As Tokyo embraces a 4-day workweek to fight ‘death by overwork,’ Japan’s new prime minister just called a 3 a.m. meeting
When it comes to the future of work, Japan is caught in a tug-of-war. Tok…
#Japan #JP #Tokyo #asia #careers #four-dayworkweek #news #PrimeMinister #tokyonews #workculture #work-life #Work-Life-Balance #Workingconditions #東京 #東京都
https://www.alojapan.com/1414155/as-tokyo-embraces-a-4-day-workweek-to-fight-death-by-overwork-japans-new-prime-minister-just-called-a-3-a-m-meeting/
https://www.alojapan.com/1414155/as-tokyo-embraces-a-4-day-workweek-to-fight-death-by-overwork-japans-new-prime-minister-just-called-a-3-a-m-meeting/ As Tokyo embraces a 4-day workweek to fight ‘death by overwork,’ Japan’s new prime minister just called a 3 a.m. meeting #asia #careers #FourDayWorkWeek #Japan #news #PrimeMinister #Tokyo #TokyoNews #WorkCulture #WorkLife #WorkLifeBalance #WorkingConditions #東京 #東京都 When it comes to the future of work, Japan is caught in a tug-of-war. Tokyo officials are pushing for a four-day workweek, hoping a shorter schedule will ease the nation’s n
UPS driver goes viral after sharing his weekly paycheck
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/ups-driver-viral-paycheck-ex1
Immigration: https://www.aurianneor.org/immigration-2/
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#UAW Issues Statement Condemning Dangerous #WorkingConditions and #ImmigrationRaid at #Hyundai
ICYMI 📻 We talk to Zarina Muhammad, who walks us through The White Pube’s collaborative process and projects to date. We delve into Zarina’s diasporic identity and the politics of assimilation, as well as polyvocal narratives and fiction as critique.
📚 48:09 — The Successful Funding Application Library
💸 36:54 — “I could have even more ideas if I were rich.”
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-428-zarina-muhammad/
On self-publishing, redistribution, and the realities of making art under capitalism #podcast #workingconditions
Today in Labor History September 2, 1991: 25 workers were killed by a fire at the nonunion Imperial Foods poultry processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina. Bosses had locked the doors in violation of the law, leaving the workers no way to escape. The accompanying video is of the Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster song, performed by Mojo Nixon and Jello Biafra, with an accompanying slide show about the disaster.
If you thought the bosses learned anything from the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, which killed 146 young immigrant women in 1911, or that the new labor laws enacted in its aftermath would protect workers, you’d be dead wrong. Workplace hazards kill approximately 140,000 workers each year (over 5,000 from traumatic injuries and roughly 135,000 from occupational diseases), or over 350 workers per day. And this is believed to be a vast undercount. Many of these deaths and injuries are due to violations of labor and workplace safety laws. Even before Trump gutted OSHA, the agency was hamstrung by low funding and understaffing, resulting in an enormous backlog of inspections. The numbers will likely be much higher for 2025, once the data has been collected, due to the many attacks by Trump and Congress on workers’ rights and protections.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8iPdu_Tq1I&list=RDl8iPdu_Tq1I&start_radio=1
https://aflcio.org/reports/dotj-2025
#workingclass #LaborHistory #hamlet #foodprocessing #workingconditions #workplacesafety #northcarolina #trump #osha #union #unionbusting
There’s been fury in Spain over the tragic death of a street cleaner in 35C heat. It’s not hard to imagine something similar playing out in the UK.
4-Day work week, 32 hours/week, no reduction in pay caused no loss in productivity for businesses. Indeed, companies' profits increased 1.4%. In other words, they CAN pay us more, while letting put in fewer hours, and still make a huge profit.
How?
They cut out the useless, time-wasting shit like boring meetings and busy work. But it also gave workers more free time to be with friends and family, pursue hobbies, rest, recover from the pressures of work. And the work, itself, felt less stressful. There was less burn-out. Workers took fewer sick and personal days. Resignations dropped in half.
Fact-checking claims that France's working conditions are among worst in Europe.
French economist Jean-Claude Delgènes recently slammed the country's working conditions claiming that France has "completely fallen behind in terms of working conditions".
Euroverify looks at the data behind the allegations.
#France #WorkingConditions #Labour #Work #Business #HealthAndSafety #Economy #Jobs #Europe #EWCS
Kang Min-soo, stepping down as National Tax Service Commissioner after 31 years, urges improvements to frontline staff working conditions and reflects on his tenure.
#YonhapInfomax #NationalTaxService #KangMinSoo #WorkingConditions #LegislativeAmendments #FrontlineStaff #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=73332
Amazon wants to rule the world
We love our customers.
Amazon only your data!
Booksellers work with ~ 25% margin,
Amazon wants 60% from the publishers.
We pay fees and taxes in our city, Amazon doesn't.
We have fair working conditions, Amazon doesn't. Why do people buy books from Amazon? We have fixed prices in Germany, whether in Munich, Buxtehude or on Amazon - new books cost the same!
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#Amazon execs will miss Parliament hearing on warehouse #workingconditions https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/amazon-execs-will-miss-parliament-hearing-on-warehouse-working-conditions/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Trump Vows to Reverse Urban Lofts Back Into American Sweatshops
Tea drinkers take note: the ethical labelling is not doing its job - tea pickers are living below the poverty line and without adequate access to drinking water, toilets and healthy living conditions. A big issue is the brands are not paying enough for the tea leaves they buy:
“Consumers are not demanding cheap teas. It’s traded down by the brands,” he said. “So how do you move out of the vicious cycle? It’s up to the brands to make that first move.”
#tea #WorkingConditions
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-05/tea-ethical-label-estates-investigation-sri-lanka/104889838
Today in Labor History February 3, 1910: Mary Harris "Mother" Jones addressed Milwaukee brewery workers during a two-month stint working alongside women bottle-washers while on leave from the United Mine Workers:
"Condemned to slave daily in the wash-room in wet shoes and wet clothes, surrounded with foul-mouthed, brutal foremen . . . the poor girls work in the vile smell of sour beer, lifting cases of empty and full bottles weighing from 100 to 150 pounds, in their wet shoes and rags, for they cannot buy clothes on the pittance doled out to them. . . . Rheumatism is one of the chronic ailments and is closely followed by consumption . . . An illustration of what these girls must submit to, one about to become a mother told me with tears in her eyes that every other day a depraved specimen of mankind took delight in measuring her girth & passing comments."
#workingclass #LaborHistory #MotherJones #workingconditions #women #exploitation #milwaukee #publichealth #wages #wageslavery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8103Zq_kBaM&pp=ygUPc3RhdXMgY291cCBuZXdz
#AmazonWorkers #HOMELESS, Can't Afford A Closet
What the fuck?
#Capitalism #corporategreed #classwar #workingclass #workingconditions #FUCKAmazon
#FuckJeffBezos #FUCKtheElites #FuckBillionaires
#capitalism #AmazonHolidayStrike #AI
