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Over my academic career (across two universities) I saw the number of students needing paid work during term time to make ends meet grow every year... while some often managed this quite well, as zero-hours contract work began to dominate student working, I also saw an increase in the difficulty that students had balancing the demands of their employers with the needs of university study, often to the detriment of their results.

This trend show no signs of easing!

#universities #workers

Over my academic career (across two universities) I saw the number of students needing paid work during term time to make ends meet grow every year... while some often managed this quite well, as zero-hours contract work began to dominate student working, I also saw an increase in the difficulty that students had balancing the demands of their employers with the needs of university study, often to the detriment of their results.

This trend show no signs of easing!

#universities #workers

✊ Ex-Congressional Candidate Alice Wade Says Dem Colleague Told Her She “Stood No Chance” Because She’s Trans

New Hampshire Democratic state representative Alice Wade has spent her brief time in office pushing forward progressive

https://www.them.us/politics/alice-wade-new-hampshire

#Workers #Organizing #TransRights #LGBTQ

✊ Ex-Congressional Candidate Alice Wade Says Dem Colleague Told Her She “Stood No Chance” Because She’s Trans

New Hampshire Democratic state representative Alice Wade has spent her brief time in office pushing forward progressive

https://www.them.us/politics/alice-wade-new-hampshire

#Workers #Organizing #TransRights #LGBTQ

Toxic gas leak kills eight at Bangladesh shipyard

At least eight workers were killed and five others were reported missing after toxic gas leaked from a vessel at a shipbreaking yard in Bangladesh on Friday. The incident occurred at the Ferdous Steel Shipbreaking Yard and Recycling Factory in Chittagong, a ma…

https://justpaste.in/news/toxic-gas-leak-kills-eight-at-bangladesh-shipyard/

#workers #eight #shipbreaking #bangladesh #toxic

Toxic gas leak kills eight at Bangladesh shipyard

At least eight workers were killed and five others were reported missing after toxic gas leaked from a vessel at a shipbreaking yard in Bangladesh on Friday. The incident occurred at the Ferdous Steel Shipbreaking Yard and Recycling Factory in Chittagong, a ma…

https://justpaste.in/news/toxic-gas-leak-kills-eight-at-bangladesh-shipyard/

#workers #eight #shipbreaking #bangladesh #toxic

59% of Filipino workers happy with salary, 45% say pay falls short – Jobstreet

Millennials are also the unhappiest generation with their pay, with their salary happiness rate at 54%, lower than Gen Z at 61% and Gen X at 60%

https://justpaste.in/news/filipino-workers-jobstreet-survey-2026/

#employment #Philippinelabor #ConsumerIssues #workers #salaries

59% of Filipino workers happy with salary, 45% say pay falls short – Jobstreet

Millennials are also the unhappiest generation with their pay, with their salary happiness rate at 54%, lower than Gen Z at 61% and Gen X at 60%

https://justpaste.in/news/filipino-workers-jobstreet-survey-2026/

#employment #Philippinelabor #ConsumerIssues #workers #salaries

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🔥 Federal Spies Hunt Minnesota Unions in Search of Conspiracy, But Find Solidarity
https://www.labornotes.org/2026/08/federal-spies-hunt-minnesota-unions-search-conspiracy-find-solidarity

#Strike #Union #Workers #Labor

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🔥 Federal Spies Hunt Minnesota Unions in Search of Conspiracy, But Find Solidarity
https://www.labornotes.org/2026/08/federal-spies-hunt-minnesota-unions-search-conspiracy-find-solidarity

#Strike #Union #Workers #Labor

Dear people who work at the airport

https://life-after-ssri.bearblog.dev/dear-people-who-work-at-the-airport/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49297801

#HackerNews #airport #workers #travel #community #aviation #insights

Dear people who work at the airport

https://life-after-ssri.bearblog.dev/dear-people-who-work-at-the-airport/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49297801

#HackerNews #airport #workers #travel #community #aviation #insights

"Unionized nurses, healthcare workers, and their supporters march through the streets of Burlington, Vermont, on August"

