#Workers

Decent Work & Health

DecentWorkHlth

The federal government has announced a temporary national sick leave program. It will help some workers who need income support for leave related to COVID-19, but it’s not the permanent

Vasilios Ioakimidis

vasilios_

1/ The (Irish) Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation submitted its final report today. It is 2,865 words long and provides extensive evidence of systematic institutional abuse and neglect

Hanna Merzbach

HannaMerzbach

I worked with @SeveranceTVnews on this explainer about the COVID-19 vaccine in Oregon. Check out this thread for a few things we know so far. 1/7https://www.kgw.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/vaccine/what-we-know-about-the-covid-19-vac

Doug MacMillan

dmac1

In reporting this story we noticed a disturbing pandemic trend: Giant companies vowed not to hold layoffs during coronavirus, then did it anyway. /1https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/business/50-biggest-companies-coronavirus-layof

RS_Benedict

benedict_rs

it's incredibly bleak how many contemporary aspiring writers cut their teeth on fanfiction, a form that actively teaches you to write worse "but some published writers start with fanfic" yeah

Ron

CodeMonkeyZ

Oct 1, 2020 - Fulton CTY"Mr. Gilstrap stated that he did not feel comfortable installing a last-minute software change, and did not want Fulton County staff to be responsible for

Nicholas G. Evans

neva9257

So here's a great story of how tech perpetuates injustice. And the whacky things workers have to do to stay alive in the time of @amazon [thread] We get a

ᴮᴱKate Sánchez⁷

OhMyMithrandir

So many people got into gaming late in life, not because they didn't want to game, but because of the price barrier. This is the story with sooo many of

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

We added 1.8 million jobs in July, but our jobs level remains in absolute crisis—we lost so many jobs in March and April that we are still 12.9 million jobs

Brian Fung

b_fung

This is one of those things that often feels true but only because it’s a caricature. DC's actual labor statistics reveal a more complicated picture.https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1276237968810917889 Here’s the 2019 breakdown

Debbie Decker

Bunnysdts

1/ I heard from a colleague the other day about a repetitive motion injury she has sustained, working in a glove box for extended periods of time – 9-10 hours

Against Everyone With Conner Habib

ConnerHabib

1The anti-porn crusade -and that is the right word for it because it kills a class of people -has its roots in fundamentalism that often merges w phony leftists like

Alison Pennington

ak_pennington

Stitch-up alert! PM’s claim reported in @Australian that current #JobSeeker rate is barrier to biz hiring is based on dodgy data. Govt were pre-empting yesterday's release of employer survey data

Pilar Goñalons Pons

pilargonalons

My last tweet in 2019Little did I know a global pandemic was around the corner that would give unprecedented visibility to the centrality of care work. Visibility has not reduced

Megan McArdle

asymmetricinfo

I understand why cities and states are desperate to get BIPOC vaccinated--on average, they have more exposure AND more comorbidities, and vaccination rates lag.https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1353754487819808768 In DC, people in aff

Fiona Robertson

barristerfiona

Unpopular post that will probably get abuse from Mail readers. But today as we enter lockdown and I drag my 36 week pregnant self to court (a case I can’t

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