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The most interesting part is how the whole thing has been hidden in plain sight.

#ConsumerCredit reached an all time high under the #Biden/ #Harris administration in the #USA. And while they tried to mitigate that somewhat by for instance restructuring programs for #StudentLoans, the double #burden of stagnating #wages and rising #inflation has pushed many households over the edge.

Now #Trump is adding way more inflation to the mix & laying off tens of thousands of govt #workers.
#trump #inflation #usa #biden #workers #harris #wages #studentloans #consumercredit #burden

Camila Cavendish (FT) makes an interesting point on the persistant gendered division of labour:

'while there are many programmes encouraging more girls to study STEM subjects, there doesn’t seem to be much equivalent encouraging boys to take English or nursing'...

This seems like an open goal; getting more males into 'traditional' female roles would help the gender balance & might also reduce aspects of gendered discrimination via the experience of work?

a win-win policy?

#workers #gender
#gender #workers

The images of hundreds of masked and heavily armed police invading the apartments of Palestinian students, #workers and #refugees in Germany today appears as an imitation of the daily invasions of the Israeli occupation forces in Palestinian homes in occupied Palestine, as well as a disturbing echo of Germany’s own Nazi #fascist history. And as #Palestinians in occupied #Palestine have never stopped struggling despite over 75 years of #Zionist occupation and 100 years of colonialism, these attacks will not silence the growing movement in #Germany and every other imperialist power involved in attacking Palestine, as new generations refuse their involvement and complicity in #genocide. https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2023/11/24/statement-by-samidoun-palestinian-prisoner-solidarity-network-on-the-23-november-2023-raids-in-germany/
#germany #Refugees #workers #genocide #palestine #palestinians #Zionist #fascist

At the root of many contemporary economic problems (the UK's productivity puzzle, deterioration in the terms & conditions of employment) is one simple issue:

Managers too often see workers not as a 'resource' to be invested in & nurtured for the long-term good of the organisation, but rather as a cost which can be reduced for short-term gain while the longer term consequences will be fixed (in some way) by technology.

The de-humanisaton of economics is a major problem!

#workers #economics
#workers #economics

‘Ongoing destruction of #evidence’: #Trump admin shredding and burning ‘classified’ #USAID docs with info that’s ‘essential’ for rehiring unlawfully fired #workers, #unions say
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/ongoing-destruction-of-evidence-trump-admin-shredding-and-burning-classified-usaid-docs-with-info-thats-essential-for-rehiring-unlawfully-fired-workers-unions-say/

Trump admin shredding USAID docs with 'essential' info for rehiring fired workers: Unions

The Trump administration is shredding and burning "classified" employee documents with info that would be "essential" to rehiring unlawfully fired workers, according to unions suing the president.
Law & Crime
#trump #unions #workers #usaid #evidence

While much of contemporary are seems to have lost touch with narrative & representation, equally (having not been represented for so long) black (African) artists are celebrating/recording the black experience in powerful paintings....

Here's Jean David Nko's tiredbody (2021) to illustrate the point

h/t Adam Tooze/Chartbook newsletter

#art #painting #Africa #workers
Painting: Jean David Nko, tiredbody, 2021 - three workers sit down between shifts/jobs (?) they are rendered in a realistic but also have a depth or representation that emphasis their fatigue.
#art #painting #Africa #workers

Idk about a #boycott of the entire #USA. Interesting goal, I guess it might make a difference, but what does it really do to a country and its #economy? Are #Trump and #Musk going to care while millions of #workers are affected instead.
#trump #musk #usa #economy #workers #boycott

🚨Happening now: Huge mobilisations taking place right across Greece today, as workers bring capitalism to a standstill in a breathtaking general strike.

#Greece #NationalStrike #Unions #Workers #Strike #Protest #Demonstration
#unions #protest #greece #workers #strike #demonstration #nationalstrike

Two years ago I wrote a piece on abandoned seafarers for @NWBylines, now the issue has re-emerged in the Guardian

As I concluded then 'We are not all seafarers yet, but the direction of travel in employment relations points towards their plight, not away from it'! and little has changed requiring me to change that conclusion!