💪 Layoffs, long waits, obscene prices: How corporate administrators mismanaged Vermont’s flagship health network into a historic crisis
https://therealnews.com/vermont-health-network-historic-crisis

#Workers #Healthcare #TRNN #WorkersRights

"Unionized nurses, healthcare workers, and their supporters march through the streets of Burlington, Vermont, on August"

💪 Layoffs, long waits, obscene prices: How corporate administrators mismanaged Vermont’s flagship health network into a historic crisis
https://therealnews.com/vermont-health-network-historic-crisis

#Workers #Healthcare #TRNN #WorkersRights

"This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Having been ordered by a federal judge to remove President Donald"

✊ Trump’s Kennedy Center Board Votes to Put His Name Back on the Building — Despite a Judge’s Explicit Order
https://www.them.us/politics/trump-kennedy-center-inscription

#Workers #LGBTQ #TransRights

"This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Having been ordered by a federal judge to remove President Donald"

✊ Trump’s Kennedy Center Board Votes to Put His Name Back on the Building — Despite a Judge’s Explicit Order
https://www.them.us/politics/trump-kennedy-center-inscription

#Workers #LGBTQ #TransRights

Rescuers are searching through the debris to find the trapped workers
#Workers #DebrisEnterTunnel #Uttarakhand #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India @mastodonindians
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/several-workers-trapped-as-water-debris-enter-tunnel-in-uttarakhands-chamoli-11906228#publisher=newsstand

We often focus on the 'supply' of gig-economy jobs, looking to regulate & limit employers ability to avoid offering secure or stable work to contracted workers, but we should look at the 'demand' for such work.

Many forced into gig-economy work are doing so because there are insufficient alternatives; if the UK economy was more healthy (doing better) we might see fewer workers prepared to accept such work, and thereby employers forced to offer better conditions!

#workers #GigEconomy #politics

We often focus on the 'supply' of gig-economy jobs, looking to regulate & limit employers ability to avoid offering secure or stable work to contracted workers, but we should look at the 'demand' for such work.

Many forced into gig-economy work are doing so because there are insufficient alternatives; if the UK economy was more healthy (doing better) we might see fewer workers prepared to accept such work, and thereby employers forced to offer better conditions!

#workers #GigEconomy #politics

Organize. Always organize.

🪧 Should a Union Contract Run Eight Years?
https://www.labornotes.org/2026/08/should-union-contract-run-eight-years

#Strike #Union #Workers

Organize. Always organize.

🪧 Should a Union Contract Run Eight Years?
https://www.labornotes.org/2026/08/should-union-contract-run-eight-years

#Strike #Union #Workers

This needs to be front page news.

⚠️ Trump’s war on offshore wind is robbing a generation of workers
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/offshore-wind/trump-offshore-wind-robbing-workers

#Workers #Organizing #ClimateJustice

This needs to be front page news.

⚠️ Trump’s war on offshore wind is robbing a generation of workers
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/offshore-wind/trump-offshore-wind-robbing-workers

#Workers #Organizing #ClimateJustice

The Office of National Statistics admits yet another significant past problem with its labour force survey linked to the collapse of response rates (following attempts to cut the cost of the survey underlying the data).

New (re-engineered) methods which are intended to offer better accuracy, suggest for some years the ONS has been *overestimating* the number of workers who are economically inactive due to long-term illness.

So yet more misdirected policy!

#workers #health #politics
h/t FT

The Office of National Statistics admits yet another significant past problem with its labour force survey linked to the collapse of response rates (following attempts to cut the cost of the survey underlying the data).

New (re-engineered) methods which are intended to offer better accuracy, suggest for some years the ONS has been *overestimating* the number of workers who are economically inactive due to long-term illness.

So yet more misdirected policy!

#workers #health #politics
h/t FT

The Work Foundation has a new report out on Zero Hours contracts that concludes for those workers ZHCs cause:

Work-life chaos as working days become unpredictable;

Financial insecurity, as pay oscillates widely;

Power dynamics of 'employment' to move against them; and

them to end up living in limbo...

And this shapes the lief of nearly 1.25m workers.... This is why ZCS need to be constrained & workers' protected from abusive 'employers'.

