eicker.news ᳇ tech newsJul 30, 2025
#CEOs and #media coverage are hyping #AI to create #fear and #stress among #workers, preparing them to accept less from employers. This fear of #jobloss is #counterproductive to improved #performance and can lead to workers accepting #paycuts, #relocations, #demotions, and returning to the #office. https://nobody-wants-this.ghost.io/ai-is-already-disempowering-workers-through-hype/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
AI is Already Disempowering Workers Through Hype

Workers and students are being prepped for less power in the workplace

Nobody Wants This
LilMikeSFFeb 21, 2025

#PayCuts for #Poors as #SiliconValley #MoneyFlowsUp

After cutting thousands of jobs, #Zuggerfugger board approves raising exec bonuses to 200% of #Meta base salary, (up from 75%), while regular #Facebook staff annual stock options are cut.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/20/meta-approves-plan-for-bigger-executives-bonuses-following-5percent-layoffs.html deets link via Jonathan Vanian at #CNBC

Meta approves plan for bigger executive bonuses following 5% layoffs

Meta's executive officers could earn a bonus of 200% of their base salary under the company's new executive bonus plan, up from the 75% they earned previously.

CNBC
Jude JacksonJun 12, 2024

#UAW announces contract at Lordstown #UltiumCells setting substandard pay standard for battery plant workers - World Socialist Web Site

#PayCuts #Strike

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/06/12/wguu-j12.html

UAW announces contract at Lordstown Ultium Cells setting substandard pay standard for battery plant workers

While the tentative contract is being hailed by the UAW and management it in fact is an abject betrayal.

World Socialist Web Site
Mast0b1tJan 25, 2024

#unions #videogames #layoffs #firings #greed #Microsoft #Activision #Blizzard

#SatoruIwata #Nintendo #PayCuts

https://youtu.be/uvCTR3gyrWc?si=wtMoK93egDgbNxq0

Microsoft Cuts 1900 Video Game Employees. Union Workers Unscathed

YouTube
AutisticMumTo3Jan 25, 2024

Doctors warn over ‘dire’ staffing at weekends and nights as overtime pay is cut | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/overtime-doctors-nhs-staff-weekend-pay-b2480859.html

#StaffingShortage
#NHS
#Hospitals
#PayCuts
#Pay
#Overtime

Doctors warn over ‘dire’ staffing at weekends and nights as overtime pay is cut

Exclusive: Two hundred doctors have written to executives at Barts Health warning patients are at risk after overtime rates were cut

The Independent
SubtleBlade ⚔️Jan 4, 2024

#Investment, not #austerity and #PayCuts – that’s the only way out of the mess #Britain is in

The #crisis in our is the result of bad choices. We need a new mindset that will acknowledge the need for radical #GovernmentIntervention
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/04/investment-laissez-faire-redistribution-austerity-pay-cuts-britain-intervention

Investment, not austerity and pay cuts – that’s the only way out of the mess Britain is in

The crisis in our governance is the result of bad choices. We need to acknowledge the need for radical government intervention, says Unite general secretary Sharon Graham

The Guardian
Poetry NewsSep 9, 2023

Paycuts
At Walmart
Fallout of cooling
Jobs less valued, pay reduced
Depressing

#walmart #paycuts #labormarket #cinquain #poetry

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/08/business/walmart-pay-workers/index.html

Steve Dustcircle 🌹Aug 22, 2023
Make #CEOs Take #PayCuts;
If firms are feeling the pinch of #economic pressure, then #executives should share in their #employees’ sacrifices.
https://newrepublic.com/article/175058/ceo-pay-cut-economy-workers
Make CEOs Take Pay Cuts

If firms are feeling the pinch of economic pressure, then executives should share in their employees’ sacrifices.

The New Republic
General Strike NowMay 6, 2023
“But while workers are calling for the fall of the government and a general strike, the unions are calling for negotiations and constantly assert ...
Germany: Postal and Public Service Action Committees adopt resolution in support of the struggles in France
Germany: Postal and Public Service Action Committees adopt resolution in support of the struggles in France

The first joint meeting of the Postal and Public Service Action Committees followed the million-strong protests in France the day before.

World Socialist Web Site
Jules 🍺Dec 4, 2022
Peter's hit the nail on the head.
Watch "The Government now says workers should accept real terms pay cuts to send a message to Putin!" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/Ody-XFPy5c4
#PayCuts #nhs
The Government now says workers should accept real terms pay cuts to send a message to Putin!

YouTube