Notices tagged with workers, page 2

The Air Canada strike situation is an unmitigated disgrace.

First of all, getting no pay for mandatory work while the plane is on the ground is fucking insane, and it apparently being industry standard practice (which I had no idea of before today) makes it so much worse. Unions explicitly agreeing to it in the past doesn't make that any less true; I dearly hope those unions had damn good reasons at the time, because any union worth its salt would know that this is textbook wage theft, and sends the message that this type of labour is not valuable. A message that is, of course, a lie, because if it wasn't valuable it wouldn't be mandatory!

The other prong of this hellscape is that forcing people back to work should never be allowed, in any industry, in any context. Causing economic damage is precisely the purpose of strikes; that's what motivates the company to give the workers what they want. If the company is so big and central to the economy that a strike will significantly damage the entire economy, then that's not a reason to force people back to work; it's a reason to break up the company!

#airCanada #airCanadaStrike #airlines #antiTrust #business #canada #canPol #canPoli #CUPE #strike #union #unions #workers #workersRights

For I was working as hard as I could to make ends meet on my small salary, and you enacted tax laws giving tax breaks to those whose pockets were already stuffed with money.

For I was taunted and bullied for being different, and you commanded my school to ignore the bullying and to teach that people like me were not normal and deserve ridicule.

#Trump #Republicans #evangelicals #Christians #bible #BigBeautifulBill #TaxCuts #EconomicElites #workers #jobs #LGBTQ
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Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.

#Trump #Republicans #Jesus #evangelicals #Christians #bible #immigrants #ConcentrationCamps #MaskedThugs #starvation #Gaza #USAID #RFKJr #vaccines #BigBeautifulBill #TaxCuts #EconomicElites #workers #jobs #LGBTQ #Islamophobia #antisemitism #patriarchy #misogyny #SexualAbuse
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After April, economic reports show that #hiring began to stall, inflationary pressures crept upward & #home values in key markets started to decline, said John Silvia, CEO of Dynamic Economic Strategy.

“A less productive #economy requires fewer #workers,” Silvia said in an analysis note. “But there is more, the higher tariff prices lower workers’ real #wages. The economy has become less productive, & firms cannot pay the same real wages as before. Actions have consequences.”

#Trump #tariffs

Tax the rich‼️I mean why wouldn’t we. You know we’ve done it before - and it WORKED. Listen to this explanation of why we did it, what it meant, and how it made the economy boom for everyone, top-to-bottom. Republican president and former 5-star general Dwight D. Eisenhower taxed the rich at well over 90%. #TaxTheRich #Taxes #Taxation #Billionaires #NoBillionaires #equity #workers #economy

A quarter of Gen Z workers say college wasn't worth it

#College #ValueOfEducation #Workers #JobMarket #Survey

https://qz.com/a-quarter-of-gen-z-workers-say-college-wasnt-worth-it

"Employment in the construction sector will drop sharply: U.S.-born construction employment will fall by 861,000, and immigrant employment will fall by 1.4 million.

The deportations will eliminate half a million child care jobs."

#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #cruelty #economy #workers
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"If the administration manages to deport 4 million people, the Economic Policy Institute estimates:

There will be 3.3 million fewer employed immigrants and 2.6 million fewer employed U.S.-born workers at the end of that period."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #cruelty #economy #workers
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/democrats-must-lean-into-defense

"As one might expect, California, Florida, New York, and Texas will be hardest hit, but no state will be immune to the dislocation, inflation, shortages, and unemployment that results from a policy that manages to be as self-destructive as it is inhumane."

#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #cruelty #economy #workers
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"A flight carrying immigrants deported from the US has landed in Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, the homeland security department announced, in a move that followed the supreme court lifting limits on deporting migrants to third countries."

~ Jem Bartholomew

#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #cruelty #economy #workers
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/16/first-thing-house-speaker-mike-johnson-calls-for-release-of-epstein-files-amid-backlash

"How can the administration deport people to countries they have no connection to? In late June, the supreme court cleared the way for the Trump administration to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own without offering them a chance to show the harms they could face."

#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #cruelty #economy #workers
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If you wonder what you can do for #Palestine, your time will come sooner than you are ready for. Dock #workers in #France, #Greece & #Italy are refusing to load military equipment destined for #Israel. A #genocide requires a lot of logistics/resources, so much so that all levels of society are involved. Be there and be counted when it creeps into your meetings, your procurement reviews, your accounting, orders, shifts, artistic opportunities...

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/10/workers-in-europe-refuse-cargo-to-israel-our-solidarity-is-with-the-oppressed-not-with-war-criminals/

#Gaza #Maersk #F35

“Most AI tools require a huge amount of hidden labor to make them work at all. This massive effort goes beyond the labor of minding systems operating in real time, to the work of creating the data used to train the systems” @emilymbender

#AI #labor #workers #data #economy

https://restofworld.org/2025/the-ai-con-book-invisible-labor/

36 years ago #Chinese #military ended the #uprising of tens of thousands people fighting for more rights

After having to retrieve the first time the #PLA went to the #Tiananmensquare to destroy the main place of #protest

Though depicted as a #studentprotest in the west, it wasn't only #students , it was #workers and many others, too

#Repression hit them brutally afterwards

More at https://katika-kuehnreich.com/en/2025/06/04/36th-anniversary-of-the-tiananmen-massacre/

#China #Tiananmenmassacre #64 #jb0604 #天安门 #六四屠殺 #六四鎮壓 #VIIV #8964 #tankman

Trump looks to close 105-year-old department that supports women workers despite insinuating it would stay

#Equality #Policy #Administration #Workers #Women

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/womens-bureau-close-department-of-labor-b2765266.html

Opposition to #Trump's tax-cut & spending bill from hardline conservative #Republicans in the US #Senate & billionaire #ElonMusk adds another layer of #uncertainty for businesses.

Employers' reluctance to lay off #workers potentially keeps the US central bank [#FederalReserve] on the sidelines until the end of the year. Financial #markets expect the Fed will leave its benchmark overnight interest rate unchanged in the 4.25%-4.50% range this month, before resuming policy easing in Sept.
#economy

‘Pro-worker priorities’? Trump’s budget offers the exact opposite | Steven Greenhouse https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/22/trump-house-budget-bill-workers #HouseofRepresentatives #Trumpadministration #Workers'rights #DonaldTrump #Republicans #USpolitics #USCongress #USnews

Well, it's even worse, you get lower quality and human #workers are going to lose more than a job, but their evolutionary biological development skills.

The brain doesn't learn much from automated recursion trash, in the DNA it's muted if not needed. Better learn by reading a book on biology.

#AI is not an invention, it's a data washing machine to award a bunch of business providers. It's not new either, it's basic IT knowledge to gather intel for military purposes.

https://infosec.exchange/@isotopp/114516437908236614

Scots GBP15,000 a year poorer due to flatlining wages, research finds

#Economy #FinancialCrisis #Scotland #Workers #Wages

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/scots-ps15-000-a-year-poorer-due-to-flatlining-wages-research-finds-b2751462.html

We know

Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/time-saved-by-ai-offset-by-new-work-created-study-suggests/

#ai #genai #llm #workers