Above Photo: King Soopers employee walks the picket line during a strike at more than 70 stores across the Denver metro area on January 12, 2022 in Glendale, Colorado. (Michael Ciaglo / Getty Images) More than 8,000 workers at Kroger-owned King Soopers and City Market stores are on strike in Colorado. Their fight highlights the company’s long history of atrocious treatment of its workforce. On Wednesday, January 12, more than eight thousand workers at around eighty King Soopers and City Market grocery stores in Colorado went on strike after declining what the stores’ parent company, Kroger, called its “last, best, and […]
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Above photo: Nicole Rushing, center, gives a thumbs up as cars honk in support of protesters outside the Hawthorne Fred Meyer in Southeast Portland. Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB. A weeklong strike is underway affecting a number of Oregon grocery stores, barely a week before Christmas Day. The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555, representing many employees at Fred Meyer and QFC stores, confirmed early Friday morning that it is moving ahead with a walkout at stores in Portland, Bend, Newberg and Klamath Falls. The details and specifics of a walkout are complicated. While the UFCW represents roughly 10,000 Fred Meyer […]
Above Photo: The Kaiser Permanente Antelope Valley Medical Offices in Lancaster, CA. Ted Eytan. Union members say a long-running partnership between Kaiser employees and management is under attack. For 13 years, registered nurse Kim Mullen has been part of a successful experiment: a collaborative partnership between the health care professionals at Kaiser Permanente and the executives who run the massive nonprofit. Decisions about the day to day delivery of care were shared among physicians, managers and employees. Workers’ input was actively and continuously solicited. Staffing ratios, wages and benefits, patient care — all were subject to group-based discussion and problem solving. “It’s […]
Above Photo: Two workers from the 31st Street El Milagro Factory hold up a giant burrito and a giant tortilla with a sign that reads “Mistreatment Tortillas” at the walkout on 26th Street. Francesca Mathewes/Block Club Chicago. Workers were locked out Thursday night and had to wait for hours to get their personal belongings. On Friday, they were let in — but an armed security guard was there. Little Village – An employee-led work stoppage at the El Milagro tortilla factory turned into a lockout Thursday night. The employees at El Milagro tortilla factory partnered with Arise Chicago to stage a […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107902/59/1079025940_0:0:3151:1772_1200x675_80_0_0_abbf7b339d92603cc3c31a0af08593a7.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Max Gorbachev. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/society/202010171080798463-adult-film-park-with-porn-stars-as-employees-opens-in-tokyos-red-light-district/ The attraction was designed by one of the largest Japanese adult film companies, Soft on Demand (SOD), which has previously opened bars where porn actresses serve guests. The idea turned out to be a hit and the company has decided to expand its business. A theme park for adults that has porn actresses as employees has recently opened up in Japan’s capital Tokyo. Each floor of the five-storied building, located in the Kabukicho red-light district, has its own theme. Floor 1F is used as a sort of reception, where the features of […]
Amazon Expects Employees To Operate Like Fast-Moving Machines By Michelle Chen and Molly Crabapple, In These Times. October 9, 2020 Amazon Expects Employees To Operate Like Fast-Moving Machines2020-10-092020-10-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/seancarlisle-e1602250564664.jpg200px200px Above image: Molly Crabapple. This Amazon Picker Is Fighting Back. Inspired by his father and grandfather, Sean Carlisle is organizing to win stronger safety measures for his fellow workers. This article is part of a series on Amazon workers produced in partnership with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. For Sean Carlisle (a pseudonym) a 32-year-old graduate student and native of California’s Inland Empire, the last three years at his local Amazon fulfillment center have been an […]
Coinbase has lost 60 people from its 1,200-person staff after an updated mission statement from CEO Brian Armstrong sparked fierce debate over how companies should respond to today’s charged politics. In a companywide memo obtained by CoinDesk, Armstrong informed employees that 5% of the company’s workforce had accepted the severance package offered last week. The deadline for employees to signal their interest in the package was Wednesday, and Armstrong said he expects the number to be higher after a “handful of other conversations” are completed. “I know there have been many difficult conversations happening to help clarify what our apolitical culture […]
