2024 was a good year for billionaires, except in China:
Author: Francine (page 4 of 86)
Amazon workers and their union, the Teamsters, launched the largest strike against Amazon in US history this week. Amazon workers in Germany and members of the union ver.di announced they will strike along with their US counterparts. The nationwide US action follows Amazon’s repeated refusal to follow the law and bargain with the thousands of Amazon workers who organised with the Teamsters.
PI Briefing | No. 48 | Teamsters Make Amazon Pay | Progressive International
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence systems is precipitating an environmentally problematic spike in data center construction.
AI’s Energy Demands Are Fueling the Climate Crisis – Inequality.org
Interesting reflections on history, equality and inequality
As climate change worsens, Spain’s new labour measures could set the perfect precedent for protecting workers against events that are no longer so unpredictable.
Grand promises of a “strong social Europe” have given way to a sidelined agenda. As the Commission shifts focus, the EU must decide: will social policy make a comeback or fade into irrelevance?
President-elect Donald Trump is stacking his Cabinet with billionaires and centi-millionaires, whose financial entanglements pose conflict-of-interest challenges.
Trump has assembled an uber-wealthy Cabinet, raising risks of ethics conflicts – The Washington Post
The EU’s Platform Work Directive aims to end worker misclassification and exploitative algorithms, but its success depends on genuine platform compliance.
EU pushes to reclassify platform workers, but how will platforms react?
Despite uneven economic recovery since the pandemic, poverty, inequality, and food insecurity continue to worsen, including in the Asia-Pacific region, which used to fare better than the rest of the Global South.
New Approaches Urgently Needed to Tackle Resurgent Social Crises | Inter Press Service
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