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[Link] 'No One’s Life is Worth a Package': Amazon Workers Are Organizing for Cell Phone Access

Read: 20/12/2021 www.vice.com

The Amazon workers are also demanding that Amazon pay workers for shifts cancelled due to inclement weather. And during school closures, they want Amazon to excuse all absences caused by severe weather and to be paid 80 percent of their salary. 

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[Link] Crypto Investors Are Bidding to Touch a 1,784-Pound Tungsten Cube Once a Year

Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com

In the latest phase of the quest to turn everything into an NFT, crypto traders are now bidding to digitally own a 1,784 lb cube of tungsten in Willowbrook, Illinois.

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[Link] 10,000 John Deere Workers Go on Strike

Read: 14/10/2021 www.vice.com

The strike was authorized after John Deere workers at a dozen facilities in Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas voted by 90 percent to reject a contract negotiated for months between the United Automobile Workers union and the company.

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[Link] FCC Proposes Record Fine Against Pro-Trump Robocall Scam, But Will It Collect?

Read: 25/8/2021 www.vice.com

The FCC this week announced that partisan disinformation merchants Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman could face a record $5 million fine for illegal robocalls placed during the run up to the 2020 elections.

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