The NWB article can be found here:
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/business/is-seafarer-abandonment-an-isolated-problem/

#workers #MerchantNavy #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/26/losing-hope-with-every-day-that-passes-torment-of-the-ships-crews-abandoned-at-sea

Is seafarer abandonment an isolated problem?

Seafarer abandonment, the plight of workers and the necessity of labour market regulation
Chris May (North West Bylines)
#politics #workers #merchantnavy @North West Bylines

As Alex Heffron (LancasterU) points out, while the press has been focussed on Framers' protests about inheritance tax, farm workers, have also been demonstrating (with less visibility) about working conditions & exploitation in the agriculture;

which as I pointed out yesterday, makes the extension of the seasonal workers' visa scheme (without any additional regulation), as a way of placating farmers, pretty ironic(!) from a so-called Labour Party

#farming #workers

https://theconversation.com/the-uk-farmer-protests-you-probably-havent-heard-about-249414

The UK farmer protests you probably haven’t heard about

Farm workers milk cows, drive machinery and pick crops – yet their grievances are seldom heard.
The Conversation
#workers #farming

Featured story: Travis County’s progressive DA has secured indictments for the 2021 death of Juan José Galvan Batalla, remembered as a “cheerful” hard worker and beloved sibling. https://www.texasobserver.org/austin-rare-prosecution-worker-death-trench-collapse/

#Austin #Texas #politics #labor #workers #HumanRights #USpol #news #CriminalJustice

In Austin, a Rare Prosecution over Worker Death in Trench Collapse

Lina Fisher (The Texas Observer)
#news #humanrights #politics #uspol #labor #workers #texas #austin #criminaljustice

If you're considering Labour's engagement with workers' rights, you might focus on legislation on workers' rights currently working its way through Parliament.... or you might look at how the Cabinet Office treats its cleaning staff, an outsourced underpaid workforce who are currently about to strike for better terms & conditions.

As they say: actions speak louder than words.... the CO is using outsourced contracts to distance itself from its workforce!

#workers
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/14/no-10-cleaning-staff-begin-month-long-strike-pay
#workers

Perhaps showing a wide-spread appreciation of the way society has been skewed against workers, there would seem to be wide-spread support for Labour's employment rights' bill.

As this suggests, a continuation of the bill's watering down in response to business lobbying, is likely to confirm to both Labour supporters & non-supporters alike that the Labour party really has abandoned its roots in the protection of workers from exploitation & abuse.

#workers #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/09/labour-urged-to-defend-workers-rights-bill-as-poll-shows-huge-public-support
#politics #workers

Trouble at the Office of National Statistics continues with staff churn, failing methods & funding problems all undermining reliability of the data on which Govt. depends for formulating policy.

The potential difference between ONS & independent assessment (here by the Resolution Foundation) of employment suggest labour market policy (especially regarding the 'economically inactive') may be misconceived (which many would argue anyway).

In a sense Labour *is* flying blind

#ONS #workers #data
Chart: Independent estimates imply employment has not fallen as much as office data suggests. Uk employment rate for people aged 16+ Shows ONS & Resolution Foundation data close matched from 2016-2021, rising from just over 60% to a peak of 62% in 2020 & then sharp fall in 2021 to around 60% - then data diverges, with ONS seeing little subsequent recovery, but RF data seeing a return to over 61% of workforce in employment
#data #workers #ons

As the ONS confirms there's been a rise in people who are 'economically inactive' in the UK since COVID, the key Q. is:

how much is due to long covid & other conditions compound by recovery from Covid;

how much to the crisis in the NHS driving a rise in long term sickness as people wait for treatment;

and how much from social changes driven by the period lockdown shifting choices about work-life balance.

An answer on the balance will shape future policies.

