Union warns of possible foreign worker exploitation on St. Paul’s Hospital build
Sheck said there were between 10 and 15 workers from the Philippines, who were in the country on tourist and student visas, and who were being paid below market rates.
#labor #immigration #exploitation #hospital #Philippines #StPaul
https://globalnews.ca/news/11192216/st-pauls-foreign-worker/

Union warns of possible foreign worker exploitation on St. Paul’s Hospital build
Sheck said there were between 10 and 15 workers from the Philippines, who were in the country on tourist and student visas, and who were being paid below market rates.
#labor #immigration #exploitation #hospital #Philippines #StPaul
https://globalnews.ca/news/11192216/st-pauls-foreign-worker/

The fuck?

I've seen a couple of these. Not even an internship. Just a volunteer. If you are so desperate for work that you will donate your time, labor, and expertise to a profit-driven corporation with no expectation of any remuneration or even a "this was a great intern" statement at the end...

I hate it here, sometimes.

#jobs #exploitation #tech #republicans

#CanadaPost management gives employees 24 hours to accept an offer hundreds of pages long: By refusing offer of two-week truce, they're forcing #strike to further make the public blame us

https://www.castanet.net/news/Penticton/551841/Nobody-wants-this-South-Okanagan-Canada-Post-unionized-workers-frustrated-with-corporate-offer

#strikes #union #unions #CUPW #inflation #CostOfLiving #DynamicRouting #PublicRelations #COVID #capitalism #exploitation #ClassWar

#Société #entretien L’emprise capitaliste, désormais mondiale, est tissée de chaînes d’interdépendance et d’exploitation de plus en plus complexes. Ulysse Lojkine s’emploie à les décrypter, en ne s’arrêtant pas seulement au salariat.

✍️ L'entretien mené par Gabriel Rego Capela est disponible sur notre site 🔽
https://buff.ly/wGLyPTE

#exploitation #travail #capitalisme

Another way rich people screw people who have less money than they do. The first chance they got, profiting from financial hardship became a great business opportunity.

For much of the 20th century, many states had usury laws that capped the maximum interest rates lenders could charge on various types of loans, including early forms of consumer credit. These caps were often much lower than the 30% you see today, sometimes in the single digits or low double digits (e.g., around 8-18%). The concept of usury, historically, referred to charging excessive or exploitative interest, and was often tied to moral and religious objections to profiting from another's financial hardship.

The shift that allowed for much higher credit card interest rates primarily began in the late 1970s and early 1980s, largely due to a landmark Supreme Court decision and subsequent actions by certain states:

A 1978 Supreme Court Ruling (Marquette National Bank v. First of Omaha Service Corp.): This crucial ruling stated that a national bank could charge the interest rate allowed by the state in which it was incorporated, regardless of the usury laws in the borrower's state. This meant if a bank was based in a state with no interest rate caps (or very high ones), it could "export" those rates to customers nationwide.

State Deregulation: Following the Marquette decision, states like South Dakota and Delaware saw an opportunity to attract credit card companies by eliminating or significantly raising their usury limits. Banks quickly moved their credit card operations to these states, allowing them to charge much higher interest rates across the country. Other states, to compete and retain banking business, often followed suit by rolling back their own usury laws.

This deregulation effectively "blew the lid off" interest rate ceilings for credit cards, leading to the higher rates we see today.

#USPol #USPolitics #Usary #interestrates #greed #exploitation

"#Western #Values"? "#Christian #Morality"? Give me a break.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il5tJE5XlY4

"I respond to the #myth that #Protestant #Christianity built all that is good, #moral, and just in the world.
Spoiler alert: it didn’t.
#Westerncivilization wasn’t shaped by #Christianvalues—it was built on #exploitation, #colonialism, #whitesupremacy, and #capitalism."

#exchristian #christianvalues #westerncivilization #westernvalues #deconstructingchristianity

the #Palestinian "Authority" has always been the taker glove of occupational control and #exploitation.

in slave terms, they are the #overseers in the field.

AfriqueXXI
RD Congo. Quand pleurent les arbres de sang
https://mcinformactions.net/rd-congo-quand-pleurent-les-arbres-de-sang
#RDCongo #colonialisme #exploitation

#CatchOfTheDay
#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:

""I already bought you": abuse and exploitation of female migrant domestic workers in the United Arab Emirates" by Human Rights Watch

[New York: Human Rights Watch, 2014]

http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/108258

#female #migrant #humanrights #exploitation

https://amworkers.wordpress.com/

#Amazon #Capitalism #exploitation #Internationale #labormovement #organize #solidarity #unions #AIWU

https://www.transnational-strike.info/2025/05/03/breaking-the-silence-testimonies-of-amazon-warehouse-workers-in-india/

#amazon #capitalism #exploitation #india #Labormovement #organize #solidarity #unions #warehouseworkers

In past 12 months, half of trade unionists murdered around the world were in #Colombia. Attacks spike during #union negotiations.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/worlds-most-dangerous-country-trade-232828617.html

#unions #HumanRights #LaborRights #capitalism #corruption #exploitation #ClassWar #Sintrainagro #CaucaValley #ITUC #CUT #Cauca #Narino #Putumayo #Arauca #NorteDeSantander #Caqueta #Sintrainagro

Pope Condemns Economic System for Its Exploitation of the Environment and Marginalized Communities #World #communities #condemns #economic #Environment #Exploitation #Marginalized #Pope #system 
https://tinyurl.com/ytrlvjna