#workers #ZeroHourContracts
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/lums/work-foundation/WF_Inlimbo(August2026).pdf

The Work Foundation has a new report out on Zero Hours contracts that concludes for those workers ZHCs cause:

Work-life chaos as working days become unpredictable;

Financial insecurity, as pay oscillates widely;

Power dynamics of 'employment' to move against them; and

them to end up living in limbo...

And this shapes the lief of nearly 1.25m workers.... This is why ZCS need to be constrained & workers' protected from abusive 'employers'.

#workers #ZeroHourContracts
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/lums/work-foundation/WF_Inlimbo(August2026).pdf

Stop letting AI robots reject us from jobs

People keep getting #job rejections within minutes of applying, without a any human seeing the application

It's happening to thousands

#AI now decides who gets a job & who doesn’t; it #discriminates

Reports of older #workers getting rejected because their #experience gives away their #age, or #women scoring lower than men

#Petition:

https://the.organise.network/campaigns/6755?utm_source=organise&utm_medium=mastodon_fediverse

#discrimination #Sexism #Ageism

Stop letting AI robots reject us from jobs

People keep getting #job rejections within minutes of applying, without a any human seeing the application

It's happening to thousands

#AI now decides who gets a job & who doesn’t; it #discriminates

Reports of older #workers getting rejected because their #experience gives away their #age, or #women scoring lower than men

#Petition:

https://the.organise.network/campaigns/6755?utm_source=organise&utm_medium=mastodon_fediverse

#discrimination #Sexism #Ageism

This is what solidarity looks like.

🪧 If AOC Doesn’t Run for President, Run a Union Worker

#Union #Workers #EatTheRich

This is what solidarity looks like.

🪧 If AOC Doesn’t Run for President, Run a Union Worker

#Union #Workers #EatTheRich

#socialism #free #tax #workers #companies #value #meme

#socialism #free #tax #workers #companies #value #meme

Another day, another instance of gig economy/temporary workers being denied their legal rights & pay....

Our obsession with on-line shopping (which lies behind the massive growth in the courier business) has real costs to real people... and so perhaps we shouldn't be so surprised when delivery drivers are not as kind & caring about our deliveries as we might like them to be.

Abusive worker relations does not make for good service(s).

#workers #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/09/dpd-temporary-workers-missing-sick-pay-pensions-internal-documents

Another day, another instance of gig economy/temporary workers being denied their legal rights & pay....

Our obsession with on-line shopping (which lies behind the massive growth in the courier business) has real costs to real people... and so perhaps we shouldn't be so surprised when delivery drivers are not as kind & caring about our deliveries as we might like them to be.

Abusive worker relations does not make for good service(s).

#workers #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/09/dpd-temporary-workers-missing-sick-pay-pensions-internal-documents

💪 How to talk to the press about your union campaign

Publicity can significantly shape a union campaign.

https://workerorganizing.org/talk-to-press-19099/

#Union #Workers #EWOC

💪 How to talk to the press about your union campaign

Publicity can significantly shape a union campaign.

https://workerorganizing.org/talk-to-press-19099/

#Union #Workers #EWOC

Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years

https://travelandtannins.com/workers-drilling-in-romania-broke-into-a-cave-sealed-for-5-5-million-years-and-found-an-entire-living-world-that-has-never-seen-the-sun/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171223

#HackerNews #workers #drilling #romania #cave #discovery #ancient #world #underground

Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years

https://travelandtannins.com/workers-drilling-in-romania-broke-into-a-cave-sealed-for-5-5-million-years-and-found-an-entire-living-world-that-has-never-seen-the-sun/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171223

#HackerNews #workers #drilling #romania #cave #discovery #ancient #world #underground

Friday, August 7, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/08/friday-august-7-2026/

Friday, August 7, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/08/friday-august-7-2026/

John Burn-Murdoch (FT) argues the problem(s) in the UK's education sectors (from schools to universities) & specifically the premium more education achieves in the labour force (or reduction thereof) is not so much an indication of a failing education system (which is not to say its perfect) but more a problem of an under-performing economy, failing to offer good opportunities for educated workers.

