Work Reform
- Tesla workers in Germany complain about home visits from their bossesarstechnica.com Tesla workers in Germany complain about home visits from their bosses
The rate of sick leave reached 17 percent in August, far above industry average.
- American Airlines Flight Attendants Just Won Boarding Payjacobin.com American Airlines Flight Attendants Just Won Boarding Pay
Flight attendants typically aren’t paid during boarding time. Earlier this month, after a three-year contract campaign and a credible strike threat, flight attendants at American Airlines became the first to win boarding pay.
- Unifor files a notice of dispute against Canadian National Railway
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20265433
> Canadian National Railway said on Friday that labor union Unifor has filed a notice of dispute to the Canadian Minister of Labor, just three days after initiating negotiations. > > Also known as "conciliation", the notice of dispute can be sent by either party to the Canadian Minister of Labor during a negotiation and typically results in the appointment of a conciliation officer to assist the parties in reaching an agreement.
- Coliseum concession workers say they won't get severance, health insurance after last A's gameabc7news.com Coliseum concession workers say they won't get severance, health insurance after last A's game
Coliseum employees say for months, Aramark has led them to believe they would ultimately be offered some form of severance after the A's leave Oakland. Now, many of these workers are unsure of what they'll do next.
OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- For Kenyetta Gentry, the Oakland A's are a part of her family's DNA.
"My grandfather was security here in the 80s - that I know of. If not, even longer. And my auntie, Auntie Pat, she worked here as security as well," Gentry said.
A tradition in which Gentry has participated.
For the past 24 years, she's worked for Aramark, the company that runs the shops and concession stands at the Coliseum for home games.
After all those years of service, Gentry says she was shocked to find out Monday that Aramark will not be offering any severance to their employees following the A's last game on Thursday.
In addition, Gentry says she and her coworkers will also lose their health insurance.
- Survey: 73% of Amazon workers are considering quitting after 5-day in-office mandatewww.cnbc.com Survey: 73% of Amazon workers are considering quitting after 5-day in-office mandate
Nearly 3 in 4 Amazon workers say they're considering looking for a new job following CEO Andy Jassy's recent memo announcing a full-time return-to-office.
- AFL-CIO Warns House GOP Not to Interfere With Longshoremen's Labor Battlewww.commondreams.org AFL-CIO Warns House GOP Not to Interfere With Longshoremen's Labor Battle | Common Dreams
The AFL-CIO president urged House Republicans not to intervene in port workers' negotiations for a fair contract, saying management is less likely to bargain in good faith if it thinks the government will block a strike.
- "Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." - Abraham Lincoln
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20187578
- Video game actors' union calls for strike against 'League of Legends'apnews.com Video game actors' union calls for strike against 'League of Legends'
“League of Legends” is caught in the middle of a dispute between Hollywood’s actors union and an audio company that provides voiceover services for the blockbuster online multiplayer game.
> “League of Legends” is caught in the middle of a dispute between Hollywood’s actors union and an audio company that provides voiceover services for the blockbuster online multiplayer game. > > The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists called a strike against “League of Legends” on Tuesday, arguing that Formosa Interactive attempted to get around the ongoing video game strike by hiring non-union actors to work on an unrelated title.
- Entire HR Team Fired After Manager Uses His Own Resume To Prove Their System Is Auto-Rejecting All Candidateswww.yourtango.com Entire HR Team Fired After Manager Uses His Own Resume To Prove Their System Is Auto-Rejecting All Candidates
His discovery raises the question of how often this happens at other companies and how ill-suited tech is to recruiting.
- Boeing proposes 30% wage hike to striking workers in its 'final' offer.www.voanews.com Boeing proposes 30% wage hike to striking workers in its 'final' offer
It is unclear if the new proposal will satisfy the more than 32,000 Boeing workers in Portland and the Seattle area who walked out September 13
- Raise Wages? No Need — McDonald’s Is Hiring Inmates Insteadjacobin.com Raise Wages? No Need — McDonald’s Is Hiring Inmates Instead
Citing labor shortages, Alabama prisons are accused of “leasing” inmates to McDonald’s and other fast-food chains —and taking a cut of their wages.
- Singapore’s gig workers worry new benefits could mean lower pay.restofworld.org Singapore’s gig workers worry new benefits could mean lower pay
A first-in-the-region law gives gig workers injury compensation and retirement benefits. But some workers fears the higher costs will be passed on to them.
- Do remote workers actually work? Yes, but they also shop and showereu.usatoday.com Are remote workers really working all day? Here's what they're doing instead
Remote workers often brag about how productive they are at home, but a new survey sheds light on what they're really doing all day.
My favorite quote:
> While employees in the office might kill time messaging friends or flipping through TikTok, remote workers take advantage of being far from the watchful gaze of bosses to chip away at personal to-do lists or to goof off.
> Nearly half of remote workers multitask on work calls or complete household chores like unloading the dishwasher or doing a load of laundry, according to the SurveyMonkey poll of 3,117 full-time workers in the U.S.
Oh noes, people actually doing things that are useful for their families instead of even more computer time.
