#Amazon#UK#Unions#AntiLabor#AntiUnions#LaborUnions: "Amazon has once again discovered its incredible facility for ease-of-use. The company has blanketed its shop floor with radioactively illegal "one click to quit the union" QR codes. When a worker aims their phones at the code and clicks the link, the system auto-generates a letter resigning the worker from their union.
As noted, this is totally illegal. English law bans employers from "making an offer to an employee for the sole or main purpose of inducing workers not to be members of an independent trade union, take part in its activities, or make use of its services."
Now, legal or not, this may strike you as a benign intervention on Amazon's part. Why shouldn't it be easy for workers to choose how they are represented in their workplaces? But the one-click system is only half of Amazon's illegal union-busting: the other half is delivered by its managers, who have cornered workers on the shop floor and ordered them to quit their union, threatening them with workplace retaliation if they don't.
This is in addition to more forced "captive audience" meetings where workers are bombarded with lies about what life in an union shop is like.
Amazon is very good at everything it does, including being very bad at the things it doesn't want to do. Take signing up for Prime: nothing could be simpler. The company has built a greased slide from Prime-curiosity to Prime-confirmed that is the envy of every UX designer.
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US spy-tech firm Palantir was a shoo-in for a multi-million-pound NHS contract months before the deal was signed, emails obtained by openDemocracy appear to show.
The email exchange from 2020, in which senior #NHS executives discussed the budget for a new national data platform, sees more than one person referring to #Palantir as the recipient of the funding.
Digitalis purpurea (foxglove) is a poisonous species of flowering plant. At a very precise dose it used in medicine to treat heart failure. Too much and it induces vomiting, cardiac arrest, and death. A favourite poison of many a 1920s murder mystery novelist.
Wir denken darüber normalerweise nicht nach, aber warum eigentlich nicht? Weil die Menschen, die das machen, völlig unsichtbar sind. Deswegen war so einzigartig, dass sie gestern dort waren.
Einige waren extra angereist, um zuzuhören. Sie waren angemeldet und wurden nicht reingelassen. Mehrere beschreiben die Behandlung am Einlass des Bundestages als extrem unfreundlich und rassistisch. Sie kennen das. Alltag in Deutschland. Wir werden dem nachgehen.
Have you ever noticed how each foxglove bell has different patterns on the inside, in the effort to attract as many pollinators as possible, even on the same plant?