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June 30, 2021 at 4:40 pm #130678

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Update: A farmworker in Oregon has reportedly died from working in 104 heat. Farmworkers are excluded from basic labor rights. Oregon has no labor protections against heat, which could have likely prevented this. https://t.co/agBqktmFPY

— Lauren Kaori Gurley (@LaurenKGurley) June 29, 2021

July 6, 2021 at 9:51 pm #130771

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Iceland recently completed a 4-yr trial of a 4-day week with no reduction of pay with 1% of its population taking part. The result? Productivity increased. Well-being increased. It was such a success their unions are already negotiating for it nationwide.
https://t.co/1lKbHXk1AM

— Scott Santens 🧢🏄‍♂️ (@scottsantens) July 5, 2021

July 17, 2021 at 5:13 pm #130939

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Remember when Kroger closed stores in Seattle and Long Beach because the cities mandated $4/hour raises for grocery workers?

Kroger just announced a $1 billion buyback for shareholders.

They also raised the CEO's pay 45% to $20.7 millionhttps://t.co/3llHbpkWFr

— Dan Price (@DanPriceSeattle) July 16, 2021

July 17, 2021 at 7:36 pm #130947

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July 19, 2021 at 9:24 am #130968

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NEW: Frito-Lay workers reveal that they’ve worked up to 5 months straight without a day off, and that multiple coworkers—driven to exhaustion—have died by suicide.

Their strike in Topeka is gaining nationwide attention. Now Frito-Lay workers in other states are speaking out. pic.twitter.com/yppQ8iPn3n

— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) July 19, 2021

July 20, 2021 at 6:14 pm #131004

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July 26, 2021 at 7:35 am #131105

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Crazy that Frito-Lay workers had to go on strike nearly 3 weeks just to win the right not to have to work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week

Now they can "only" be forced to work 12 hours a day 6 days a week

Going from 84 hrs a week to 72 hrs sounds like a 19th century labor victory https://t.co/5leo3T3WOm

— Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) July 25, 2021

July 26, 2021 at 11:35 am #131108

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Currently reading a really good book by William Clare Roberts, Marx’s Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital (2016).

Loose thematic frame is Marx’s use of Dante’s Inferno as loose thematic framework for his Magnum Opus.

Getting a ton out of it. Like:

There is a fundamental conflict between the commitment of the laborers to pursue the means of enjoyment and the commitment of capitalists to pursue the endless accumulation of wealth.

It’s useful to remember that people once understood this, saw the change, remembered earlier, highly localized and dispersed economic systems that focused on entirely different things. As in, people tended to work enough to fulfill their needs. That’s it. Then, capitalist hegemony, mechanics, laws of motion changed all of that. People work harder, for longer hours today, because they work for something well beyond what they, personally, ever needed. They work to make it possible for the few to increase their wealth via surplus value that doesn’t really mean a damn thing to individual workers, and doesn’t help them, either.

I’d bet very few Americans ever stop to think what they’re doing when they work at all — why they work, and for whom.

July 26, 2021 at 12:44 pm #131112

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EXCLUSIVE: Frito-Lay worker Brandon Ingram was severely electrocuted on the job, disabled and denied medical care.

Now Brandon, his wife, and children are being stalked and secretly filmed by company agents.

This is the most disturbing Frito-Lay story we’ve covered. pic.twitter.com/1bNixsckEt

— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) July 26, 2021

July 30, 2021 at 2:29 am #131212

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Dan Price@DanPriceSeattle
If you think it’s oppressive for corporations to require vaccines, wait ’til you hear about unpaid internships, mandated overtime, unpaid sick days, raiding of retirement funds, non-compete agreements for fast-food workers, everything Amazon does, at-will employment agreements
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