It's insane that this is even considered strange or surprising. When I work from home, I take longer lunch breaks and I often stop working earlier, but I'm still three times as productive compared to sitting in an office.
At home, I actually get focused time to do something and think. At the office, this is extreamly difficult with all the distractions and noise constantly interrupting my train of thought.
- These Alabama Workers Were Swamped by Medical Debt. Then Their Employer Stepped In.kffhealthnews.org These Alabama Workers Were Swamped by Medical Debt. Then Their Employer Stepped In. - KFF Health News
A decades-old manufacturing company opened a clinic and made primary care and prescriptions free for employees and their families.
- The NLRB Is Hamstrung by the Dysfunctional US Legal Systemjacobin.com The NLRB Is Hamstrung by the Dysfunctional US Legal System
Thanks to a corporate challenge to the National Labor Relations Board’s constitutionality, labor protections for tens of millions of workers have effectively been repealed until the Supreme Court can weigh in on the meaning of two words in the Constitution.
- Diner Chain Waffle House Underpaid Workers, Union Alleges in Federal Complaintwww.bloomberg.com Diner Chain Waffle House Underpaid Servers, Union Alleges in Federal Complaint
Waffle House, the Southern diner chain known for its smothered hash browns and open kitchens, systematically underpays servers, according to a union complaint filed Thursday with the US Department of Labor.
Paywall removed: https://archive.is/BptZw
- Largest port on U.S. East Coast, New York/New Jersey, begins prepping for what could be first union strike since 1977www.cnbc.com Largest port on U.S. East Coast, New York/New Jersey, begins prepping for what could be first union strike since 1977
A deadline of Oct. 1 for a new deal between port workers and ownership is approaching, and after talks broke down during the summer, tensions are high.
- CEO Pay Has Risen 1,085% Since 1978, But for Workers? Just 24%www.commondreams.org CEO Pay Has Risen 1,085% Since 1978, But for Workers? Just 24% | Common Dreams
CEOs at top US companies saw their pay skyrocket by 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay only increased by 24%
- Samsung sues Indian union over strike that disrupted output - CNAwww.channelnewsasia.com Samsung sues Indian union over strike that disrupted output
CHENNAI: Samsung Electronics' Indian unit has sued members of a labour union that has led a strike for 11 days at its only India home appliances plant in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, escalating tensions with its workers, legal papers show. Samsung's lawsuit dated Sep 12, which Reuters is first ...
- Sam's Club hikes pay as it competes for workers with Costco and other retailerswww.cbsnews.com Sam's Club hikes pay as it competes for workers with Costco and other retailers
Sam's Club workers with longer tenures to get larger increases in changes slated to take effect in early November.
- Boeing, striking union set to resume contract talks Wednesday.www.voanews.com Boeing, striking union set to resume contract talks Wednesday
The union, has been pushing for a 40% raise over four years in its first full contract negotiations with Boeing in 16 years, well above the planemaker's offer of 25%, which was resoundingly rejected
- UAW President Fain announces strike vote plans at Stellantiswww.cnn.com UAW President Fain announces strike vote plans at Stellantis | CNN Business
United Auto Workers union President Shawn Fain said Tuesday the union plans to hold strike authorization votes against Stellantis because the automaker is failing to live up to guarantees it made in the 2023 labor deal it reached with the union at the conclusion of a six-week strike.
- Ten things workers need to know about the CFMEUoverland.org.au Ten things workers need to know about the CFMEU - Overland literary journal
“Defend the unions, defend the CFMEU. Demand your union stand in solidarity with the CFMEU. Join the workers’ campaign to defend their union.” Ten things workers need to know about the CFMEU — with words by Sarah Missen and illustrations by Sam Wallman.
cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/13718685
> Ten things workers need to know about the CFMEU - Overland literary journal
- Harris wants to end subminimum wages for disabled workers—if they're not behind barswww.motherjones.com Harris wants to end subminimum wages for disabled workers—if they're not behind bars
40,000 people would benefit. Hundreds of thousands more will still earn pennies an hour.
- Amazon orders workers to return to the office five days a weekwww.cbsnews.com Amazon orders workers to return to the office five days a week
Amazon CEO Andrew Jassy is ending the e-commerce giant's extended experiment with remote work, saying employees collaborate better in person.
- Junior doctors accept 22% pay rise to end strikes - BBC Newswww.bbc.co.uk Junior doctors accept 22% pay rise to end strikes
Junior doctors in England accept the government’s offer of a 22% pay rise over two years, ending their long-running dispute.
- Boeing strike could last ‘a while’; workers confident of higher wages, union says.www.voanews.com Boeing strike could last ‘a while’; workers confident of higher wages, union says
Boeing and union negotiators are to return to bargaining table next week
- Boeing Machinists Are on Strikejacobin.com Boeing Machinists Are on Strike
After overwhelmingly voting down a proposed contract, 32,000 machinists at Boeing in Washington and Oregon went on strike Friday as their contract expired. It’s the biggest strike in the US so far this year.
- Aldi announces wage increases up to $23 an hour; hiring thousands of employeeswww.usatoday.com Aldi announces wage increases up to $23 an hour; hiring thousands of employees
Last week Aldi announced that it would be hiring 13,000 new workers and raising minimum wages across the company.
