer workforce of boomers (to make up for their luck & political resistance to wholesale tax reform) is all very well as an inter-generational poetical justice but of course not only involves the (sometimes difficult, as he acknowledges) management of volunteers, also presents a major problem around paid work.

Having more voluntary 'work' undermines any programme to make work pay, and to provide 'good work' for the young!

#workers
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/09/if-boomers-dont-want-wealth-taxes-they-can-give-their-time-and-skills
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

The public is not keen on dynamic pricing (i.e. for concert tickets), but imagine what its like to have dynamic pricing shape your pay (Uber & Deliveroo drivers already do); its the latest worker-exploiting aspect of the gig economy.

The advantages of expanding the uncertainty of wages for gig economy workers accrue to the 'employer', effectively reducing wages.

The gig economy is a mechanism for impoverishing workers & needs better regulation.

#gigeconomy #workers
h/t Sarah O'Connor, FT
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

The public is not keen on dynamic pricing (i.e. for concert tickets), but imagine what its like to have dynamic pricing shape your pay (Uber & Deliveroo drivers already do); its the latest worker-exploiting aspect of the gig economy.

The advantages of expanding the uncertainty of wages for gig economy workers accrue to the 'employer', effectively reducing wages.

The gig economy is a mechanism for impoverishing workers & needs better regulation.

#gigeconomy #workers
h/t Sarah O'Connor, FT

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Nathaniel Gregory
@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

Seriously, imagine if mass swathes of Americans literally #DemExit out of the #DemocraticParty an entered the #GreenParty and built it into a real #workers party.

We would be an unstoppable force that literally brings reforms that would levitate the pains of Americans and still educate the public!

#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#RepublicanParty#Trump#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist#BernieSanders#AOC#FraudSquad#Progressive
Nathaniel Gregory
@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

Seriously, imagine if mass swathes of Americans literally #DemExit out of the #DemocraticParty an entered the #GreenParty and built it into a real #workers party.

We would be an unstoppable force that literally brings reforms that would levitate the pains of Americans and still educate the public!

#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#RepublicanParty#Trump#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist#BernieSanders#AOC#FraudSquad#Progressive

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Emeritus Prof Christopher May
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us  ·  activity timestamp last month

A couple of years ago I wrote a piece for @NWBylines about the problems of seafarer abandonment

see: https://northwestbylines.co.uk/business/is-seafarer-abandonment-an-isolated-problem/

And the problem continues as this report from The Observer reveals....

Seafarers are being abused with impunity by ship owners, and if you think the case at the centre of the Observer's piece is isolated; think again, this is major ongoing maritime problem!

#workers #shipping

https://observer.co.uk/news/international/article/no-food-no-pay-no-freedom-marooned-seafarers-call-out-rogue-shipowners
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us  ·  activity timestamp last month

A couple of years ago I wrote a piece for @NWBylines about the problems of seafarer abandonment

see: https://northwestbylines.co.uk/business/is-seafarer-abandonment-an-isolated-problem/

And the problem continues as this report from The Observer reveals....

Seafarers are being abused with impunity by ship owners, and if you think the case at the centre of the Observer's piece is isolated; think again, this is major ongoing maritime problem!

#workers #shipping

https://observer.co.uk/news/international/article/no-food-no-pay-no-freedom-marooned-seafarers-call-out-rogue-shipowners