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[Link] How Activision Blizzard employees made CEO Bobby Kotick powerless in just 30 minutes
Read: 2/12/2021 esports.gg
Amidst calls for resignation, CEO Bobby Kotick seemed to be all but untouchable. Blizzard employees proved him wrong in 30 minutes. Someone like Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick will do whatever it takes to hold onto their power.
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[Link] Black TikTokers Are Tired of Not Getting Paid for the Moves You Stole
Read: 1/12/2021 www.vice.com
But neither of them created that choreography. It was Jalaiah Harmon, who was 14 years old at the time. Neither D’Amelio nor Rae initially gave her credit, and they apologized only after being called out. Influencers like Rae and D’Amelio have turned their stardom into lucrative careers.
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[Link] NSW public school teachers to strike for first time in a decade as sector faces ‘perfect storm’
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
New South Wales public teachers will strike for the first time in more than a decade in response to a “statewide staffing crisis” caused by stagnating wages and an escalating workload.
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[Link] Now the GOP Is Coming for John Deere Workers
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
So much for the party of workers. Approximately 10,000 workers at John Deere facilities in five states went on strike in mid-October, the majority of them in Iowa.
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[Link] Outrage as McDonald’s CEO appears to blame parents of slain Chicago children
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
McDonald’s chief executive, Chris Kempczinski, has sparked outrage after the emergence of a text exchange with the Chicago mayor, Lori Lightfoot, in which he appears to blame two Chicago parents whose children were fatally shot.
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[Link] New York City Taxi Drivers Win Debt Deal After 15-Day Hunger Strike
Read: 4/11/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
The New York Taxi Workers Alliance has declared victory in its struggle with the city government that had made millions artificially inflating the price of taxi medallions and then left taxi drivers to suffocate under debt as those prices plummeted in the age of Uber.
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[Link] Amazon ‘Delivery Partners’ Hit Amazon With $150 Million Lawsuit
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Two Amazon delivery companies in the Portland area sued Amazon Monday, claiming that the e-commerce giant controls nearly every aspect of their business and penalizes them for circumstances beyond their control. The companies are seeking $15 million in damages.
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[Link] McDonald’s Employees Will Strike Over Sexual Harassment
Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The employees, organizers said, will strike in cities like Chicago, Detroit, Houston, and Miami. They will also call for workers to unionize, since McDonald’s, they say, has failed to adequately protect employees.
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[Link] Australia's top whistleblowers on strike
Read: 14/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
A-Leagues referees say they are currently without contracts for the A-League Men and Women seasons and have made themselves unavailable for upcoming trial matches and FFA Cup games.
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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] ‘We’re Tired of Getting Treated Like Trash’: Nabisco Workers Are Striking for Normal Hours
Read: 18/8/2021 www.vice.com
A strike that began at a Nabisco factory in Portland, Oregon last week has now spread across the country to Nabisco facilities in Aurora, Colorado, and Richmond, Virginia, where Oreos, Ritz crackers, Chips Ahoy, and other popular cookies and crackers are baked and packaged.
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