Companies can’t become “apolitical” overnight. According to multiple Coinbase workers, the plan to offer a clean exit for mission-dissenting staffers has been in the works for over six months. So far, at least three people in the 1,200-person firm have taken the severance package, one of these sources told CoinDesk on Friday. In the past week, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong published a blog post discouraging politics in the office and offered a severance package for employees who disagreed with a new mission statement. According to three employees, who all spoke with CoinDesk on the condition of anonymity, Armstrong and other managers […]
United Airlines and American Airlines have sent furlough notices to a total of more than 32,000 employees, saying they can’t afford to have them on payroll after Thursday – the expiration date for the federal CARES Act Payroll Support Program. “To our departing 13,000 family members: thank you for your dedication and we look forward to welcoming you back,” United said in a message sent to employees Wednesday night that it also shared with NPR. American sent a similar message to 19,000 employees, the Associated Press reports, with CEO Doug Parker saying the furloughs could be reversed if Washington manages to […]
Coinbase’s CEO has issued a company-wide letter informing employees to get in line with a new cultural shift or take a severance package. Source link
You might call it taking a stand by not taking one. Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, took a strong stance against employee-driven corporate activism over the weekend, explaining that, going forward, his company would be “mission focused.” That means Coinbase will devote all of its attention to achieving the goal creating “infrastructure for the cryptoeconomy,” but will eschew any kind of activism, and won’t take a stand on policy or societal issues that go beyond that mission. It’s not that those issues aren’t important and don’t need solving, Armstrong says, but that Coinbase’s best shot at making the world a better […]
The authorities in the German capital have introduced a new set of guidelines for public servants to “raise awareness” about Berlin’s diversity. So far, however, the move has only managed to raise eyebrows. Berlin’s public employees, who have already had to be careful about their language for it to be properly “gender neutral,” will now apparently have to learn a whole set of new “diversity sensitive rules” aimed at making sure they don’t accidentally offend anyone. Also on rt.com Was Glinka anti-Semitic? MSM ‘gets facts wrong’ as it fumes over Berlin’s plans to rename metro station after Russian composer The Office […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump’s restrictive executive order banning the Chinese video-sharing platform, TikTok, in the United States will not prevent the app’s employees from receiving wages or benefits, the US authorities said in a court filing. “The Department of Commerce can state that it does not intend to implement or enforce Executive Order 13942 in a manner which would prohibit the payment of wages and/or salaries to Plaintiff or any other employee or contractor of TikTok … the provision of benefits packages to Plaintiff or any other employee of TikTok”, the document filed on Monday said. In addition, […]
Amazon Posted Job To Monitor Employee’s Efforts To Unionize By Aaron Holmes, Business Insider. September 3, 2020 Amazon Posted Job To Monitor Employee’s Efforts To Unionize2020-09-032020-09-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/5ebcf81f204ad34b6825bee3-e1599099841819.jpg200px200px Above photo: Amazon workers protesting the company’s policies during the coronavirus pandemic on May 1 in Hawthorne, California.Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images. Amazon posted a job listing this week for an “intelligence analyst” tasked with monitoring workers’ efforts to unionize and reporting back to top executives at the company. The analyst’s job duties would also include gathering information for use in Amazon’s legal actions, including restraining orders against labor groups, according to the listing. In a now-deleted job listing posted […]
A U.S. district judge disagrees with the Trump administration’s argument that U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees are adequately trained to screen asylum claims. Eric Gay/AP hide caption toggle caption Eric Gay/AP A U.S. district judge disagrees with the Trump administration’s argument that U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees are adequately trained to screen asylum claims. Eric Gay/AP U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents lack the training to take over the initial processing of asylum claims, a federal judge wrote in a ruling filed Monday. For nearly 20 years officers from Citizenship and Immigration Services have conducted all interviews with asylum […]
