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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boeing union workers Win tentative contract with 35 percent wage increase.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Congratz to them!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon cloud boss says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Happy to show myself the door!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home Depot Orders Corporate Staff to Take 8-Hour Retail Shifts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You make a good point here. This is a good thing - corporate will see things that are obvious from the job itself (e.g. needing to provide backbraces or such) but it's not a replacement for a union or anything like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home Depot Orders Corporate Staff to Take 8-Hour Retail Shifts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That's good but I'd prefer it to be longer, like one week as per the top comment. More time to pick up on the flow of a given store, sometimes you don't get all the unwritten rules all at once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Howard Schultz violated labor law by telling employee ‘if you’re not happy at Starbucks, you can go work for another company’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So happy that the court sided with the side of obviousness here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨33,000 Boeing workers lose health care coverage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly this.

  Though I wonder what will happen now that Boeing has done this evil deed. Can the union itself step in and continue health coverage until the strike is resolved? Or are the strikers just screwed if they get sick?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American Airlines Flight Attendants Just Won Boarding Pay⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that's disappointing. Totally do not understand this culture of doing work and not getting paid for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American Airlines Flight Attendants Just Won Boarding Pay⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed!

  Flight attendants typically are not paid until the aircraft doors close. All that greeting, seating, sorting out problems, and assistance with bags is off the clock.

  This makes no sense. This is a major part of their job. Imagine what would happen if they stopped doing this function altogether - boarding would become unbearable.

  Next I'll find out that the pay stops as soon as the doors open and they're not getting paid to help people off the plane or greet them. (Seriously, I hope I don't find this out because it's not true.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coliseum concession workers say they won't get severance, health insurance after last A's game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like the company is also going out of business... typically we can't expect a bankrupt company to provide these benefits. This is why there needs to be a gov't payer of last resort here for these sort of things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The manager used his own resume. They were looking for candidates with Angular experience. Ergo this is a manager with tech skills.

  I shudder to think what would happen with a non-tech manager - likely they'd give up and close the position after not finding anyone, without ever questioning the process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Raise Wages? No Need — McDonald’s Is Hiring Inmates Instead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is really bad. I'm sure they make sure that the inmates are not dangerous and have a good history of following the rules etc before putting them here.

  The reason why inmates don't have to make minimum wage and can't refuse to work is that the work they do in prison is supposed to be part of the justice, after being decided on with due process.

  The work they should be assigned is meant to help reform them and get them ready to reintegrate back into society.

  But - what due process was used to assign them the torturous work that's a modern USA fast food restaurant? There's literally no benefit at all to the inmate in this situation. How does it make sense to abuse criminal justice loopholes to enrichen some of the world's largest megacorps?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These Alabama Workers Were Swamped by Medical Debt. Then Their Employer Stepped In.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had similar thoughts. The employer is offering a health clinic and a pharmacy, and now a summer camp for the kids.

  What next, a grocery store? I might be excessively pessimistic, but I worry this may eventually turn into one of those mining company towns. The company owner is benevolent so the employees are happy for now, but it doesn't seem like the employees have any real power or say here...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor board confirms Amazon drivers are employees, in finding hailed by union⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So it's not uncommon for customer facing subcontractors to be given the gear of and wear the uniform of the lead company. In addition this makes even more sense for temps - who originally were suppose to just be the dudes and dudettes who filled in when someone got sick or had jury duty. And of course in these cases the person is typically still an employee - just of the temp/subcontracting company.

  But what happens is that these drivers are clearly not temps (they stick around Amazon too long) and for a true subcontractor, the managers of that subcontractor would have a lot more say over the conditions of work for their employees (i.e. being able to mandate vacation/time-off for individual employees, exceptions to some of the stricter rules (like no car singing???)) as well as working for multiple companies, instead of just Amazon alone.

  In this case Amazon was indeed a joint employer - they had too much control over the employee. If the union tried to negotiate with the subcontractor on behalf of the employee, they'd get told "we can't do that because of Amazon" but then Amazon would refuse to come to the table. So either the union had to give up, or even if the subcontractor diligently came to a reasonable agreement with the union - Amazon would abruptly cancel the contract and force the subcontractor into receivership or something. Then Amazon could wash its hands clean of the matter and start fresh by looking for a new subcontractor.

  Perhaps an employee might still have some rights here - like filing against Amazon for being a party to a breach of contract or something - but I could easily imagine this getting signed away into binding arbitration and the employee promptly losing.

  Fortunately, this ruling under the new joint employer rule puts an end to that kind of nonsense. Now Amazon HAS to participate or be punished like any ordinary employer - it can no longer hide behind some fly-by-night delivery service partner company.

  The nice thing about the NLRB is that, like the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, they have the ability to sue directly as a party (rather than having the employee being the plantiff) which bypasses any arbitration agreements (since the NLRB obviously never signed one). (Source: https://www.wardandsmith.com/articles/the-nlrb-on-what-employers-get-wrong )