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renthony · 1 month

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Cross-posted from Facebook, via a good friend:

Gooood morning, comrades! My Law360 colleagues and I walked off the job today because LexisNexis tried to illegally fire 10% of our newsrooooom! Corporate announced this plan the same day that they declared high revenue and profit growth. That day, its parent company RELX (which many of my academic friends know — OH BOY do they EVER know — as Reed Elsevier) also announced it would spend $1.25 billion in stock buybacks. Last Friday, the company went ahead with the layoffs and broke the law. The Law360 Union has walked off the job and stands united against these layoffs. We’re demanding they reinstate our colleagues and bargain fairly. You can help by: • Sharing this post and our letter about the illegal layoffs. • Contributing to our strike hardship fund, because we’re all losing pay to make this point. • Contributing to our fund to support our colleagues on the layoff list. • And, most importantly, share this with any legal practitioners, students or scholars you know and ask them to tell Law360 to stop breaking the law! We work hard to provide you with some of the best legal reporting and analysis out there, so now we need you. Help us!

#labor news #newsguild of new york #law360 #law360 union #us news #new york news

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amtrak-official · 6 months

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The Actors have reached a tentative deal and the strike has officially ended!!

#labor news #sag #sag strike #unions

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workersolidarity · 7 months

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FORD CAVES TO UAW STRIKERS. 38 MORE LOCALS JOIN STRIKES AGAINST GM AND STELLANTIS

United Auto Workers, which has had just under 13'000 of its workers striking against the Big Three Automakers: Ford, GM and Stellantis ever since September 15th, is calling on 38 more locals to strike.

The 38 Locals represent another 5'625 workers to strike against GM and Stellantis.

Ford, which has largely already caved, is giving up its two-tiered pay system, increasing its Profit-Sharing offer to 13.3%, restoring Cost-Of-Living increases it dropped in 2009, and has agreed to immediate conversion of all Temp employees to Full-time employees, as well as agreed to the Union's Right to strike over plant closings. And so, no other Ford Locals have been added to the strike.

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tam--lin · 5 months

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Syracuse Ballet fired six professional dancers for their strike over safety concerns, including being forbidden from communicating with their dance partners

#can you IMAGINE #good god #labor news #ballet

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robotgirlfoxears · 1 year

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#labor news #mae’s labor posts #uc strike 2022

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13thpythagoras · 1 year

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“ We speak with one of the 7,000 nurses on strike now in New York City at two hospital systems that account for more than a quarter of all hospital beds in the city, and a journalist who has documented how hospital CEOs are boosting their own pay by millions of dollars while slashing charity care. The strike began Monday after nurses failed to reach a new contract agreement with Mount Sinai Hospital and Montefiore Medical Center, with higher wages and better staffing among their main demands. “If we do not address this, we will continue to see nurses leaving the workforce because of unsafe staffing,” says Sasha Winslow, a striking nurse at Montefiore Medical Center. The Lever’s Matthew Cunningham-Cook details his investigation into how hospital CEOs have received millions in raises and perks while medical staff have been pushed to the breaking point during COVID.”

#labor news #go nurses

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thatrandomblogsays · 7 months

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I’m so happy for them

[Image Description: Castiel from Supernatural is saying I love you, underneath is an image of Dean Winchester with the caption: “After four months of striking the WGA has a reached a tentative agreement & finalizing the contract. If all goes well writers will get to return to work with better pay and protections. They did it. Go unions”]

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hamletthedane · 3 months

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I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.

What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.

What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.

What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.

The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.

And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.

But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.

I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.

#shut up e #long post #Saturday thoughts #this has been in my drafts for a week haha #also this is the heart of why AI art feels so wrong #forget the discussion of copyright and theft etc - even if models were only trained on public domain they would still feel very wrong #because they’re not art. art is the labor of creation #even commercial art and art commissioned by the popes and kings of history: there is humanity in the labor of it #unrelated: I did not know living in the Bronx was now something to brag about. How the fuck do y’all New Yorkers afford this city???

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treemaidengeek · 6 months

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NBC News CNN

#news via destiel #destiel meme #healthcare psa #public health #organized labor

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sonofthedragon · 2 months

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#labor news #labor rights #labor unions #nickelodeon

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iww-gnv · 12 days

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a law that prevents cities or counties from creating protections for workers who labor in the state's often extreme and dangerous heat. Two million people in Florida, from construction to agriculture, work outside in often humid, blazing heat. For years, many of them have asked for rules to protect them from heat: paid rest breaks, water, and access to shade when temperatures soar. After years of negotiations, such rules were on the agenda in Miami-Dade County, home to an estimated 300,000 outdoor workers. But the new law, signed Thursday evening, blocks such protections from being implemented in cities and counties across the state.

#news #florida news #us news #labor news #climate change #miami #miami news

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renthony · 3 months

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From the article:

Investigation Discovery has unveiled the trailer for “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV,” a four-part docuseries revealing the toxic work conditions behind children’s shows in the 1990s and early 2000s — specifically those from Dan Schneider, the creator of beloved Nickelodeon shows such as “iCarly” and “Zoey 101.” The series will premiere across two nights on ID from 9-11 p.m. ET/PT on March 17-18.

#labor news #media news #child labor

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amtrak-official · 6 months

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Ford and The UAW have reached a deal which gives all workers a 33% wage increase and Temps a 150% wage increase

#labor rights #news #us politics #capitalism #labor news

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workersolidarity · 7 months

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Auto workers launch historic strike against Detroit’s Big Three – People's World