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It's legal in the U.S. for companies to have known deadly safety violations that they know will kill workers. But they find it more profitable to pay the fines, a misdemeanor, for killing a worker than to comply with safety regulations.
http://16deathsperday.com/?utm_source=rgemailIt's legal in the U.S. for companies to have known deadly safety violations that... more
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Stressful Jobs That Pay Badly
by Jessica Dickler
Monday, November 16, 2009
1. Social Worker
Median pay: $43,200
% who say their job is stressful: 72%
Social workers step in when everyone else steps aside to help people and families in vulnerable situations. They provide patients with education and counseling, advise care givers and make referrals for other services. And with social workers in short supply and programs underfunded, few must juggle the work of many, while reaping little reward.
Just ask Heather Griffith, a social worker who works with children in intensive foster care in Boston: "You're getting paid $12 an hour and kids are screaming at you, telling you that you are just in it for the money and you're just like, really?"
http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/108148/stressful-jobs-that-pay-badly?mod=career-salary_negotiation
http://www.healthpopuli.com/uploaded_images/hairpull-760004.jpgStressful Jobs That Pay Badly
by Jessica Dickler
Monday, November 16, 2009
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Some people seem to think illegal immigration isn't a problem, not to sound like a bitch but you wouldn't if you or your parents were illegals and if they weren't your grandparents. And what's with everyone saying that this country was built on the backs of immigrates, i didn't know slaves migrated to this country it was built on slavery and free labor that's the truth. Wanting a better life is great but it's hard to say i want better life and can't get to where i come from and then claim you deserve to be a citizen because all you want to do is work and have a life for your family and kids. What about the guy who's family knows nothing else besides America and also wants a better life but can't achieve that because someone says i'll do the work cheaper and longer with no health coverage and no benefits, cash only.
In no other country can illegal immigrates demand anything, only in the great USA, so i say give them their citizenship, you want to claim to be true American citizen then pay taxes, you believe you have a right to the same health care and rights then you should pay for it. If we registered every illegal immigrate and then taxed them out the ass, set in place laws that had harsher penalties like actual jail time instead of a free trip home, i bet you people would think twice about running across the border or coming to America for vacation and staying. I'm just wondering why people feel if you say "you don't deserve shit and the fact you get taken advantage of is your own fault", their a racist and that America and should be open for any and everyone.
But it is your fault you get paid low wages and have no health care and get taken advantage of, since when is anything in this world for free..? why do you think that what you go through in your country gives you a right to come to another and make it hard on another man. Mexico's president even stated to the world "that illegals take the jobs that not even blacks want"
and he's damn right we've worked them since 1506 for FREE and the little bit of minimum wage blacks fought and died for won't go up cause someone with no papers will work for anything. Rules are set in place for a reason, they might suck but you can't make a change if your willing to be happy eating shit all you do is make it stink for the rest of us.
Not only would it help us out with our hugh debt, create jobs and force us to over haul the entire system cause you know someones gonna get mad and swear a great injustice but wheres the justice for us actual tax paying, social security card carrying citizens...?
i love George Lopez but he's an idiot to think that illegal immigration only upsets white people as if AMERICANS don't need a job. He represents his country to the fullest yet we as Americans don't have the same right?. If we flooded his country and under cut his fellow men,push them out of jobs then tell them you really don't want to work this job let me do it as well as stressed the medical system and basically did what we wanted in Mexico they claim the capitalist Americanos were destroying his homeland and we'd just continue to be the big mean super power.
i think any time people think it's OK for any group of people to break the law to better your self, at the expense of others.....your the true capitalist, liar, cheat and thiefSome people seem to think illegal immigration isn't a problem, not to sound like... more
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San Nicola Varco is a place in Eboli, near Salerno, where there is a farmers market built in the 80s and never came into operation. The structure had become, for many years, the lodging of hundreds of North African immigrants, mainly Moroccans, day laborers in local fields. Most of them had arrived in Italy regularly, with a contract of employment. But once here, the contract turned out to be a scam.
http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/news/sannicolavarco111109.htmlSan Nicola Varco is a place in Eboli, near Salerno, where there is a farmers market... more
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On Nov. 4th 2009, on the steps of City Hall members of Domestic Workers United City Officials, Union Leaders, Clergy, and Allied Organizations held a press conference urging State Legislators to pass the Bill of Rights, which would grant them basic rights already granted to other workers.On Nov. 4th 2009, on the steps of City Hall members of Domestic Workers United City... more
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It's no surprise that female office workers hate derogatory pet names given to them by some colleagues, but do you know the ones they most despise?