US Postal Service Employees Ordered Not To Speak To Press By Sarah K. Burris, The New Civil Rights Movement. August 23, 2020 US Postal Service Employees Ordered Not To Speak To Press2020-08-232020-08-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/usps.jpg200px200px Above photo: Shutterstock. While the U.S. Postal Service is under attack, everyone from letter carriers to union chairs and those working behind the doors in processing facilities has sounded the alarm about what they’re seeing from the top as part of the intentional mail slow down. VICE News reported Thursday that USPS staff were sent a letter telling them that they can’t talk to the press under any circumstances. The memo, […]
Leaked audio from a Goodyear factory meeting reveals even more about the company’s “zero tolerance policy” towards supporting President Donald Trump or police officers, while expressly stating that Black Lives Matter slogans are allowed. On Tuesday, a photo from Goodyear’s diversity training seminar in Kansas leaked, revealing that they have a “zero tolerance” policy for “Make America Great Again,” “All Lives Matter,” and “Blue Lives Matter” slogans being worn by their employees. Yet, they allow them to wear support for “Black Lives Matter” and LGBTQ causes. CONTROVERSIAL GOODYEAR AUDIO: New audio reveals why Topeka Goodyear said All Lives Matter, Blue Lives […]
A slide has leaked from a Goodyear diversity training which brands “Blue Lives Matter,” “All Lives Matter” and “MAGA” attire “unacceptable,” while deeming Black Lives Matter and LGBT slogans to be “acceptable.” The leaked slide is of their “zero tolerance” policy towards support for police or conservative values. According to a report from WIBW, the person who took the photo of the slide said that it was presented at a Topeka plant by an area manager and says it came from their corporate office out of Akron, Ohio. “If someone wants to wear a BLM shirt in here, then cool. I’m […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): Over the last several years, the Indian government has been keeping an eye on miscreants involved in anti-national activities in the country. The government is taking measures to ensure law and order. The Jammu and Kashmir government has initiated a process to terminate the services of employees involved in anti-national activities. Sources in the Jammu and Kashmir authority told Sputnik that between 500 and 1,000 government employees, “posing threat to security and integrity of the State”, could be dismissed in the next two or three months. “It has been learnt that several government employees are proactively participating in […]
Police were called on Sunday after a St. Louis woman sprayed employees at the Incredible Pizza Company after they asked her to leave for not wearing a face mask. The police issued a summons to the woman for assaulting three workers at the pizza restaurant. Source link
Despite multiple employee deaths from the coronavirus and dozens of positive test results, telecom giant Dish Network Corporation, and one of its prominent subsidiaries Sling TV, have charged ahead with office reopenings with no potential end to the pandemic in sight. As a result, employees are terrified and disillusioned. “If I get the coronavirus because I had to be in the office during the pandemic and someone in my family dies as a result, will Sling cover the burial or cremation expenses?” one exasperated employee asked the company during a recent meeting with company brass. In a virtual meeting last week […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): India’s bleeding national carrier Air India, had announced a voluntary Leave Without Pay (LWP) scheme for its employees, in view of mounting running costs during the lockdown period. Air India said its operations during the almost five months of lockdown were “a small fraction of the prior COVID level operations”. The Indian Commercial Pilots Association, representative body of pilots with the country’s national carrier Air India, has opposed management’s move to furlough some employees and slash their wages by 60 percent. “Any unilateral change by Air India from agreed upon wage settlement would be illegal and not be […]
Twitter has said that alleged bitcoin scammers targeted some of its employees to get access to “internal systems and tools,” which they then apparently used to hack into a high-profile accounts, such as Joe Biden’s. Noting that it is still investigating the circumstances behind the hack, Twitter said that it has taken “significant steps to limit access to internal systems and tools” which were compromised by the attackers.The company has gone to great lengths to stop the attack, imposing a mass lockdown not only on the affected accounts, but on the majority of blue checks as a precaution as well. The […]
