#fairwage — Public Fediverse posts
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Why we’re paying more for #locally grown #food than #imports
#British apples grown at home are more expensive than apples shipped from countries thousands of miles away
It’s not just apples. Bananas, which are virtually all #imported from tropical countries, are consistently the #cheapest fruit available per kg in #UK
Investigation discovers the many aspects of UK food supply system that don’t make much
https://www.theguardian.com/business/video/2026/jun/25/why-you-pay-more-for-locally-grown-food-video
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Why we’re paying more for #locally grown #food than #imports
#British apples grown at home are more expensive than apples shipped from countries thousands of miles away
It’s not just apples. Bananas, which are virtually all #imported from tropical countries, are consistently the #cheapest fruit available per kg in #UK
Investigation discovers the many aspects of UK food supply system that don’t make much
https://www.theguardian.com/business/video/2026/jun/25/why-you-pay-more-for-locally-grown-food-video
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Ok, I want to offer a #prize/ #reward for something I need doing.
Used to be I'd get Walmart or Amazon gift cards, but those - Amazon especially - are shit and I don't wanna give Bozo any more money.What are some "good" (#FairWage , good #DEI, #lgbt+ policies) retail chains that have adequate coverage in most #urban areas or online in North America? Groceries, books, something else?
Need options for #US and #Canada (or presence in both or online). -
Ok, I want to offer a #prize/ #reward for something I need doing.
Used to be I'd get Walmart or Amazon gift cards, but those - Amazon especially - are shit and I don't wanna give Bozo any more money.What are some "good" (#FairWage , good #DEI, #lgbt+ policies) retail chains that have adequate coverage in most #urban areas or online in North America? Groceries, books, something else?
Need options for #US and #Canada (or presence in both or online). -
Interesting question.
As with health care workers in a pandemic, how do we appropriately compensate specifically-trained workers who are undertaking risks in their work for social good?
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whatonearth/wildfire-fighters-alberta-pay-1.7206766
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Interesting question.
As with health care workers in a pandemic, how do we appropriately compensate specifically-trained workers who are undertaking risks in their work for social good?
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whatonearth/wildfire-fighters-alberta-pay-1.7206766
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I don’t like the over the top #tipping expectations in #America – other countries have *much saner* norms 😒:
“It’s Just a Tip” [2023], Vox (https://www.vox.com/money/23978458/tipping-culture-tablet-tipflation-doordash-square-toast-tips).
#Tips #Square #Tipflation #GuiltTipping #FairWage #EatingOut #Inflation #USA
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I don’t like the over the top #tipping expectations in #America – other countries have *much saner* norms 😒:
“It’s Just a Tip” [2023], Vox (https://www.vox.com/money/23978458/tipping-culture-tablet-tipflation-doordash-square-toast-tips).
#Tips #Square #Tipflation #GuiltTipping #FairWage #EatingOut #Inflation #USA
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Students Assistants are organizing a Union with CSUEU/SEIU 2579 so that we can have the power we need to make the changes we want. Building that power starts with Voting Yes starting January 25th - In unity there is strength.
#CSU #University #Strike #Union #Unions #CSUEU #SEIU #Student #College #StudentAssistant #FairWage #LivingWage #Work #University #California #SFBA
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Students Assistants are organizing a Union with CSUEU/SEIU 2579 so that we can have the power we need to make the changes we want. Building that power starts with Voting Yes starting January 25th - In unity there is strength.
#CSU #University #Strike #Union #Unions #CSUEU #SEIU #Student #College #StudentAssistant #FairWage #LivingWage #Work #University #California #SFBA
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Who cares how great the #economy is and how low #unemployment is when everything is too expensive and jobs aren't paying a #FairWage? You used to be able to pay for #college on a fast food job, now you can't.
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Who cares how great the #economy is and how low #unemployment is when everything is too expensive and jobs aren't paying a #FairWage? You used to be able to pay for #college on a fast food job, now you can't.
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@Kristynwongtam: RT @BourgouinGuy: When the minister makes an announcement and doesn't invite the workers to attend it, you know it's not going to respond to workers demands.
#fairwage #onpoli https://twitter.com/ONDPPressOffice/status/1714672213863919887 -
@ONDPPressOffice: RT @BourgouinGuy: When the minister makes an announcement and doesn't invite the workers to attend it, you know it's not going to respond to workers demands.
