Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧Aug 21, 2024

from #TheNation
As #Democrats Party, Doctors Beg the World to Listen to #Gaza
by #SarahLazare
August 21, 2024

“The reason we cry tears isn’t sadness anymore. It’s the feeling that we have no ability to get the most powerful country in the world to stop the bombs.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/healthcare-workers-gaza-dnc/

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As Democrats Party, Doctors Beg the World to Listen to Gaza

“The reason we cry tears isn’t sadness anymore. It’s the feeling that we have no ability to get the most powerful country in the world to stop the bombs.”

The Nation
Show threadCory DoctorowApr 21, 2023

It's no wonder that these workers - and their newly voted-in union, SEIU 32BJ - have a blunter name for these "agreements": they call them "#BondageFees." In an excellent piece for *#TheAmericanProspect* and *#WorkdayMagazine*, #SarahLazare describes how these bondage fees are driving the immiseration of a group of workers who once earned a living wage for work that made life easier for people like my cousin Max:

https://prospect.org/labor/2023-04-21-bondage-fees-trap-contracted-workers/

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How Secret ‘Bondage Fees’ Trap Contracted Workers in Low-Wage Jobs

Though the Federal Trade Commission is proposing to ban noncompete agreements, other kinds of restrictive covenants perform a very similar function.

The American Prospect