Labor rights
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Work is a trade of 8 hours (that most are forced to do), in exchange for materials necessary to live; and subject to increasing exploitation by employers – you want to chastise any...
2023 , The Guardian : "Academics sue Oxford University over ‘Uberisation’ of teaching contracts"🤦 https://t.co/39LfrzlbRt https://t.co/RmDj0d3MMt
Story of workers, peasants, and resistance against exploitation. https://t.co/B81YJJe8O5
The Banana Empire “Chiquita” massacred up to 2,000 striking Colombian banana pickers on this day in 1928. But the bloodbath is just one chapter in Chiquita’s long, bloodstained his...
A Chinese contractor refused to pay African workers their wages and a fight began between one of the workers and the contractor Your comments on this https://t.co/5UyXHogzpE
kaist fired me 10 days after i internally accused professor jinjoon lee of human rights violations. they, of course, could not use that as a reason for firing me. instead they clai...
FDR started Unicor, the federal prison industries in 1934 that pays inmates .40 an hour to work in innumerable markets. It shifted slavery out of the public eye with a loophole in...
1. Indentured labour was how former slave masters in British colonies retained their power. Indian indentured labour was first tried in Mauritius in 1834, British Guiana in 1838,...
4⃣Foreign affairs undersecretary Eduardo de Vega said on Tuesday the #Philippine government has also reached a deal with the International Transport Workers Federation for #Filipin...
1/8 Good article. It cites prominent labor economist Cai Fang as arguing that further reform to the hukou system could unleash more than 2 trillion yuan in consumption. "Even witho...
New Xinjiang Police Files evidence shows that Uyghurs were sent from re-education camps directly to vocational institutions that organized job fairs with Volkswagen & advertise deg...
Protests in #Bangladesh Could Affect Global Economy 🇧🇩 #Bangladesh, 2nd largest Textile Exporter,shut down hundreds of textile factories due to protests. 👚👕 Western Br...
Have you ever walked past a group of Deliveroo riders and thought to yourself: "Not a single one of them looks like they have the right to work here"? Well, you were probably righ...
Now that the United Auto Workers have won a historic victory, let's not memory-hole Trump's speech to a nonunion shop in Detroit, where he scoffed that the strike was useless for w...
Josie (6 years old), Bertha (6 years old) and Sophie (10 years old) worked regularly at the Maggioni Canning Company. Work began at 4 AM, and the three would make from $9 to $1...
Furious at this 70 hour work week suggestion by NRN. It's only getting more and more absurd with people trying to justify that as some kinda masterstroke. Respectfully, it's absolu...
I happened to come across this horrible suggestion by the founder of Infosys - Narayana Murthy . Mr . Murthy wants young IT workers to work 70 hours a week 🤪 Murthy would have b...
"The present system is a capitalist system. This means that the world is divided up into two antagonistic camps, the camp of a small handful of capitalists and the camp of the majo...
After negotiations broke down, the UAW announced a targeted strike at a few Big 3 auto plants. No one wants a strike, but I respect workers' right to collective action. Workers d...
In the early days of diamond mining, mine owners struggled to make a profit. They decided the only way to fix this would be by eliminating the bargaining power of Africans on whom...
You remember Chief Stephen Osita Ọsadebe's Song— Ọnụigbo? Now, let's discuss what led to that song. It's the kîlling of the coal miners by the British colonial government in Enugwu...
Within just 6 months, 27 workers’ lives were lost to silicosis in Sagwada block, in Dungarpur district of Rajasthan. Their ages, 25-40, are a stark reminder of the human toll in th...
As the 77th Independence Day approaches, here's what Babasaheb had to say about the wrong approach towards Independence. As a Member for Labour, GOI, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar talked on...
The 'Rajasthan Platform Based Gig Workers Act 2023' is hardly the progressive act, it is being made out to be. It seriously fails to address the structural concerns of formalisatio...