A survey of over 2,500 women found 'babe' was the name they hated being called most, followed by 'love,' 'hun' and 'mate.'
Other disliked pet names - which three quarters of the women polled said they found unacceptable - included; 'chick,' 'Kiddo,' 'Darlin' and 'Poppet'
It also emerged that 93 per cent of women have been called a pet name either by the boss or a male colleague and that 21 percent said it made them feel angry.
But that is nothing… you should hear some of the names the same female office workers reserve for their male bosses.
A spokesman for onepoll.com, which carried out the study, said: ''Women clearly find these pet names patronising and unnecessary.
"Perhaps it is time for guys to take a bit of a reality check and realise that time has moved on.
"Many of them are cringe-worthy and dated, for example it is hardly surprising that a woman is going to feel very uncomfortable when a boss in his 50s calls her 'babe' or 'poppet'."
Top 10 hated pet names for female office workers
1. Babe
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Love
3. Hun
4. Mate
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Chick / chicken
6. Kiddo
7. Darlin'
8. Pet
9. Poppet
10. DearIt's no surprise that female office workers hate derogatory pet names given to... more
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Economy Minister Tremonti has just unleashed a debate on all the Italian newspapers stating that a permanent job is better than a precarious one. It's such an obvious statement, as he admitted himself, but caused a sensation because in our country at least since 10 years almost all political forces have carefully refrained from defending permanent work. Widespread precarious jobs with fixed-terms and low wages contracts are the land of toys for Italian companies, who have no intention of giving them up.Economy Minister Tremonti has just unleashed a debate on all the Italian newspapers... more
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A quarter of all workers and volunteers will have every minor conviction they have ever received open to scrutiny by employers following a landmark ruling.
Their criminal records can be held on police computers for as long as officers feel is necessary, after the Court of Appeal judgment.
Details of the offences, no matter how trivial or how long ago, can then be shared with other organisations, including the Criminal Records Bureau, which supplies data to employers vetting job applications.
The decision infuriated civil liberties campaigners. Liberty warned it would mean 'that people will be forever haunted by the minor indiscretions of their youth'.
The ruling came in a test case brought by five people whose minor convictions showed up in records checks after they applied for jobs.
In one case, the complainant had been found guilty of stealing a 99p packet of meat and fined £15 when he was still a child in 1984.
Another case concerned a £25 fine for a theft more than 25 years ago, while a third was over a caution for a minor assault as a child under 14.
The five won a case at an information tribunal, which could have led to up to a million convictions being deleted from police computers.
Overturning the ruling yesterday, Lord Justice Waller said: 'If the police say rationally and reasonably that convictions, however old or minor, have a value in the work they do, that should, in effect, be the end of the matter.'
Details of offences are used for checks on those, such as teachers and carers, who work closely with children or vulnerable adults.
From July, the checks will be expanded to include other jobs including traffic wardens, doctors' receptionists accountants, football stewards and vets. It will cover 11.3million people - one in four working adults.
Well they have every other bit of personal information on us so why not this?A quarter of all workers and volunteers will have every minor conviction they have... more
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The class action is the ability for a group of citizens to sue a company or a public office when they feel they have suffered damages because of a certain behavior. Italy is virtually the only civilized country that has never introduced this possibility, probably because it's an exaggeration to say that ours is a civilized country. The previous center-left government was to introduce the law, but then didn't.The class action is the ability for a group of citizens to sue a company or a public... more
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Combining results from surveys of more than 300 Austin construction workers and industry-related data from federal and state agencies, the 68-page study, "Building Austin, Building Injustice," depicts an industry rampant with poor and dangerous working conditions. Although many builders, developers and contractors are model employers, the study notes, others cut costs by not paying some workers for overtime, not paying some at all, misclassifying others as independent contractors, and failing to provide proper safety equipment such as harnesses and helmets, violations of federal and state regulations.
"The report is just shocking in the way that it shows how the industry (in Austin) is really rife with these conditions that are pretty deplorable in terms of safety and health issues," said Richard Heyman, a UT professor and an adviser and researcher on the study. A specialist in urban development studies, Heyman said the report reveals systemic, structural failures.
Major findings:
Though overtime work in the construction industry is common, half of workers who did so reported receiving no overtime pay, a violation of wage and hour laws.
