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An all-Republican panel of President Trump’s National Labor Relation Board (NLRB) recently ruled that janitors in San Francisco violated the law when they picketed in front of their workplace to win higher wages, better working conditions and freedom from sexual harassment in their workplace. The ruling could result in far-reaching restrictions on picketing that limit the ability of labor unions to put public pressure on management.
The ruling is an attack on First Amendment rights of workers.
unsurprisingly google has fired a bunch of people today (though not as many as msft from last week) but they tried to get ahead of it and saying in advance that they were going to be laying off some of their contractors and temps. so people were worried the day would come when people get fired. and if y’all know google, they have a lot of contractors. i think i heard at one point there were more contractors than full time employees (which is also sad for the ftes but it’s even worse for contractors that like fucking creepy miles fucking schoolgirls rarely if ever get benefits ). they got people in their glass door prisons waiting to be let in to the fullime clubs . anyway all this to say, y’all know google lends out a lot of their employees to other companies, under the auspices that maybe if you become a good enough worker they’ll promote you to full time. and now i’m imagining at some other company like, oh the tens of thousands of temp workers at google companies like fitbit, nest and pixel squads waiting to hear the news they’e been dreading…
My temp work company which originally operates FOR students, where the STUDENTS can come and say on days xyz I have time off and can work, give me work.
But now for some reason that one job can just force me to work overtime on a weekend (hopefully just that 1 time) a day i did not agree on during the planning phase, even though I am just part time in that job... make it make sense...
They are lucky I actually need that damn money...
Which is also particularly the temp companies / the temp systems fault why I constantly struggle with money and never can keep my savings save. Since the partner jobs can cancle work within 1 day and then you sit there with no income till the temp company found a new job for you.... or the past months where my taxes changed due to the new job but nobody said anything till my health insurance said "wait a moment actually you have to pay back 4 fucking months of health insurance taxes"
I don't want to say they deliberately put you in this doom cycle of needing to take every job but... they don't do anything against it either.... also the way my current manager constantly ignores when i have issues with a job. I literally wanted to quit my previous job after 2 days and asked for something else but in the end i stayed 9 months since nothing happened and I had to focus on other things than constant job hunting...
Oh yea and then the fact that I don't even get paid sick leave or paid holidays in this student worker model..... because your main occupation is being a student in uni and they don't have such things of course. But sudden overtime is ok I guess. If I was still in the first semesters it would literally not have been possible to just do that. Since even the weekends were filled with homeworks, studying or projects.
Ontario to Tighten Rules for Temp Agencies, Firms that Recruit Foreign Workers
"The Ontario government is set to bring in the province's strictest-ever rules for companies that recruit temporary workers, including a system for shutting down temp agencies that exploit staff. ... Senior officials with the Ministry of Labour say the plans include mandatory licensing for temporary help agencies, giving the province the power to stop firms from operating if they violate employment standards. The government will also create a dedicated team of inspectors to root out illegal treatment of workers and recover unpaid wages. The announcement ... will be the first in a series of employment-related measures from the Ford government. Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development Monte McNaughton describes the moves as 'rebalancing the scales' between vulnerable workers and big business."
"More than 2,000 temporary help agencies in Ontario place hundreds of thousands of workers in seasonal and short-term employment each year, in sectors ranging from tourism to office work to agriculture. Some temp firms — including some who recruit temporary foreign workers — have been caught failing to comply with Ontario employment law on paying workers minimum wage, overtime and vacation pay. In a Ministry of Labour enforcement campaign in 2020-21 concentrating on temp agencies supplying workers to retirement homes, farms, food processing plants and warehouses, inspectors found evidence of $3.3 million in unpaid wages."
"The measures to be unveiled by McNaughton on Monday include:
new penalties on temp firms that violate basic safety and employment standards;
new powers to force companies to repay illegal recruitment fees, including a requirement that they post a security bond;
a new vetting process that all temporary help agencies must go through before the province issues a licence to operate."
CBC News, October 18, 2021: "Ontario to tighten rules for temp agencies, firms that recruit foreign workers," by Mike Crawley
Unifor, October 18, 2021: Good start on temporary workers but more needed
Unifor, January 28, 2021: Letter to Temporary Help Agency Consultations re: Improving Compliance with the Employment Standards Act in the Temporary Help Sector, by Naureen Rizvi (4 pages, PDF)
Toronto Star, September 8, 2017: "Undercover in Temp Nation," by Sara Mojtehedzadeh and Brendan Kennedy
Photo Source: Mossholder, T. (2021). Strawberry Picking [Photograph]. Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/Kx060cRsmt0
Amazon fined 62 million for stealing driver’s tips
Amazon has been fined nearly $62 million for stealing tips from its Flex delivery drivers. The settlement will reimburse the drivers whose tips Amazon stole over the course of two and a half years — a total of nearly “one-third of drivers’ tips” that enabled Amazon to "pad its own bottom line,” according to Federal Trade Commissioner Rohit Chopra.
Other companies reliant on gig work have faced similar settlements, with DoorDash shelling out $2.5 million last year for the same shady tactics.
Stealing tips. Firing workers who organize strikes. Refusing to provide paid sick leave or reinstate hazard pay for frontline workers even as nearly 20,000 of them contract COVID.
This is the Amazon way. Jeff Bezos says he’s going to pivot to philanthropy and step aside as CEO this summer. Please. As Executive Chair, he’ll be more powerful than ever — and his company’s anti-worker exploitation will continue. Keep the pressure on, and support the Alabama Amazon warehouse workers’ unionization effort.
Permanently Temporary: The Truth About Temp Labor (Full Length)
Basically, poc of color are back in the sharecropping era still and the prison system is slavery.
Surprise surprise!
The ruling is an attack on First Amendment rights of workers.
