Italian police seek governance documents from 13 fashion firms in labour abuse probe

MILAN, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Italian police on Wednesday visited the headquarters of 13 high-end fashion firms, asking…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Dolce&Gabbana #GianniVersace #high-endfashion #Latvia #LV #supply-chaincontrols #workerabuse
https://www.newsbeep.com/288583/

Please, I beg you, if you still shop on Amazon, read this article and then maybe reconsider.
Maybe you thought it couldn't possibly be as bad as everyone has told you.
You're right. It's worse.
#Amazon #enshittification #WageTheft #WorkerAbuse
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/23/traveling-salesman-solution/#pee-bottles
Pluralistic: Checking in on the state of Amazon’s chickenized reverse-centaurs (23 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Coke, Pepsi... outsourced sugar in IN, & claimed: no HR abuses... The cruelty of exploited labor, hysterectomies (to at least 1 in 5 young women), painful... is barbarism. Food producers have long⬆️sugar in their products to hook consumers.

"Many girls give up their futures, & their bodies, to sugar. Official contracts or records tallying how much sugar they cut: ~0. Sugar mills keep all of this: child marriage & labor, wage debt, worker c-."

#WorkerAbuse #CorporateGreed https://fullerproject.org/story/the-brutality-of-sugar-debt-child-marriage-and-hysterectomies/

The Brutality of Sugar: Debt, Child Marriage and Hysterectomies

Women working on India’s sugarcane farms are having expensive and medically unnecessary hysterectomies so they can work uninterrupted - a practice that keeps sugar flowing to Coke, Pepsi and Cadbury, but leaves its victims with long-term health problems and debts they can’t pay.

The Fuller Project

Cruelty in WI:

WI's celebrated dairy IDU would almost certainly collapse w/o the IMGs who do the dirty, dangerous work that farmers say US citizens won’t. But when these workers get hurt (frequently) -considered routine -laws: stacked agst them💔.

Most of WI's dairy farms aren’t req. to have workers’ comp. INSUR (too few employees) & larger farms: supervisors often brush off workers’ injuries. Employers can fire/evict injured workers/threaten deportation-.

#WorkerAbuse https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-dairy-farm-immigrant-workers-injury-safety

No Right to Medical Care, Compensation for Injuries or Time Off: How Immigrant Dairy Workers Go From Vital to Disposable

Immigrant workers are essential to Wisconsin’s dairy industry. But when they get injured, they’re often cast aside.

ProPublica

Concerning:

Amazon warehouse workers are suffering physical injuries & mental stress on the job as a result of the co’s extreme focus on speed and pervasive surveillance. Study includes responses from 1,484 current Amazon: nearly 70% of Amazon employees who participated in the survey said they’ve had to take unpaid time off due to pain or exhaustion sustained on the job in the past month, while 34% have had to do so three or more times.

#CorporateGreed #WorkerAbuse

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/25/study-amazons-focus-on-speed-surveillance-drives-worker-injuries.html

Revealed: Amazon linked to trafficking of workers in Saudi Arabia

Dozens of contract workers at Amazon warehouses say they were tricked into toiling and living in grueling, squalid conditions

The Guardian

Inside Love is Blind’s Brutal Conditions on Set

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaMOpPBNqbs&ab_channel=MorePerfectUnion

With actors and writers on strike, reality TV stars are the next group to challenge Hollywood's status quo. Love is Blind castmembers told us they were psychologically manipulated, funneled alcohol and paid $7.14/hr. They’re suing Netflix and fighting to change the industry.

#netflix #workerabuse #irsfraud #realityshows #cast #suing #thestory

Inside Love is Blind’s Brutal Conditions on Set

YouTube

Hi, here are a couple of articles talking about OpenAI moderation contracts in Africa and Asia:

1. https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/

2. https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-kenyan-contract-workers-label-toxic-content-chatgpt-training-report-2023-1?op=1

Tech is exciting and can probably help us save the world, but only if we manage to save it first from the deformed claws of greedy rich ghouls.

#ai #chatgpt #openai #colonialism #exploitation #workerabuse #africa #contentmoderation #moderation

Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic

OpenAI used outsourced workers in Kenya earning less than $2 per hour to scrub toxicity from ChatGPT. Here's what to know.

Time

@Eris
Is this in the same vein as people we know not liking it when we fight #immigrationSystem abuse, #workerAbuse, #populationGrowth policy, and #airTravel for sustainablity reasons.

On all, they want to to be able to imagine being able to have sex in another state or country every second weekend, with as many people as possible. Thus seeing borders and a lower pool of possible suitors is inconvenient to them.

Maybe they believe noone in the country can find them attractive.

@cy @jeffcliff