#politics #health #workers
h/t FT
#politics #health #workers

As more firms shift to a four day week (with no loss of pay), will others' scepticism of the advantages in terms of productivity & staff satisfaction start to change their minds?

Certainly, 5000 workers shifting to a four day week is a drop in the ocean, but if this is a permanent move (not just a pilot) then this may start to see an (albeit) slow shift; it will be interesting to see whether offering a four day week becomes a recruitment issue?

#workers #FourDayWeek
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/jan/27/two-hundred-uk-companies-sign-up-for-permanent-four-day-working-week
#workers #fourdayweek

Hmmm.... as business groups start to cut staff, but blame higher wages on the pay floor (and required further promotion 'incentives') caused by the minimum wage, I'm expecting Andrew Bailey & the BoE/MPC to say that while they want to cut interest rates, they need some indication from Labour that the next uplift in the minimum wage will be capped.

I'll happily be proved wrong, but on past evidence they'lll be casting round for reasons not lower rates yet.

#InterestRates #workers
#workers #interestrates

Los Angeles County and LA City Announce Wildfire Relief Funds for Small Businesses and Workers

"Applications for the funds for eligible small businesses and workers are set to open in February 2025, offering grants between $2,000 and $25,000 for eligible small businesses and nonprofits, and $2,000 for displaced workers."

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/CALACOUNTY/bulletins/3cea0c4

#EatonFire #PalisadesFire #Workers #SmallBusiness #Nonprofits

Media Release: Los Angeles County and LA City Announce Wildfire Relief Funds for Small Businesses and Workers

County of Los Angeles, California
#workers #smallbusiness #nonprofits #palisadesfire #eatonfire

It seems likely that consumer confidence is continuing to head downwards, which for an economy like the UK driven by consumer demand will be a problem for Rachel Reeves' 'growth' agenda... but what's behind this dip?

Commentators are citing sentiment about economic prospects & (sometimes) the continued high interest rates... which *are* likely contributing to declining sentiment.

But, I suspect, workers & voters realising that Govt is not on their side may be also stoking a malaise!

#workers
#workers

“Eighty-eight percent of us identify as women. Seventy-nine percent of us are people of color. We don’t get any sick leave. We have no health care benefits, and so this is the population of workers that we’re talking about. This is definitely a woman’s issue.”

Over at @deceleration, I interviewed an organizer with a caretakers' and personal attendants' group who are demanding fair wages for their often physically demanding work caring for the #disabled. Also included was legendary #disability rights organizer Bob Kafka of ADAPT of #Texas. Together, they discussed how they're preparing for #Trump and the Texas lege: https://deceleration.news/disability-rights-texas-bob-kafka/

#TXlege #HumanRights #politics #USpol #news #activism #TXlege #DonaldTrump #GregAbbott #workers #labor #accessibility
#news #trump #donaldtrump #humanrights #politics #activism #accessibility #uspol #labor #workers #texas #disability #disabled #txlege #gregabbott @deceleration

This long(is) discussion of the difficulties of the young finding work (from unacknowledged applications, to zero-hours contracts that evaporate after a week or so), suggests that we are storing up problems for our economic future.

whatever the claims for AI & other technologies, an economy where workers are so disillusioned with work and have only experienced exploitation & rejections is a ticking time-bomb ready to worsen further the UK's economy malady!

#workers
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/18/i-know-someone-in-a-warehouse-with-a-masters-degree-how-to-break-the-cycle-of-youth-unemployment
#workers

More tales from the low-wage end of the UK economy, with it would seem, the Living Wage Foundation allowing itself to be used to hide the extent of low wage contracts in outsourcing firms....

The Q. is whether one believes the LWF is 'working' with these providers to raise the wages of workers, or whether they are being used as (innocent) cover to hide the continued exploitation of the 'slaves'?

You can make up your own mind!

#workers #poverty

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/19/living-wage-foundation-accused-of-accrediting-firms-not-paying-the-living-wage
#poverty #workers

The "secret" is no secret: thanks to #Unions, #Labor, and #SocialDemocracy, #workers in #Denmark have power.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20g7705re3o#webview=1

What's the secret to Denmark's happy work-life balance?

