Gladwyn d’Souza#SettlerColonialSCOTUSIsAntiLaborAndCorrupt: Three South African farm workers have filed a lawsuit against a western Minnesota manure management company Friday, alleging wage theft, substandard living conditions, violations of visa rules and retaliation.
Boehnke Waste Handling of Marietta is a company that pumps, transports and spreads manure from livestock operations to crop fields, where it is used as fertilizer. Since 2021, the company has employed more than a dozen foreign workers through the federal H-2A visa program — a temporary visa for agricultural work that requires employers to offer habitable housing, safe working conditions, travel reimbursement and minimum wage.
#LaborsBeenADisposableComoditySince1619
https://kfgo.com/2024/03/15/workers-sue-management-company-over-wage-theft-poor-living-conditions/
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: But, as ProPublica has previously reported, railroad companies go to extreme lengths to portray themselves as safer than they really are — retaliating against workers who report defects and silencing those who get injured.
This tranche of missing injuries and deaths, however, exposes the clearest failure by regulators to hold companies accountable.
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https://www.propublica.org/article/railroad-safety-data-missing-dead-workers-severed-limbs
With each experiment's results, the case for UBI becomes stronger, and it's clear that some very wealthy people don't like those results.
In March of 2021 and again in late 2022, Texas became the first state to attempt to stop more results.
#LaborsBeenADisposableComoditySince1619 #StateSanctionedViolence
#TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence
The Billionaire-Fueled Lobbying Group Behind the State Bills to Ban Basic Income Experiments
The Foundation for Government Accountability - a Florida-based lobbying group backed by the richest 1% - is working to get basic income experiments banned by state legislators across the U.S. (This article is also available as a YouTube video and as a podcast episode) As a well-known quote often
https://www.propublica.org/article/thousands-of-new-york-workers-have-been-victims-of-wage-theft
More than 60% of restaurant workers living in New York City are immigrants, according to a 2020 study by the New York state comptroller’s office. Of the 317,800 workers in the industry, 44% were Hispanic and 20% were Asian, the study found.
At Brioso, Ortiz found that the workers’ immigration status left them exposed. When one employee complained about stolen tips, for instance, DiMaggio responded by threatening to report the employee to the immigration authorities, slamming tables and then firing him.
#AsymetricBorderRuleLeadsToAutocrats
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#StopInstallingKleptocratsForResourcesPredation
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/08/bidens-climate-bill-ignores-workers/
#fossilfuel production and #GreenConsumption is only possible with #DisposablePeoples and #DegradedSpaces because of a #GenocidalApproachToNativeLandscapes: “So far it’s been disappointing. If the #IRA continues to bring sweatshops and a continued race to the bottom it will be a tragedy,” Fain said.
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#MainstreanMediaEchoesMAGAsRacistAntiImmigrantAntiTransTalkingPoints
