What Air Traffic Controllers Want You to Know

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FYNHCn4P2eo

Uline turned to Mexico to staff warehouses, but paid them a fraction of US workers, sources say

At company owned by a Trump mega-donor workers brought from Mexico earned per day about the same as their US counterparts were paid by the hour….

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/12/uline-trump-mega-donors-underpaid-mexican-workers

 

What Jeff Bezos Doesn't Want You to Know

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uivZrRppto8

Exhausted Amazon staff fight back against retail giant at global UK summit

"These digital monopolists are not smarter than people who cornered markets before. They're not wizards or geniuses. They're the same sharp operators we've always had, operating with less constraint and more powerful tools."…

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/22/exhausted-amazon-staff-fight-back-against-retail-giant-at-global-uk-summit

On America's farms, foreign workers solve one problem but raise others : NPR

"I want to make sure that there are fewer obstacles in front of our ability to produce food in this country, and to make sure that the American people continue to have an abundant and safe food supply," says Newhouse. "If we don't have an adequate labor force for the agricultural industry, that's in jeopardy."…https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1187682674/farm-workers-guest-workers-h-2a-visa-agricultural-harvest-farm-labor

US truck drivers push for better working conditions: ‘We’ve lost our patience’

Drivers call for federal action to address what they say are decreasing pay and rampant fraud…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/08/us-truck-drivers-protest-working-conditions-pay

After a UPS worker’s suicide, employees disclose ‘tragic’ conditions at largest facility

Revealed: UPS workers tell the Guardian that intense quota pressures, injuries, an unclean and unsafe environment and understaffing take a heavy toll…

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/oct/24/ups-worker-suicide-employees-disclose-tragic-conditions

Chinese behemoth Pinduoduo to take on Amazon in US – with even worse labor practices | E-commerce | The Guardian

Americans addicted to Amazon could soon be wooed by a Chinese tech giant most of them have never heard of. Pinduoduo is planning to expand its reach to the US next month, according to reports in Bloomberg and Reuters. The company is known for delivering goods at rock-bottom prices – while putting its employees through conditions that a prominent labor activist says should horrify Americans...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/25/pinduoduo-us-labor-practices-worker-conditions

‘Pay me my worth’: restaurant workers demand livable wages as industry continues to falter

Low wages and poor working conditions – as well as unruly customers – combine to keep the food service labor shortage going…

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/21/restaurant-industry-worker-shortage-pay-increase

The Real Reason Women Aren’t Applying to Restaurant Jobs – Mother Jones

…The reason servers and cooks and dishwashers are leaving restaurants en masse, the One Fair Wage report It's a Wage Shortage, Not a Worker Shortage found, isn't because they're being paid to sit on the couch: It's because restaurant jobs by and large offer dismal wages and terrible working conditions, especially for women…

https://www.motherjones.com/food/2021/05/the-real-reason-women-arent-applying-to-restaurant-jobs/

Meet the Customer Service Reps for Disney and Airbnb Who Have to Pay to Talk to You — ProPublica

... After paying about $1,500 for home office equipment: a computer, two headsets and a phone line dedicated to Arise; after paying Arise to run a check on her background; after passing Arise's voice-assessment test and signing Arise's nondisclosure form; after paying for and passing Arise's introductory training, to which she devoted three days, unpaid; after paying for and passing a certification course to provide customer service for Arise client AT&T, to which she devoted 44 unpaid days; after then being informed she had to get more training yet — an additional 10 days, for which she was told she would be paid, but wasn't; and then, after finally getting a chance to sign up for hours and do work for which she would be paid (except for her time spent waiting for technical support, or researching customer issues, or huddling with supervisors), Tami Pendergraft spent three weeks fielding telephone calls from AT&T customers, after which she received a single paycheck. For $96.12...

https://www.propublica.org/article/meet-the-customer-service-reps-for-disney-and-airbnb-who-have-to-pay-to-talk-to-you

America’s corporate elite must stop treating coronavirus as an obstacle to profit

It’s up to CEOs to rise above their arrogance and stop treating coronavirus as an obstacle to revenues https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/17/americas-corporate-elite-must-stop-treating-coronavirus-as-an-obstacle-to-profit

Why America's Most Essential Workers Are Poorly Treated - The Atlantic

They’ve been systematically devalued for years. But they don’t have to be. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/why-are-americas-most-essential-workers-so-poorly-treated/611575/

Under Trump, American exceptionalism means poverty, misery and death

No other advanced nation denies healthcare and work protections, or loosens lockdown while fatalities mount
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/10/donald-trump-covid-19-coronavirus-us-healthcare-unemployment

‘Stop throwing us bare bones’: US union activism surges amid coronavirus

Activism spikes amid the pandemic nationwide as workers protest what they consider inadequate safety protections against Covid-19
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/06/us-union-activism-spikes-amid-coronavirus

“Designed to Create a Climate of Fear”: Amazon VP Quits After Company Fires Activists – Mother Jones

Tim Bray, a vice president at Amazon, announced he’s leaving the company because of the “chickenshit” firing of activists who spoke about conditions at the company’s massive warehouses. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/05/amazon-vp-quits-fire-activists-protest/

'They don't care about safety': Amazon workers struggle with pandemic demand

As the coronavirus spreads across America many workers are being directed to work from home but staff at Amazonand Whole Foods are being squeezed to keep up with increasing demand caused by Americans stockpiling food and household products. ....
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/mar/18/amazon-whole-foods-workers-stores-warehouses-coronavirus

‘I'm not a robot’: Amazon workers condemn unsafe, grueling conditions at warehouse

Employees under pressure to work faster call on retail giant to improve conditions – and take their complaints seriously....
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/05/amazon-workers-protest-unsafe-grueling-conditions-warehouse

Teachers quit in Florida, citing ‘toxic’ conditions and a ‘testing nightmare’ - The Washington Post

Florida has a serious teacher shortage. During this school year, there were more than 2,200 vacancies at one point or another. Why? In a recent post, Fed Ingram, Miami-Dade County teacher of the year in 2006 and now president of the Florida Education Association cited several reasons, including low pay and little respect from policymakers...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/06/05/teachers-quit-florida-citing-toxic-conditions-testing-nightmare/

Lost pregnancies at a Verizon warehouse show the urgent need for a Pregnant Workers Fairness Act - Daily Kos

In a Tennessee warehouse supplying Verizon customers with their phones and tablets, pregnant women are routinely worked to the point of losing their pregnancies, lifting boxes up to 45 pounds through long shifts in heat that can reach more than 100 degrees. And there is no law that says their employer can't do this to them. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1806367