#Workers

Earlier this month, Uncle @fisayosoyombo tweeted that @LUTHofficial had slashed the salaries of some domestic staff to 15K, barely a month after it was raised to 30K for the first
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From 2008 to 2014, I worked on a book about an outbreak at a @HormelFoods pork processing plant in Austin, MN, and how it was tied to strain exerted on
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Is it worthwhile getting an indoor PM2.5/PM10 air particle counter? If we have air filters running and the air smells clear is a $150+ air quality meter overkill? For DIY
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IF YOU ARE NOT NY: NY needs you now. And you may need them later. It’s time to help our biggest city. 1/ After 9/11 firefighters & first responders bravely
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£500 payments if you have to isolate and can’t work is the carrot part of No10’s renewed drive to get people to take quarantine seriously (the stick bit is £1,000
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A 29 year old Sound Engg has suffered a brain haemorrhage and died. Whom do we hold responsible?Thread: The film industry contorts labour laws and practices into weird demons that
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My husband is an EMT and just tested positive for covid-19. I'm getting my test today but I have the same symptoms as him so I'm assuming I have it
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You’ve probably heard people talk about the ‘Nordic Model’, ‘Swedish Model’ or ‘End Demand’. This is often sold as a feminist response to the sex industry but sex workers around
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One econ idea that I think needs boosting in public discourse: externalities. [1] Of *course* the USPS doesn't pay for itself. It shouldn't. It should be subsidized by the public
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The way capitalism frequently leads to the mistreatment of workers in an effort to prioritize profit over lives is undoubtedly disgusting, but I fail to see how it is an
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Daddy @GavinNewsom called 18-40YOs “young invincibles” this month because of the spike in #covid infections amongst our age group.In April, during the shutdown, we only accounted for 10% of deaths.In
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Our statements condemning state and media response to migrant worker protests.Threatening harsh legal action against migrant workers will not deter workers in desperate conditions, going without months of pay, from
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The MOST CHARITABLE SUPERSTAR of India, Megastar #SalmanKhan's Participation In The Covid Relief Work (A THREAD) #Wave1-2020[1]. Helped 25000 FWICE Industry Workers + 7000 Other Fed. Workers (Total 32000) By
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I see a surprising amount of "hot takes" on here on TfL not extending Uber's license in the UK and how it's a bone on competition etc. Can we talk
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So the part of government we waste the most money on honored the frontline hospital workers who are dangerously under-resourced b/c the government failed to protect them by conducting a
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Because everything about our world is structured in the language of violence and conquest. Pandemics are wars. Just as there's a war on poverty, drugs, crime, Christianity, our way of
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