I don’t know who needs to hear this but companies sometimes announce layoffs, or do mass layoffs, or even financially unwise offshoring or whatever, just to send a “signal” to the stock market, because they’ve all been trained that Wall Street loves a company that’s slashed a bunch of jobs.
Tag: workers
Labor precarity and the weaponization of communication.
People just don’t trust unknown funding, nor hiding stuff. And people don’t like to find out that someone they thought was speaking truth to power is actually towing a prescribed party line.
The Trump administration revoking the unions of VA nurses is a grotesque injustice.
The illegal executive order revoking federal workers’ right to unionize and collectively bargain is unacceptable. We have unions for a reason, it’s because they are needed…
Deregulation appears to be an attempt to grease the wheels toward corruption with political favours.
Why would anyone want to go backwards to a system that was more corrupt other than corrupt bad actors?
AI stuff is habit forming, but not always popular at work.
And that would seem to indicate they’re not particularly useful or everyone would be completely enticed into using them a lot.
Avoid scams targeting people looking for remote work.
“Don’t pay for the promise of a job. Honest employers will never ask you to pay to get a job. Anyone who does is a scammer.”
The US needs migrant farm workers not because Americans are lazy, but because Americans are privileged.
I wish people (on the left) would stop saying that “immigrants do jobs Americans don’t want” because that just really plays into the right-wing frame of “lazy people don’t wanna work”.
The uncanny valley of the AI workplace apocalypse.
To some extent automation always seems to be a bait and switch.
Government workers in Pennsylvania are not covered by OSHA standards, but there’s a bill to change that.
I’m happy to see HB 308 introduced in the PA state house.
‘Tax Return To Office’ is a political policy platform that can maybe go places.
HiFi – Welcome to WWIII, the stupidest internet war. Mar 11 at 1:56 PM Policy thought: If I were a politician, I’d tax corporations who required work from office at a higher rate, as their plantation mentality requires their employees to consume valuable resources such as petrol and time.
Democratic Governor Tim Walz does Trumpian Return To Office.
This is NOT a progressive move and Walz should be shamed harshly by Democrat voters in Minnesota for acting like a right-winger on telework.
Fossil fuel, commercial real estate, and mid level megalomaniacal managers are behind anti-telework RTO.
The REAL Reasons CEOs Hate Remote Work – SOME MORE NEWS Feb 12, 2025 “Hi. We’ve been told that 2025 is the year that remote working will die, despite it often being good for workers and their employers. CEOs hate it though, and they’re working to get rid of it.“
Donald Trump is a remote worker at Mar-A-Lago.
Jesse Dollemore pointed out that Donald Trump is himself teleworking while his administration has been campaigning against telework for federal workers, he’s hanging out at Mar-A-Lago. I pointed that out last month, that Trump and also Elon Musk spent the campaign teleworking from Mar-a-Lago, not any office. Butts in seats downtown for “The Economy” (aka commercial real […]
Lattimer massacre.
The Lattimer massacre was the killing of at least 19 unarmed striking immigrant anthracite miners by a Luzerne County sheriff’s posse at the Lattimer mine near Hazleton, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 1897.
Republicans still undermining remote work for federal workers.
Government Executive – A Senate bill targeting teleworkers’ locality pay now has its companion in the House Legislation introduced by Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., would bar federal workers from receiving locality pay if they telework at least once per week, a move that could amount to a 30% pay cut for many feds. October 22, […]
What Wilkes-Barre probably should’ve known about inviting a call center to the area.
“this kind of business does not bring to the area jobs which promote prosperity for those seeking employment, but actually might be responsible for many capable people deciding they must get the heck out of the area”