Our #bowiebookclub pick this month is the very non-feel-good novel/short stories “Last Exit to Brooklyn.” By Hubert Selby Jr.
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In a historic agreement, UPS agreed to many of the demands from its unionized members. The company agreed to higher wages for full- and part-time union members and, crucially air conditioning in vehicles.
https://www.chron.com/business/article/ups-reaches-contract-with-340-000-unionized-18259759.php
#news #labor #texas #world #houston #politics #work #UPS #teamsters
#UPS #UPSStrike #labor interview via https://journa.host/@NatalieDavis/110769821650598847
"....they had a thing called Time on Task. Basically, they had a quota they had to meet every day, but Amazon is not required to tell them what that quota was. So at the end of the day, they would tell you whether or not you made it and you can’t see it so you don’t know if they’re pulling numbers out of their ass. You don’t know where this is coming from. And they can use it as a reason to get rid of you."
https://therealnews.com/the-ups-showdown-what-to-expect-from-a-strike
10,000 airport ground workers strike across Italy
>Some 10,000 ground workers at Italian airports went on an eight-hour warning #strike on 15 July, lasting from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. As a result, almost 1,000 flights had to be cancelled, and an estimated quarter of a million passengers were affected.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/07/22/lwdx-j22.html #Italy #Union #labour #Unions #labor #solidarity #unionstrong
Adam Conover's activism has been refreshing to see during the writer's strike: not just picketing the studios but educating the public about what a union does and how a strike works at the same time. It's also fun to hear about other entertainers I admire working hard to support the picket lines. #Labor https://jacobin.com/2023/07/adam-conover-wga-strike?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon
My union, SAG-AFTRA, is striking in Hollywood. It represents 160K movie and TV actors, as well as about 500 staffers at NPR. We journalists are not part of this strike but we support our fellow union workers!!!! ❤️ ❤️
I was never part of a union before coming to NPR but quickly learned the power of colleagues helping each other to be treated fairly at work!!!
"What happens here is important because what's happening to us is happening across all fields of #labor, by means of when employers make Wall Street and greed their priority and they forget about the essential contributors that make the machine run," SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher said.
Sega of America workers overwhelmingly vote to unionize | Engadget
Arising #labor militancy: the battle between #UPS and the #Teamsters union may be a warmup for a war against #Amazon, coming in the not distant future. https://thehill.com/business/4082461-teamsters-ups-battle-may-be-just-a-warm-up-for-future-amazon-fight-experts-say/
This week's comic on Texas eliminating local rules mandating water breaks for construction workers
A nursing assistant wrote me about $21K in wages she says she had been owed by a shift-booking app for more than a year. Two months after I got involved, she says she was offered a settlement — on the condition that she stop talking with me. #gigwork #healthcare #labor #wages
I’m teaching a class on #literary representations of #labor & leisure. I got some good ones already (esp pre-1950s), but please share titles if you have favorite late 20th c short stories or poems that fit the bill. It’s for first-year college students, so longer works or otherwise very challenging reads aren’t going to work for assignments, but i will put stuff on a bibliography of supplementary/future reading! (& i’m full-up on films & songs)
