LOADINGERROR LOADINGFor the fourth year in a row, Amazon workers launched international strikes against the online retailer during Black Friday in hopes of disrupting one of the biggest days for holiday shopping.Protests and strikes kicked off in more than 30 countries as workers demanded changes in wages, taxes, the right to unionize and environmental sustainability, according to the “Make Amazon Pay” campaign organizer UNI Global Union, a worldwide federation of service industry unions.Adv ...read more
LOADINGERROR LOADINGFederal labor prosecutors have accused Medieval Times of retaliating against a worker who raised concerns about working conditions, including “the sexual assault of employees by customers,” according to a new complaint obtained by HuffPost.A regional director for the National Labor Relations Board in Illinois issued the complaint against the dinner theater chain Monday. It alleges that Medieval Times interrogated workers at an Illinois castle about their union activity, i ...read more
LOADINGERROR LOADINGAuto workers have signed off on a trio of new contracts with Ford, General Motors and Jeep parent company Stellantis, bringing closure to a more than six-week strike that rocked U.S. auto makers and showed a renewed militancy within the industry.The United Auto Workers union announced Monday morning that 64% of members overall voted to ratify the new deals covering a total 150,000 workers. Although the Ford and Stellantis contracts were approved by healthy margins, the GM dea ...read more
LOADINGERROR LOADINGElla Clark didn’t have much time to goof around after she graduated from high school in June. The 18-year-old had to prepare for a federal hearing in San Francisco where she would square off with corporate lawyers representing the biggest coffee chain in the world. Clark believed Starbucks had violated her rights as she tried to form a union at her store in Northern California during her junior year. So she testified against the company’s managers in a National Labor Rela ...read more
LOADINGERROR LOADINGIf you feel like you’re expected to tip more often these days but no longer know what the guidelines are, you have plenty of company out there.Most U.S. adults believe the expectation to tip has increased in the last few years, yet they feel a lot of uncertainty about when to leave gratuities and how large they should be, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center.Advertisement
More than 70% of the August survey’s respondents said it feels like more businesse ...read more
EntertainmentBobby Caldwell, R&B Singer Of ‘What You Won’t Do For Love,’ Dead At 71Caldwell’s songs were covered and sampled by Boyz II Men, Michael Bolton, Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., Lil Nas X, Common and Chance the Rapper.By ANDREW DALTON, AP ...read more
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The year is 1994, the country is South Africa, and the scene, which was movingly described by Alon Paton, in his book Cry the Beloved Country was as follows: “ In the hilly South Afr ...read more
