#labor issues

[nando161mando]

Labor is entitled to all it creates

[jeynearrynofthevale]

Was listening to 32 Thoughts and a really interesting point about salary negotiations was brought up. If you take a pay cut and sign a “team friendly deal”, that can be seen as screwing other guys in the league over. Because it’s used against them by teams in their negotiations. So, when agents are negotiating deals for their players, there’s not only the component of what is good for the individual player vs the team but also what’s good for the nhlpa, which is a union. Friedman brought up that he actually will sometimes get that same thing brought up when he’s negotiating deals as a broadcaster. Other people in the industry have asked him not to compromise and take lesser deals because that also compresses their potential wages.

[reasonsforhope]

Elon Musk has chosen a new CEO of Twitter and plans to step down from the role within about six weeks, the billionaire entrepreneur said on Thursday.

Musk, who runs Tesla and Space X, did not disclose the identity of the incoming chief executive. He said he plans to transition to a role as executive chairman and chief technology officer, in which he'll focus on "overseeing product."

[Note: We have since learned that his replacement will be former NBCUniversal ad exec Linda Yaccarino. Source: CBS News, 5/12/23]

The announcement comes months after Musk pledged in December to step down as the head of Twitter as soon as he found someone "foolish enough to take the job."

Musk's tentative resignation late last year followed a Twitter poll posted by Musk in which 57.5% of respondents called on him to stop leading the company.

After acquiring Twitter in October, Musk made major changes to the company and its platform. In an effort to significantly slash costs, the company has cut roughly 75% of its 7,500-person workforce, raising concerns about Twitter's capacity to maintain its platform.

-via ABC News, 5/11/23

[griseldagimpel]

Authors Deserve to be Paid

it takes me between two and four hours to write a book chapter. For a twenty chapter book, that's 40 to 80 hours of work. If I got paid a Florida livable wage to do so - $30.56 per hour - I'd have to sell my book for whatever gives me $1222.40 to $2444.80 after Amazon (my publisher) takes their cut.

That's what I'd have to sell it for in order (hypothetically speaking) my book to sell one (1) copy that was then scanned in digitally and then free to as many people who wished to read it. (This thought experiment is ignoring editing costs, in both time and money, as well as the time it took for me to paint the cover.)

Now, my book is NOT for sale for that much. You ca but it for around ten bucks. The idea is that I'll make money over time, from royalties. And the time cost was just something I ate upfront.

We don't have a authorial compensation system I'm the U.S. that has one big sale up front. We have one premised on royalties.

That digital as a technology allows for infinite copies at a negligible cost for each copy doesn't change the fact that authors deserve to be paid.

[townpostin]

Steel Industry Conference Highlights Sector Challenges

Base metal sector event in Kolkata addresses production and safety issues Summary: • Two-day conference on base metal sector held in Kolkata • Industry representatives discuss production trends and policies • Safety and labor concerns in focus at the event JAMSHEDPUR – A recent conference in Kolkata brought together industry leaders to address crucial issues facing India’s base metal sector. The…

[godloveyell]

And the Right is aiding and abetting their actions by helping them to hide behind the DEI excuse. 😡

Everyone’s getting a literal crash course in the knowledge that all consumer and worker protections are written in blood. They were not given to us at the benevolence of our corporate masters; the masters were forced to do these things or else face being dragged from their houses by an angry mob.

i feel like the boeing whistleblower case should radicalize more people. a major airline company is producing planes with less and less regard for safety and it's starting to get noticeable. man takes them to court, which would reduce profit at the cost of public safety. he fucking dies the night that boeings legal team asks him to stay an extra day. if nothing happens about this, i hope it gets through to people that america would literally kill you for a few extra cents

[townpostin]

AITUC Stages Protest at Tata Power Gate Over Workers' Issues

Workers led by Ambuj Thakur demand resolution of payment and benefits issues at Tata Power in Govindpur. JAMSHEDPUR – The Tata Power gate in Govindpur was the site of a substantial protest by AITUC on Thursday, during which they emphasized the numerous challenges that the workers encountered. The protest, which was spearheaded by labor leader Ambuj Thakur, was intended to address the grievances…

[ljones41]

WDW News Today on Disney Cast Members Labor Negotiations

[claudia1829things]

Mistreatment of VFX Artists

The YouTube channel, THE YOUNG TURKS (TYT) discuss the problems VFX artists are facing from Disney/Marvel Studios and other studios in Hollywood:

[godloveyell]

To add to the conversation, I’m going to link to a Reddit thread where someone discusses how their friend died from hustle culture at the age of fucking 32.

