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🪧 Labor and Climate Must Unite. That’s Easier Said Than Done.
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Labor and Climate Must Unite. That’s Easier Said Than Done.
The idea that the labor and climate movements must unite for a Green New Deal is more popular than ever. To get it done, we'll need to take the threat of job loss seriously, finding and uplifting commonalities between climate goals and worker self-interest.

https://sanjosespotlight.com/will-san-jose-city-council-lose-its-labor-majority-election-2024/

Will San Jose council lose its labor majority? - San José Spotlight
Progressive and labor friendly politicians have enjoyed a majority on the San Jose City Council for the past two years, but the November elections may flip the balance.

President Biden says ‘union labor and American steel’ will be used to rebuild Baltimore bridge https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/apr/05/biden-israel-weapons-baltimore-visit-updates?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Othe…

Amazon pays $1.9 million to workers in Saudi Arabia harmed by labor abuses - ICIJ
https://www.icij.org/investigations/trafficking-inc/amazon-pays-1-9-million-to-workers-in-saudi-arabia-harmed-by-labor-a…

Amazon pays $1.9 million to workers in Saudi Arabia harmed by labor abuses - ICIJ
Payments come after the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and its media partners exposed exploitation of Asian migrant workers who labored at Amazon’s Saudi operations.

✊🏾 Seven Lessons from Starbucks Workers’ Historic Victory
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Seven Lessons from Starbucks Workers’ Historic Victory
The entire labor movement should wake up and pay attention to the lessons from Starbucks workers’ victory this week.

Interest in policy interventions to protect journalism is exploding, but industry gatherings keep failing to include journalism labor advocates as strikes grow (Matt Pearce)
https://mattdpearce.substack.com/p/journalisms-visionary-leaders-and
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Journalism's visionary leaders and the voices missing from the room
Somebody is missing from the upcoming International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin, Texas.

Traitor Joe’s sure has been doing a lot of recalls lately. Maybe if they valued labor, they wouldn’t have so much contaminated food?
They should spend less money trying to sue the NLRB out of existence and more money making their products safe.
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US #labor #productivity has enjoyed a period of renewed growth over the past year,
interrupting a nearly twenty-year decline:
⭐️the 2.7 percent productivity growth in 2023 outpaces the 1.5 percent annual average since 2004,
🔥and it nearly matches the 2.9 percent pace seen during the country’s last pr…

In Brief: The Recent Rise in US Labor Productivity • The Aspen Institute Economic Strategy Group
BRIEFLY US labor productivity has enjoyed a period of renewed growth over the past year, interrupting a nearly twenty-year decline: the 2.7 percent productivity growth in 2023 outpaces the 1.5 percent annual average since 2004, and it nearly matches the 2.9 percent pace seen during the country’s last productivity surge in the 1990s. While the ...

Interest in policy interventions to protect journalism is exploding, but industry gatherings keep failing to include journalism labor advocates as strikes grow (Matt Pearce)
https://mattdpearce.substack.com/p/journalisms-visionary-leaders-and
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Journalism's visionary leaders and the voices missing from the room
Somebody is missing from the upcoming International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin, Texas.

Senator takes aim at Amazon's labor practices with federal quota bill
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/02/senator-takes-aim-at-amazons-labor-practices-with-federal-quota-bill.html