Tag: unions
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Apple’s Support for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Ignores Dr. King’s Support for Workers
No vigorous and positive worker action at Apple has gone unpunished.
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The End of Apple’s Affiliate Marketing is Destroying TouchArcade
TouchArcade’s Eli Hodapp talking about Apple shutting down the affiliate marketing scheme that has funded sites like his in a post titled “Apple Kills the App Store Affiliate Program, and I Have No Idea What We Are Going to Do.”: Apple announced that they’re killing the affiliate program, citing the improved discovery offered by the…
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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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Elon Musk is Grinding Tesla’s Workers Into Dust
Julia Carrie Wong for The Guardian: When Tesla bought a decommissioned car factory in Fremont, California, Elon Musk transformed the old-fashioned, unionized plant into a much-vaunted “factory of the future”, where giant robots named after X-Men shape and fold sheets of metal inside a gleaming white mecca of advanced manufacturing. The appetite for Musk’s electric…