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Why isn’t the American poverty line rising with inflation??

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Was fired from the most unprofessional job I’ve ever had for calling off with reasonable time last week

I called off 5 hours in advance on Friday because I’m going through a move, I literally have text messages from my department head saying that’s okay I hope everything goes well with the move. I worked Monday night into Tuesday morning as well as, yesterday night into this morning. They called me five minutes ago and said we are going to terminate you because of it that and because I had called off three weeks ago when I was sick which we had a meeting that they gave me a warning for that I refused to sign but still went in my file. She says turn in your shirts and your badge which I only received one uniform shirt from them and no badge even though I’ve been there going on three months. It took them 5 weeks for me to receive my first paycheck, which I had to…

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Stop Telling People to “Contact your Local Labor Board”

While most people who give this advice may be well meaning, it is meaningless for many people and can even be bad advice at times. Note: this is USA specific. In the US, the only “labor boards” that exist are the National Labor Relations Board and much more rarely, a state Labor Board that handles non-NLRB jurisdictions (like farm labor or public sector work). These boards protect an employees right to engage in concerted activity to better working conditions. For example, the board will act if at least 2 employees complained about working conditions, went on strike, tried to join a union, and the employer retaliated. If you were paid late, less than overtime, or less than minimum wage, contact either the Department of Labor or a state/local wage and hour agency. You should also consult an attorney, who will likely take a case on contingency if it's any good.…

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4.3 million Americans quit their jobs in January

Can't you just feel the excitement? Wow!

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Honest question: When will enough be enough?

I want to know when we finally snap and tell big business “no more”. When do we look at gas prices and food prices and medical prices and then look at how little we make and say it’s too much? I am all for venting and a lot of the memes here are funny but I just don’t see where we go? When we go? How we go? Because I don’t want you to stay this way forever, and I doubt many of you do either.

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Better.com Lays Off 3,000 More Employees After Firing 900 Over Zoom

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This movement needs to be careful not to fall victim to the class ladder

Labour movements frequently fall victim to attacking people just a little higher on the ladder than they are instead of focusing on the ultra wealthy that are actually the problem. Effectively behaving like crabs in a bucket, anyone who manages to somewhat improve their personal situation becomes an enemy. It's the same way of thinking that causes people to attack minimum wage because EMTs only make $14/h instead of seeing the big picture where we have individuals making millions per hour we reframe the problem around our current wages. Falsely painting current wages as a reasonable baseline, instead of the product of decades of suppression and stagnation. I'm raising this because there is a post on this sub from earlier today trying to frame someone pointing out that $100k/year is not the height of opulence as being massively out of touch. The post is currently one of the top posts…

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While I’m waiting to seize the means…

I have a job I enjoy that pays me a living wage, but in my free time I go on job boards and pretend to be an applicant and roast companies in the reviews who have vague postings or appear to have unfair practices. I literally do this everyday, it’s my new hobby.

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Is it possible for at-will employment to be one-sided?

Essentially the question. I gave three weeks of notice to a job, and they're now threatening me with legal action because I didn't give them more notice. I signed an Employee Agreement that stated twice that my employment was at-will and that employer requested more notice. I'm in NYS.

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No contact for over a month, and then the day I withdraw my application, it’s magically the day they were going to onboard me. Yeah right. Good riddance, bullet dodged.