Nearly four in 10 workers were misclassified as independent contractors, denying them legal protections to overtime pay, workers' compensation coverage and benefits.
Sixty-four percent said they had received no basic health or safety training provided by OSHA. The training is voluntary.
A majority of workers lacked employer-based health insurance, pensions and sick or vacation days. Only 45 percent of workers said they had workers' compensation coverage. In Texas, employers can opt out of workers' comp.
Most workers earned $10 an hour. Using federal guidelines, the report calculated a poverty hourly wage as $10.56 an hour, based on a family of four.
Drawing on existing data, the report also says that Texas led the nation in construction-related deaths in 2007 with 142 fatalities, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Labor. Tzintzún said similar data is not available by city. Per capita data is not tracked by state.
Texas had 23,900 construction-related injuries in 2007, an incident rate of 3.7 per 100 full-time workers, according to the Department of Labor. In all private industries, Texas had 242,000 injuries in 2007, an incident rate of 3.3 per 100 full-time workers.
This is a Z Graphix Production, Produced by Jeffry Zavala and Directed by Jason Cato.
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Photography by Jason Cato
Cinematography by Jeffry Zavala
To learn more go to,
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http://buildaustin.orgCombining results from surveys of more than 300 Austin construction workers and... more
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Gov. Rick Perry and employees within the state insurance building did not meet the typical sound of 5 p.m. traffic Wednesday.
Instead, some encountered signs adorned with criticism of Perrys policies, drums keeping protestors in rhythm and the voices of construction workers along with members of Austins Workers Defense Project and Californias Laborers International Union of North America chanting, Workers rights are under attack! What do we do? Stand up, fight back!
Project Director Cristina Tzintzún said the defense group organized the event in response to a television interview Perry had at a Construction Expo in late June, in which he stated that [Texas] has enough oversight to keep our citizens safe.
Catherine Frazier, a spokeswoman for the governors office, said the issues scope is wider than Texas alone.
This issue falls under federal jurisdiction and Governor Perry expects the federal government will fulfill its role to keep Texas construction workers safe without burdening Texas employers with duplicative regulations, Frazier said.
According to a recent report by the project titled Building Austin, Building Injustice, 142 construction workers died in Texas in 2007, which is more than any other state in the country. The report also states that 50 percent of workers do not receive overtime pay and that 41 percent go without a rest break.
Tzintzún said that only 77 Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigators cover the 10 million workers in Texas. The project states that the International Labor Organization recommended 1,023 investigators be responsible for Texas workers.
Elizabeth Todd, OSHA acting regional director, said the administration will be increasing the number of inspectors in Texas.
We want to raise awareness and reduce the number of construction-related fatalities in the state because we do have a high number of construction-related fatalities, Todd said. If there are unsafe working conditions, we are going to try and go out there and find out.
Tzintzún said the problem lies in construction oversight.
We believe there is a larger problem in Texas of contractors not being held accountable for safe working conditions on the job site, Tzintzún said. Its important that [the Legislature] steps up to the plate by ensuring people dont die needlessly on the job.
The protest also focused on the West Campus construction accident in June at the 21 Rio apartment complex where three construction workers fell to their deaths as a result of a scaffold failure.
Austin Police Department Lt. Mark Spangler said APD obtained a search warrant to investigate the incident.
The areas we are looking at are, Did this accident have a genesis? Spangler said. What caused that equipment to fail? Was it mechanical? Was it human error? Was it an oversight? Thats the full spectrum of what we are looking at.
The cause of the accident is still under investigation and APD will conduct interviews as well as an examination of all equipment used in the scaffolding. The warrant stated negligent homicide as a possibility.
Randy Harris, a member of a laborers union from Illinois, said he was protesting to make the construction worker case a national issue.
Nobody deserves to be hurt or killed at work, Harris said. We want people to be able to go to work, feed their families and go home.
This is a Z Graphix Production, Produced by Jeffry Zavala and Directed by Jason Cato.
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Communications by Selena Fernandez
Cinematography by Jeffry Zavala
Photography by Charlie Lockwood & Jeffry Zavala
To learn more go to,
http://workersdefense.org
http://buildaustin.orgGov. Rick Perry and employees within the state insurance building did not meet the... more
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On October 11th 2009, Several New York Based Puerto Rican Artists came together in protest of the on-going literary art censorship going on in Puerto Rico.
