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by cfqycwz 5y ago
Fwiw there has been some history of B&H workers being treated fairly not-well. I encourage reading past the first few paragraphs of this article as it's not all "union stuff"--there are lawsuits, DOL complaints, and OSHA
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by cfqycwz 5y ago
Maybe they just added it, but there's also a "Prefer entering email instead?" link below, which I appreciated
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by cfqycwz 5y ago
A britishism I've never come across—does anybody know what "sandwiches with paste" are?
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by cfqycwz 5y ago
Not a lawyer but I think this would be constitutional in the same way that international sanctions are constitutional. The regulation of interstate and foreign commerce is an enumerated power given to congress and usually interpreted pretty
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by cfqycwz 6y ago
Yeah I 100% buy this. Just commenting on the fact that this tends to get conflated as a regular experience in warehouses, which ime it isn't.
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by cfqycwz 6y ago
I can comment on this as a current Amazon worker! I think people pissing in bottles probably does happen in Amazon's vast network, but as a very, very rare exception. It makes for good public propaganda, but it's not the issue mos
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by cfqycwz 6y ago
Yeah--compare an alternate phrasing here, like "I watch and give a lot of presentations at work."
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by cfqycwz 6y ago
> Warehouse workers are going to have to form a union and threaten to really shut down amazon's profits, in order to defeat these profit-motivated outrages. It's always been like this. People have to self-emancipate. I agree wi
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by cfqycwz 6y ago
Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of
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by cfqycwz 6y ago
Iirc only people who would be eligible for the presidency can be elected as VP, which would disqualify Obama. This is the same reason Bernie couldn't have chosen AOC as his running mate
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by cfqycwz 7y ago
Another thing I haven't seen mentioned here is that bosses will often try to slow down, stymie, or break up organizing drives by dragging out legal arguments at the labor board. This means arguing that the bargaining unit should be bro
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by cfqycwz 7y ago
There _is_ a slightly looser coupling than an HR department, but the judges are still appointed and confirmed by politicians with pretty clear material interests. It's not so much a case of being "paid to rule the right way"
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by cfqycwz 7y ago
I think it actually is nurses physically moving the device around the room—the photo looks like it's just on casters, not motorized wheels.
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by cfqycwz 7y ago
The state de-funding of the university is great for corporations in a lot of ways. First, as you note, it's a way of getting you to pay for your own job training. It's also a clever way for tech companies to externalize a lot of t
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by cfqycwz 7y ago
The article mentions that Uber hope to replace public transit miles, and recognize it as profitable to do so. There's a link to a Times article that elaborates on this claim. It is true that Uber on occasion enter into sort of last-mil
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by cfqycwz 7y ago
And in the sense that Amazon generates tremendous profit for its owners, which has to come from somebody's labor!
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by cfqycwz 7y ago
I have to agree. The premise in the headline is so obviously agreeable, but the application described sounds like it would make for a terrible place to work. This isn't an article about building a supportive work environment that sets
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by cfqycwz 7y ago
Why?
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by cfqycwz 7y ago
I suppose it could end up as only a slight loss for Musk if the diver can't demonstrate damages? E.g. if Musk's claim was so absurd and non-credible that nobody took it seriously?
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by cfqycwz 8y ago
I use and like the 3310. It would be basically a perfect phone for me if MMS wasn't broken and I could disable the web browser. I'll take what I can get though since I don't have the self control to own a smartphone
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by cfqycwz 8y ago
I don't think this is just semantics—isn't this actually a cafe staffed by paralyzed people, who control robots? This headline is bit like saying a warehouse is staffed by forklifts, controlled by operators.
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by cfqycwz 8y ago
I don't think that's a very honest description of the allegations against NDT! https://www.patheos.com/blogs/nosacredcows/2018/11/two-more-...
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by cfqycwz 8y ago
I remember reading easily a decade ago, when people were describing Amazon as a charity propped up by investors, that this was Amazon's long-term strategy--aggressively reinvest all profits, burn through cash making a loss in order to
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by cfqycwz 8y ago
Marx and others who elaborated on his work developed the notion of alienation under capital—the notion that capitalism really screws up the specific sort of pleasure you describe. The idea, if I'm not messing it up too badly, is that a
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by cfqycwz 8y ago
Is that the basis on which drug companies currently pursue and fund development of drugs?
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by cfqycwz 9y ago
Student athletes' biggest protection from retaliation is probably their incredible power over the institution and high level of visibility, as demonstrated by the actions of the Mizzou players during #concernedstudent1950. Football pla
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by cfqycwz 9y ago
Under US law, the only way to gain recognition as the bargaining representative of a unit of employees—and the only way an employer is legally allowed to recognize you as the sole bargaining agent—is by demonstrating that you have the suppo
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by cfqycwz 9y ago
In the weeks leading up to the election, they were putting Trump's odds at 1/4, and pretty roundly mocking/cautioning against others who were putting him at 1%. On mobile, so I can't check by hovering, but I don't t
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by cfqycwz 9y ago
Note that if you live near a university there's a decent chance they have a public-facing clinic as part of their psychology school that charges on a sliding scale
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by cfqycwz 10y ago
I was thinking of the fact that transparent is supposedly an alias for rgba(0,0,0,0), but this doesn't seem to cause an issue when I try it out, in Firefox at least.

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