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https://www.geekwire.com/2023/seattle-mayor-praises-amazons-back-to-office-policy-in-state-of-the-city-address/ Mayor Harrell specifically praised Amazon for bringing back workers to revitalize the failing Seattle downtown. Sorry, how is this Amazon’s problem to fix? Why are workers being ripped from their communities to return to office, just to spent money at the Seattle SLU campus Whole Foods? Why is Mayor Harrell relying on shady deals to fund Seattle instead of creating a sustainable long-term plan for the city? Why do the smaller communities outside Seattle who have thrived since covid have to give up THEIR economies for a city who was failing even BEFORE the pandemic? And these questions apply broadly to any other city Amazon is located in. It’s hard for me to believe that Seattle was the only city involved in this decision making. I have reached out to Mayor Harrells office with my concerns and a request for him to revoke his support of Amazons policy which…
“Today, the Board issued a decision in McLaren Macomb, returning to longstanding precedent holding that employers may not offer employees severance agreements that require employees to broadly waive their rights under the National Labor Relations Act. The decision involved severance agreements offered to furloughed employees that prohibited them from making statements that could disparage the employer and from disclosing the terms of the agreement itself. The decision reverses the previous Board’s decisions in Baylor University Medical Center and IGT d/b/a International Game Technology, issued in 2020, which abandoned prior precedent in finding that offering similar severance agreements to employees was not unlawful, by itself. ” https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/board-rules-that-employers-may-not-offer-severance-agreements-requiring (Edit: format)
Title, today my manager met with all of my team saying he is getting pressure to switch our schedules to 10-7 for coverage reasons, and it seems like they want it done quick. Naturally the whole team is real against that idea. Do we have any rights as employees against such a switch? It's a drastic swap, its sudden, and its awful. NYS btw.
So up until we got a new HR head a few weeks ago our sick notes had been accepted, but now we're being told unless we use PTO our time off will be counted against us with or without a note excusing us from the doctor/hospital.
The company that I’ve worked for for 7 years recently changed my shift to overnight where I’d be working entirely on my own through 6 hours of it. They said if I’m to be on my own I’d have to know how supervisors resources work and trained me in how to operate as one. The other 5 hours of my night I’m to work with the same responsibilities as a supervisor. I DO NOT make a supervisors salary. P.S. was also told my performance through 2022 was so exceptional that I’d be taking a company paid trip to Hawaii for four days only to be told the next day that I work too low of a position to qualify and instead get $50 worth of in company points that I’ll be taxed on.
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Comrades I think r/antiwork and r/fuckcars have many similarities. Our capitalist system is broken in many ways, work-dependency is one of the social injustices, car-dependency is another. Car-dependency and work-dependency feed on themselves: we need a car to go to work to pay the car. r/fuckcars has 378k r/antiwork has 2M. Join us as we need numbers. Numbers is power. Let me explain:: In many countries (more in the US) you cannot survive without a car. Cities were designed around cars (mostly US) due to zoning laws which prohibit e.g. small shops near suburban ares. These laws are forcing everyone to become car-dependent (and even more work-dependent) Car-dependency forces us into a financial dependency we would not have to have if the urban planning was made for people first, instead of cars first. Car-centric urban planning is discriminatory too: under-18s have no mobility freedom (parents must chauffeur them around). Many…