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my employer continues to radicalize me. They won't pay us more, or hire to replace vacancies created by attrition, or to expand the number of librarians in keeping with the growth of the undergraduate enrolment, but they WILL increase our benefits for therapy!
https://www.uwofa.ca/librarians-archivists-bargaining-bulletin-vol-6-no-13/
The worst #labor #shortages we are now seeing are not just a matter of skills or even finding workers. The problem is to find people who are willing to do these strenuous #jobs for such low pay and under such bad conditions, chart @ETUI_org https://shorturl.at/vEGOX
Content warning Vulture: Spider-Verse Artists Say Working on the Sequel Was ‘Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts’
"According to people who worked on Across the Spider-Verse, the working conditions required to produce such artistry are not sustainable. Multiple Across the Spider-Verse crew members describe the process of making the the $150 million Sony project as uniquely arduous, involving a relentless kind of revisionism that compelled approximately 100 artists to flee the movie before its completion."
After Phil Lord spent months "tinkering" in the layout stage, animators were "pushed to work more than 11 hours a day, seven days a week, for more than a year to make up for time lost and were forced back to the drawing board as many as five times to revise work during the final rendering stage." https://www.vulture.com/2023/06/spider-verse-animation-four-artists-on-making-the-sequel.html #SpiderMan #AcrosstheSpiderVerse #Sony #movies #animation #labor
Last week: Journalists with #Gannett went on #strike for a day, demanding better pay and improved working conditions, including changes to corporate leadership. Organizers say it could be just the beginning of #labor action around the #media megacorp: https://www.texasobserver.org/gannett-strike-journalists-union-newsguild/
#journalism #JournoLife #workers #Austin #Dallas #Texas #politics #USpol #news #protest #activism
Some good news. New York is compelling companies like DoorDash, Seamless, and Uber to pay food delivery workers $17.96 an hour. DoorDash is so mad, they want to sue. https://www.fastcompany.com/90908655/new-york-city-introduces-new-minimum-pay-rate-for-food-delivery-workers #DoorDash #MinimumWage #Labor
‘Sorry To Bother You’ Director Boots Riley On WGA Strike, Struggle, Solidarity, Sacrifice & AI – Guest Column https://deadline.com/2023/05/wga-strike-boots-riley-guest-column-1235367232/
H/T @pluralistic H/T Payday Report
#WGA #WritersStrike #BootsRiley #Labor #Unions #strike #politics #economics #AI
Congrats to @bandcampunited for winning their union election 31-7! 👏🏻
Official update with a joint statement from Bandcamp co-founder Ethan Diamond and Bandcamp United here: https://blog.bandcamp.com/2023/05/19/bandcamp-and-bandcamp-united-release-joint-statement-on-union-vote/
BREAKING: Starbucks to shut down *all* Ithaca locations as a part of its union busting efforts.
This means that over 30 people will lose their jobs, as a result of Starbucks' illegal anti-union efforts.
Ithaca was the first city that had 100% of its Starbucks stores unionized & now it will the first city to have all of its Starbucks stores shuttered.
The story hasn't broken locally yet (SB did a news dump last night); message me if you want to cover this
This book is based on Karen Levy's research on the integration of electronic logging devices (ELDs) in trucks, supposedly to ensure better compliance with work hours rules and other regulations. Levy shows the actual impact of the devices (used mostly by large trucking companies initially, since then made mandatory by federal transportation authorities). This is where #sociology of #labor meets the #surveillance society. Levy explores the truckers' culture and ethos, based on rugged individualist values and not a small dose of machismo and how this culture conflates with increased surveillance, leading to various forms of deviance and ways to "hack" electronic surveillance. All the while, Levy explores the underlying structure of the trucking industry, its winners and losers, where exploitation is located and how the ELDs are positioned within the web of power relationships within this industry. This may all seem complicated (it is!) but Levy's writing is relatively jargon-free …
This book is based on Karen Levy's research on the integration of electronic logging devices (ELDs) in trucks, supposedly to ensure better compliance with work hours rules and other regulations. Levy shows the actual impact of the devices (used mostly by large trucking companies initially, since then made mandatory by federal transportation authorities). This is where #sociology of #labor meets the #surveillance society. Levy explores the truckers' culture and ethos, based on rugged individualist values and not a small dose of machismo and how this culture conflates with increased surveillance, leading to various forms of deviance and ways to "hack" electronic surveillance. All the while, Levy explores the underlying structure of the trucking industry, its winners and losers, where exploitation is located and how the ELDs are positioned within the web of power relationships within this industry. This may all seem complicated (it is!) but Levy's writing is relatively jargon-free and clear. This a is a book that is perfectly appropriate for undergraduates. I should note that there is a really good methodological appendix at the end.
Today is May Day, aka International Workers Day, or the _original_ Labor Day.
There are two things that give me great hope: the growing labor movement, and electoral reform. Both are essential to challenging power structures that do not serve people or planet.
Join a union. Start a union. Talk to people about unions.
Thanks to @tribunusplebis for this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ2CuMlPYW4
#1U #MayDay #InternationalWorkersDay #WorkersUnite #Labor #Labour
With a big slowdown in construction, day laborers on 26th Street wait ... and wait ... and wait.
And regret they came here at all.
https://missionlocal.org/2023/04/poor-economy-puts-missions-day-laborers-out-of-work/
Monday A.M.: Teamsters announce 'historic first' unionization vote and contract deal for a few dozen California-based Amazon delivery drivers, who are directly employed by delivery service partners, or DSPs
Monday P.M.: Amazon tells me it terminated the DSP's contract 'well before' union announcement
