Category: work
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Today in Shitty Capitalism
Albert Burneko talking about the situation with Tronc, Inc, the company that just laid off half of the editorial staff of a paper after paying out an executive a $15 million award for groping women: It’s legal, if you’re rich enough, or carefully enough obscured behind the legal fiction of a hedge fund or corporation,…
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Watch Taranta Cut a New Corner
While looking for video instructions on how to fix particle-board furniture, these videos of taranta06 fixing a broken dresser corner popped up. It isn’t at all what I would have expected and it’s extremely satisfying to see the end result. Part 1: Part 2:
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May 1st is The Real Labor Day
Alex Pareene explains the first of May: International Workers Day is as American a holiday as there is. It commemorates, in part, the Haymarket Riot, a bloody 1886 clash between striking workers and Chicago police that was among the most consequential battles in both American labor history and the international fight for the eight-hour workday.…
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60,000 People Probably Losing Their Jobs as Toys ‘R’ Us Shuts Down
Paul Ziobro and Lillian Rizzo: Toys ‘R’ Us Inc. told employees Wednesday the struggling big-box retailer will sell or close all its U.S. stores, a collapse that threatens up to 33,000 American jobs in the coming months. […] Outside the U.S., the chain has another roughly 800 stores. Altogether, court papers show Toys “R” Us…
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Working Your Way Up Has Been Dead for 35 Years
Neil Irwin’s article headlined “To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider the Janitors at Two Top Companies, Then and Now” talks about the differences in opportunities for two different janitors 35 years apart. You should read it.