#labor
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
Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
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.
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#prison #slave #labor #UnitedStates #capitalism #labour #laborRights #AssociatedPress
One-Day Strike at Condé Nast
I see no mention of it at Ars Technica.
#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 ĂĽber KI-gesteuertes Labor
A #Florida #restaurant chain says boosting pay and offering better benefits helped it end its #labor shortage
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
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/goethe-johann/64317/
War in Yemen: Children forced to work instead of going to school
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
The Secret History of How the Super-Rich Have Kept the Working Class Out of Work
Tim Gurner, Australian multimillionaire
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
Labor Day 2023
Last posted 2 years ago, today - a "tradition", and the ultimate theme song for honoring the worker.
Many long suffer, many rejoice… And on this day, many reflect.
A gem here, from the slower-rolling but gathering no moss, the immortal Rolling Stones.
Lift a glass for all of the good ones among us.. Past, present, future:
A toast! 🥂 🍻
The Rolling Stones - Salt Of The Earth
#music #musica #musique #rollingstones #saltoftheearth #tribute #holidays #LaborDay #workers #labor
Which Side are You On?
On the side of workers, on (U.S.) Labor Day ...
#PeteSeeger #Labor #LaborDay #workers #labor #unions #unionism #music #legends #FolkMusic #musica #musique
"Your cell phone keeps children enslaved" The truth about Congo's cobalt industry | Redacted News
#Slavery and #child #labor is alive and thriving in the D. R. of Congo in the #cobalt #mines. Anyone with a rechargeable gadget is an unwilling participant in this horror but we don't have to be. Siddhartha Kara is the author of the best-selling #book Cobalt Red and he joins us to discuss this horrific #truth and what we can all do about it. #politics
Building Power Outside The Democrat and Republican Parties
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=C4_IAQHrfHU
Reject the lesser evil, fight for the greater good ...
#kshamasawant #jillstein #drjillstein #rbn #nick #cj #politics #democrat #republican #green #cornelwest #postduopoly #movement #building #rentcontrol #labor #socialistalternative #workingclass #WorkersStrikeBack
Fuck Jim Teague.
The Persuaders: Workers Wanted A Union. Then The Mysterious Men Showed Up.
How a pair of “union avoidance” consultants using fake names turned a small Midwestern workplace upside down.
Early last year, the president of a small manufacturing company in Missouri received a cold call from a man who went by the name of Jack Black. Workers at the company, called Motor Appliance Corp., or MAC, had just asked to hold a union election. Jack Black specialized in “union avoidance.” He wanted to offer his services.
Jack Black’s firm has brought in millions of dollars over the years by providing employers with “persuaders,” or, to use unions’ less charitable term, “union busters” — consultants who try to convince workers not to organize. Persuader work is big business these days. The number of union elections in the U.S. has surged amid an organizing wave over the last two years. Employers are now paying upwards of $3,000 a day, plus expenses, for each persuader. Amazon alone dished out more than $14 million to consultants last year.
But more often the employer is a little-known firm like MAC, which produces electric motors and battery chargers. The consulting work at MAC ultimately led to employee resignations and a hearing before the NLRB that shed new light on the opaque world of persuaders. This story is based primarily on testimony from that hearing, which was obtained through a public records request.
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#JimTeague #JackBlack #union #labor #unionBusting #unionAvoidance #capitalism #HuffPost #HuffingtonPost
original "Rednecks" were striking Appalachian coal miners, who identified each other by tying red bandanas around their necks. They became such a threat to capitalist interests in the North that the US government literally dropped surplus chemical weapons from WWI on the civilian miner population in the West Virginia towns of Jeffrey, Sharples, and Blair.
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