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Just saw this chilling report by @alex of @dair describing Amazon's wage theft and surveillance of its workers:
https://www.dair-institute.org/projects/driven-down/
Sounds exactly like the reverse centaurs that @pluralistic warned us about, such as here:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/
Just saw this chilling report by @alex of @dair describing Amazon's wage theft and surveillance of its workers:
https://www.dair-institute.org/projects/driven-down/
Sounds exactly like the reverse centaurs that @pluralistic warned us about, such as here:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/
Biggest US labor unions fuel No Kings protests against #Trump: ‘You need a voice to have freedom’
With more than 2,700 events planned across the US, one organizer, James Phipps, 75, says: ‘Protest is all I’ve done all my life’
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Michael Sainato
Sat 18 Oct 2025 05.00 EDT
Some of the largest #LaborUnions in the #US are involved in organizing the #NoKings protests, with more than 2,700 demonstrations planned across all 50 states, with the #ServiceEmployeesInternationalUnion ( #SEIU) and #AmericanFederationOfTeachers ( #AFT) anchoring events.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/18/no-kings-protests-labor-unions?CMP=share_btn_url
#WorkersRights #Workers #Unions #Labor #LaborMovement #TradeUnions #USA #USpol
#news #politics
Biggest US labor unions fuel No Kings protests against #Trump: ‘You need a voice to have freedom’
With more than 2,700 events planned across the US, one organizer, James Phipps, 75, says: ‘Protest is all I’ve done all my life’
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Michael Sainato
Sat 18 Oct 2025 05.00 EDT
Some of the largest #LaborUnions in the #US are involved in organizing the #NoKings protests, with more than 2,700 demonstrations planned across all 50 states, with the #ServiceEmployeesInternationalUnion ( #SEIU) and #AmericanFederationOfTeachers ( #AFT) anchoring events.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/18/no-kings-protests-labor-unions?CMP=share_btn_url
#WorkersRights #Workers #Unions #Labor #LaborMovement #TradeUnions #USA #USpol
#news #politics
Whelp, all the #LandlordDrama culminated in me getting contacted by the district court bailiff (on 15th October). There's no eviction date set yet though but it almost doesn't matter because the harsh finnish winter has started. We (me and my chosen family @DionRa) can't stay here, isolated and stuck, without adequate heating. The landlord refuses to get the chimney fixed, despite CO poisoning.
He had promised to renew my lease, but went back on that after I stood up for my and others' rights. I got angry on behalf of the people of colour who he sent to endanger their health, working without basic equipment like boots and gloves to dispose of trash (rusted metal, shards, chemicals, kitchen and even bathroom trash) half-buried amidst stinging nettles and lots of ants. They arrived on a sunday with only their sandal-wearing spouse to help, kid in tow (had to wait in the car). I honestly doubt they were paid at all, definitely not an adequate amount.
I refuse to just let the landlord get away with this. They are systematically preying on the marginalised and desperate, exploiting tenants and POC for labour and endangering our/their health. CO poisoning is no joke. I don't even have time to list all the other problems with this house and all the ways in which the landlord has abused me. I was suicidal for a while.
What I need first is to physically survive and get my family through this. Then I plan to let the court know about all the landlord's crimes. But first I need to find a new place to live, one that is actually fit for human habitation. The main reason I couldn't find one yet is that I can't give the new landlord my old one's number as a reference and no one will rent to me otherwise.
How You Can Help:
- Be my fake landlord reference! A free, safe and relatively easy thing to do that would have the BIGGEST IMPACT! (more info in 🧵; dm me 🙏)
- Boost this and/or OTHER posts of me and @DionRa
- donate money for our survival (food, heating, bills, moving, deposit, rent of new place)
€ paypal: bellis-storm@tutanota.com
£ paypal: diontheblackdragon@gmail.com
or dm for € or £ bank transfer
Fundraising goals and progress at the linked post. Updating this overwhelms me because not knowing where we'll live in two weeks is the main problem, so Dion will do that task.
