The cases before #SCOTUS involve Gwynne Wilcox of the National #Labor Relation Board #NLRB, which oversees laws protecting #workers’ rights, & Cathy A. Harris of the Merit Systems Protection Board #MSPB, which protects federal govt workers from #partisan practices — as well as a 90-year-old court #precedent the #Trump admin is seeking to overturn.
Too many #liberal-brained types think that the problem is that we spend too much on the #military. It's the fact that a #capitalist military should not exist. If it's an armed party of #workers you want it to be a large military.
Something that was on my mind recently, and I've voiced it as a response to @sue, isn't it odd that LinkedIn, a website for workers, doesn't include 
as one of the emoji reactions?
Hm.
"Where the millions of #American #workers will come from to screw together iPhones or make car parts is also a mystery, especially given the president’s opposition to large-scale #immigration. Factories in the U.S. are already struggling to find workers; the manufacturing sector has hundreds of thousands of vacant openings."
As Sarah O'Connor (FT) observes, there are move across the USA to remove (or reduce) safeguards on child labour, including limitations on school children's working hours (and shifts) during term time.
As she notes, nighttime shift work for under-18s (school children) was banned in the UK in the early C19th, but now C21st US workplaces look like they will be re-introducing such work schedules for working school children.
The world of Victorian capitalism looks to be returning!
#DemocracyNow: “What About the Capitalists?”: Autoworkers in U.S., Mexico Call for Solidarity, Not Divisive Tariffs
Story April 08, 2025
"As workers brace for uncertainty and fallout from #Trump’s #tariffs, we hear from two #autoworkers, one in #Mexico and one in the United States. Israel Cervantes, founder of the National Independent Union for Workers in the Automotive Industry in Mexico, calls for unions across #NorthAmerica to unite against the tariffs, which have already led to layoffs from auto manufacturers. In the U.S., autoworker and UAW member Sean Crawford joins Democracy Now! on his work break to respond to the rhetoric and impact of the tariffs. 'They are always harping on foreigners, foreigners, foreigners. But what about the #capitalists? says Crawford, who urges international solidarity against #corporations’ attempts to sow division among #exploited #workers. “This nationalistic viewpoint has not been working for us and has resulted in a lot of these layoffs,' he says. 'I want to see us grow together as a #WorkingClass.'"
Listen / watch / read transcript:
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/8/uaw_tariffs_autoworkers_union#transcript
#ViewerSupportedNews #TrumpTariffs #Workers
#JaguarLandRover, based in Britain, said it would temporarily stop exporting its luxury cars to the US. #Stellantis idled factories in #Canada & #Mexico that make Chrysler & Jeep vehicles & laid off 900 US #workers who supplied those factories w/engines & other parts.
#Audi, the luxury division of #Volkswagen, also paused exports of cars to the #US from #Europe, telling dealers to sell whatever they still had on their lots.
Exclusive: Musk's DOGE using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say
North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500
https://www.yahoo.com/news/thousands-north-korean-workers-infiltrated-110000417.html
#ycombinator #Fortune_500_companies #North_Korean #Harrison_Leggio #U_S_Treasury #workers #State_Department
This is not #climaterealism. It is #climatedelusion.
The new “ #centrist consensus” on #climate is emerging & its highly nationalistic, flirting with more #military involvement, & expecting at least 3°C of warming, thereby justifying #geoengineering.
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/07/climate-change-realism-security
Send a message to your representatives #Congress and urge them to #protect #workers and #families by rejecting proposed cuts that will directly harm millions of constituents. https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u001.qUXRBnqZ7T8nxbpAcIVwoQa8389jILGYDiA5K3j2nAi0dVhFdjwkzX-hZp3B_C5iKWH9fEMaGJJ18LvuB1zSquDyBHPaYhEvJjb6jO-M8LBtPWdSpsBDW2EQ-_jt9VZR6rv8lTf5TeuRuAPZMIulWFss4EywHT-u56pJBLn10eq-SRPXKCA_tStHY6DhTbZ-jL_pGgQnaJxIZU0YyBEI1O_WMyAOQjVIP1O2DvzUgMpwhwUnCryuU4N76iVcyws3W_Cfx0MAbufIJfWOnHYwK5pKjecnbA_T9lQQ45SllCjVS-u6buia3og3kyFFLepL/4e6/nUYLmK9ZSwqtAz7QGfR1xQ/h1/h001.POgFLjqIpYQo2TDlaoct87pHLzl2XE0IVCnE6mMEdd4 reject these cruel cuts.
People's Union USA, with founder John Schwarz, is initiating a nationwide boycott against Walmart that starts today.
"Schwarz has cited federal income tax opposition, equality issues, high prices, and a bid to help smaller local businesses as factors behind the blackout."
Are you going to participate? #union #boycott #protest #workers #socialism #capitalism #communism https://www.newsweek.com/walmart-boycott-customer-protest-2056133#:~:text=What%20To%20Know,as%20factors%20behind%20the%20blackout.
It's not a coincidence that every concession #workers gained in the 20th-century has been taken away by the #capitalists since the end of the #ColdWar. Why? Because they no longer fear #revolution. As long as that fear of revolution was there, they were forced to make concessions.
“Even the Nazis Didn’t Murder Red Cross Workers & Bomb Hospitals, Schools & Ambulances - Israel’s Execution of 15 Red Crescent & Aid Workers Marks a New Low”
The latest *essentisl reading* blogpost by veteran UK Anti-Zionist campaigner, Tony #Greenstein
“On 24 April 1945 when Berlin was Liberated the Jewish Hospital Was Functioning, its 800 Jewish Patients Still Alive”
https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2025/04/even-nazis-didnt-murder-red-cross.html?m=1
Anime’s Global Boom Runs on Poverty Wages
https://www.tokyoweekender.com/japan-life/news-and-opinion/animes-global-boom-runs-on-poverty-wages/
French lunch money row: Should restaurant coupons become supermarket ones? https://www.diningandcooking.com/2001150/french-lunch-money-row-should-restaurant-coupons-become-supermarket-ones/ #coupon #francais #france #French #FrenchLunch #lunch #meal #restaurant #workers
If the Labour Govt. was serious about helping disabled people get work (rather than a bad faith rationalisation for disabled benefits cuts), what they should be doing is helping ensure that hybrid working (and extensive working from home) is protected & indeed, promoted (and not just for the disabled).
The Work Foundation has found hybrid working plays a major role in allowing people with a range of health conditions to manage them.
#HybridWorking #workers #disability
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/work-foundation/publications/beyond-the-office
@gerrymcgovern And they exploit everything and everone in their #greed https://theconversation.com/africas-data-workers-are-being-exploited-by-foreign-tech-firms-4-ways-to-protect-them-252957 via @TheConversationUS
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