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A StatCan report examines gender-diverse workers’ economic outcomes for the first time.
Trans and non-binary people in Canada experience higher rates of poverty compared to their cisgender peers, according to a recent Statistics Canada report. Researchers used 2021 census data to compare the differences in poverty rates and earnings between cisgender and gender-diverse Canadians. The findings suggest a wage gap between non-binary and transgender workers when compared to their cisgender male coworkers.
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Announcing United Wizards of the Coast - CWA
Hello World, we’d like to introduce ourselves. We the workers of the Magic: The Gathering Arena team have come together to unionize as United Wizards of the Coast - CWA!
unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/announcing-united-wizards-coast-cwa
We are game makers, storytellers, artists, and creative technicians, and we are passionate about the work we do.
However, to continue creating games that you, the players, enjoy, the reality is that we must change how we are treated as employees by Hasbro & Wizards of the Coast.
Unionizing, in partnership with Communication Workers of American CWA, is how we ensure better protections, compensation, and a seat at the table for the future of the game we have made successful.
Hit the link for our full statement, other socials, ways to contact UWOTC reps, and more.
Together we will build the games industry we want to see. Support by sharing our posts, celebrating our work, & calling on Hasbro & WOTC to voluntarily recognize our union!
United Wizards of the Coast is the union of workers behind Magic: The Gathering Arena, organizing in partnership with the Communications Wor
One of the core things capitalism is interested in is making any labor performed invisible.
Capitalism does not want you to think about the people who designed your furniture. It does not want you to think about the people who sewed your clothes. It does not want you to think about the people who plant and harvest the food you are eating, or the people who work to keep your infrastructure running. Capitalism has a vested interest in you never thinking about the people taking away your trash, or the people who work in the warehouses from where you order. It has a vested interest even in you ignoring the work of the many invisible hands who might work on your entertainment - the caterers, set builders, gaffers, and so on.
Because as long as you are ignorant of the labor put into the things you consume, you will be fine with those laborers being treated like shit.
That is why you need to keep thinking of that labor. Look at the things in your room and keep the people who worked for it in mind. Look at your clothes, your furniture, your gadgets. Think of the sewers, the warehouse workers, the miners, the technicians. Think of the people capitalism wants you to forget.
I’m so happy for them
[Image Description: Castiel from Supernatural is saying I love you, underneath is an image of Dean Winchester with the caption: “After four months of striking the WGA has a reached a tentative agreement & finalizing the contract. If all goes well writers will get to return to work with better pay and protections. They did it. Go unions”]
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In general I don't like the ageism of the whole "Everyone is 12" take, but the part that particularly bugs me is attributing adults wanting to be farmers on "being 12." Because, you see, farming is one of the most egregious industries for use and abuse of child labor. There are actually a lot of 12 year olds working on farms, and those 12 year olds absolutely know better than to think farm labor is a relaxing, fulfilling, romantic, "simple and close to nature" lifestyle.
Adults don't romanticize farming because they're childish; they romanticize farming because they're privileged enough to never have had to work 16 hours a day outside. Children who don't have that privilege know better.
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This would be such a wonderful sign if it wasn't for the "our staff are not your children". Your children aren't valid targets for your abuse either.
Also, your staff are not your slaves. Do you pay them a living wage?