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New York Post
2 months ago
NYC politics

Don't betray NY workers who braved pandemic

Essential workers faced peril during the COVID pandemic
Mom-and-pop workers in New York need urgent protection from persistent retail theft [ more ]
New York Post
3 months ago
New York City

NYers rip controversial $15 congestion pricing as MTA opens public hearings: 'Don't make a lot of money as it is'

New Yorkers will have the opportunity to voice their opinions on the $15 congestion toll.
Public servants, including first responders, are concerned about the impact of the new fee. [ more ]
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www.standard.co.uk
11 months ago
London

Hundreds of security guards at UCL told to reapply for jobs and face 13,000 pay cut, union says

H undreds of security guards at a London university will have to reapply for their roles in a major shakeup that could see them lose 13,500 per year, a union says.Up to 40 security officers who are contracted by Bidvest Noonan to work at UCL could lose their jobs or be offered work elsewhere in the company under new proposals.
www.npr.org
11 months ago
Health

Spare a thought for Gustavo, the guy delivering your ramen in the wildfire smoke

Gustavo Ajche snapped a selfie on the street while making his rounds on Wednesday.Gustavo Ajche As many New Yorkers isolated inside this week to avoid the smoke that enveloped the city, one man was rushing ramen across town for a customer's dinner.He's one of thousands of workers who just had to suck it up literally.
Exchangewire
1 year ago
Marketing tech

The Current Retail Media Landscape

Touted as digital advertising's "third wave", retail media has emerged as one of the hottest topics in ad tech.Although the Covid-19 pandemic initially forced retailers to shift their focus onto the medium, retail media's exponential growth can be attributed to a couple of key factors.The first is how the medium fits in with evolving privacy regulations: retail media is a goldmine for detailed first-party data, allowing advertisers to sidestep privacy concerns associated with third-party data cookies entirely.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
New York City

900,000 New Yorkers Lost at Least 3 Loved Ones to Covid

Josefa Santana, 96, did not leave her Washington Heights apartment when New York City shut down to slow the spread of the coronavirus in March 2020.But her son, a butcher, had to work.He was the only one to leave the apartment in those weeks, so he probably was the one who brought the virus in.Despite her family's efforts to protect her, Ms. Santana got sick, and then died.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
World politics

Canada's Public Servants End Their Strike Without Remote Work Guarantee

A strike by more than 155,000 federal government workers in Canada came fully to an end on Thursday after a tentative deal was reached with the remaining holdouts tax agency employees.The walkout, which began on April 19, involved workers who mostly deliver services rather than professionals or policymakers and was largely prompted by union members' desire to recoup inflation-driven wage losses and to enshrine in their contracts the right to work from home.
Eater Chicago
1 year ago
Chicago

Lagunitas to Reopen Chicago Brewpub After Three-Year Slumber

Three years after closing its brewpub, Lagunitas Brewing is reopening on April 13 to the general public in North Lawndale, near Douglass Park.The closure was a part of a glut of shutters as restaurants coped with their health, government mitigation measures, and dwindling consumer confidence during a pandemic without a COVID vaccine.
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Mashable India
1 year ago
Remote teams

'Living in La-La Land' Elon Musk's Controversial Work-From-Home Critique Sparks Online Outcry

Elon Musk, the renowned entrepreneur and CEO of companies like Tesla and SpaceX, has recently shared his perspective on remote work, expressing concerns about its productivity and ethical implications.Musk believes that working from home not only hampers productivity but also sends a misleading message to employees who don't have the luxury of remote work, such as essential workers in factories and other industries.
www.cbc.ca
1 year ago
Toronto

Unions aim to identify those who crossed picket line during public service strike | CBC News

Several smaller unions say they're looking to identify anyone who crossed the picket line during last month's federal worker strike with one asking members to provide names.The Union of Veterans' Affairs Employees (UVAE) says those who continued working during the 12-day strike "disrespected" other members of the union, one of 15 that make up the much larger Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC).
Toronto
1 year ago
Toronto

Toronto needs to reinvent downtown core to recover from pandemic, research shows

Toronto is lagging behind similarly sized cities in terms of pandemic recovery and "reinventing" the downtown core could be a key solution, according to data from the University of Toronto's School of Cities.By measuring cellphone activity, researchers ranked Toronto 55th of 63 North American cities recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
New York City

Diana's Necklace, With Its 178 Diamonds, Is Up for Sale

Good morning.We'll look at a necklace that was made for Diana, Princess of Wales, shortly before she died.It will be sold in New York next month.We'll also look at a survey that says one in four New Yorkers lost at least one person they were close to during the early part of the pandemic.Credit...Jacqueline Arzt/Associated Press In London, the preparations for the coronation of King Charles III are all but complete.
Truthout
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

