https://mas.to/@meganL/113683986733703639 meganL@mas.to - Re alternatives to Amazon, it depends on what you're buying. But I've been free from #Amazon since 2017 and here's what I use:
Ordering directly from manufacturers' websites.
I haven't ordered from Ali Express before, but a lot of the cheap Chinese stuff you get from Amazon is there as cheap or cheaper. A lot of folks order from them.
And buy local if you can, of course.
Geächtete Kampfmittel - Russland produziert laut US-Medien Biowaffen
Russland produziert in einem Labor bei Moskau wahrscheinlich biologische Waffen. Die Washington Post und Radio Liberty veröffentlichten Hinweise darauf.#Biowaffen #BiologischeWaffen #Kampfmittel #Russland #Ukraine #Krieg #Labor #Krankheitserreger #Konvention #geächtet #Propaganda #USA #WashingtonPost #RadioLibertyinPrag
Biowaffen: Russland produziert offenbar geächtete Kampfmittel
#Cops also do more theft through civil asset forfeiture , than all the other thefts done by civilian. #wagetheft #Labor
♲ stefani banerian - 2024-12-13 17:58:18 GMT
♲ @florida_ted@diasp.org:
Are you a victim of Wage Theft?
If you experience wage theft from your employer, assume good faith and remain calm. Contact your employer’s payroll representative (usually HR or a managing director) and talk through what the issue is and what is a reasonable solution.
A quotation from Jerome, Jerome K.
It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927) English writer, humorist [Jerome Klapka Jerome]
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), ch. 15 (1889)
#quote #quotes #quotation #effort #labor #overwork #work
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https://kolektiva.social/@RustyBertrand/113317885058108992 RustyBertrand@kolektiva.social - When Frances Perkins was a little girl, she asked her parents why nice people could be poor. Her father told her not to worry about those things, and that poor people were poor because they were lazy and drank.
Eventually, she went to Mount Holyoke College, and majored in physics. In her final semester, she took a class in American economic history and toured the mills along the Connecticut River to see working conditions. She was horrified.
Eventually, instead of teaching until she married, she earned a masters degree in social work from Columbia University. In 1910, Perkins became Executive Secretary of the New York City Consumers League.
She campaigned for sanitary regulations for bakeries, fire protection for factories, and legislation to limit the working hours for women and children in factories to 54 hours per week. She worked mainly in New York State’s capital, Albany. Here, she made friends with politicians, and learned how to lobby.
On March 25th, 1911, Frances was having tea with friends when they heard fire engines. They ran to see what was happening, and witnessed one of the worst workplace disasters in US history. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was devastating, killing 146 people, mostly young women and girls.
Frances watched as fire escapes collapsed and fireman ladders couldn’t reach the women trapped by the flames. She watched 47 workers leap to their deaths from the 8th and 9th floors.
Poignantly, just a year before these same women and girls had fought for and won the 54 hour work week and other benefits that Frances had championed.
These women weren’t just tragic victims, they were heroes of the labor force. Frances at that moment resolved to make sure their deaths meant something.
A committee to study reforms in safety in factories was formed, and Perkins became the secretary. The group took on not only fire safety, but all other health issues they could think of. Perkins, by that time a respected expert witness, helped draft the most comprehensive set of laws regarding workplace health and safety in the country. Other states started copying New York’s new laws to protect workers.
Perkins continued to work in New York for decades, until she was asked by President Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him only if he agreed with her goals: 40-hour work week, minimum wage, unemployment and worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, federal aid to the states for unemployment, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. He agreed. Similar to what she had worked for in New York, her successes became the New Deal, and changed the country and its workers forever.
So while you may not know her name, you certainly know her legacy.
PRINCE: In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.
BENEDICK The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull’s horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vilely painted, and in such great letters as they write “Here is good horse to hire” let them signify under my sign “Here you may see Benedick the married man.”
