● A Black former Tesla worker was awarded $137 million for racist abuse on the job. How racist does it need to be to result in a $137 million judgment, you ask? Suuuuper racist:
“You hear, ‘Hey, boy, come right here,’ ‘N-i-g-g-e-r,’ you already know, all this,” mentioned Mr. Diaz, who’s African American. Then, a couple of hours into his shift operating the elevators, he observed a drawing on a bale of cardboard. It had an oversize mouth, large eyes, and a bone caught within the patch of hair scribbled over a protracted face, with “Booo” written beneath.
On that winter evening within the manufacturing unit, when, he mentioned, a supervisor admitted drawing the determine as a joke, Mr. Diaz had had sufficient. He typed a grievance to a Tesla supervisor on his cellphone. “Racist effigy & drawing” was the topic.
He’s not the only one with a case against Tesla.
● Bank of America is raising its minimum wage to $21 an hour. The financial institution, which has 174,000 employees within the U.S., began elevating its minimal pay in 2015 with a transfer to $15 an hour, and has clearly continued.
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● #Striketober:
● IATSE’s large strike authorization vote appears to have shaken unfastened critical sufficient negotiating from the large cash individuals {that a} strike hasn’t occurred but. However let’s not forget what these leisure employees are speaking about:
I labored on a manufacturing for Netflix the place I did 106 hours and 7 days. Working that many hours…they bought a lot cash that they don’t care concerning the penalties, it looks like. The union will cost them for infringing on our turnaround time. You already know, if I get off at midnight I shouldn’t be referred to as again to work till 10 a.m. But when they are saying, “No, it’s important to be there at 9,” then that’s referred to as a pressured name, which means that I wasn’t given my full period of time off. And so they’re presupposed to be penalized by the union, which implies they’re charged a price for the pressured name. The issue is that the businesses have a lot cash. Netflix, they’re nice with it. They’ll pay regardless of the price is and so they don’t care. And in order that’s why our union is pushing for harsher guidelines round getting sufficient time without work for individuals in order that they’re not completely drained and worn out.
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