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Workers to lose 300 million over grocery store merger

jeudi 11 mai 2023 à 06:01

*Grocery Store Workers Stand to Lose Over $300 Million Annually if Kroger and Albertsons Merge*

There’s Still Time to Avoid Climate Catastrophe

jeudi 11 mai 2023 à 06:01

*There's Still Time to Avoid Climate Catastrophe.*

The coronation pulled a screen across a desperate, polarised nation

jeudi 11 mai 2023 à 06:01

*The coronation [in the UK] pulled a screen across a desperate, failing nation — just as intended. Those who opposed it must be portrayed as radical, or the whole rotten system it represents might come crashing down.*

If I imagine myself as British, I do not see myself as opposing either the coronation or the monarchy. I simply see them as side issues. Queen Elizabeth II was not responsible for the Tory policy of repression and impoverishment of the poor, nor for Starmer's ruination of the Labour party. Those are what's really bad about the UK government.

Why Native history is American history

jeudi 11 mai 2023 à 06:01

The presence of indigenous people in what is now the US was not a mere detail. The desire to take their lands was central to the history of the US.

Recent Day of the Worker now over

mercredi 10 mai 2023 à 13:46

The labor shortage that gave workers more clout has ended. Now employers are gleefully screwing workers again.

The author states the cause opaquely by saying that "the economy has slowed," choosing not to mention the cause of that: interest rate increases by central banks, made in the name of curbing the inflation whose real causes they refuse to recognize.

For some employees with special talents, this takes the form of loss of some special perks, described in the article, plus increased unjust surveillance. For the less influential employees who were mistreated all along, it takes the form of refusing to negotiate with their unions.

But don't stop there. Amazon mistreats customers as well as workers and everyone else. Do as I do, and refuse to ever give your name or your address to Amazon.