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Much Ado About Nothing, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 256ff (1.1.256-262) (1598)
#quote #quotes #quotation #bachelor #labor #yoke #livestock #marriage
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https://med-mastodon.com/@bicmay/112029373721293348 bicmay@med-mastodon.com - "This Women's History Month, we at the AFL-CIO want to recognize that Women's history is not a separate history; it’s not a single month...Our Civil, Human and Women’s Rights Department has put together a list of recommended reading for the month—and we’re making it easy for you to support women authors and to buy union-made. We’ve sourced each book and linked to some union bookstore choices where you can order it online."
https://aflcio.org/2024/3/1/womens-history-month-reading-list
#legalSlavery #ThereIsNoEthicalConsumptionUnderCapitalism
ANGOLA, La. (AP) — A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison.
Unmarked trucks packed with prison-raised cattle roll out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where men are sentenced to hard labor and forced to work, for pennies an hour or sometimes nothing at all. After rumbling down a country road to an auction house, the cows are bought by a local rancher and then followed by The Associated Press another 600 miles to a Texas slaughterhouse that feeds into the supply chains of giants like McDonald’s, Walmart and Cargill.
Intricate, invisible webs, just like this one, link some of the world’s largest food companies and most popular brands to jobs performed by U.S. prisoners nationwide, according to a sweeping two-year AP investigation into prison labor that tied hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of agricultural products to goods sold on the open market.
They are among America’s most vulnerable laborers. If they refuse to work, some can jeopardize their chances of parole or face punishment like being sent to solitary confinement. They also are often excluded from protections guaranteed to almost all other full-time workers, even when they are seriously injured or killed on the job.
. . .
#prison #slave #labor #UnitedStates #capitalism #labour #laborRights #AssociatedPress
#labour #labor #labor-organizing #strike #union #unions #trade-unions #condé-nast #ars-technica
Roboter und maschinelle Lernmodelle hätten ohne menschliches Zutun neue Materialien entwickelt, hieß es 2023. Doch offenbar hat das automatische Labor rein gar nichts entdeckt.#KI #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Labor #Roboter #Syntheseroboter #Laborautomatisierung #Automatisierung #Automatisch #Kristallstruktur #Materialwissenschaft #AutonomesLabor #MaschinellesLernen #Chemie #ITTech
Vernichtendes Urteil über KI-gesteuertes Labor
The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.
[Alles in der Welt läuft doch auf eine Lumperei hinaus, und ein Mensch, der um anderer willen, ohne daß es seine eigene Leidenschaft, sein eigenes Bedürfnis ist, sich um Geld oder Ehre oder sonst was abarbeitet, ist immer ein Tor.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, statesman, scientist
Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers [The Sorrows of Young Werther], Book 1, “July 20” (1774) [tr. Boylen (1854)]
#quote #quotes #quotation #folly #honor #labor #money
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The United Nations estimates that nearly three million children are out of school in Yemen due to the ongoing conflict.And with a declining economy, many of ...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #ChildRights #Children #Childrenforcedtoworkinsteadofgoingtoschool #Conflict #Education #Educationstudentlife #Labor #UnitedNations #War #WarinYemen #aljazeera #aljazeeraenglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #latestnews #newsheadlines
War in Yemen: Children forced to work instead of going to school
We All Live in a Company Town Now. The Labor Movement Can Lead the Way Out.
Beneath the surface is a more malignant driver of this crisis: the speculative private market, which has concentrated its grip over real estate to such an extent that virtually every American lives in a company town now.
Unions from all sectors need to wage campaigns for housing policies that break the vise grip of real-estate elites.
#union #labor #humanity #people #freedom #Oligarchy
https://jacobin.com/2023/10/housing-unions-rents-real-estate-public-housing-rent-control
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/23/tim-gurner-speech-unemployment/
“We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around,” Gurner said. “There’s been a systematic change where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them, as opposed to the other way around. It’s a dynamic that has to change. We’ve got to kill that attitude, and that has to come through hurting the economy.”
#tim-gurner #rich-people #wealthy-people #the-wealthy #wealth-inequality #wealth-and-income-inequality #employment #unemployment #labor #labor-unions #labor-power #multimillionaire #multimillionaires #ruling-class #working-class #class-warfare
