#Labor issues

[reasonsforhope]

Elon Musk has chosen a new CEO of Twitter and plans to step down from the role within about six weeks, the billionaire entrepreneur said on Thursday.

Musk, who runs Tesla and Space X, did not disclose the identity of the incoming chief executive. He said he plans to transition to a role as executive chairman and chief technology officer, in which he'll focus on "overseeing product."

[Note: We have since learned that his replacement will be former NBCUniversal ad exec Linda Yaccarino. Source: CBS News, 5/12/23]

The announcement comes months after Musk pledged in December to step down as the head of Twitter as soon as he found someone "foolish enough to take the job."

Musk's tentative resignation late last year followed a Twitter poll posted by Musk in which 57.5% of respondents called on him to stop leading the company.

After acquiring Twitter in October, Musk made major changes to the company and its platform. In an effort to significantly slash costs, the company has cut roughly 75% of its 7,500-person workforce, raising concerns about Twitter's capacity to maintain its platform.

-via ABC News, 5/11/23

#big tech #elon musk #twitter #space x #labor issues #tech news #media bias #credibility #social media #good news #hope

[kateeorg]

The two most unexpected things for me about Mrs Harris Goes to Paris:

That a film set in the 50s about buying a Christian Dior dress would be so pro-labor.

That Lucius Malfoy would sport an Irish accent.

#mrs harris goes to paris #christian dior #jason isaacs #lucius malfoy #labor issues

[copperbadge]

Hey Copperbadge, I remember you writing about the audubon society. Are you aware of/ keeping up with the current unionisation/ strike issues?

I hadn't been following it closely, but I was aware there were an array of issues that Audubon was dealing with, from the whole discussion about his eugenic views to the labor struggles. (If you guys aren't familiar, their website is uh, not super helpful as a primer but informative overall.)

I'm not all that into birding (I do love birding bags, holy shit their gear is good) but my parents are, so generally any affiliation I have with birding orgs is through them; my mother is a huge fan of Cornell's bird lab and they use Cornell's app, so it was easy to gently guide them towards supporting Cornell instead.

#birding #labor issues

[noodledesk]

I’ve yet to see any TikToks that explicitly connect the dots between “quiet quitting” and what’s long been known within labor activism as “work to rule,” which is when a group of workers collectively decide to really do the bare minimum of their job descriptions. (If you’ve seen them, please post in the comments!) The gears of production — in a factory or a fast food kitchen or an office — never grind to a halt, as they would in a work stoppage. They just become sluggish and intolerable. The goal: communicate just how much employers depend on motivated, engaged workers who feel adequately and fairly compensated for the work that they do. That communication only actually produces change, though, when there are enough people doing it together that it becomes impossible to ignore.

Anne Helen Petersen, A Quick Note on Quiet Quitting

#quiet quitting #capitalism #unions #labor issues #articles #morningread

[meandmybigmouth]

WOW!. HE’S A  TRUMP IN MUSK’S CLOTHING!

#twitter #elon musk #labor issues

[autisticsociologymajor]

Social Theory Week 2: Karl Marx

*my mood board made with not my pictures*

Marx was a wild dude. Do y’all know how many times he was arrested and/or banned/expelled/“asked to leave” from countrie(s)?

At least a good few.

He would be thriving (and also fuming) if he was born in our days.

#marx #marxism #karl marx #mood board #sociology major #sociology #socioblr #study aesthetic #adhd studyblr #studyblr #study motivation #study blog #social theory #social issues #social science #capitalism #anti capitalism #communism #socialism #labor issues

[cistematicchaos]

“Lives rendered invisible

While, as we have seen, transgendered expression has always existed in the Western Hemisphere, the need to "pass" washed up on these shores with the arrival of capitalism. Many women and men have been forced to pass. Some of their voices have been recorded. 

Deborah Sampson passed as a male soldier in the American War of Independence. She once pulled a bullet out of her own thigh to avoid discovery. She later published her memoirs entitled The Female Review and went on a public speaking tour in 1802. 

Jack Bee Garland (Elvira Mugarrieta), born the daughter of San Francisco's first Mexican consul, was detained by police in Stockton, Calif., in 1897, charged with "masquerading in men's clothes." A month later the gregarious and outspoken Garland was made an honorary member of Stockton's Bachelors Club. 

