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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] '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] Australian TV reporter Matt Doran gives lengthy on-air apology after he ‘insulted’ Adele
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Australian TV reporter Matt Doran has made a lengthy, unreserved apology to Adele for failing to listen to her new album before an exclusive interview with the singer, calling the bungle a “terrible mistake”.
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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] 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] Cops and Paramedics Involved in Elijah McClain Death Charged With Homicide
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The police officers and paramedics who stopped 23-year-old Elijah McClain and administered a fatal dose of ketamine to the unarmed Black man are being charged with homicide, more than two years after his death.
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[Link] Tesla ordered to pay $137M to Black former worker subjected to racist workplace
Read: 10/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Tesla owes Owen Diaz $137 million after a jury found that the Black former worker was subjected to racial abuse that the electric vehicle company insufficiently addressed during his tenure.
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