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‘In a mass mailing to employees, CEO Bob Iger asked Disney people to make a regular contribution to Disney PAC to help the company lobby for expanded copyright laws, and the Trans Pacific Partnership. The company explicitly advised employees that they wouldn’t be penalized for failing to contribute. The Disney PAC gave out $375K in […]

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‘Supermarket giant Tesco has cut wages for thousands of staff after deciding to make changes to weekend, overtime and night shift rates. The new pay deal is set to affect a large proportion of their 310,000-strong workforce. Store managers were briefed on the changes last week and an official announcement is set to take place […]

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‘Biotech firm ArborGen, a leader in the research and development of genetically engineered trees (GE trees), has been fined $53.5 million in compensation and punitive damages after a court ruled that it acted to use “trickery and deceit” to “defraud” employees. Just before the holidays a judge issued the 180-page ruling (linked below) on the […]

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‘Walmart hired global security giant Lockheed Martin a few years ago to monitor activism in its massive workforce, according to new documents. The defense contractor tracked employees’ social media and reported protest participation to the retail giant. Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest defense contractor, provided Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, with intelligence-gathering and surveillance services […]

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‘Outside Sony, it would eventually seem as if all the studio’s info had been exposed for everyone to see. But inside the studio, nobody could access anything. “Everything was so completely destroyed. It was surreal. Everything was down,” one ex-employee told me. “It wasn’t just one system or one part of the lot or one […]

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‘In August, the New York Times published an in-depth profile of what it’s like to work for Amazon.com’s corporate offices. The article described an abusive environment in which employees cried at their desks and were sometimes forced to work 85-hour weeks. One woman who was diagnosed with breast cancer was threatened with termination because of […]

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‘NASA employees were caught buying child pornography from a criminal ring in Eastern Europe that distributed images of minors as young as three, it can be revealed. An investigation by Daily Mail Online found staff members from the space agency paid for pictures and videos of children in sexual situations, but were never prosecuted. Their […]

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‘Corporations are taking the retirement savings of elderly public employees and using them to inflate their stock prices so wealthy CEOs and their shareholders can enrich themselves at the expense of their companies. And it’s all completely legal. Under current financial regulations, corporate bosses are free to repurchase their own company’s shares, push stock prices […]

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‘Working four days in a row without sleep; a woman with breast cancer being put on “performance-improvement plans” together with another who had just had a stillborn child; staff routinely bursting into tears; continual monitoring; workers encouraged to turn on each other to keep their jobs. Life at Amazon sounds bleak, according to a devastating, […]

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‘Large companies guilty of paying men more than women are to be ‘named and shamed’ under moves set out by David Cameron. In a drive to ‘end the gender pay gap in a generation’, businesses with more than 250 staff will have to disclose the difference between the salaries of male and female employees. The […]

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‘Two of Britain’s biggest energy firms have issued their staff with stab vests to protect them from attack by customers who steal gas and electricity or refuse to pay their bills. The protective clothing has been given to almost 400 employees of British Gas and EDF Energy who investigate energy theft or forcibly install pre-payment […]

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