Lucy Ann Lobdell, born in New York State in 1829, was a renowned hunter and trapper. She explained her painful decision to leave her young daughter with her parents and venture out into a "man's world" as Rev. Joseph Lobdell.

"I made up my mind to dress in men's attire to seek labor, as I was used to men's work. And as I might work harder at housework, and get only a dollar a week, and I was capable of doing men's work, and getting men's wages. I feel that I cannot submit to see all the bondage with which woman is oppressed, and listen to the voice of fashion, and repose upon the bosom of death. I am a mother; I love my offspring even better than words can tell. I can not bear to die and leave that little one to struggle in every way to live as I have to do." 

Lobdell died in an asylum.” ---Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Liberation

#leslie feinberg #transgender liberation #trans books #trans history #trans education #queer history #TRANS PRIDE #mysogyny #transphobia #ableism #labor issues #Institutions #trans women #trans men #trans #lgbtq

[partisan-by-default]

Workers at the Berkeley store voted 56 to 38 in favor of joining the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union in a mail-in election this month, according to a vote count held Thursday by the National Labor Relations Board. Employees at REI’s store in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City were the first to unionize earlier this year.

“As we have said throughout this process, REI believes in the right of every employee to vote for or against union representation,” the company said in a statement following the vote count. “We fully supported the vote process in Berkeley and will continue to support our employees going forward.”

The organizing success at REI follows other recent, notable labor victories at Amazon, Starbucks, Apple and Trader Joe’s, all of which have seen their workers unionize for the first time in recent months. Labor officials have reported a surge in election petitions this year as more workers try to come together to bargain collectively.

#unions #labor issues #rei

[killldeer]

UPS WORKERS HAVE REACHED A DEAL THAT MEETS THEIR DEMANDS AND AVERTED A STRIKE!!!

EDIT 7/27/23: please reblog this version of the post instead! it provides a fuller picture of what’s going on and explains why this isn’t over yet.

#i know that this is tumblr and we love our Hot Strike Summer here but THIS IS GOOD!!!! THIS IS FANTASTIC!!!!!! #workers got the terms they were asking for without having to forgo work and pay to do it #and the ppl who would be hardest-hit by supply chain issues (i.e. those who need particular medications supplies etc) will be safer as well! #labor rights #ups #ups strike

[political-decomp]

#politics #economics #labor issues #protest #labor #anti-capitalism #alternative economy #Youtube

[meandmybigmouth]

TOO BIG TO EVICT?  LMAO!

#twitter #elon musk #labor issues

[ljones41]

WDW News Today on Disney Cast Members Labor Negotiations

#wdw news today #youtube #tom corless #disney parks #disney cast members #labor negotiations #disney company #cast member wages #labor issues

[claudia1829things]

Mistreatment of VFX Artists

The YouTube channel, THE YOUNG TURKS (TYT) discuss the problems VFX artists are facing from Disney/Marvel Studios and other studios in Hollywood:

#vfx artists #labor issues #marvel studios #disney studios #hollywood studios #vfx industry #You Tube #youtube #The Young Turks #tyt #vfx visuals

[the-funtime-autocrat]

What has happened in the last half century is not the emergence of a free labor market as a result of the decline of labor unions. While one kind of labor cartel, the trade union, has declined, other labor cartels flourish—the licensing cartels that inflate the pay of doctors, lawyers, and professors, and the pro-employer, price-fixing, salary band cartels formed by oligopolistic firms that share their high profits with the CEOs and their well-paid subordinates. In America today, we have informal labor cartels for fortunate members of the college-educated managerial and professional elite, while labor cartels in the form of trade unions for members of the private sector working class have been all but annihilated...The professionals of the left and the small business owners of the right furthermore agree with each other, and disagree with most Americans of all races, that immigration is too low in the U.S. The overclass left wants an immigration-fed buyer’s market in low-wage, nonunion maids and nannies and gardeners and the overclass right wants an immigration-fed buyer’s market of low-wage, nonunion factory and field workers.

Michael Lind, “Labor’s Lost” (December 14th 2022).

#Labor Unions #Labor Rights #Labor Issues #Unions #Unionization #Workers Rights #Globalization #Global Capitalism #Current State of Affairs