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A letter from current CDC staff recently submitted to Director Robert Redfield demands that the agency address structural racism towards Black employees. Graeme Jennings/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Graeme Jennings/Getty Images A letter from current CDC staff recently submitted to Director Robert Redfield demands that the agency address structural racism towards Black employees. Graeme Jennings/Getty Images More than 1,000 current employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have signed a letter calling for the federal agency to address “ongoing and recurring acts of racism and discrimination” against Black employees, NPR has learned. In the letter, addressed to CDC […]
Amazon has asked all of its employees to remove the TikTok app from their cell phones. The move comes as the US government considers a nationwide ban on the Chinese video app. “Due to security risks, the TikTok app is no longer permitted on mobile devices that access Amazon email,” read a memo sent to employees on Friday. “If you have TikTok on your device, you must remove it by 10-Jul to retain mobile access to Amazon email. At this time, using TikTok from your Amazon laptop browser is allowed.” Amazon sends email to employees requiring they delete the TikTok app […]
In a podcast episode published Wednesday, seven Barstool Sports employees of color spent 80 minutes talking around the fact that their boss Dave Portnoy, whose racist videos had gained attention this past weekend, had not apologized publicly or in private to them. Objectively, the discussion was pathetic. Former NFL player Willie Colon and Brandon Newman had five of their co-workers on The 2Biggs Podcast for a discussion about Portnoy’s comments; the episode was titled with the acronym for “Now It’s Gonna Get Extremely Real.” (Not every participant signed off on that title.) Most of the conversation featured the group trying their […]
Amid a larger cultural reckoning with race following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, employees at the historic American Kennel Club were hoping to join a number of other companies and organizations in making Juneteenth a company holiday. Instead, while the nonprofit’s staff were hard at work that day, they received a brief email: Even as the coronavirus pandemic rages on, they would have to return to the AKC’s Midtown Manhattan office within a week. “As you have heard, the good news is that New York City will move to Phase 2 on Monday, June 22, […]
The corporate office of US pizza chain Little Caesars has issued a statement saying it has “zero tolerance for racism and discrimination in any form” and fired the employees responsible for serving customers pizza with pepperoni arranged in the shape of a reversed swastika. Ohio resident Misty Laska took to social media on Sunday to express her displeasure with the “saddening and disturbing” actions of employees at a Brook Park, Ohio, Little Caesars who chose to form a reversed swastika out of pepperonis on a pizza. So my husband stopped at #LittleCaesars for a quick bite, husband brings this home! I’m […]
Elon Musk announced that June 19 – also known as ‘Juneteenth’ – will be treated as a holiday for Tesla and SpaceX workers, quickly earning an outpouring of praise… until people found out the vacation wouldn’t be paid. “Juneteenth is henceforth considered a US holiday at Tesla & SpaceX,” Musk tweeted on Friday, quickly racking up 225,000 likes and 22,000-plus retweets. Juneteenth is henceforth considered a US holiday at Tesla & SpaceX — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 19, 2020 June 19 has long been celebrated by the African-American community, marking the date in 1865 when Union troops in Galveston, Texas announced […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107964/73/1079647350_0:170:3172:1954_1200x675_80_0_0_4032276940254ce08a8400cf5228efab.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202006181079647380-400-employees-test-positive-for-coronavirus-at-german-slaughterhouse—video/ Some 400 employees from meat processing company Toennies earlier tested positive for the coronavirus. Live from Rheda-Wiedenbrueck after 400 employees from the meat processing company Toennies tested positive for the coronavirus. The slaughterhouse is located in Rheda-Wiedenbrueck. On Tuesday, 128 workers tested positive. In less than two days, the number of infected has doubled. The district authorities have decided to shut down operations at the meat company and close all schools and daycare centres until the summer holidays. Follow Sputnik’s Feed to Find Out More Source link
Federal prosecutors on Monday unveiled criminal charges against six former eBay employees for allegedly carrying out a harassment campaign against a Massachusetts couple who run a ecommerce newsletter. Wilfredo Lee/AP hide caption toggle caption Wilfredo Lee/AP Federal prosecutors on Monday unveiled criminal charges against six former eBay employees for allegedly carrying out a harassment campaign against a Massachusetts couple who run a ecommerce newsletter. Wilfredo Lee/AP Angered by items that appeared in a e-commerce newsletter, six former employees of eBay sent the publishers, a couple living in Massachusetts, live cockroaches and spiders, pornography, a bloody pigface mask, a preserved pig fetus […]