Serves as a heartbreaking reminder that hustle culture is bullshit.

Do the amount of work needed to keep your job and try to use whatever time and energy leftover to live your life. Do not give your all for a job that cannot and will not love you back. You only have one life to live. Don’t spend it constantly working.

[whereserpentswalk]

There are UBI advocates who say that UBI won't make people work less. And I think if it doesn't make people work less than it isn't enough.

[palatinewolfsblog]

"Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay."

Barbara Ehrenreich. Happy Mother's day, y'all!

[godloveyell]

I have a hard time just managing my part-time job. Working a job requires a mindset that’s just not natural to me. Luckily I live with my parents, so I don’t have to worry about rent, but while I used to dream about getting my own place, it’s not worth running myself into the ground over it.

Numerous studies have proven that a person’s ability to focus on a task drops off significantly after about four hours. John Maynard Keynes, aka the only economist who might have actually known something, believed that at this point, we’d be working a four-hour workday, and if we wanted to make this happen, we could—we have the resources needed to make this happen—yet we don’t. Technology has been sold to us as a labor-saving panacea yet each advancement, results in workers working harder and producing more for increasingly lower wages.

Seriously, read David Graeber’s book “Bullshit Jobs.” Will forever change your views on work. For those who lack money, you can read it in full for free at the Anarchist’s Library.

“If you have time to watch Netflix you have time for a side hustle” my side hustle is relaxing so that my body and brain can heal from by this nose-to-the-grindstone bullshit. I refuse to feel guilty for being a human with the need to relax sometimes. my side hustle is no.

[thisisadonaldduckblognow]

all the rise boys get done dirty on characterization by fandom in different ways i think. (not ALL the time every fanwork etc etc these are just like, trends i tend to notice?) every fandom suffers from losing character nuance.

- leo i’ve talked about plenty on this blog, how some of his canon traits (genuine belief in his skill and cockiness, capacity for joy, his manipulativeness whether for good or ill) seem to get watered down or wiped off the board and supplemented with generic sad boy. his struggles with purpose and identity and not wanting to fail somehow morph into “he hates and completely holds no value for himself”

- donnie’s canon personality gets blurred out and largely replaced with whatever list of Neurodivergent Traits. and i think there’s such a fine line to walk between exploring a character that’s been word of god confirmed as on the spectrum and overwriting what’s canonically there. it’s a hard needle to thread. it also feels like a lot of his canon emotiveness gets left off the table for some reason. bc he does have his moments of flat/deadpan delivery, but a lot of the time he’s honestly very emotive. he has the passion of a theatre kid and the vindictiveness of... also a theatre kid. and the mind of a scientist.

- raph loses so much of his rowdy teen boy energy it’s kind of wild? like interpretations sand off that he’s also impulsive and can be reckless and dumb and LOVES fighting and roughhousing and isn’t the most eloquent person. suddenly there’s this pitch perfect soft boy big bro who would never hurt a fly and always says the exact right supportive thing and singlehandedly raised his 3 brothers (which simultaneously sands off all the nuance of splinter’s issues emotionally connecting with his sons and how that affected all of them). and like i LOVE raph, he’s so full of love and care and anxiety, he clearly has learned to put a lot of work into being aware of his strength and size. but there’s a difference you know?

- mikey is like. where raph gets overparentified by fanon, mikey gets over “family therapist”-ed IMO. the impulsiveness, the goofiness, the powerful emotions including a VERY powerful temper, the flat-out dumb teen boy choices... they get ignored. suddenly there’s this only very sweet and earnest boy who has read a hundred psychology books and runs group family therapy weekly or something. he is crying in his room bc leo and raph are arguing about something. which is so. he IS very sweet and can be very earnest and is full of love! he HAS come in with his opinions and unsolicited advice a couple of times and life coached for the greater good. but there’s a difference between what he does in canon and the role he gets in fanon.

[political-decomp]

Rutgers University strike enters day 2 youtu.be/UDOKSohtXlw

This is the real deal and what needs to happen at nearly every, I mean EVERY higher ed institution in the country. Solidarity!

Want to really take education back in this country? Support the educators. Solidarity!