https://kind.social/@DionRa/115395618239931829
#MutualAid #disabilityCrowdfund #TransMutualAid #MutualAidRequest #donate #DonationRequest #disability #alab #AbuseSurvivor #WorkersRights #CapitalismKills #HousingInsecurity
"Working people want #unions and the numbers prove it," says one labor leader. "While billionaires and their yes-men in Congress try to slash wages, gut health care, and silence working people, we are fighting back—organizing, mobilizing, and demanding a voice."
from #CommonDreams
Jon Queally
Aug 29, 2025
Jon Queally
Aug 29, 2025#Gallup's annual survey, released Thursday, shows more than two-thirds of people in the US (68%) approve of #labor unions and the economic security and prosperity they provide working families. The popular support matches record-high numbers of recent years after a long decline from the 1960s through the early 2000s.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/support-for-labor-unions
#WorkersRights#Workers#LaborMovement#LaborUnions#USA#US#USPolitics #sindicatos #news #politics
"Working people want #unions and the numbers prove it," says one labor leader. "While billionaires and their yes-men in Congress try to slash wages, gut health care, and silence working people, we are fighting back—organizing, mobilizing, and demanding a voice."
from #CommonDreams
Jon Queally
Aug 29, 2025
Jon Queally
Aug 29, 2025#Gallup's annual survey, released Thursday, shows more than two-thirds of people in the US (68%) approve of #labor unions and the economic security and prosperity they provide working families. The popular support matches record-high numbers of recent years after a long decline from the 1960s through the early 2000s.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/support-for-labor-unions
#WorkersRights#Workers#LaborMovement#LaborUnions#USA#US#USPolitics #sindicatos #news #politics
Unpaid labour you are required to give your employer to keep your position is straight up exploitation. It’s very simple and should not be allowed under any circumstances. If a business or industry claims it just can’t make ends meet without exploiting its workers, then our answer should be the same as when southern plantation owners made the same ‘economic’ argument.
Unpaid labour you are required to give your employer to keep your position is straight up exploitation. It’s very simple and should not be allowed under any circumstances. If a business or industry claims it just can’t make ends meet without exploiting its workers, then our answer should be the same as when southern plantation owners made the same ‘economic’ argument.
“ #Degrowth should be understood as an element within a #socialist transformation, as a corrective to productivist strains of socialist thought that are inadequate for our moment. The problem with productivism is that it ignores #imperialism & #ecology.”
https://breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/interview-with-jason-hickel-degrowth
#GreenSocialist#GreenParty#EcoSocialism#Socialism#Marxism#Communism#Peace#SocialJustice#Democracy#Education#DualPower#Politics#Organize#Reading#Discussion#Learning#Workers#WorkersRights#HumanRights
“ #Degrowth should be understood as an element within a #socialist transformation, as a corrective to productivist strains of socialist thought that are inadequate for our moment. The problem with productivism is that it ignores #imperialism & #ecology.”
https://breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/interview-with-jason-hickel-degrowth
#GreenSocialist#GreenParty#EcoSocialism#Socialism#Marxism#Communism#Peace#SocialJustice#Democracy#Education#DualPower#Politics#Organize#Reading#Discussion#Learning#Workers#WorkersRights#HumanRights
Oh my goodness we are so dangerous! 🙄
#antifascism #antifa #activism #anarchism #protest #activistmemes #healthcare #workersrights #labour #housing #environment #climate #climatechangeisreal #climatechange
Oh my goodness we are so dangerous! 🙄
#antifascism #antifa #activism #anarchism #protest #activistmemes #healthcare #workersrights #labour #housing #environment #climate #climatechangeisreal #climatechange
When this government does something good, we should shout about it. This new amendment to the Employment Rights Bill, currently going through Parliament, is one such.
#NDAs#WorkersRights#UKPolitics
UK bosses to be banned from using NDAs to cover up misconduct at work | Employment law | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jul/07/uk-bosses-to-be-banned-using-ndas-cover-up-misconduct-work?CMP=GTUK_email
When this government does something good, we should shout about it. This new amendment to the Employment Rights Bill, currently going through Parliament, is one such.
#NDAs#WorkersRights#UKPolitics
UK bosses to be banned from using NDAs to cover up misconduct at work | Employment law | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jul/07/uk-bosses-to-be-banned-using-ndas-cover-up-misconduct-work?CMP=GTUK_email
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