LA School Workers Win Historic Deal After 3-Day Strike

Los Angeles Unified School District teachers join school aids in their fight for better wages at LA State Historic Park in downtown Los Angeles during the SEIU/UTLA strike on Thursday, March 23, 2023.Sarah Reingewirtz / MediaNews Group / Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images Union negotiators for about 30,000 school support staffers in California's Los Angeles County struck a historic deal with the second-largest district in the United States on Friday after a three-day strike.
www.standard.co.uk
1 year ago
London

On The Breadline: Another 1m giveaway in our cost of living appeal

T he total given out in our On The Breadline campaign has hit almost 4 million after more than 1 million was today handed to charities supporting disadvantaged people across London.The focus of this second and final phase of funding has been to help groups disproportionately hit by the cost of living crisis.
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Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
California

Glendale City Council members accused of cutting in line for early COVID-19 vaccinations

Members of the Glendale City Council cut in line for scarce COVID-19 vaccinations when they first became available, and the chief of the city's Emergency Medical Services was demoted when he protested, according to a lawsuit filed by the former chief.Brian Julian, who remains a battalion chief in Glendale's Fire Department, says in the suit that he lost his position as "EMS chief" and suffered a pay cut just eight days after he complained in January 2021 about the alleged cheating.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles

LAUSD bus drivers, food workers, teacher aides give union OK to call strike if talks fail

Members of the union that represents most nonteaching employees in Los Angeles schools - cafeteria workers, custodians and teacher assistants - have overwhelmingly voted to allow their leaders to call a strike if negotiations don't lead to an agreement.The 30,000 workers represented by Local 99 of Service Employees International Union include bus drivers, campus security aides and gardeners - all essential to operations in the nation's second-largest school system.
Streetsblog San Francisco
1 year ago
San Francisco

Oaklanders: Vote Yes on Measure 'U'

Advocates want Oakland to keep fixing its roads, adding bike lanes and other safety features while they do it
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Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
California

An LAUSD strike survival guide: What you need to know

Here is a guide for coping with the three-day Los Angeles Unified School District walkout set to begin Tuesday morning.The basics
The walkout - which will last Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday - would include as many as65,000 workers.Schools would be closed during a strike.That is leaving parents scrambling.
Truthout
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Over 100 Starbucks Stores Go on Strike to Protest Company Union Busting

Workers for more than 100 Starbucks locations nationwide are staging a strike on the company's "Red Cup Day" on Thursday in protest of union-busting tactics that the company has relentlessly unleashed on pro-union workers.The "Red Cup Rebellion," as workers have dubbed it, will see more than 2,000 workers on strike , the union says, with 112 stores on strike in dozens of cities from coast to coast .
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Independent
1 year ago
Medicine

More than 100,000 patients left waiting on trolleys at hospitals

More than 100,000 patients have gone without beds in Irish hospitals so far this year.he Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has called for the Government to bring in measures needed to retain nurses and midwives to help address the crisis.In analysis released on Tuesday, the INMO said more than 1,903 children have been waiting on trolleys.
Truthout
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Biden Endorses California Bill That Would Make Unionizing Easier for Farmworkers

Labor organizers in California and across the country welcomed U.S. President Joe Biden's " unexpected and powerful" endorsementof the state's pending legislation to make it easier for farmworkers to unionize - a bill that's sitting on Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk.
San Jose Spotlight
2 years ago
Media industry

San Jose Spotlight wins 8 state journalism awards - San Jose Spotlight

San José Spotlight has won eight California Journalism Awards in the annual contest sponsored by the California News Publishers Association, including four first place honors.
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Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Albertsons, despite debt, will hand $4 billion to owners before merger

A Safeway grocery in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Oct. 18, 2021.(Ash Ponders/Bloomberg News) The 2,270-store Albertsons grocery company is facing mountains of debt.It owes about $4.9 billion to worker pension funds and another $7.5 billion to creditors.Credit rating agencies say the company has a substantial risk of being unable to repay.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
France news

In France, fuel crisis frays nerves and workers' resilience

Even close to midnight on a school night, the tipoff was too important to ignore: A nearby gas station had just been resupplied.
So Aicha Far scooped up her 6-year-old and set off into the night.
Boston.com
1 year ago
Boston

Mass. trucker strike raises concerns about disrupted food delivery

BOSTON (AP) - More than 300 truck drivers at New England's largest wholesale food distributor have gone on strike, raising concerns about disrupted food deliveries to schools, hospitals and nursing homes.
Yahoo
1 year ago
Public health

Senator cites Elon Musk in urging agency heads to end remote work

During a heated hearing on Thursday, a Republican senator invoked the words of Tesla ( TSLA) CEO Elon Musk when pressuring public health officials to bring more federal workers back to in-person work.
Boston.com
2 years ago
Boston

Here's who will get $500 checks from the state starting next week

The payments are through the state's COVID-19 Essential Employee Premium Pay program.
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