#Labor

History and Memory in Gentrifying Saint-Henri

histmem

In 1966, Dominion Textiles would close its doors, and in its place Eagle Toys (later Coleco) would occupy what is now the Chateau St-Ambroise. Eagle Toys manufactured several table top

Rami Ismail (رامي)

tha_rami

Crunch is terrible, and a failure of management. When things turn from "crunch up to a date" to a "crunch to a repeatedly moving date", it's referred to as a

Equitable Growth

equitablegrowth

The @BLS_gov released their monthly Jobs Report this morning. Equitable Growth digs deeper with these charts:https://equitablegrowth.org/equitable-growths-jobs-day-graphs-january-2020-report-edition-2/ Despite an overall decrease in non-far

zack pass the PRO act 🌹

zackpattin_

Here’s some more info and other resources about the #PROAct:1. @GoIUPAT’s Pass the PRO Act campaign is leading the charge, so let’s join ‘em. We can’t sit by and hope

Chris Becker

jcbecker93

“all economic theories imply that minimum wages should be decided at the state and local level” Nonsense. That’s exactly how you subsidize labor exploitation in poor regions. Which is borne

Red Canary Song 红莺歌

RedCanarySong

An ally asked today: "Are we supposed to be ok with pimping? Genuine question."Here's our response:We are absolutely against any kind of violence or exploitation by management in the sex

Bikrum Gill

realDrcabbie

Need to oppose both Hindutva chauvinism and obfuscating virtue signalling by Western liberal celebrities.It is disingenuous to fight to take away labor rights via prop 22, on the one hand,

❄Ice Cool Archon❄

ArchonOf

Lemme break it down for everyoneVaush and his fans believe if you buy most things (like a phone) you're just as equally complicit with that form of child abuse, ie

Terry McGlynn

hormiga

Exploiting undergraduate laborhttps://twitter.com/opwall/status/1359135707617452033 For those of you who haven’t heard of Operation Wallacea, the central purpose of this organization is to sign up undergraduates to become unpaid field tec

Colin Spacetwinks

spacetwinks

as the "defund is a bad slogan" takes continue i think more on how the next move shouldn't be 'try saying Reform again' but putting more in showing the connection

Brishen Rogers

BrishenRogers

A few thoughts on sectoral bargaining, worker power, and law in light of the debate that's followed on @noahopinion's tweet. One line of push-back is that implementing sectoral bargaining without

Henry The Social Democrat

Biggy1883

From @Tony_Burke 1. This week Labor’s focus was jobs. Not just any jobs: secure jobs with decent pay. That’s what Australians need coming out of this pandemic, that’s what the

anna j. is out of the office! 🏳️‍🌈

feministlib

If you need to hear this: I was invited to run for a volunteer position with a professional org. this week. I thanked them for the honor of the invitation

The Public Archive

public_archive

Academics could gain a certain clarity about themselves if they acknowledged that being an academic is a job, not a mission, and that being an intellectual is merely a form

Consequence is no coincidence

BlueSteelDC

The Biggest problem with the Jim Dore / Ryan Knight crowd is they don’t know what they are talking about They frame the best of anything as the most LEFT

damaged book worker

damagedbookwrkr

Warehouses have one of the highest fatality rates & twice the injury rate of any other industry—more than construction & coal mining. “Volunteers” at @spdbooks almost exclusively perform warehouse labor—the

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