A better functioning economy would result in better outcomes for workers.

#education #workers

John Burn-Murdoch (FT) argues the problem(s) in the UK's education sectors (from schools to universities) & specifically the premium more education achieves in the labour force (or reduction thereof) is not so much an indication of a failing education system (which is not to say its perfect) but more a problem of an under-performing economy, failing to offer good opportunities for educated workers.

A better functioning economy would result in better outcomes for workers.

#education #workers

Stuart Neilson (LinkedIn) points out the social hypocrisy that confronts people in their 50s & 60s:

Their state pension age is receding into the late 60s, while employers seem to regard them, too often, as too old to work.

Either we reverse the moves in pension age (lowering back towards the early 60s) or we move much more significantly to combat ageism in the labour market.

But we cannot in good faith as a society combine a high pension age & ageism!

#workers #employment #ageism

Stuart Neilson (LinkedIn) points out the social hypocrisy that confronts people in their 50s & 60s:

Their state pension age is receding into the late 60s, while employers seem to regard them, too often, as too old to work.

Either we reverse the moves in pension age (lowering back towards the early 60s) or we move much more significantly to combat ageism in the labour market.

But we cannot in good faith as a society combine a high pension age & ageism!

#workers #employment #ageism

💪 Inside the nearly 5-month labor lockout at an Indiana refinery

BP has locked out about 800 refinery workers in Whiting without pay for months.

https://grist.org/labor/inside-the-nearly-5-month-labor-lockout-at-an-indiana-refinery/

#Union #Workers #Labor

💪 Inside the nearly 5-month labor lockout at an Indiana refinery

BP has locked out about 800 refinery workers in Whiting without pay for months.

https://grist.org/labor/inside-the-nearly-5-month-labor-lockout-at-an-indiana-refinery/

#Union #Workers #Labor

Filipino Housekeeping Services In Japan Gaining Popularity

In Japan, housekeeping services whose workforce involved Filipinos are gaining popularity and public trust as the nation has growing demand for such support, according to a news report by Kyodo News. The report mentioned the cheerful personalities and diligence of Filipino workers.

To put things in perspective, posted below is an excerpt from the report of Kyodo News. Some parts in boldface…

Housekeeping services employing Filipino staff have gained in popularity amid growing demand in Japan for such domestic support, with one provider seeing their workforce roughly double over the past decade.

Since the Japanese government began allowing foreign nationals to provide housekeeping services in national strategic special zones in 2016, workers from the Philippines have been a top choice due to their cheerful personalities, diligence as well as expertise.

In February, a Filipino housekeeping staff member listened carefully to her client’s instructions as she made her on-site debut around a month after arriving in Japan. She assiduously took notes as the client explained in a mix of English and Japanese how to use cleaning tools and the order of detergents.

“(Filipinos) are friendly and easy to talk to and they work seriously, so I can feel at ease,” the client said.

Before 2015, only certain households, such as those of foreign diplomats, had been allowed to employ foreign housekeepers. But a legal change that year, aimed at increasing women’s workforce participation and easing labor shortages in Japan’s housekeeping industry, paved the way for foreigners to work in designated areas.

Following the law revision, Tokyo-based Pinay International Co. launched a business especially employing Filipino housekeepers. It now operates in parts of Tokyo, neighboring Kanagawa Prefecture, Osaka Prefecture and Hyogo Prefecture with more than 200 Filipino staff working as full-time employees.

The company recruits workers in the Philippines and provides extensive training before and after their arrival in Japan, while also supporting their daily life in areas such as housing.

“Foreign talent playing an active role will likely lead to revitalizing Japan,” Pinay International CEO Tetsuya Moteki, 55, said.

According to a survey by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan’s housekeeping services market has been expanding as the number of dual-income households increases.

Let me end this piece by asking you readers: What is your reaction to this development? Do you think more Japanese households will trust housekeeping service providers once they realize their workforce includes Filipinos? What do you think makes Filipino housekeeping workers more trustworthy compared with those from other nations of Southeast Asia?

You may answer in the comments below. If you prefer to answer privately, you may do so by sending me a direct message online.

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