#Wages

donoteat

donoteat1

the only management sim with a realistic portrayal of capitalism was the railroad tycoon series; everything else since has been propaganda for businesshttps://twitter.com/spidermantifa/status/1200163823862394885 there were lots of scenarios you could

Peter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇯🇲

PeterJohnGore

I have photos from my grandparents. Downtown Kingston looked like London. Average wages were higher than London. Now, old Kingston looks like Beirut. Trees growing out of buildings with no

Neil Coleman

NeilColemanSA

As we head towards the #budget @TitoMboweni announced the government intends to introduce #ZeroBasedBudgeting (ZBB)- the notion that budgets are justified from scratch- to radically cutback on spending. What does

unseen1

unseen1_unseen

1. I tired to explain this before & I think I did a somewhat decent job but I want to go at it from a different POV. 2. Our economy

CitizensAdvice

CitizensAdvice

Once every 4.6 seconds How often our “#CoronaVirus — if your employer has told you not to work” advice page was viewed yesterdayIt’s now the busiest page on our website,

buat demokrasi

BuatDemokrasi

As labour/May day draws closer, the PAP government reminds us of its contradictory relationship with workers. Just yesterday, the state controlled labour union NTUC also awarded deputy prime minister Heng

Robert H Frank

econnaturalist

Economic Naturalist Question # 11. Why are the least productive workers in a firm typically paid more than the economic value of what they produce, while the most productive workers

four inches is enough

eggrollsusan

ermes says: the police should not have a Union to protect them and their evil actions https://twitter.com/eggrollsusan/status/1266868833630826501 “Unfortunately, union protection plays no small role in keeping cops like Chauvin and

Sherry Frost 🆘 🏳️‍🌈🖤

frostnhstaterep

Thread.I'm having a "discussion" on another forum about the minimum wage with someone who's hauling out all the usual talking points; "we can't raise the minimum because prices would go

Mikki Kendall

Karnythia

Not just American, it was their key to a version of whiteness that was classed as respectable in a way that agricultural work was not.https://twitter.com/hbryant42/status/1298981406123597830 White share cropping has sort

Emma Alberici

albericie

Catching up on last night's @QandA on #Budget2020 with a terrific panel. A threadJane Halton - former head of Dept of Health & Dept of Finance made an important point:

Aspheric News

AsphericNews

JUST IN: Disorder in the Legislative as aides, protest over unpaid salariesA thread https://asphericnews.com/2021/04/13/just-in-disorder-in-the-legislative-as-aides-protest-over-unpaid-salaries/ The aides who marched into the lobby of the

Kim Weeden

WeedenKim

Some thoughts on this @BrankoMilan piece from the perspective of a sociologist whose work is economics adjacent. (I study income inequality & its sources, include rents; gender inequality in wages;

Andrew Ferguson

AndrewRLP

Super League returns to the Stobart deal.Deals like this only serve to mock Rugby League in England. This is an atrocious concept & a direct result of the Stobart deal.Giving

Torsten Bell

TorstenBell

So we set out to answer a rather big question... why does the UK have record employment? A thread... The 3 million strong post-crisis employment boom is something no-one saw

Sabrina Huck

Sabrina_Huck

Infrastructure and lots of people can be a challenge, I see it every morning when I am on the tube and not sure whether I will be squashed to death