#fairwage #onpoli https://twitter.com/ONDPPressOffice/status/1714672213863919887 -
Why #companies say you’re ‘family’ while underpaying you
https://therealnews.com/why-companies-say-youre-family-while-underpaying-you
#work #wages #employer #jobs #fairwage #benefits #employment #labor #capitalism #freemarket #abuse -
Today! Designing an organic cotton prototype for a gaff. Gender-affirming underwear! Think: tucking technology: made to measure for my client, soft and breathable and long-lasting!
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A #FairWage under #capitalism is more than just a #LivingWage
A #LivingWage is
+ cost of living incl housing
+ the cost of social & family life
+ the cost of doing the labor
+ reserves for emergenciesAnd under capitalism also:
+ 10-30% as to acquire #capitalMeaningful participation in a capitalist society requires all of the above
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#AbrahamLincoln on #labor & #capital & the return of #despotism
"In my present position I could scarcely be justified were I to omit raising a warning voice against this approach of returning despotism.
It is not needed nor fitting here that a general argument should be made in favor of popular institutions, but there is one point, with its connections, not so hackneyed as most others, to which I ask a brief attention. It is the effort to place capital on an equal footing with, if not above, labor in the structure of government. It is assumed that labor is available only in connection with capital; that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, somehow by the use of it induces him to labor. This assumed, it is next considered whether it is best that capital shall hire laborers, and thus induce them to work by their own consent, or buy them and drive them to it without their consent. Having proceeded so far, it is naturally concluded that all laborers are either hired laborers or what we call slaves. And further, it is assumed that whoever is once a hired laborer is fixed in that condition for life.
Now there is no such relation between capital and labor as assumed, nor is there any such thing as a free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer. Both these assumptions are false, and all inferences from them are groundless.
Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights. Nor is it denied that there is, and probably always will be, a relation between labor and capital producing mutual benefits. The error is in assuming that the whole labor of community exists within that relation. A few men own capital, and that few avoid labor themselves, and with their capital hire or buy another few to labor for them. A large majority belong to neither class—neither work for others nor have others working for them. In most of the Southern States a majority of the whole people of all colors are neither slaves nor masters, while in the Northern a large majority are neither hirers nor hired. Men, with their families—wives, sons, and daughters—work for themselves on their farms, in their houses, and in their shops, taking the whole product to themselves, and asking no favors of capital on the one hand nor of hired laborers or slaves on the other. It is not forgotten that a considerable number of persons mingle their own labor with capital; that is, they labor with their own hands and also buy or hire others to labor for them; but this is only a mixed and not a distinct class. No principle stated is disturbed by the existence of this mixed class.
Again, as has already been said, there is not of necessity any such thing as the free hired laborer being fixed to that condition for life. Many independent men everywhere in these States a few years back in their lives were hired laborers. The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This is the just and generous and prosperous system which opens the way to all, gives hope to all, and consequent energy and progress and improvement of condition to all. No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty; none less inclined to take or touch aught which they have not honestly earned. Let them beware of surrendering a political power which they already possess, and which if surrendered will surely be used to close the door of advancement against such as they and to fix new disabilities and burdens upon them till all of liberty shall be lost."
Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address (December 3, 1861)
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In “It’s 2023. BC #FarmWorkers Deserve #Basic #MinimumWage Guarantees”, the #authors reveal how our current #PieceRate system for #agricultural #workers is #fraught with #LowWages , #exploitation , #classism & #racism .
#BritishColumbia #MigrantWorkers #HumanRights #FairWage #BCFarms #Canada #injustice #AsianMastodon #podcast #Canadian #labour #RespectFarmWorkers #PayFairWages #MigrantWorkerRights #BackbreakingWork #HardWorkLowWage #StopExploitation
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What You Don't Know About the HarperCollins Strike
"Without representation, how can marginalized authors feel confident that their work will be considered, let alone published? And if they do manage to get a book deal, who’s to say their publishing experience will be a good one?" Rachel Kambury
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Solidarity with the Scottish teachers, university lecturers, RMT, CWU and nurses whether they are on strike today or planning in the future.
So important for the future that they get fair pay and working conditions.
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HARPER COLLINS WORKERS ARE ON STRIKE! Help out the people who make your favorite books! Amplify and check out this thread for ways to help! #strike #HarperCollins #book #books #BookTwitter #union #labor #FairWage #NYC
https://twitter.com/hcpunion/status/1589704671576612864?s=20&t=wOriWim4UcKZ6EbfnHx03g
