#Workers

Corinne Redfern

CorinneRedfern

THREAD| Rowena is 54 & a domestic worker in Bahrain.In April, her boss said that due to the pandemic, he could no longer pay her monthly salary of £240.Instead, he

BetterThanZero

betterthanzero

***Update: New Covid Rules***Nicola Sturgeon has just announced that from midnight tonight in Scotland there is a legal requirement to stay at home except for essential purposes (caring, essential shopping,

🍒 Andrew Fletcher 🍒

ScotiaIndyref2

The Port of Glasgow, 1866 - 1916..Although the Clyde was a recreational site, it was an important industrial centre, since between 1831 and the late 1850s, thanks to the presence

Daniel Gross

dgorganize

Quick thread on some questions/misconceptions about solidarity unionism! (1) A solidarity union, as the name implies, is a union model of workplace change. Solidarity unionists believe a labor union is

Chris Herd

chris_herd

I’m a huge believer of remote-firstIt surprises people to hear I’m not against flexibility — come to the office when you want, work remotely when you wantI just don’t think

GRB

epigiri

#PublicHealth actions during #COVID19 are compared to war like scenarios. It cannot be disputed that wars are won by soldiers, not mere machines. The welfare of soldiers is of paramount

Ashley

AshBaloghNM

Minimum wage was always supposed to be a living wage. We passed the “Fair Labor Standards” called the Wages and Hours bill to settle the issue. As FDR said after

Selam | ሠላም

Selam_Mussie

This is an interestingly good point. The role domestic workers play for the success of (non-domestic) working moms/single moms is extremely significant as we live in a world where gender

Han 🐋✨

HannahPoll

New research published today by @CitizensAdvice has found that while the number of people in insecure work has grown during the pandemic, they’ve also faced a triple hit of exploitation

Me

semubhatt

For six years, there's no free speech in India. How do I know that? I read that daily in Indian newspapers & in opeds written by Indians in foreign ones,

Jack Murphy 🇺🇸 ⚔️

jackmurphylive

Sex workers. Prostitutes. Escorts. Hookers.These subjects have been in the news a lot lately. We need to talk about it.I'm going to take position here that many of you might

Gemma Paradise

GemmaParadiseXO

I suspect that the mental health problems “stemming from” sex work (according to SWERFs) are largely 1. Conditions sex workers had before doing sex work—Perhaps making other work difficult hence

Alex Smith

alexsmith1062

[1/5]The redundancy notices over which Kinnock cried crocodile tears.They were a tactic to provide wages until 18/12/85.The time bought was to be used to campaign for Thatcher to reverse cuts.

uché blackstock, md

uche_blackstock

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has recommended frontline workers and people over 74 years old should be in the next vaccine priority group. They include correction officers among

Armine Yalnizyan

ArmineYalnizyan

Gig economy weighted against 'employee' relationship https://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace/gig-economy-weighted-against-employee-relationship-20200810-p55kex.html Australian inquiry (in Victoria) on the gig economy finds "P

Institute for Fiscal Studies

TheIFS

This year, public sector earnings are expected to perform more strongly than private sector earnings. A pay freeze, if it applied to around 3.7 million non-NHS workers, would save an

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