https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2023/09/11/after-record-earnings-large-scale-walkout-looms-at-chanel-korea.html

#Chanel #Korea strike: Chanel #profits up 74%, allocates 95% as #dividends to head office

#ChanelKorea #union #unions #strike #strikes #capitalism #WageSlavery #ClassWar #Luxembourg

#Capitalism #WageSlavery #Surveillance #WorkplaceSurveillance: "If you ask most people what “workplace surveillance” means, they’ll likely think of security cameras in large warehouses or retail stores, making sure employees don’t steal merchandise or fall asleep on the job. The reality is far more pervasive. These days, workplace surveillance certainly means being constantly watched, but it’s not just fish-eye camera lenses doing the recording. Rather, it’s built into the tools employees like Rina use every day to do their jobs, in all manner of industries. For the laptop class, it’s in programs that capture their keystrokes and allow employers to remotely view the websites they’ve searched on their browser. It’s in handheld scanners used by everyone from warehouse workers to retail clerks to hospital nurses checking into a patient’s room as well as the phone-based apps home health aides must log into and out of with every client they visit. There’s technology that records facial expressions and tone of voice to collect “mood and sentiment analysis” to measure employees’ affect and attitude. And the Black Mirror-esque implications of that monitoring cross socio-economic divides: In white-collar office jobs, it’s combined with AI-powered email and Slack message analysis to assess workplace culture; in offshore call centers, it’s paired with predictive conversation scripts to judge whether employees are responding to customer complaints with appropriate obsequiousness and pep."

https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_long_shadow_of_workplace_surveillance

#AI #GenerativeAI #Philippines #WageSlavery: "The mathematical models underpinning AI tools get smarter by analyzing large data sets, which need to be accurate, precise and legible to be useful. Low-quality data yields low-quality AI. So click by click, a largely unregulated army of humans is transforming the raw data into AI feedstock.

In the Philippines, one of the world’s biggest destinations for outsourced digital work, former employees say that at least 10,000 of these workers do this labor on a platform called Remotasks, which is owned by the $7 billion San Francisco start-up Scale AI.

Scale AI has paid workers at extremely low rates, routinely delayed or withheld payments and provided few channels for workers to seek recourse, according to interviews with workers, internal company messages and payment records, and financial statements. Rights groups and labor researchers say Scale AI is among a number of American AI companies that have not abided by basic labor standards for their workers abroad."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/28/scale-ai-remotasks-philippines-artificial-intelligence/

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

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/new-zealands-senior-doctors-stage-first-ever-strike-union-2023-08-21/

#NewZealand's senior #doctors to stage first ever #strike

Nearly 5,000 senior doctors, #dentists will strike for first time ever, seeking #wage to match #inflation.

#Capitalism #WageSlavery #Economics #ClassWar #Exploitation #union

http://www.tribune242.com/news/2023/aug/17/bpl-union-escalation-trade-disputes-filed/

Line staff #union and #management union escalate against #Bahamas Power and Light

#UnionStrong #Exploitation #ClassWar #WageSlavery #BPL #OneBigUnion

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australias-south32-appin-mine-workers-continue-strike-trade-union-2023-08-18/

#Australia: mine #supervisors #strike

#Union #Unionise #Unionize #OneBigUnion #ClassWar #Capitalism #Exploitation #WageSlavery

#USA #Amazon #WageSlavery #Healthcare: "Crane’s encounter with the case of sparkling water tipped her into a system developed by Amazon to manage one of the side effects of its famous logistics operation—a steady flow of injured workers. Recent OSHA investigations and WIRED interviews with 11 on-site medical representatives (OMRs) who have worked at AmCare in the last few years describe a system that can put employees at risk of further injury by keeping them working instead of referring them to appropriate medical care.

“What some companies are doing, and I think Amazon is one of them, is using their own clinics to ‘treat people’ and send them right back to the job, so that their injury doesn't have to be recordable,” says Jordan Barab, a former deputy assistant secretary at OSHA who writes a workplace safety newsletter.

Amazon spokesperson Maureen Lynch Vogel disputes this characterization, saying the company does not try to hide injuries and that employees who visit AmCare can seek outside treatment at any time. “Any suggestion that we intentionally or systematically delay or discourage employees from seeking needed medical care is false,” she says."

https://www.wired.com/story/amazons-first-aid-clinics-push-injured-employees-to-keep-working/

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS WAGE SLAVERY. FELLOW WHITES, SIT THE **FUCK** DOWN. GET YOUR OWN DAMNED WORDS.

"#WageSlavery" (sic)
#ZeroDaysSinceWhiteNonsense
#WhitePeople

The Working Class and the employing class have nothing in common.

There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life.

Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organise as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the earth.

#Workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #ClassWar #WageSlavery

#Capitalism #CapitalismKills #capitalismisascam #CapitalismIsACult #NoMoreBillionaires #exploitation #workersrights #livingwage #RaiseTheWage #wageslavery

#UBI #Socialism #Communism #Capitalism: #Work #WageSlavery #PostWork: "The question is not whether but when work can be an expression of our freedom. I cannot lay out here the full conditions under which we can be free not just from but through work. But a few last points are worth making about the kinds of social freedom that a shared labor regime makes possible. One is that we can recover a piece of the post-work vision not by attacking the work ethic but by reconceptualizing it. In a society where everybody is ready to do their share of the necessary labor, nobody is forced to work. That is because, if someone were to stop doing what has to be done, others would step in and do it, meaning all the necessary work would still get done. Moreover, in a society where everybody is ready and willing to do their share as a matter of internal motivation, nobody would have to do all that much. The eight-hour day might become the four-hour day. That is the heart of the traditional connection between sharing labor and leisure in a socialist society. Sharing labor is the path to avoiding having to force people to work and to securing free time for everyone."

https://jacobin.com/2023/08/post-work-socialism-is-a-tempting-illusion/

#writersstrike #livingwage #workersrights #wageslavery #RaiseTheWage #wgastrike #WGAStrong #sagaftrastrike

Guess I'll be downloading Dr Who this year instead of subscribing.

#writersstrike #livingwage #workersrights #wageslavery #RaiseTheWage #wgastrike #WGAStrong #sagaftrastrike #supportunions #unionize #unionizeworkers #unions #disney #disneyplus

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/disney-reboots-avoid-paying-actors.html

#writersstrike #livingwage #workersrights #wageslavery #RaiseTheWage #wgastrike #WGAStrong #sagaftrastrike #supportunions #unionize #unionizeworkers #unions

#Capitalism #CapitalismKills #capitalismisascam #CapitalismIsACult #NoMoreBillionaires #exploitation #workersrights #livingwage #RaiseTheWage #wageslavery

#writersstrike #livingwage #workersrights #wageslavery #RaiseTheWage #wgastrike #WGAStrong #sagaftrastrike #supportunions #unionize #unionizeworkers #unions

#Capitalism #CapitalismKills #capitalismisascam #CapitalismIsACult #inflation #wageslavery #RaiseTheWage #livingwage #workersrights #poverty

#wageslavery is not #freedom.

#Capitalism #CapitalismKills #capitalismisascam #CapitalismIsACult #LivingWageNow #livingwage #workersrights #RaiseTheWage

#writersstrike #writersstrike2023 #sagaftrastrike #supportunions #workersrights #livingwage #RaiseTheWage #wageslavery

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tenLXd5hO9M&feature=share