Showing posts with label labor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label labor. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 7, 2026

The California Supreme Court might authorize electronic recordings in civil court proceedings (I've never seen "voice writers" before)

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LAT : Proponents argue recordings would solve a long-standing crisis that leaves many proceedings with no verbatim record. Court reporters s...
Saturday, March 14, 2026

"Singapore is moving to ban caged lorries used to transport migrant workers"

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@channelnewsasia From Jan 1, 2027, companies in Singapore will no longer be allowed to transport workers in caged lorries. Caged decks po...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

Extremely impressive bagel manipulation

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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Fairmount Bagel (@fairmountbagel)
Friday, July 4, 2025

These Dodgers limited giveaways seem like such a nightmare

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@yukiohyea POV: You thought getting the Dodgers Luffy card would be easy… đŸ˜… #OnePiece #Dodgers #TradingCardMadness ♬ som original - ...
Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Report alleges that 21,000 workers have died in eight years working on "Saudi vision 2030"

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Two summaries of the allegations.
Tuesday, July 23, 2024

A member of Canada's soccer support team is believed to have used a drone to spy on the New Zealand soccer practice

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Athletic : A drone was flown over a Ferns training session in Saint-Étienne, France, on Monday, New Zealand’s Olympic Committee (NZOC) said ...
Monday, March 18, 2024

MLB baseball players took steps to try replace the union's deputy executive director tonight

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ESPN : The move by players came amid an offseason that has seen a billion-dollar decrease in spending by major league teams and the extended...
Friday, March 1, 2024

Gavin Newsom's office says Panera Bread is not exempt from the new law regarding minimum wage for fast food workers

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AP : [The governor's spokesperson] said to be exempt from the minimum wage law as a bakery, restaurants must produce bread for sale on s...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Striking doctors in South Kora have been threatened with arrest if they don't return to work

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" doctors are struggling to convince the public that more doctors would be a bad thing and have garnered little sympathy"
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

MLS started using replacement referees tonight after the union rejected a contract offer

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Here’s my full report on today’s @PSRAOfficials protest, including interviews with four referees who were there. “Treat us like the quality...
Saturday, December 16, 2023

My favorite writing this week is this story about being a modern umarell in Phildelphia

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Kelsey McKinney tells a mystery for Defector . (No small excerpt will do it justice) A full life is made up of such small things! Speaking ...
Friday, December 15, 2023

Federal labor regulators are demanding Starbucks reopen 17 locations closed allegedly to suppress union organizing

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LAT (six stores are in Los Angeles): The NLRB said Starbucks should reopen the 23 stores and reinstate employees who were transferred to ot...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023

"Every member of Bandcamp union bargaining team was laid off in huge cuts at Oakland firm"

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SFGate : Songtradr spokesperson Lindsay Nahmiache told SFGATE on Tuesday that the firm didn’t have access to union membership information an...
Thursday, August 31, 2023

The Writer's Guild had a special RPG-themed picket

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Oh hey look, @daphnemwrites made a super helpful graphic with our whole schedule in one place!! So for you TL;DR people who don't like ...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Local LA politicians say Universal trimmed the trees without appropriate permits

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UPDATE: With cooperation from the Bureau of Street Services, we have found that no tree trimming permits have been issued over the last thre...
Sunday, June 25, 2023

Editor of the LA Review of Books talks about his mom scabbing during the 1981 Writer's Guild strike

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Thread starts here . The punchline: She was out of the business entirely inside five years. The moral? Don’t fuck with the unions, who o...
Friday, May 12, 2023

Starbucks announced it was closing its stores in Ithaca, so students have demanded Cornell stop selling Starbucks drinks on campus

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WSKG on the announcement : Just over a year ago, workers at all three of Ithaca’s Starbucks locations voted to unionize, making it the first...
Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Tony Gilroy announced he will no longer be producing Andor during the writer's strike

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Hollywood Reporter : “I discontinued all writing and writing-related work on Andor prior to midnight, May 1. After being briefed on the Satu...
Monday, May 1, 2023

Happy May 1, the real labor day

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Wikipedia describes May 1, 1886, the day of the general strike to demand an eight-hour work day: On Saturday, May 1, thousands of workers w...
Friday, April 14, 2023

Some baseball players who might fall agonizingly-short of reaching 10 years in the big leagues and securing their full pension

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This is kinda painful. The 10-year threshold is reached at 9.172 days of major-league service. Pineda and Archer in particular are just days...