Transgender activist Aimee Stephens sits in her wheelchair outside the Supreme Court on Oct. 8, 2019, as the court holds oral arguments in cases dealing with workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Transgender activist Aimee Stephens sits in her wheelchair outside the Supreme Court on Oct. 8, 2019, as the court holds oral arguments in cases dealing with workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that the 1964 Civil Rights Act barring sex discrimination in the workplace […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107961/24/1079612427_0:0:2902:1633_1200x675_80_0_0_5b7baa897301d2864cfbeac323335f37.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006141079612456-palestinian-government-announces-inability-to-pay-salaries-to-employees/ GAZA (Sputnik) – The Palestinian government cannot pay salaries to its employees, as it did not receive tax deductions from Israel, spokesman Ibrahim Milhim said on Sunday. “The government did not receive tax deductions from Israel. The Palestinian leadership will not be subject to Israeli blackmail. When the necessary funds for salary payment appear in the Ministry of Finance, then the government will pay all salaries”, Milhim said at a press conference. Last week, Milhim said that the Palestinian government refused to accept Israeli monthly tax transfers for goods produced within its territory, as […]
Another fashion brand reportedly preaching inclusion online has been called out for its allegedly real-life racist practices. Anthropologie, the retailer owned by Urban Outfitters known for its overly dainty selection of candles and cardigans, has been accused of profiling customers and not paying black content creators for their work. As first reported by the Instagram fashion watchdog account @DietPrada, Anthropologie’s June 1 Instagram post—a Maya Angelou quote and caption calling for “equality and empathy”—quickly became a place for former employees and shoppers to detail their experiences in stores. Black customers wrote about being followed around by hovering salespeople while shopping, and […]
Images showing FBI staffers taking a knee during heated protests in the nation’s capital have generated intense debate online, with some critics demanding they be fired, arguing the bureau should remain “apolitical.” Around a dozen FBI employees were seen in a pair of photos that circulated on social media on Thursday, apparently kneeling in solidarity with those protesting police brutality in Washington, DC and countless other cities around the country. Rich Higgins – who formerly worked in the strategic planning office of the US National Security Council – noted that some of those pictured were administrators at the bureau’s DC field […]
CEO Mark Zuckerberg is under pressure from former and current employees who are frustrated with his lack of action on the president’s posts. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images CEO Mark Zuckerberg is under pressure from former and current employees who are frustrated with his lack of action on the president’s posts. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Some of Facebook’s earliest employees are condemning CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s hands-off approach to President Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric about protests over police brutality. In an open letter to their former boss, nearly three dozen ex-staffers said the […]
BlockFi said an attacker got hold of users’ data by compromising an employee’s phone and taking control of their phone number through a sim swap attack. The New York-based crypto lending platform announced in a memo to users on Tuesday that a hacker – whose identity remains unknown – gained access to some of its retail marketing systems for just over an hour early on May 14. “On May 14th, there was a data incident at BlockFi that exposed certain client account information for a brief period of time. While no information was accessed that would enable the intruder to access […]
UK 11:02 GMT 13.05.2020(updated 11:04 GMT 13.05.2020) Get short URL MOSCOW (Sputnik) – UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Wednesday that employees should whistleblow if their employers pressure them to work in violation of the furlough scheme launched by the government to support the economy during the COVID-19 pandemic. “In any scheme around the edges there will be people trying to abuse it. And that would be a criminal offense. Employees will do the right thing, I am sure, if that thing happens. You cannot claim government money whilst making staff work, that would be completely against the rules of […]