Zuckerberg and Intel are shipping the proceeds from their layoffs straight to Wall Street
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Rhymes with Chevy. Senior reporter : gig economy, tech and inequality, corp. accountability. levi.sumagaysay@marketwatch.com | @levisu@sfba.social
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Bay Area hip-hop is extraordinary.
Its history is part of all of us.
Today at @KQED we’re launching a series to tell its stories for the rest of the whole year. [
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That's six citations against Amazon in two weeks. A former OSHA chief of staff calls the actions "incredibly historic and significant... They show that Amazon needs to take action."
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Amazon gets 3 more warehouse-safety citations as OSHA warns company to ‘take these injuries seriously’ trib.al/ipkz5Gp
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📣 JOB ALERT 📣 calling bilingual peeps w/audience, multimedia or engagement journalism experience !!
is hiring an engagement producer who will create content for different platforms to better serve the Bay Area's Latinx communities 👇🏾 share! apply!
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DMV: did you do an instacart delivery in D.C. from 2016-2018? apply now for a $150+ refund from the D.C. Office of the Attorney General. instacart misled workers and consumers about what counted as a tip. instacartworkerrefundsdc.com
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Memphis police officers unleashed at least 71 commands at Tyre Nichols. Many were contradictory or impossible. When he couldn’t comply — and even when he managed to — officers responded with escalating force.
See the New York Times visual investigation.
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One idea on paying for reparations in California:
"If racial repair is recognized as a public purpose," it could be tax-deductible in the same manner as charitable contributions. twitter.com/jowens510/stat
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Read on how GoFundMe campaigns for older Walmart workers are more a story "about the failure of our retirement system," less about the inspiring kindness of strangers.
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Meet Gail. She's almost 72 and has been working at Walmart for about 15 years. Her health has been declining recently, and though she's lost two toes to diabetes, she still climbs a ladder to stock shelves.
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An industry-backed referendum challenging a 2022 law that would create a statewide council to set a minimum wage and workplace standards for California fast food workers has qualified for the November 2024 ballot, per .
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The Monterey Park shooting was devastating to the Asian American community not only because it was on LNY's eve, but also because it's Monterey Park, a safe space in an environment that feels increasingly unsafe.
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absolutely craven to publish this headline after the murders in monterey park
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Feds say Elizabeth Holmes ‘attempted to flee’ the U.S. with one-way ticket after conviction
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Proposed Chicago ordinance would give drivers/delivery workers recourse when they're deactivated from apps such as Uber, Lyft, DoorDash
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Amazon said it will appeal. OSHA investigations continue at three other Amazon warehouses.
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OSHA's citations for ergonomics investigations completed at three Amazon warehouses in Illinois, Florida and New York total about $60,000. Amazon's market cap is $980 billion.
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OSHA asks Amazon to make changes at some of its warehouses, including to its quotas, as investigation finds workers at high risk for lower-back injuries and more.
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(Reuters) - A 2016 video that Tesla used to promote its self-driving technology was staged to show capabilities like stopping at a red light and accelerating at a green light that the system did not have, according to testimony by a senior engineer.
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Co-directors/producers and spoke with me about their documentary about the first publicly funded reparations program in the nation.
“The Big Payback” premieres today, #MLKDay, on PBS.
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Is all this rain because of climate change? Will the inflation slowdown mean economic stability? And who surprised us with matching outfits? Find out tonight! @levisu @jowens510 @DanielleVenton @geravitywave @CConsaul @Raphael_KQED @realchrisjbeale @KQEDNewsroom @KQED
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NLRB director tosses Amazon’s objections to JFK8 election; Amazon can still call for a review.
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A US House committee has once again been renamed “Education & the Workforce” rather than “& Labor” now that GOP is back in control. GOP committee leadership says the term labor “is something out of a Marxist textbook” & “creates a sense of enmity between employees and employers”
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Pay ranges aren’t too ‘ridiculous’ as transparency laws take effect, report finds
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During CES, labor zoomed in on tech’s effect on workers: ‘Innovation doesn’t always have to lead to increased inequality’
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California storm strands more than 60 Bay Area food trucks. I never thought about where our favorite food trucks turn in for the night. Now, I know after speaking with , and . sfgate.com/food/article/b via
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An Instacart and Shipt worker said she wouldn't begrudge new gig workers, but "they probably won’t make much money, and the people who are already doing it will make less money.”
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An Uber driver on the possibility of a huge new wave of gig workers: "It's barely worth it now."
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Cisco layoffs begin with hundreds of job cuts in California and more expected
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Freelancers: I'm looking to assign an on-the-ground story on flooding in CA. Interested in smart, unexpected angles; bonus points for stories that center under-represented perspectives. For , scope should work at 800-1,400 words $1/word. Pitch me: paigeb@hcn.org
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This is seen as an upside for gig companies, but it will mean more competition for existing gig workers during an expected recession.
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Uber, DoorDash and Lyft could see hundreds of thousands of new gig workers this year, analysts say trib.al/mxOA8Ci
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Grubhub co-founder: ‘When you care about delivering a better product,’ don’t rely solely on the gig-work model
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Far from the last word about the music industry's issues, but here's one from me about the chaos of trying to tour in our messed-up, ultra-expensive COVID economy.
"Literally everybody raised their prices but us," one artist says
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Story in on #SB1162 which will require salary ranges in job postings & pay data reporting for contract workers - often paid less than direct-hire employees for same work
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It should be much easier to know how much a job pays in 2023 trib.al/kMyo4eq
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Tesla’s self-driving claims could soon run afoul of new California law
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Usually I just get no response, but today I got this -- the Tesla PR inbox must be overflowing.
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Amazon warehouse workers get ‘big win’ with New York law on quotas
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