“Among the things that data brokers will sell, anyone who shows up with a credit card is, how much credit card debt is any other person carrying and how delinquent is it?
And based on that, the nurses are charged a kind of desperation premium. The more debt they're carrying, the more overdue that debt is, thus lower the wage that they're offered.”

From The Ezra Klein Show: We Didn’t Ask for This Internet, Feb 6, 2026
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000748508591&r=2970
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#labor #union #minimumwage #ElizabethWarren Warren #democrats #healthcare #privacy #ftc

"Restructuring" is rearing its ugly-ass head once again...

GTFO and Den of Wolves developer 10 Chambers confirms "large number" of layoffs, including "several of the studio's co-founders"

https://www.eurogamer.net/gtfo-and-den-of-wolves-developer-10-chambers-confirms-large-number-of-layoffs-including-several-of-the-studios-co-founders

#GTFO #DenOfWolves #10Chambers #Layoffs #Labor #CoFounders #Gaming

San Francisco Teachers Win Big, Ending City’s First Educator Strike in Decades

https://murica.website/2026/02/san-francisco-teachers-win-big-ending-citys-first-educator-strike-in-decades/

Federal Minister of Economic Affairs Katherina Reiche (CDU) again urged a relaxation of job‑termination protection during a discussion on reforms to the welfare... https://news.osna.fm/?p=34491 | #news #deals #flexibility #germanys #labor

"Lector" (public reader for workers' entertainment) in a cigar factory, Cuba, ~1900

https://piefed.social/c/historyphotos/p/1778305/lector-public-reader-for-workers-entertainment-in-a-cigar-factory-cuba-1900

Civilization runs on people doing necessary work — not just prestigious work.

If the job matters enough to exist, it matters enough to respect.

All work is work.

#Labor All Work Is Work https://blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/02/14/all-work-is-work/

“Look for the Union Label”

The union label was never nostalgia. It was a signal that somebody had the standing to speak up — for safety, for quality, for dignity.

Read the tag.

#Labor https://blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/02/14/look-for-the-union-label/

Here's Chris, a deep frier operator at McDonald's, working a strenuous, soul-crushing job, for your fast food.

"Hallelujah! 🎵 More power to ya! 🎵"

#video #meme #metal #music #metallica #nin #mcdonalds #fastfood
#labor #work #WorkersRights #Union #Unions #Solidarity #hallelujah

SAG-AFTRA & Studios End First Week Of Contract Talks In Silence. That’s Probably A Good Thing.
#News #AMPTP #Labor #SAGAFTRA

https://deadline.com/2026/02/sag-aftra-amptp-labor-negotiations-2026-first-week-update-1236719404/

Jobs report shows a historic stall in hiring last year

U.S. job estimates for 2025 were revised down this week by more than a million jobs, to a level of low growth rarely seen outside of recessions. 

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/02/11/repub/jobs-report-shows-a-historic-stall-in-hiring-last-year/#affordability #business #economy #labor #politics-&-gov #us-jobs-report #us-recession

After four days on strike, San Francisco educators have secured a historic contract victory.

The UESF bargaining team announced that the determined fight of their members and countless community supporters had produced a major win on the key demands.

https://liberationnews.org/victory-historic-strike-delivers-justice-for-san-francisco-educators-students-and-communities/

#USEF #Union #UnionStrong #Teachers #Educators #Labor #SanFrancisco #California

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

Just now, when every one is bound, under pain of a decree in absence convicting them of lèse-respectability, to enter on some lucrative profession, and labour therein with something not far short of enthusiasm, a cry from the opposite party, who are content when they have enough, and like to look on and enjoy in the meanwhile, savours a little of bravado and gasconade. And yet this should not be. Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to state its position as industry itself.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1877-07), “An Apology for Idlers,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 36

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #workingclass #contentment #disrespectability #enjoyment #enough #hardwork #idleness #industry #labor #makingmoney #recreation #rulingclass

‘Chicago Med’ Production Assistants Vote to Unionize
#Business #BusinessNews #ChicagoMed #Labor #ProductionAssistantsUnited

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/chicago-med-production-assistants-vote-unionize-1236504923/

Trump Is Tearing Apart the North American Auto Industry

By Taylor C. Noakes

"In the 1960s, the Auto Pact deal integrated the US and Canada’s auto sectors. Donald Trump’s trade war will all but guarantee its unraveling, spelling catastrophe for workers and firms alike."

#Canada #CanadianPolitics #cdnpoli #automotive #Trump #tariffs #labour #labor #unions #UAW #UNIFOR

https://jacobin.com/2026/02/trump-auto-industry-us-canada

#KshamaSawant, The Fight For #Socialism & Lessons Of The #Seattle City Council #Victory For Today
#Capitalism #revolution #WorkingClass #labor #UniParty #Democrats #Republicans #Washington #USA #USpol #Occupy #billionaires #MinimumWage #WomensRights #Healthcare #Unions#Rochester #Rural #Suburb #DemocraticOwnership #RentControl #District19 KshamaSawant.org
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Female mason in Berlin, Germany, ~1900

https://piefed.social/c/historyphotos/p/1775122/female-mason-in-berlin-germany-1900

From the Target Boycott to protest DEI rollbacks to the Minnesota General Strike in the wake of the murders of Renée Good and Alex Pretti by ICE ...

In the dawn of a new year, working-class communities, both foreign and domestic, have been assaulted by the Trump administration's desire to divide and conquer.#labor #opinion #politics #us #world #fundraising #peoplesworld
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Former Labor Figure Tim Picton Dies Weeks After Perth Nightclub Altercation

https://newsletter.tf/tim-picton-dies-perth-nightclub-2026/

Former Labor figure Tim Picton died weeks after an alleged assault outside a Perth nightclub, following a fall that caused serious head injuries.

#TimPicton, #Perth, #Labor, #Assault, #Tragedy