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My journey with Amazon began in August 2022, packing items for shipping in the outbound department. When I started, I trusted that my hard work would lead to contract renewals …
Low Wages, Long Standing Hours, No Rest Areas: A First-Person Account From an Amazon Warehouse Read More
Porto Alegre, Brazil – Carla Rambo moves through a room of clutter, clearing the shelves inside her office supplies store in the historic centre of Porto Alegre, the capital of the …
‘The future is dark’: Brazilian businesses shattered by floods Read More
NEW YORK (AP) — They are called zombies, companies so laden with debt that they are just stumbling by on the brink of survival, barely able to pay even the …
Zombies: Ranks of world’s most debt-hobbled companies are soaring, and not all will survive Read More
The scale of automatic debt repayments administered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) means that, across all families receiving universal credit (UC), the basic payment is on average …
People on universal credit losing £1 in every £13 of basic payment due to automatic DWP debt deductions Read More
Hyundai Motor Co. is facing renewed accusations that it benefited from illegal child labor in Alabama, where it operates a manufacturing plant. The U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday sued the South …
Hyundai benefited from ‘oppressive’ child labor in Alabama facilities, lawsuit says Read More
Amazon union busters are threatening workers with the loss of their jobs if they unionise. At the vast warehouse in Coventry, known as BHX4, workers have been battling for close …
Amazon Is Holding Special Union-Busting Seminars for Workers Read More
May 3 (Reuters) – A dispute between Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab and Sweden’s IF Metall has drawn in unions across the Nordics, all urging the electric vehicle (EV) maker to sign …
Tesla labour dispute triggers Nordic sympathy strikes Read More
The health and social care visa route was introduced in August 2020 as a response to labour shortages after Brexit and the COVID pandemic. Now, the independent chief inspector of …
How visas for social care workers may be exacerbating exploitation in the sector Read More
Google has fired 28 employees following a sit-down protest over the tech giant’s contract to provide cloud computing and artificial intelligence services to the Israeli government The terminations come after …
Google fires 28 staff after protests against cloud contract with Israel Read More
A squabble among EU countries over whether to grant Ukraine’s vast farming sector another year of emergency, no-strings-attached access to their markets could well be a taste of what’s to …
EU discord over Ukraine free trade spells trouble for Kyiv’s accession hopes Read More