Did you see yesterday's #GreenSocialist podcast with special guest Tanya Vyhovsky, a #Ukrainian #American member of the #Vermont State #Senate, the Vermont #ProgressiveParty, & #DSA who just returned from speaking at the #European #Ukraine #solidarity conference in #Brussels.
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PSL organizers went to the @UAW rally in Detroit and asked workers what they’re striking for.
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The cases before #SCOTUS involve Gwynne Wilcox of the National #Labor Relation Board #NLRB, which oversees laws protecting #workers’ rights, & Cathy A. Harris of the Merit Systems Protection Board #MSPB, which protects federal govt workers from #partisan practices — as well as a 90-year-old court #precedent the #Trump admin is seeking to overturn.
Something that was on my mind recently, and I've voiced it as a response to @sue, isn't it odd that LinkedIn, a website for workers, doesn't include 
as one of the emoji reactions?
Hm.
As Sarah O'Connor (FT) observes, there are move across the USA to remove (or reduce) safeguards on child labour, including limitations on school children's working hours (and shifts) during term time.
As she notes, nighttime shift work for under-18s (school children) was banned in the UK in the early C19th, but now C21st US workplaces look like they will be re-introducing such work schedules for working school children.
The world of Victorian capitalism looks to be returning!
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#JaguarLandRover, based in Britain, said it would temporarily stop exporting its luxury cars to the US. #Stellantis idled factories in #Canada & #Mexico that make Chrysler & Jeep vehicles & laid off 900 US #workers who supplied those factories w/engines & other parts.
#Audi, the luxury division of #Volkswagen, also paused exports of cars to the #US from #Europe, telling dealers to sell whatever they still had on their lots.
This is not #climaterealism. It is #climatedelusion.
The new “ #centrist consensus” on #climate is emerging & its highly nationalistic, flirting with more #military involvement, & expecting at least 3°C of warming, thereby justifying #geoengineering.
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/07/climate-change-realism-security
Axios · "Climate realism" stresses security, mitigation and resilience
People's Union USA, with founder John Schwarz, is initiating a nationwide boycott against Walmart that starts today.
"Schwarz has cited federal income tax opposition, equality issues, high prices, and a bid to help smaller local businesses as factors behind the blackout."
Are you going to participate? #union #boycott #protest #workers #socialism #capitalism #communism https://www.newsweek.com/walmart-boycott-customer-protest-2056133#:~:text=What%20To%20Know,as%20factors%20behind%20the%20blackout.
Newsweek · Walmart Boycott Update: Nationwide Economic 'Blackout' Begins
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It's not a coincidence that every concession #workers gained in the 20th-century has been taken away by the #capitalists since the end of the #ColdWar. Why? Because they no longer fear #revolution. As long as that fear of revolution was there, they were forced to make concessions.
If the Labour Govt. was serious about helping disabled people get work (rather than a bad faith rationalisation for disabled benefits cuts), what they should be doing is helping ensure that hybrid working (and extensive working from home) is protected & indeed, promoted (and not just for the disabled).
The Work Foundation has found hybrid working plays a major role in allowing people with a range of health conditions to manage them.
#HybridWorking #workers #disability
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/work-foundation/publications/beyond-the-office
Lancaster UniversityBeyond the Office? How remote and hybrid working can help close the disability employment gap - Lancaster UniversityNew interim report from Lancaster University, the Work Foundation, Manchester Metropolitan University and Universal Inclusion - funded by the Nuffield Foundation - reveals that five years on from the first Covid-19 lockdown, access to remote and hybrid work has become essential to many people who are disabled or have long-term health conditions, enabling them to stay in work.
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@gerrymcgovern And they exploit everything and everone in their #greed https://theconversation.com/africas-data-workers-are-being-exploited-by-foreign-tech-firms-4-ways-to-protect-them-252957 via @TheConversationUS
The ConversationAfrica’s data workers are being exploited by foreign tech firms – 4 ways to protect themThere is a need to create regional or continent-wide regulatory frameworks for protection of African gig workers.