What’s the score sport ?
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/05/14/saudi-arabia-migrant-workers-electrocuted-decapitated-and-falling-death-workplaces

“Die first and I’ll pay you later”
https://www.hrw.org/report/2024/12/04/die-first-and-ill-pay-you-later/saudi-arabias-giga-projects-built-widespread

#exploitation #FIFA
#labormovement #migrantworkers #organize #SaudiArabia #Solidarity

🚀✨ Oh look, nerds found a way to break a #Magic #Leap One! Because #hacking outdated #AR #goggles is clearly the pinnacle of technological #achievement. 🙄🔧 Instead of fixing real bugs, let's exploit bootloaders—because that's how the cool kids roll. 😂👾
https://github.com/EliseZeroTwo/ml1hax #One #tech #bootloader #exploitation #nerd #culture #HackerNews #ngated

i myself always havent been sure how to feel about my #ADHD myself and switched between seeing it as a real #disability like a #disease and an actual #skill and something with #potential .

but looking at the fact that genetically #adhd is said to have appeared about 40k years ago during a great migration period across europe and asia and that #adhd is today having a higher than normal prevalence in nomadic tribes as well as the fact that its dominantly inherited(70-80%) seems honestly more like the opposite of a trait that got redundant and doesnt grant some kind of advantage does it?

one might go so far and say that the people who would have liked it more to not migrate and thus prefer a #conservative setting are the ones that didnt evolve and thus cling to long redundant and unfitting ways no?

doesnt it mean that adhd is dominantly inherited that at one point there will be no people without adhd anymore?

Id argue that what people experience as #comorbidities and their struggle in daily life is also not a disorder or disease but maybe just a totally normal reaction to the constant bullshit, lies, #inequality , #fascism and #capitalism and #exploitation that starts already in kindergarden. Thats a total normal reaction of being forced to endure the constant abuse of a whole system that has gotten redundant and will at one point perish because its an old and non functional version of humanity.

#adhs #asperger #climatechange #neurodivergent

WHEN THE PLATFORM IS THE CLIENT — AND THE THIEF
May 18, 2025

What if a lawyer no longer met their client, but handed their case files to YouTube? What if someone broke into your home, took your creative work, promised fair compensation — and just never delivered? This isn’t fiction. This is the daily reality for millions of content creators. We don’t own the platform. We don’t own the audience. And we don’t own the terms. When you can’t negotiate your price, protect your reach, or even prove your value — what’s left to own, except your burnout? I wrote this as a warning. And a reckoning.
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YOU BRING THE CASE, THEY TAKE THE CASH — AND LEAVE YOU WITH THE BURNOUT

Take a lawyer. A lawyer earns money because their time has value. They meet their clients, set their fees, and are paid for every hour worked. That’s why they have offices, good equipment, tailored clothes — because their profession pays. Now imagine that law worked like YouTube. The lawyer doesn’t meet the client anymore. The lawyer meets YouTube. YouTube meets the client. YouTube takes the money. And the lawyer gets nothing — or maybe a few coins. In this version of the world, the lawyer wouldn’t have a proper office, or nice clothes, or financial stability. They’d look exactly like many full-time creators today: overqualified, underpaid, exhausted, and invisible. If video production followed the same structure as law — say €120/hour — YouTube would have to make content genuinely profitable before acquiring it. Creators would be professionals with autonomy and fair rates. But instead, creators hand over both their work and their clients to a machine that doesn’t pay — and calls it a platform.

Now imagine this: it’s the middle of the night. You’re asleep. A thief breaks into your house. He doesn’t take your jewelry or your wallet — he takes your tapes. Your creative work. He doesn’t steal it out of passion. He takes it to become the only one allowed to exploit it commercially — without ever paying you. The next day, he comes back. You hand him the key. You give him the code to the safe. He smiles and says: “If your videos are worth anything, you’ll be compensated fairly. We have a monetization system.” Meanwhile, he generates millions. He shows your videos selectively. He suppresses your reach. And he convinces you that no one cares — so that he doesn’t have to share anything. It’s not just your content that was taken. It’s your ability to prove its worth. This isn’t a partner. It’s a slot machine. Everything is designed to maximize its revenue. Nothing is designed to sustain the people who make it run.
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YOUTUBE DOESN’T EARN ITS CUT

The cut YouTube takes isn’t justified by any kind of visibility. People say, “They take 30%, but at least they bring you an audience.” No — they don’t bring anyone. They host my videos, and I have to do all the work to attract viewers myself. Only after I’ve already generated traffic do they start treating me as worth promoting — not to help, but to feed more users into a system that’s already profitable for them. If I don’t build the mill myself, they won’t bring the water. They won’t even help me build it. They only show up when the harvest is good — and only to pick the fruit. Meanwhile, they discard what they consider to be “bad crops,” even when the fruit is perfectly fine. This isn’t failure. It’s industrial-scale waste — of labor, energy, and money that doesn’t belong to them.
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||#HSLdiary #HSLmichael

#ContentCreator #DigitalWork #Exploitation #YouTube #Monetization #PlatformAbuse

#Eastleighvoice: How #Kenyan girls are trafficked to #Russia to assemble #war #drones

#women #EastAfrica #exploitation #UkraineRussiaWar #Migration #Alabuga #Tatarstan #HumanTrafficking

https://eastleighvoice.co.ke/national/151649/how-kenyan-girls-are-trafficked-to-russia-to-assemble-war-drones