I think we need to start talking about housing in the USA. The situation has devolved from difficult to a humanitarian crisis. On one hand we have 400sq-ft studios requiring $30/hr to qualify and on the other we have reports all over the place of people getting hit with hundreds of dollars of rent increases. Buying property has become completely inaccessible to the working class. And forget going out into the sticks, remote workers have snatched up everything. How many people are stuck in abusive households because they can't leave? How many people are stuck trying to raise a kid in a 1 bedroom apartment because they cant afford or can't find an available 2 bedroom. How many people are stuck in their state or city because there is nothing remotely affordable anywhere else? The mobility of the working class has been virtually eliminated. The ability of the working class…
In the middle of January, my father (who I lived with) died. My boss and their boss both gave me verbal confirmation I can get bereavement so I can take a couple of days. After hearing this, I EMAILED the boss as requested to confirm the days. She agreed! Then a couple hours later, she emailed saying she said yes thinking I didn’t have sick days left so I MUST use those instead. However if I need future assistance she will “help me.” After hearing this as well, I started looking for a position who would treat me like a pawn and I accepted a job today! I told them about this and they made sure to make me feel included and shared their support!
As the title suggests, I handed in my two weeks when we were creeping up to my 4th year anniversary of work. I had every intention to complete my tasks and even train someone if they hired someone intime before my departure. I already transferred all my files off my device and into the work server. (Yeah, I had to provide my own device) I left because I haven’t seen a single raise, let alone a bonus since I started and the workload grew exponentially with the company but the working conditions somehow worsened. I have a desk job but boss insists the office be beautiful so all my coworkers and I are having ergonomic related issues with our bodies as we sit in their antique woven chairs for 8+ hours a day. They’ve always expressed that they’d never let me go and that I was a huge part of…
Upstate NY's IWW (covering most of NY and VT, and some of bordering areas) exists to end the wage system so that people can have their needs met. We aren't trying to sell you reform We help you get organized for in roughly this order Immediate relief Improved conditions Increased autonomy Complete control An end to the wage system Ol number five is still aspirational but one through three are pretty well established and four has been achieved. We offer the tools and mutual protection needed to end work as we experience it. Feel free to contact us with questions or if interested in organizing. We have a workplace training coming soon, a tenant training coming a bit later, and we use the workplace training as a model for organizing the unemployed with some personalized tweaks. https://upstatenyiww.wordpress.com/contact/
I work at a small smoke shop chain. I'd been there since August and honestly had been putting in my all, picking up extra hours, helping out at other stores and just genuinely being a really good employee because I seriously needed the bread. In October I got word that we'd be moving locations at the end of February due to someone else taking over the lease of the strip mall the smoke shop is located at. Come February, we still have no inventory packed up and no definite location. My other coworkers and even manager speculate that the shop will probably just close and we'll all get laid off. This seems evident by the fact that we are extremely short-staffed yet we've had no new hires this entire month, nor January despite the amount of applications that have been coming in. I tried asking the ROM if we were…