ON SUNDAY, dozens of #migrant #workers in #Taipei gathered at the city’s central train station
to protest gender violence against migrant women
as well as raise awareness about the plight of Palestinian women and children through a flash mob performance.
This was in celebration of
“One Billion Rising”,
an annual campaign against rape and #gender #violence held in 60 countries worldwide.
The name comes from a statistic that within their lifetime,
at least one in three women across the world will have encountered gender violence, which totals to around one billion people.
https://newbloommag.net/2025/04/02/one-billion-rising-2025/
New Bloom Magazine · Migrant Workers in Taipei Raise Awareness of Gender Violence, Palestine Through Song and Dance | New Bloom MagazineOn Sunday, dozens of migrant workers in Taipei gathered at the city’s central train station to protest gender violence against migrant women as well as raise awareness about the plight of Palestinian…
Bet the #UAW isn’t so happy with #Trump’s #tariffs now…
#Stellantis says it will temporarily lay off 900 US #workers following tariff announcement
What did they expect?
#economy #jobs #labor #inflation #recession #Trumpcession
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/stellantis-says-will-temporarily-lay-off-900-us-workers-following-tariff-2025-04-03/
Delighted to see a new book review on ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ by Dr Mitja Stefancic just out in the 50th Anniversary issue of Network, the magazine of the British Sociological Association. Link to the full issue 
https://www.britsoc.co.uk/publications/network/network-current-issue/
I had a whole pithy mini-essay planned on LLMs, the "AI" scam that is attempting to build the ultimate dystopia, the companies pushing it, the workers and citizens who are its victims, and what it means for society as a whole.
Presentation was to be a "future history"-type approach, which I've always had a soft spot for in sci-fi.
And ... I just can't. Trump today decided that not only was driving the world's largest economy off a cliff the prudent thing to do, merely crashing it wasn't enough, so he decided to fill the backseat with lit sticks of TNT, and stick a lit rag in the fuel filler.
The streets tomorrow will be (only metaphorically, with luck) running with blood. People everywhere are going to be hurt, some devastatingly so.
I wonder if this is the kind of thing that Charles Stross means when he talks about the world stopping him from writing or finishing something he'd been planning on. It feels awful.
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"According to a report from Rachel Maddow on Tuesday evening (which I cannot independently verify), the HHS cuts will close all HHS programs that provide care and support for Alzheimer’s victims and their families."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #RFKJr #HHS #CDC #healthcare #medicine #research #science #firings #workers #Alzheimers #elderly
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/we-have-every-reason-to-be-hopeful
Today's Edition Newsletter · We have every reason to be hopeful, but no reason to be complacent
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“We’ve had a lot of devastating days, but this really is unfathomable. It’s astounding, it will affect patients with all kinds of different kinds of infections, and Americans will suffer, and people will die, and that’s a horrible thing to see coming.”
~ Wendy Armstrong, director of infectious diseases at the University of Colorado
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #RFKJr #HHS #CDC #healthcare #medicine #research #science #firings #workers
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The Bulwark · ‘People Will Die’—RFK Jr. Guts America’s Health Bureaucracy
Infectious disease doctor Jade Pagkas-Bather of University of Chicago responds to the Trump administration's mass firing of workers in the CDC and HHS:
“We’re going to have patients die. Unnecessary, preventable death.”
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #RFKJr #HHS #CDC #healthcare #medicine #research #science #firings #workers
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WIRED · The CDC Has Been Gutted
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And here are some examples of the costs & difficulties people have at work... given that these stories come from MPs in the House of Commons, perhaps Keir Starmer & Rachel Reeves might therefore know of some people impacted exactly in the way the TUC suggests disabled workers are....
Will that change their mind about disability benefits cuts? I doubt it...
The Guardian · Disabled MPs speak of difficulties they face working in UK parliament
The last and final part of Chapter 2 (The Metaphysics of Political Economy) of Karl Marx's "The Poverty of Philosophy": Strikes and Combinations of Workers
#socialism #communism #capitalism #marxism #strikes #workers
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/ch02e.htm
www.marxists.orgThe Poverty of Philosophy – Chapter 2.5