Happy Labor Day! Let's take a moment to #celebrate the hard work and dedication of all the laborers who make our world go round. Whether you're a construction worker, a nurse, a teacher, or a stay-at-home parent, your work is essential to our society.

This #LaborDay, let's also reflect on the importance of #FairWages, #SafeWorkingConditions, and #WorkersRights. Let's work together to create a more just and #equitable world for all workers.

Everyone Owes a #Debt to #Laborers
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/jim-goodman/107559/everyone-owes-a-debt-to-laborers

This #LaborDay, a day set aside as a national holiday in 1894, we commemorate the #laborunion movement, the demand for an eight-hour work day, better working conditions, #fairwages, and an end to #childlabor.
#Genderequality, #racialequality, fair #farmprices, and #farmworker rights are separate issues but all related to the struggle of the #unions for a fair wage and decent working conditions.

Hope for workers: New proposed rulemaking from the DOL would raise the threshold for salaried workers to be eligible for overtime to $55,000/yr. Big win for working people. The federal overtime provisions are contained in the FLSA. Unless exempt, employees covered by the Act must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a workweek at a rate not less than time & one-half their regular rates of pay. #FairWages https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/overtime

https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/working-hard-risking-wellbeing-all-tk-400-3404826

40,000 stone workers in #Bangladesh: machine #owners ignore us when we demand #FairWages

Earnings insufficient to provide for families, contribute to children's #education, meet other #BasicNeeds. On days when work is stopped, they have to starve or borrow from others.

#Capitalism #Exploitation #Unionize #Unionise #ClassWar #wages #WageSlavery

"Conan, what is best in life?"
"To crush the establishment. See the fair wages come to you. And hear the lamentation of Republicans."
#conanthebarbarian #incomeinequality #fairwages

On Aug. 28, 1963, a crowd of a quarter-million people came together on the National Mall with a shared purpose of striving for #socialjustice, the end of #segregation, #fairwages, economic #opportunities and the rights of full #citizenship. Many historians credit the march for pressuring the #Kennedy administration to act on #civilrights, eventually leading to the passage of the #CivilRightsAct in 1964 and the #VotingRightsAct of 1965. The momentous day concluded with #King delivering his iconic “#IHaveaDream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial.

https://artdaily.com/news/161465/Smithsonian-museum-recognizes-the-60th-anniversary-of-the-March-on-Washington

Friendly reminder to those considering #AIvoice / #synthspeech in your games and tech:
Please respect our voice actor, vocalist and narrator #rights.

Visit #fAIrvoices to learn more at https://navavoices.org/fair-voices

See what resources National Association of Voice Actors: NAVA provides at https://navavoices.org/synth-ai

#yourvoice #usage #vo #yourrights #compensation #voicetalent #voice #actors #fairwages #payyouractors #payyourvoiceactors #dontstealourvoices #voiceactor #vocalist #narrator #rights

Show #solidarity wiht #SAGAFTRA/#WGAstrike and the fight for #fairwages, #jobsecurity, and #equity
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/2/2184556/-Show-solidarity-with-SAG-AFTRA-WGA-strike-and-the-fight-for-fair-wages-job-security-and-equity?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main

Congrats to UPS union & their workers.

Maybe now — if employees aren’t so frustrated w/ mgmt driving them so hard (can envision heavy-UPS-investors Louis DeJoy of USPS infamy + his wife cracking whip over their backs) — they’ll stop mangling *every* case that my spouse’s chief medical supplies company splits off for them to deliver?

#Unions #FairWages #UPS #USPS #JITmanufacturing #Transportation #Commerce #Online

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/07/25/ups-strike-deal-teamsters/

The studios' naive embrace of Silicon Valley's disruptive "magical thinking" has finally caught up with them. #HollywoodStrike #PayFairness #WorkersRights #FairWages #RespectTheArts http://www.techmeme.com/230723/p5#a230723p5

Ordered several months of medical supplies for my feeding tube and other things tonight that #UPS delivers in case there is a #strike. Almost forgot to do it so it can be delivered before August 1.

It hurt and we're beyond broke again. This is noninsurance covered stuff we normally buy month to month.

However, we're #UnionStrong and will suck it up so they can get fair benefits and #FairWages

Our UPS driver is amazing and goes the extra mile, excuse the pun.

#Teamsters #UPS #UnionStrike

Teamsters union, representing UPS workers, seeks a new 5-year agreement for better wages, ending two-tier job classification, more full-time positions, safety measures, and protection against harassment. In Newport News, Teamsters Local 822 staged a practice picket, warning of a potential strike if no deal is reached by July 31. They demand fair compensation for all workers amid rising inflation. If demands for fair wages and improved work conditions aren't met, this will be the largest single-employer walkout in U.S. history. #Teamsters #UPS #UnionStrike #FairWages #NewportNews #HamptonRoads

https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/ups-workers-warn-of-potential-strike-perform-practice-picket-in-nn/

Just go back in person to your favorite restaurants, by public transport, and ditch these four gig work companies – Uber, DoorDash, Grubhub and Relay – which are all them suing the city of New York to block the new law on #fairwages

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jul/13/suit-up-for-the-backlash-the-battle-to-regulate-new-yorks-gig-economy
#gigeconomy

Bernie cites this fact: American workers are now 480% more productive than they were in the 1940s.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/04/us-workers-bernie-sanders-32-hours-working-week
#FairWages #fairlaborstandardsact #ShorterWorkWeek

Report: Studio bosses plan to stay away from bargaining table in gambit to starve writers into submission

Via Deadline: “'The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,' a studio executive told Deadline. Acknowledging the cold-as-ice approach, several other sources reiterated the statement. One insider called it 'a cruel but necessary evil.'"

https://www.nwprogressive.org/microblog/2023/07/report-studio-bosses-plan-to-stay-away-from-bargaining-table-in-gambit-to-starve-writers-into-submission/

#FairWages&Leave

Something to celebrate, wages are higher for all workers & the higher-paid workers are reluctantly taking a smaller share of the bounty: The 12 month moving average of annualized monthly wage growth for workers in the bottom quartile by income was 6.8% as of May, compared with 5.6% in the top quartile. #FairWages https://apple.news/AYGn-p77lQ7qG-rPznwvsyA

Take This Job and Shove It: The Great Resignation or The Great Revolt? https://bioneers.org/take-this-job-and-shove-it-the-great-resignation-or-the-great-revolt/ #labororganizing #workers'rights #SaruJayaraman #fairwages #Justice

#BrandonScott #BaltimoreCity #Water is our #HumanRight not a corporate asset #DontPrivatize #FairWages #FairCharges #Accountability

pretty boy to loch raven

brook brown and rainbow trout bass and carp
rise shimmering to hatches in deep pools riffles and fast flows
of mayflies caddisflies midges stoneflies
nymphs pupa duns spinners . . .

https://bmorepoetryblog.org/pretty-boy-to-loch-raven/

During a busy time, a neighborhood Kroger store had just one check-out open and there was a sign on the service desk that read: Closed, due to a staff shortage. Because ~40% of Kroger employees are on SNAP and other low-income programs, I wanted to change the sign to: Closed beacause we pay shit wages and no one wants to work here.

#FairWages
#PayThemAndTheyWillCome
#GreedyCorporations

Shocking! This news highlights the need for greater protections for essential workers like Amazon drivers. We must ensure that no one is denied basic rights like bathroom breaks. #FairWages #WorkerRights #Amazon #EqualOpportunity #DiscriminationLaw https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3m4wa/drivers-sue-amazon-over-inhumane-conditions-having-to-pee-in-bottles