The Nordic nation doesn't require staff to work long hours and has a generous welfare system.
David Silverberg (BBC News)
#unions #labor #workers #denmark #socialdemocracy

Interestingly there has been a signficant rise in the number of small business owners using Employee Ownership Trusts to exit their business (typically but not only, on retirement). Transferring ownership to a small firms employees this way is 'tax efficient' and the trust usually pays an upfront amount followed by continued payments from the profits until the transfer price is paid.

Its an interesting way of democratising business ownership! (Not socialism, but neighbouring?)

#workers
Chart: Sales to employees have soared in popularity. Number of transactions to employee ownership (over 90% of transactions are via EOTs). shows rise from negligible levels in 2007 -2010, to over 400 last year
#workers

Interestingly, Labour are considering banning (or at least limiting) the use of Non Disclosure Agreements in employment cases (especially where they are used to cover up sexual abuse/misconduct at work).

Given their quite widespread use across the university sector to try to maintain the impression of high education as a safe space for female workers, this may lead to some interesting (negative) issues emerging from the shadows at universities.

#universities #workers
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jan/17/labour-ban-ndas-sexual-misconduct-employers-gagging-clauses-work
#workers #universities

Here’s how to do it:

1. Build a box. Make it secure.

2. Paint the inside of it in nice landscape colors.

3. Grow the people in that box so, with any luck, they’ll never know they’re in one.

4. Once they’re grown, you can assign those people very specific tasks – all of which serve the hierarchy that actually exists outside the box.

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#Workers #Unpaid #Exploitation #School #Education #Oppression #Capitalism
#capitalism #education #workers #school #exploitation #oppression #unpaid

The 'battle' over hybrid working & working from home is a conflict over the control of work... what managers don't like about WFH is that workers get to enhance their own control of their working conditions.

For many workers WFH is just impossible anyway, but for those who can utilise hybrid working it has proved a benefit to both them & their employers... but, managers don't care, they want to be able to exercise control, but Labour shouldn't help them.

#workers

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/14/labour-working-from-home-wfh-culture-war
#workers

If nutrition & eating are central to good health (and mental acuity), then the TUC's finding that one in six workers are skipping meals because they cannot afford the food, is not just a health issue (which may be contributing to the UK continued health crisis), but also could be (yet one more) factor underlying the productivity puzzle...

Incremental productivity gains often come from the shopfloor, but hungry workers seem less likely to innovate!

#workers #health

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/12/one-in-six-uk-workers-skipping-meals-to-make-ends-meet-says-tuc
#health #workers

Software engineers: CAPITAL IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. You are not a billionaire; you are a worker. Rich investors are trying to take your livelihood away any way they can to keep more money in their pockets. Don’t be smug because you make more money than the median; your worth is smaller than a rounding error on any given billionaire’s spreadsheet.

I repeat: YOU ARE A WORKER. Stand with your fellow workers AGAINST capital. Capitalists and billionaires make life worse for others. They’ve been coming after other workers; and now they’re coming after YOU.

#workers #softwareEngineering #solidarity #unionize
#solidarity #workers #unionize #softwareengineering

A new way for capitalists to skim off money from workers.... the gig economy ap YoungOnes charges retail workers nearly 5% of their pay if they want to be paid immediately, less if they wait 3 days or nothing if they can wait a month.... lets be clear this is the workers money!!!

The immorality of the gig economy just beggars belief - as I've said before there is no 'technology revolution' behind the gig economy, just a new method to exploit & abuse workers!