Calling on everyone to become aware of the situation happening in Puerto Rico, noting that they stand in solidarity with the struggles the Brothers and Sisters face in Puerto Rico.
Reminding everyone to stand alongside the people's struggles in puerto rico, inviting all to take part in the General Day of Strike in Solidarity with The People in Puerto Rico.
Thursday October 15, 2009
TIME 5:00 PM
LOCATION Puerto Rican Federal Affairs Administration 135 W 50Th St. New York CityOn October 11th 2009, Several New York Based Puerto Rican Artists came together in... more
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The two most important news of these days are those that have received less space on italian televisions and newspapers. It's not strange, is not accidental. In many cases it's censorship pure and simple, in others it's the sheer inability on the part of journalists to see the big picture.The two most important news of recent days are the manifestations of workers and students and the verdicts on the trials of 2001 G8 summit in Genoa.The two most important news of these days are those that have received less space on... more
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On Oct. 5th, 2009Outside the Hunter College West Building Students, Faculty, Staff and Supporters came together in protest of a new company called AVI which have taken over Hunter College Cafeteria, Coffee Stand, and all Deli stands earlier this year. It was on September 3rd, 2009 at the height of lunch hour, that the cafeteria workers courageously organized a work stoppage to protest AVI's decision to slash the health benefits and do away with the pension the employees receive under the union contract signed by the previous owner. While demanding these take-aways, the company stated it will give workers no raise at all this year, followed by 15-cent "raises" in the next two years. AVI runs non-union operations at Baruch and at Sarah Lawrence College. Since coming to Hunter, it has jacked food and coffee prices up, sometimes by 100% or more. Like Hunter Students, the cafeteria workers are largely black, latino, women and others subjected not only to this exploitation but to many kinds of discrimination in this capitalist society we live in. The Hunter Internationalist Club has encourage everyone to work with them and all supporters of workers rights to build active solidarity with the cafeteria workers.. Their cause is our cause too!On Oct. 5th, 2009Outside the Hunter College West Building Students, Faculty, Staff and... more
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Astrid Thoenig is marking her 100th birthday by doing what she's done since she was a teenager: showing up to work.Astrid Thoenig is marking her 100th birthday by doing what she's done since she... more
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Energy Star and Green guru Danny Seo have teamed up and developed a website to help people reduce their office’s energy bill while creating a more environmentally friendly workspace. The site hopes to educate office workers about the environmental impact their day to day job functions have on the environment and how they can offset some of that footprint by making their office building and co-workers more energy efficient.Energy Star and Green guru Danny Seo have teamed up and developed a website to help... more
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Solidarity greeting from one of the central leaders of the resistance in Honduras to the people of the US.
Filmed by Shaun Joseph. Miguel Luna - reporterSolidarity greeting from one of the central leaders of the resistance in Honduras to... more
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Worker productivity over the months of April, May, and June has increased 6.4%, while the amount of pay and benefits received in relation to the amount of work done has decreased by 5.8%.
This raises questions as to why the employer is the only one who gets to be rewarded for the increase in productivity of his/her workers.Worker productivity over the months of April, May, and June has increased 6.4%, while... more
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The workers of Innse won and the factory, once Innocenti machinery, will not be dismantled for real estate speculation as the first buyer intended to do. The new owner, the group Camozzi, accepted an agreement for the resumption of activity in early October and for the industrial use "at least until 2025". All 49 workers put in mobility in May 2008 will be employed again, and were granted the requests of the unions for social welfare provisions.The workers of Innse won and the factory, once Innocenti machinery, will not be... more
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Workers in Pyeontaek, South Korea refused this summer to submit quietly to the worldwide economic downturn. When in May carmaker Ssangyong announced massive layoffs at its assembly plant, about 1000 unionized workers occupied the factory and stocked it with tools to defend against an anticipated police assault. The occupation lasted 77 days, until last week when police commandos led a massive attack on the plant through the roof, injuring hundreds of workers. Power and water were shut off the week prior, causing many of the workers to fall ill from dehydration.
I spoke with Loren Goldner, an American author who visited the plant in June and Jung Sik Hwa, a member of the Korean Metal Workers Union in an exclusive broadcast interview. Hwa and other solidarity demonstrators fought against the police last week.
Full-length interviews and more information at http://mediahacker.org.Workers in Pyeontaek, South Korea refused this summer to submit quietly to the... more
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