- Boeing workers overwhelmingly reject contract, prepare to strikewww.nbcnews.com Boeing workers overwhelmingly reject contract, prepare to strike
Workers in the Seattle area and Oregon voted 94.6% against a tentative agreement Boeing and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers unveiled Sunday.
- Boeing workers vote overwhelmingly to strike, halting aircraft productionaje.io Boeing workers vote overwhelmingly to strike, halting aircraft production
Ninety-six percent of union members vote to walk off the job at factories in Seattle and Portland.
The article:
Boeing’s roughly 33,000 factory workers on the West Coast of the United States have voted overwhelmingly to strike in the latest blow for the beleaguered aircraft giant.
Machinists at the company’s factories in Seattle and Portland, Oregon on Thursday voted to walk off the job from midnight after rejecting management’s latest offer for better pay and conditions.
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) said that 94.6 percent of its members voted to reject the contract and 96 percent backed a strike.
Boeing’s offer would have raised pay by 25 percent over four years, reduced workers’ share of healthcare costs and increased the company’s retirement contributions.
The aircraft maker’s offer also included a commitment to build its next aircraft at its facilities in greater Seattle after the company angered union members by moving production of the 787 Dreamliner to a non-unionised plant in South Carolina.
Workers had demanded a 40 percent wage rise, the restoration of a pension scheme that was axed a decade ago, and a stronger guarantee that future production would not be moved out of the Seattle region.
Jon Holden, IAM’s lead negotiator in the contract talks, said workers had spoken “loud and clear”.
“This is about respect, this is about addressing the past, and this is about fighting for our future,” Holden said.
“We strike at midnight.”
The strike, the first by Boeing workers since 2008, puts a halt to production of the best-selling 737 MAX and other aircraft as the company grapples with output delays, heavy financial losses and intense scrutiny of its safety record.
It also comes just weeks after new Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg took the helm of the company with a pledge to “reset” the company’s relations with the union.
Ortberg had on Wednesday urged workers to vote against a strike, warning it would “put our shared recovery in jeopardy, further eroding trust with our customers and hurting our ability to determine our future together”.
Boeing did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
Adam Smith, a Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives representing Washington State, urged the two sides to return to the negotiating table.
“Across corporate America, so much of the wealth has wound up in the hands of so few people,” Smith said in a statement.
“Large corporations have increasingly prioritised their own profits and shareholders at the expense of workers. It is crucial that Boeing behaves as a responsible steward for its employees, so that every employee at their company is respected with fair wages and working conditions.”
- Trump unveils 'no taxes on overtime,' mocks Harris at Arizona rallyabcnews.go.com Trump unveils 'no taxes on overtime,' mocks Harris at Arizona rally
Former President Donald Trump unveiled a new economic policy on Thursday before a crowd in Tucson, Arizona, saying he would end taxing overtime pay.
- Tesco loses UK legal battle over plans to ‘fire and rehire’ staff on lower paywww.theguardian.com Tesco loses UK legal battle over plans to ‘fire and rehire’ staff on lower pay
Dispute centred on use of threat of dismissal to remove ‘retained pay’ awarded in 2007 to encourage staff to relocate
Tesco has lost a high-profile “fire and rehire” case in the UK’s supreme court over proposals by the supermarket to let some staff go and re-employ them on lower pay.
The dispute with the shopworkers’ union Usdawbegan in 2021 and centred on moves to use firings or the threat of dismissal to remove retention payments awarded years earlier to some workers at distribution centres.
The UK’s highest court ruled that Tesco Stores Ltd could not terminate the employment contracts of staff to stop them receiving the retention payments and then rehire them on new contracts without the top-up.
The case has been closely watched because it raises wider questions about the practice of “fire and rehire” and an employer’s right to terminate a contract by giving notice to the employee and then re-employing them on less generous terms.
- Health Secretary Becerra Touts Extreme Heat Protections. Farmworkers Want More.kffhealthnews.org Health Secretary Becerra Touts Extreme Heat Protections. Farmworkers Want More. - KFF Health News
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra has a plan to protect farmworkers from extreme heat and wildfire smoke, but farmworkers who pick California grapes say they need more, as climate change brings more extreme weather.
- Games industry layoffs not the result of corporate greed and those affected should "drive an Uber", says ex-Sony presidentwww.eurogamer.net Games industry layoffs not the result of corporate greed and those affected should "drive an Uber", says ex-Sony president
Ex-Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president Chris Deering does not believe recent layoffs across the games industry…
Ex-Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president Chris Deering does not believe recent layoffs across the games industry have been a result of corporate greed. Instead, workers who have lost their jobs should "drive an Uber" or "go to the beach for a year" until employment settles.
Deering was a guest on games writer Simon Parkin's podcast My Perfect Console, where the pair discussed games industry layoffs.
"I don't think it's fair to say that the resulting layoffs have been greed," said Deering. "I always tried to minimise the speed with which we added staff because I always knew there would be a cycle and I didn't want to end up having the same problems that Sony did in Electronics."
