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[Link] Guy Whose Companies Keep Getting Sued For Discrimination Threatens to 'Improve' Twitter
Read: 5/4/2022 www.vice.com
Elon Musk has joined the board at Twitter, saying he plans to make several improvements to the platform.
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[Link] This TikTok-Viral WFH Mouse Jiggler Will Make Your Boss Think You're Online
Read: 9/3/2022 www.vice.com
A fair point.
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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] Use This 15-Minute Checklist to Prepare for a Job Interview
Read: 30/11/2021 getpocket.com
In just a few minutes you can make sure that you’ll nail your first impression.
[Link] 7 Questions to Ask Your New Boss
Read: 30/11/2021 hbr.org
No matter how many years you’ve worked, starting a new job is often nerve-racking. There are so many unknowns to figure out, and one of the biggest question marks is your new boss. How can you set your relationship up for success?
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[Link] Want the perfect job? It’s £44k for a four-day week – but you have to go into the office
Read: 30/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Name: The perfect job. Status: Perfect.
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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] World’s Worst People Keep Assaulting and Harassing Flight Attendants
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
The passenger started drinking their own alcohol, which is against federal law, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. When a flight attendant told the passenger to stop, that passenger sexually assaulted the attendant.
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[Link] Our Brains Were Not Built for This Much Uncertainty
Read: 21/11/2021 hbr.org
Prior to the pandemic, the working world already felt to most of us like it was undergoing rapid, unrelenting change — changes in customer preferences, client and employee expectations, and competitive advantages.
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[Link] Leaked Audio: Amazon Workers Grill Managers at Anti-Union Meeting
Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com
Last week, Amazon began holding mandatory anti-union meetings at JFK8, its largest New York City warehouse, and three neighboring warehouses, where workers recently filed and withdrew a petition for a union election in Staten Island.
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[Link] In modern Australia, why must caring for your family come second to your work duties?
Read: 15/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Caring is harder than work. Let’s stop pretending otherwise. The hardest thing about work is organising how to do it around caring commitments.
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[Link] To-go orders are ruining restaurant workers' lives
Read: 8/11/2021 www.businessinsider.com
The COVID-19 pandemic closed dining rooms and led to a boom in to-go orders across the restaurant industry — but they're making things unbearable for workers.
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[Link] Uber drivers tell Senate inquiry of abuse, false complaints and suspensions during Covid
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Uber drivers in Sydney and Melbourne have been temporarily suspended from the service for asking customers to wear face masks in their cars, a Senate committee has been told.
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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] Alec Baldwin Just Shot Someone and He’s Tweeting Through It
Read: 3/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. While filming a scene near Santa Fe, New Mexico for the Western last month, Baldwin, 63, shot and killed Halyna Hutchins, the film’s director of photography, and injured director Joel Souza.
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[Link] Starbucks Tells Unionizing Workers 'We Want You To Vote No'
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
On Monday evening, Starbucks sent a blatantly anti-union email to workers eligible to vote in union elections at three stores that begins on November 10.
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[Link] Red Spice Road owners publish open letter about unpaid former staff
Read: 31/10/2021 www.theage.com.au
The owners of popular city restaurant Red Spice Road, which planned to reopen without contacting or paying the staff it sacked in May, have released an open letter claiming there had been a terrible misunderstanding.
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[Link] Amazon intensifies 'severe' effort to discourage first-ever US warehouse union
Read: 31/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
A push to unionize workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama is running into tough opposition as the retail giant, whose profits have boomed during the coronavirus pandemic despite concerns over worker safety, has launched an aggressive anti-union drive.
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[Link] 'She was my friend': Alec Baldwin breaks silence on death of Halyna Hutchins for first time on camera
Read: 31/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Actor Alec Baldwin has spoken publicly for the first time on camera about the accidental shooting on the set of a film that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, in a video released by TMZ.
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[Link] Activision Blizzard ends forced arbitration as CEO takes a massive pay cut
Read: 31/10/2021 www.theverge.com
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick sent a letter updating employees on the further steps he and the company will take to change its image in the wake of multiple sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuits.
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[Link] Sure Looks Like Democrats Are Killing Paid Family Leave to Please Joe Manchin
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Democrats have been toiling to push through their own New Deal—a massive social spending bill covering climate, health, and child care—and secure President Joe Biden’s legacy.
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[Link] The People Who Left Their Offices to Work From Boats
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
The future of work isn’t work from home; it’s work from wherever you want. For some people, that’s an apartment; for Brad Abbott, that’s a boat. Abbott starts his day in the historic Vineyard Haven Harbor, waking up on the boat he lives on with his family.
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[Link] Techies demand top dollar as skills shortages bite
Read: 27/10/2021 www.afr.com
Australian tech companies are turning down new business because soaring pay rates being charged by workers with in-demand skills are making projects unprofitable, instead turning to training and other non-financial strategies to try to lure and retain staff.
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[Link] Hundreds of HelloFresh Workers Are Unionizing in New Jersey
Read: 21/10/2021 www.vice.com
On Wednesday, the union filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board for a union election at the HelloFresh distribution center in Newark. HelloFresh is the largest meal-kit provider in the United States. Its factory workers are also unionizing at a nearby facility in Totowa, New Jersey.
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[Link] Massage parlour operators who threatened to kill families of underpaid staff breached workplace laws, court finds
Read: 20/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The Federal Court has found the former operators of a Canberra massage business breached workplace laws by underpaying their staff and threatening to have their families in the Philippines killed if they complained.
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[Link] Why are millions of unemployed people excluded from our monthly 'unemployment' data?
Read: 17/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Do you scratch your head when you hear the government talking about the unemployment rate? Currently, the unemployment rate is just 4.6 per cent.
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[Link] Artist Steals $84,000 From Modern Art Museum, Calls It Conceptual Art
Read: 29/9/2021 www.vice.com
The Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in northern Denmark originally commissioned Haaning to recreate two of his earlier works as part of its “Work It Out” exhibition.
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[Link] Scotland to trial a four-day week
Read: 1/9/2021 www.bbc.com
Getting back to work is going to take some time, partly through resistance from office workers. Returning to where we were more than 18 months ago seems highly unlikely.
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[Link] UPDATE 1-China to cap how much ride-hailing platforms can take from drivers
Read: 26/8/2021 www.reuters.com
SHANGHAI, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Chinese authorities will impose a cap on the percentage ride-hailing platforms can take from drivers’ fees, an official from the Ministry of Transport said on Wednesday.
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[Link] $15 Minimum Wage Isn't Enough for Workers to Afford Rent in Any U.S. State
Read: 30/7/2021 www.teenvogue.com
This story is published as part of Teen Vogue’s 2021 Economic Security Project fellowship. In Florida, someone working full-time would need to make $24.82 an hour to afford a two-bedroom rental. In Colorado, you’d need to make $27.50 an hour. In Washington state you’d need to make $29.
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