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How meat plant workers became the frontline in Covid-19 war
Stray Dogs By Tsai Ming-Liang
Guendelsberger lays out in awful detail how a pathological desire for maximum profit over almost all regard for workers has trapped people like rats in circumstances where companies would rather install painkiller vending machines than alter their meat-grinder operations. Low-wage work in America
Domestic workers in Britain When escaping an abusive employer is a crime Don't blame Britain. Blame those abusive Saudis and Kuwaitis who are "backwards" and don't know anything about "women rights".

Shell and Norse Production

First of all, there's Shell, a company you will be familiar with.   This week they're holding an annual "green-washing" event in London to try and persuade the public it cares about our future. But Shell doesn't really care, and thanks to their unfair employment policies, near 200,000 contract workers at Shell have no future, as they work in temporary, insecure jobs.  Contract workers outnumber permanent workers more than two to one at Shell, and as the company freely admits, do the most dangerous jobs.  We've been asked by IndustriALL global union to pressure Shell to limit precarious work and protect precarious workers' rights; to respect commitments to international standards on the environment, communities and human rights; and to apply the same health and safety standards at operations everywhere, including suppliers.   Please support this important campaign here . Second, we have a somewhat more unusual campaign.  Norway is historically known as o...
South Korea "The Oracle Korea Workers Union was formed in October 2017 in response to unfair and non-transparent salary and compensation systems. The average working hours at Oracle Korea are about 80-100 hours per week, yet most workers have seen no wage increase over the last 10 years." Oracle workers on strike
It is to precisely such contradictions that Collins was drawn. “He was bound to the system in a way that a lot of us are,” he says. “His resistance within the system is very familiar. There is no anterior position now, no position outside the system. You take an easyJet to an environmental conference. We are all compromised by the system and articulate resistance within it. He’s a perfect reflection of our problems today.” Why I took a Soviet statue of Engles across Europe to Manchester
Although I don't like Owen Jones, the plight of the cleaners at one of the most prestigious university in the world is a disgrace. LSE cleaners
Europe Competition to outperform the other is good. To achieve a high enough rate of profit is good. To have weak or obsolete unions is good. To have a reserve army so the workers accept their conditions is good. If regulations undermine profit, they are not good.   Drivers living in trucks for months