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Support Striking New York Times Tech Workers by Breaking Your Wordle Streak

New York Times tech workers are protesting for a fair contract the day before the U.S. election.

U.S. Dockworkers End Strike Over Automation in Temporary Agreement

Workers will get a temporary 62% wage hike as a final deal is negotiated.

Ahsoka‘s Stars Are Finally Ready to Take You Behind the Scenes

With the actors' strike coming to an end this week, the heroes and villains of the Star Wars streaming show were quick to hit social media with BTS pics.

George R.R. Martin Discusses the Writers Strike’s Impact on House of the Dragon

The Song of Ice and Fire author supports his guild's strike, but says that action will not impact the process of the Game of Thrones prequel's production.

Scientists Call for Academic Shutdown in Support of Black Lives

White supremacy is baked into science and academia, from racist language in textbooks to a culture that excludes Black scientists from innovating and advancing at the same pace as their colleagues. But rather than more milquetoast statements and diversity initiatives, researchers want action. Organizers are asking the scientific community to participate in a work stoppage…

The Coronavirus’ Impact on Workers Is Like Climate Change on Warp Speed

The coronavirus has clarified the question of who is an essential worker in the truest sense of the word—the people who provide us with the bedrock on which society rests. And how we treat those workers today is a bleak, precise preview of what’s to come in the climate crisis. So far, it’s a massive…

That Time Animators Brought a Guillotine to the Disney Labor Strike in 1941

Today, we often think of labor strikes as fairly mundane affairs—at least in the United States. But there was a time when labor actions were much more intense. Like in 1941, when animators supporting the strike at Disney’s studio in Burbank, California brought a guillotine to show just how upset they were with Disney management…

This Isn’t About Greta, Cowards

Greta Thunberg changed everything on Monday: She lit into the United Nations and then joined 15 other kids in filing a complaint against the world for screwing her life. What followed has been a predictable right-wing backlash. A Fox News guest called her a “mentally ill Swedish child” (she was diagnosed with Asperger’s, which she describes…

Sanders, AOC, and Others Demand Workplace Safety Investigation of Amazon

Following yesterday’s Prime Day strike at a fulfillment center in Shakopee, Minnesota, over a dozen progressive lawmakers—including Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ro Khanna—co-signed a letter to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to request a “comprehensive investigation into the workplace conditions” in Amazon and its subsidiary businesses’ warehouses. Reporting…

New York’s Rideshare Organizers Clash Amid Unprecedented Uber Strike

Long Island City—Just days before Uber’s expected debut on the stock market at a conservative but still-astronomical $80 to $90 billion valuation, the anger among rideshare drivers boiled over into an international day of action. In at least 20 cities around the world, Uber drivers with few employment protections and no real way to contact…

Why Uber Drivers Will Strike Around the World on Wednesday

We’re just days out from Uber making its multibillion-dollar move to the New York Stock Exchange and thousands of drivers from around the world are preparing to launch a series of strikes protests on Wednesday in an effort to fight for better pay and better treatment. Uber, however, expects their driver dissatisfaction problem to only…

Hundreds Turn Out to Picket Against Uber Amid 25-Hour Driver Strike

In an outpouring of long-simmering tensions between rideshare companies and drivers whose wages have been on the decline, hundreds affiliated or acting in solidarity with grassroots group Drivers United turned out on Monday to picket an Uber Greenlight hub in Redondo Beach, California. https://gizmodo.com/furious-over-falling-pay-los-angeles-uber-drivers-prep-1833500428 Inciting today’s action was a 25-percent decrease in per-mile rates rolled…

Here’s What New York’s Climate Strike Looked Like

NEW YORK, NEW YORK—Friday is the day the climate strike officially went global, and the day it found a new home in the U.S. There more than 400 events around the country, but the epicenter was New York where the movement found its first roots in the country. After walkouts across the city, students converged…

Students Are Preparing for the First Major U.S. Climate Strike Next Month

Alexandria Villasenor doesn’t remember a world without climate change. When she was eight, Folsom Lake, the reservoir practically in her backyard in Davis, dried up amidst California’s epic drought. She peered at the dead fish on its former shores and felt her anxiety about the future start to grow. The 13 year old has since…

50,000 Las Vegas Workers Are Ready to Go on Strike Over Fears of Robots Taking Their Jobs

More than 50,000 union workers in Las Vegas are set to go on strike if new contracts are not settled by June 1, and at the top of the list of concerns for the Culinary and Bartenders Unions is protection against robot replacements. The hospitality employees—who work at 34 casinos throughout Las Vegas, including properties…

120-foot bowling strike is possibly the longest bowling strike ever

These guys decided to see if they can get a strike 120 feet away from the pins, all the way from the door of the main door of the bowling alley. It probably took a few dozen tries, but they finally succeeded, achieving what perhaps is the longest bowling strike ever.* * Of course, this…

20,000 AT&T workers have gone on strike in CA, NV, and CT. Three places that can surely do without the manpower. [LAT]

Pizza Factory Workers On Strike Over Internet Porn Sackings

Pizza and porn. The two just plain belong together. So why has a pizza factory fired three employees over a little bit of on the job ooh-la-la-look-at-her? And why can’t they settle the resulting (so far) five week strike? Word has it that the reason those three Green Isle Foods employees were terminated is “improper…

Behold The Fresh Wound On Jupiter’s Surface

It’s been almost a week since an Australian astronomer discovered a weird black spot on Jupiter, which is believed to be a comet impact. And now the Hubble Space Telescope has captured this crisp image of Jupiter’s “scar.” [Hubble Site]

What’s The Cause Of Jupiter’s Newest Spot?

Yesterday, an amateur astronomer noticed that a large black spot had appeared near Jupiter’s Southern pole. These first pictures of the phenomenon are prompting many to speculate that a passing comet or asteroid struck the gas giant. Anthony Wesley reports that he noticed the spot (seen at the top of the photo above) while observing…