#wage labourers

[monsieurenjlolras]

you've heard of "quiet quitting," now I'd like to introduce you to the next level, The French Work Ethic:

Do exactly what you're paid for and nothing more

Absolutely refuse to be available to contact when you're off the clock

Never prioritize work over your own health, wellbeing, or family because that would be insane, it's just a job.

Have a little glass of wine

Take as long as you feel like for lunch

Deeply understand that work doesn't matter

Make sure your boss knows they're always your second priority ❤️

[originalleftist]

This is what happens when you elect Democrats- no talking points lifted from the Third Reich, no constant whining and lying on Xitter, no coup attempts.

Just steady, competent governance that no, may not fix everything all at once, but does keep the country running while making life meaningfully and measurably better for the working class.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

For every vacant job in Canada, there are 2.4 unemployed people. That was the picture recorded from April to June in Canada, according to Statistics Canada’s second-quarter report on job vacancies. Vacancies have steadily fallen since the glut of nearly one million open posts in 2022. At the time, one in three businesses had trouble hiring staff due to a labour shortage. Two in five had issues finding skilled staff, and one in four would have to fight to keep them. The agency says available wages, which may have been lower than what prospective employees were willing to accept at the time, could have limited hiring. Some businesses also said they were weathering a spike in retirements among boomer-aged workers.

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[kafkasapartment]

Reports highlight high injury rates at Amazon facilities—40% higher than industry averages—due to intense productivity demands. Employees have shared accounts of urinating in bottles to meet quotas and enduring unsafe environments…. Amazon has actively opposed unionization efforts, with workers alleging psychological tactics to discourage organizing. The company has been accused of firing employees who advocate for better conditions…Investigations revealed instances of underpaying vulnerable workers, including new parents and those on medical leave, even during periods of record profits.

[radley-rambles]

Cannot believe that 'access to quality art and writing made by other people is a luxury not a right, and artists and writers deserve to be compensated for their labour, because as much as I believe in the ethos of UBI, we live in a post-capitalist hellscape, and creators need to eat' is a controversial opinion in Leftist spaces.

[barrydeutsch]

Unions Have Always Done The Impossible!

A new cartoon for May Day! This has been an incredible year for unions in the USA - may next year be even better.

Transcript, comments, and supporting blah blah about this cartoon are at https://www.patreon.com/posts/103291731 .

My labor is paid for by hundreds of supporters pledging low amounts - $1-$3 - and that's just how I like it! patreon.com/barry

[spiltcandycoatedpunkblood]

thanks bro, nothing like an ultra rich racist colonialist parasite sitting on and dressed in stolen goods telling us they're gonna crack down on people trying to fucking survive and they say its because of "illicit gangs" doing this

literally sounds like when benefits fraud and food stamp fraud were cracked down on because an absolutely tiny fraction of people committing it, so now we have to punish them all instead of doing absolutely anything about the poverty and inequality created here in the first place

[starscreamingg]

Detroit Become Human and why does this game decide that the problem in society is individual people treating androids poorly because those androids are choking them out of the workforce and NOT the corporations and governments who deliberately designed the androids to do this

[anarchistin]

as a communist i do not care abstractly about questions like "will i be able to acquire this commodity at exactly the same rate in exactly the same locations" because the way they reach distribution centers is premised on exploitation, violence, and in many cases genocide

those people matter to me, the people whose lives were transformed into cogs for profit. for extraction. thats the relationship i want to change.

if that means less bananas fine. if it means more bananas fine. bananas arent the aim. emancipation is.

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[susansontag]

No thoughts on AI as such, but I wonder if it would be a surprise to this user to find out that the introduction of complex machinery into manufacturing/industry resulted in the exploitation of a larger subsection of the population, as many more people could now work in certain industries (who couldn’t before) due to machinery making it viable eg more women and child wage-labourers.

My point being that machinery, the technological innovation of the time, could have been used to make workers lives easier under a non-capitalist model, but that didn’t happen because capitalism must have growth and must realise profit. And you can’t do that without the surplus labour of workers. Anyway.

[enbycrip]

As a note, this is about calling out the hypocrisy of not valuing skills, or indeed simply another person’s time and labour, enough to fairly pay the person doing the labour, not saying “don’t pay people to do work for you”.

If you’re not familiar, “unskilled labour“ is pretty much a code phrase certain people use for “I think it should be done; I just don’t think it deserves a fair wage”. It’s most frequently used about retail workers and care workers.

You will note that disabled folk in general, who are most likely people to pay folk to undertake work we are physically incapable of doing ourselves, are incredibly pro paying carers a living wage or better. Partially in class solidarity; we are likely to be living in poverty and don’t want other people to be in the same position. Also because, frankly, many of us live in the wreckage of the broad social unwillingness to pay carers a decent wage to do a decent job and be otherwise valued.

[thosesillylittlegayghosts]

Oh it’s so nice of the government to raise the minimum wage for over 18s when you can start working at 16. Thanks guys!!

[thoughtportal]

ALL clothes are handmade

[theskyexists]

Honestly, sucks that vi never gets a break.

[mercuriallily]

I crocheted a blanket for my friend's new baby! I had a lot of fun making it, and I'm considering opening a commission slot or two for blankets! Let me know if you're interested

[burning2know]

i made the mistake of looking up Temu on tumblr