#workers

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/11/so-immoral-gig-economy-workers-forced-to-pay-fee-to-receive-their-wages
#workers

The AFL-CIO and SEIU, two giants of labor, have decided to merge again after splitting twenty years ago, and they’re investing heavily in protecting immigrant workers from the coming raids. #labor #unions #UnionsForAll #union #workers https://www.huffpost.com/entry/seiu-rejoins-afl-cio_n_677ef70de4b004ca51b5c27b

SEIU Rejoins AFL-CIO After Splitting Off 20 Years Ago

The reunion between the Service Employees International Union and the leading labor federation comes at a critical moment for the U.S. labor movement.
Dave Jamieson (HuffPost)
#unions #labor #union #workers #unionsforall

Forcing Amazon to respect its workers
Something you can do

" As we reported earlier, Amazon workers at seven locations around the country organized a strike timed for the holidays to try to force Amazon to the bargaining table. These are workers who have already voted and decided to form a union, yet #Amazon is simply refusing to recognize them or meet with them. Public pressure and striking is the only route left for those workers.

The #union has organized a petition calling on Amazon to recognize the union and enter into contract negotiations."

from #DropSiteNews
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Ryan Grim
Jan 06, 2025

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/forcing-amazon-to-respect-its-workers?r=2y9nd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

#WorkersRights #Workers #Unions #Labor #LaborMovement #LaborUnions #USA #US #USPolitics #sindicatos
#AmazonLaborUnion #ALU #Teamsters
#news #press

Forcing Amazon to respect its workers

www.dropsitenews.com
#news #unions #us #press #Amazon #usa #labor #union #workers #workersrights #uspolitics #dropsitenews #Teamsters #sindicatos #amazonlaborunion #labormovement #laborunions #alu

Sarah O'Connor (FT) makes a good point about the UK's low rate of sick pay:

'I wonder if this is one explanation for the rise in the number of people who don’t work & claim health-related benefits instead: if you’re struggling with a long-term condition & it’s very financially punishing to hang on to your job because you lose most of your wage every time you’re too ill to go in, that might be a push to leave employment altogether'

Long-term sickness needs better support!

#workers #health
#health #workers

About capitalism

Yogthos

2024-12-31 15:10:53


Oh sure, 20 people holding 10% of a nation’s GDP is completely how a normal, healthy economy functions. Nothing to see here! Totally fine that a handful of individuals control wealth equivalent to the output of millions of workers.

Who needs balance, fairness, or, you know, basic economic sanity when you can have a system that funnels obscene amounts of wealth into the pockets of a few? Absolutely normal, nothing dystopian about this at all!

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/breaking-down-the-wealth-of-americas-top-20-billionaires/

#us #economy #capitalism


#infographics show #Western #american #oligarchy is #money for #Musk #Bezos #Ellison #Zuckerberg #Page #Brin #Ballmer #Huang #Gates #Dell #Walton #Buffet #Bloomberg #Koch etc. #oligarchs and #poverty for #workers
Yogthos

Yogthos (@yogthos@social.marxist.network)

1.52K Posts, 1.34K Following, 4.89K Followers · A sentience trapped in a prison of meat. Made in USSR. Capitalismus delendum est! ☭
Yuggoth
#musk #poverty #workers #money #american #western #infographics #bloomberg #oligarchy #Gates #bezos #oligarchs #koch #zuckerberg #Ellison #Ballmer #Walton #Buffet #Huang #Page #Brin #Dell

When you hear Health & Safety, do you immediately think of risk adverse jobsworths looking to stop perfectly sensible activities?

If so, you've been influenced by a long campaign to denigrate the 1974 Health & Safety at Work Act.

The act & its associated shifts in practices saved workers lives & helped make the workplace safer (but of course more costly to run)... ever since the the rich have been trying to tell us its all unnecessary... well they would!

#workers

https://theconversation.com/my-grandfather-was-mr-health-and-safety-his-lifes-quest-to-make-work-safer-has-been-ridiculed-but-the-rise-of-the-gig-economy-shows-its-no-joke-246188

My grandfather was ‘Mr Health and Safety’. His life’s quest to make work safer has been ridiculed – but the rise of the gig economy shows it’s no joke

The Health and Safety at Work Act passed into UK law 50 years ago. Harold Walker was its driving force, inspired by his own experiences of workplace injury.
The Conversation
#workers

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