More Perfect Union went to a trump rally. Their criticisms sound very close to that of socialists - Lemmy.world

More Perfect Union went to a trump rally. Their criticisms sound very close to that of socialists - Lemmy.world

DAMON CENTOLA: Creating Change: How To Make Big Things Happen - Stretch Conference 2021 - Lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2607190 [https://lemmy.world/post/2607190] > This isn’t directly advertised as left-wing content but has a focus on social change and philosophically has implications related to anarchism.

Strikes spiked in July, as workers seek higher wages to keep up with inflation - Lemmy.world

DAMON CENTOLA: Creating Change: How To Make Big Things Happen - Stretch Conference 2021 - Lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2607190 [https://lemmy.world/post/2607190] > This isn’t directly advertised as left-wing content but has a focus on social change and philosophically has implications related to anarchism.

Metro workers vow to stay off job 'as long as it takes' as strike enters 3rd day - Lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/2356612 [https://lemmy.ca/post/2356612] > Front-line grocery store workers at Metro, who are into their third day of a work stoppage, vowed on Monday to stay off the job until they get a fair deal from the company. > > More than 3,000 store workers at 27 Metro locations in the Greater Toronto Area began strike action on Saturday after rejecting a tentative collective agreement reached last week between the company and their union — Unifor. > > “We want the company to come back and give us a fair deal,” Tammy Laporte told CBC News outside Metro Danforth. > > “We’re on strike because we want fairness from our company. We want Metro to pay their workers what they’re worth and we’ll stand out here as long as it takes.” > > Unifor Local 414 represents some 3,700 grocery store workers across the GTA. > > Unifor said stores affected by the strike include those in Toronto, Brantford, Orangeville, Milton, Oakville, Brampton, North York, Islington, Willowdale, Mississauga, Etobicoke, Newmarket and Scarborough. > > Laporte, a produce and fruit clerk, who has worked with Metro for 25 years, said “wages is the top issue” for the workers. > > “We want more money. They make great profits and we want to share in the benefits,” she said. > > Another worker with the company for 25 years, Mike Labatt, said workers are “fighting for what they believe in and what they need to get by.” > > He said some workers are forced to go to food banks because they cannot afford to buy groceries. > > “We’re not being able to buy the food we want from the grocery stores we work in, right? So why not give us what we need so we can survive paying rent, paying our bills, groceries,” Labatt said. > > Metro says it remains committed to bargaining process > In a statement on Monday, Metro Inc. said it remains committed to the bargaining process. > > Marie-Claude Bacon, Metro’s vice president of public affairs and communications, said the company “worked constructively with the union and the employees’ bargaining committee” and reached a mutually satisfactory agreement that they unanimously recommended to employees. > > “It provided significant increases for our employees over the four years of the collective agreement in addition to improved pension and benefits, building on working conditions that are already among the highest in the industry which were negotiated with this union,” Bacon wrote in the statement. > > According to Bacon, the proposed wage increases are above the inflation rate for 2023 and future increases are above the projected inflation rate. > > “Every part-time employee who wants a full-time position has opportunities. For example, in the last two years alone, we’ve opened up a number of full-time positions and we haven’t been able to fill them all from our part-time ranks. Even today, we have full-time positions posted that part-time employees can apply for,” Bacon said. > > On Saturday the company said it was “extremely disappointed” the employees rejected the agreement even though the union bargaining committee unanimously recommended it to its members. > > Metro Ontario said the 27 stores will be closed for the duration of the strike, but pharmacies will remain open.

Nefarious Data Collection Masking as Public Art? Worldcoin, an A.I. company, has placed mirrored spheres around the world in a massive Eye-Scanning Project | Artnet News - Lemmy.world

A.I. company Worldcoin has rolled out 1,500 Orbs to more than 35 cities in a bid to create digital identities for the world’s citizens.

Why don't more poor people join mutual aid groups instead of using charities? - Lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2258784 [https://lemmy.world/post/2258784] > I’ve been looking through some US and EU labor data and I have started to wonder why don’t more of the working poor join local mutual aid groups instead of staying at their likely shitty jobs or relying on charities? > > This is a study on the labour distribution in the US among the working poor [https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/working-poor/2020/home.htm] > > On table 4 it shows that there are about 5,812,000 people that are classified as working poor ( Its says number in thousands so I multiplied the number given by 1000) and that alot of those jobs are in essential services like making food or providing support to others. > > Similar diversity is show in the EU as well [https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/tools/skills-intelligence/unemployment-occupation?year=2021&country=EU#1] > > So if most of these people decided to stop working at their current job and instead bring that those skills to a mutual aid network wouldn’t they still get most of the resources they need because other specialists would be there to help them and also live a generally more happy life [https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/asap.12275]? > > Also the reason why I am saying instead of charities is because charities become less effective the more people request from them because they have limited resources to share and also mainly supported by wealthy people that can unilaterally give and take away support. > > Whilst mutual aid networks can take the diversity that more people joining the network gives them and use it to offer more services to other people in that community. > > This seems like a no brainer so what am I missing?