The first post in this disgusting “series” is located here It looks like Iowa’s class traitor governor has indeed signed into law a bill that allows children as low as 14 to work 6 hours a day during the school year. You can read more here - bewarned, the site pops regarding adblockers… Let’s do a little math. 6 hours a day for a 14 year old. School “gets out” around 3pm, maybe?
Another Tech Industry Union? It seems that Sega employees have filed for union election, with the NLRB. They will be known as AEGIS-CWA under the CWA umbrella. This is exciting to me, as a 40-something tech worker. All of my life I have grown and evolved in my career in software and have not seen labor evolve in similar fashions. I distinctly remember telling people, “I work in tech, we’re not unionized for some reason.
Here is yet another fantastic episode (#177) by the Citations Needed folks. This time it details some fantastically wonderful anti-union talking points. Stuff we’ve all heard over the years. Stuff I wish I could print on a little card and hand out to those special family members during the holiday dinners… In ep 177, "Popular Anti-Union Talking Points and How to Combat Them," we debunk 8 popular anti-labor talking points, from "unions used to make sense, but don't anymore" to "I'm a hard worker, why should my coworkers freeload off me?
Instead of paying adults more, some states might let companies hire kids as young as 14 to fill the labor shortage Lawmakers in Iowa and Minnesota have introduced legislation in the last month proposing exceptions to child labor regulations in their respective states, due to the persisting labor shortage hitting them particularly hard. Minnesota lost 90,000 workers alone during the pandemic, according to state demographers, making it one of the tightest labor markets in the country.
Jacobin spoke with USC worker-organizers about the recent win and their contract demands. You can find the article outlining the interview here. From the article: The unionization wave in higher ed continues apace, with grad student workers at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles winning a union election in mid-February. Jacobin spoke to USC worker-organizers about their win and their contract demands. WE WON OUR UNION! The votes are in.
Find this article over on Cultural Workerist My good friend Bernardo has written a fantastic piece regarding Hartford Public Library’s interaction with staff, policy, and direction regarding the still ongoing Covid pandemic. This was written in 2022, however I think it’s still a very topical and applicable piece. Please give it a read.
Welcome I recently thought of the way website ideas are communicated around while zoning out and thinking about my recent software engineering projects. Some sites used in the Rust community are things like Are We Web Yet? and others. So, naturally, my nerd brain thought to register this domain - areweunionyet.org. A few short minutes later, along with a static site generator, and a github repo and boom, we have this site.
Template by Bootstrapious. Ported to Hugo by DevCows.
