"American women have never been this resigned to staying single. They are responding to major demographic shifts, including huge and growing gender gaps in economic and educational attainment, political affiliation and beliefs about what a family should look like."
Some men need to feel comfortable contributing more equally with childcare and making less money than their partners?
The termination emails were riddled w/mistakes — w/employees’ names, the month of April & even the institute’s title misspelled in places — a telling sign of the rushed & haphazard nature of the operation….
By Saturday morning, the terminated #USIP headquarters staff were already discussing filing a class-action lawsuit & were debating whether to sign their termination documents.
In the latest action, employees were instructed to sign a 4-pg letter ordering them to return all #USIP property while agreeing to forgo all future claims against the institute. It ordered them not to disclose any terms of the agreement in exchange for 1 month of #HealthInsurance & a monthly stipend paid for an unspecified period. Those who refuse to sign, the letter said, will lose all #benefits as of Monday.
Hiking retirement age could help labour force in Atlantic Canada: report
A labour market review by the Toronto-based C.D. Howe Institute says raising the retirement age to 67 could help address high job vacancies in the Atlantic provinces.
#labor #retirement #economics #demographics #AtlanticCanada #Toronto
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/hiking-retirement-age-could-help-labour-force-in-atlantic-canada-report-1.7496274?cmp=rss
My Grandfather, Harvey, was sent into the mines at age eight. I only knew him as a bedridden invalid, and he died when I was in fourth grade of Black Lung Disease. Child Labor is wrong. #childlabor #florida #politics #labor #humanrights #civilrights #childhoodtrauma
Yet another reason I hate, hate, HATE election campaigns.
Supermarkets have been price gouging for EVER but particularly in the last couple of years.
During that time, #Labor has been in power.
WHY DIDN'T THEY DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT THEN?
“YouGov modelling shows swing back to #Labor with majority government potentially in reach”
Labor 50.2%
LNP 49.8%
Labor could win 69-80 seats, with 76 seats required for a majority.
The local chapter of the Service Employees International Union has put out a call to action to support detained workers like Lewelyn Dixon.
The SEIU Union demands that the University of Washington:
– Protect detained workers’ jobs
– Provide leave for immigration proceedings
– Educate all employees on their rights
Trump’s Rule by Fiat a Bipartisan Legacy
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/28/trumps-rule-by-fiat-a-bipartisan-legacy/
Democratic norms have been eroded for years, writes Vinnie Rotondaro, with the cooperation of the same liberal establishment that now acts scandalized by Trump’s every defiance. By Vinnie Rotondaro Common Dreams U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest defiance of the courts…
#Politics #CivilRights #Commentary #Israel #Labor #TrumpAdministration #U.s.Congress #U.s.JusticeDept. #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #Aumf #DemocraticParty #GuantanamoBayPrison #KillLists #PresidentBarackObama #VinnieRotondaro
Portugal Workers Protest | World https://www.byteseu.com/873799/ #business #JobsAndCareers #labor #LaborUnions #Portugal
Greece among EU countries with the lowest hourly labor costs https://www.byteseu.com/873753/ #economy #Greece #labor
as a kid I read in an indian mag which used to be credible ( or at least not notorious for #fakenews ) when the kid of an Indonesian #labor dies she wails for 20 mins after which she s to get back to work and life seemed a bit better in India , but possibly would be better in US , and my own concerns were very little ,
it seemed that life could be different at different places
as of now - I am not so sure
-- random
Former #Labor Secretary Robert Reich has posted that it's time to speak out. We have spoken. It's time to act.
Statement from UAW President Shawn Fain on Attacks on Federal Workers:
"Yesterday, Pres. Trump signed an order that tramples on the union rights of more than a million federal workers, stripping them of their ability to negotiate over their working conditions."
Shawn Fain was America's most pro-Trump union leader of any major union. #politics #labor
"Trump signs order ending union bargaining rights for wide swaths of federal employees":
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/28/nx-s1-5343474/trump-collective-bargaining-unions-federal-employees
Union members who voted for Trump made this possible. #politics #labor
If that’s his humour, trust me, I shall spare
No kind of pains to win admittance there:
I’ll bribe his porter; if denied to-day,
I’ll not desist, but try some other way:
I’ll watch occasions — linger in his suite,
Waylay, salute, huzzah him through the street.
Nothing of consequence beneath the sun
Without great labour ever yet was done.
[Haud mihi dero:
muneribus servos corrumpam; non, hodie si
exclusus fuero, desistam; tempora quaeram,
occurram in triviis, deducam. Nil sine magno
vita labore dedit mortalibus.]
Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 9, “Ibam forte Via Sacra,” l. 56ff (1.9.56-60) (35 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/horace/11511/
Even though the number was small, it's still too many people losing jobs!
Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics announces layoffs
https://www.eurogamer.net/tomb-raider-developer-crystal-dynamics-announces-layoffs
WGA East Slams Trump Executive Order To End Collective Bargaining For Many Federal Workers: “Assault On The Entire Labor Movement”
#News #Politics #DonaldTrump #Labor #WGAEast
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