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Poorest countries will be $12tn worse off by 2025 due to Covid – UN
15/09/2021 Comments Off on Poorest countries will be $12tn worse off by 2025 due to Covid – UNGlobal economy Poorest countries will be $12tn worse off by 2025 due to Covid – UN Pandemic has added to their debts while wealthy nations limit access to vaccines, says annual report Richard Partington Economics correspondent @RJPartington Wed 15 Sep 2021 10.00 EDT Last modified on Wed 15 Sep 2021 10.52 EDT The world’s poorest […]
Continue reading …Facebook’s VIP ‘Whitelist’ Reveals Two Big Problems
15/09/2021 Comments Off on Facebook’s VIP ‘Whitelist’ Reveals Two Big ProblemsFacebook’s VIP ‘Whitelist’ Reveals Two Big Problems. The company knows its moderation algorithm doesn’t work and doesn’t want to admit it.
Continue reading …Anti-masker abuse, subpar healthcare, and a 5 cent raise: CVS workers say enough is enough
15/09/2021 Comments Off on Anti-masker abuse, subpar healthcare, and a 5 cent raise: CVS workers say enough is enoughUS unions Anti-masker abuse, subpar healthcare, and a 5 cent raise: CVS workers say enough is enough California employees looking for a better deal in union negotiations as the company posts record profits Michael Sainato Wed 15 Sep 2021 06.00 EDT Last modified on Wed 15 Sep 2021 07.21 EDT Thousands of workers at CVS […]
Continue reading …Facebook Is Too Secretive. Its Oversight Board Should Change That
14/09/2021 Comments Off on Facebook Is Too Secretive. Its Oversight Board Should Change That
An upcoming report on its work with Facebook would be a good chance for the board to put its foot down on the company’s chronic opacity.
Continue reading …‘Wine is our livelihood’: locals still recovering from German floods
14/09/2021 Comments Off on ‘Wine is our livelihood’: locals still recovering from German floodsWine ‘Wine is our livelihood’: locals still recovering from German floods Estimated €50m worth of wine has been lost in the Ahr valley since the floods Kate Connolly in Ahrweiler Wed 15 Sep 2021 00.00 EDT Tanja Lingen barely dares to think about the night her two sons went into the family vineyard cellar to […]
Continue reading …US poverty fell in 2020 as government support offset pandemic damage
14/09/2021 Comments Off on US poverty fell in 2020 as government support offset pandemic damageCensus US poverty fell in 2020 as government support offset pandemic damage Figures released by Census Bureau showing drop in poverty rate to 9.1% bolster arguments about effectiveness of state intervention Amanda Holpuch in New York @holpuch Tue 14 Sep 2021 13.26 EDT Last modified on Tue 14 Sep 2021 13.44 EDT US poverty fell […]
Continue reading …Amazon offers $3,000 sign-on bonuses to US delivery and warehouse workers
14/09/2021 Comments Off on Amazon offers $3,000 sign-on bonuses to US delivery and warehouse workersAmazon Amazon offers $3,000 sign-on bonuses to US delivery and warehouse workers Online retailer will also raise its average starting wage to $18 an hour to help recruit 125,000 people Sarah Butler @whatbutlersaw Tue 14 Sep 2021 12.06 EDT Last modified on Tue 14 Sep 2021 12.45 EDT Amazon is offering sign-on bonuses of up […]
Continue reading …Today’s News & Commentary — September 14, 2021
14/09/2021 Comments Off on Today’s News & Commentary — September 14, 2021
Missouri public employees’ unions continue to struggle against the governor’s office for collective bargaining. In 2018, former Governor Eric Greitens signed a law that gave meager raises in exchange for changing the states’ merit hiring system, effectively reclassifying state workers into at-will employees. Since then, current Governor Mike Parson, who was Greitens’s lieutenant governor, has […]
Continue reading …Activision Blizzard sued by employees for union busting
13/09/2021 Comments Off on Activision Blizzard sued by employees for union bustingWorkers allege that the company acted to stop unionization, including surveilling employees, interrogating them, making threats and promises of benefits.
Continue reading …- Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
- CEOs Get to Retire Comfortably. Workers Like Me Deserve the Same.
- Jobs Increased 339,000 In May, Unemployment Up 0.3% To 3.7%
- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill
Today’s News & Commentary — September 15th, 2021
15/09/2021 Comments Off on Today’s News & Commentary — September 15th, 2021U.S. District Judge David Hurd in Albany on Tuesday entered a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a New York state health department rule requiring health care workers workers in hospitals and nursing homes to get a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine by Sept. 27, for those employed in public institutions, and October 9th, for those […]
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