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☆ Amazon Union President Chris Smalls Seen Fighting Worker in Video
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Katherine Long | Jack Newsham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +27 min

On the night of December 5, the president of the Amazon Labor Union pummeled another union member. Some longtime Amazon Labor Union organizers decided to begin organizing on their own, without Smalls. All three said they believe in Smalls' mission and support the goals of the Amazon Labor Union, but worry about Smalls' ability to lead. Amazon Labor Union members consoled each other after the union lost the vote at its second warehouse, LDJ5, last April. One purpose of the organization appears to be to raise funds for the Amazon Labor Union, according to its certificate of incorporation.

☆ Starbucks shareholders want more information about the company’s anti-union efforts
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Danielle Wiener-Bronner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

New York CNN —Starbucks’ investors have voted in favor of an independent review of the company’s aggressive anti-union efforts. The assessment would include remedies if it finds that Starbucks has broken its own stated commitment to workers rights. Starbucks workers rally in celebration of the first anniversary of the union's founding on December 9, 2022 in New York City. Over the past year and a half, Starbucks has been waging a bitter fight against unionization efforts. During a hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee about the company’s labor practices on Wednesday, one former employee said he was wrongfully fired after organizing.

☆ Starbucks shareholders to vote on proposals for labor probe, succession planning
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Amelia Lucas | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Shareholder votes aren't binding, so the board can reject proposals even if a majority of investors vote in favor. More than 190 company-owned Starbucks locations have voted to unionize under Starbucks Workers United, according to National Labor Relations Board data as of Friday. Members of a recently formed union of Starbucks workers hold a rally to celebrate the first anniversary of their founding, December 9, 2022 in New York City. Apple, unlike Starbucks, agreed to perform the assessment without waiting for a shareholder vote. But Trillium has more than two decades of experience putting shareholder proposals before Starbucks' board.

☆ Hate your commute? It might actually be good for your mental health, scientists say.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The commute is often seen as a chore, but the pandemic showed it can be good for your mental health. You need protected time to mentally switch gears after work to prevent burnout, two experts said. This happens on two fronts, the researchers said: psychological detachment and psychological recovery. In an unpublished study, the researchers asked 80 university employees to discuss situations when they were able to mentally switch off. Remote workers, who don't tend to have a commute, can also learn to switch off by creating a fake commute for themselves.

☆ Self-proclaimed 'Crocodile of Wall Street' gets tech job while under house arrest
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Heather Morgan, aka "Razzlekhan," has been in house arrest facing charges in a massive crypto scheme. A D.C. federal court is now letting her leave home just to work at a tech company's NYC office. Morgan has managed to wrangle some freedoms during her house arrest so far. "While awaiting resolution of this matter, Ms. Morgan has sought to be productive," her lawyer told the court in November. Morgan wore a few hats in her past life, calling herself the "Crocodile of Wall Street," and writing columns.

☆ Gen Zers and millennials are turning to freelancing in greater numbers than ever before. Here's why.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Alexandra York | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Gen Zers and millennials were more likely to pursue freelance work, it found. The reasons for freelancing vary, but common factors include flexibility and the desire for control. The platform's "Freelance Forward 2022" report, which studied 3,000 professionals, found Gen Z and millennials were the most likely to explore freelancing: In 2022, 46% of millennial professionals and 43% of Gen Z professionals surveyed performed freelance work. Insider spoke with Lilani, two millennial freelancers, and two Gen Z freelancers to learn why the type of work had attracted two generations of young professionals. For instance, Iyana Jones-Reese is a freelance photographer on top of her full-time job, while Levi Newman writes Amazon product descriptions for a living.

☆ CEOs who resist America's growing union wave are making a 'huge mistake' in the war for talent
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-17 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | Marguerite Ward | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

America's unionization wave doesn't show signs of dissipating, and CEOs would be better suited adjusting their leadership style to meet it, especially as the war for talent continues. "Taking it very personally, and making it very personal, has been a huge mistake that employers have made," Bronfenbrenner told Insider. It's a measure that workers want things that employers can't give them and only a union can give them." "When more workers have unions, wages rise for union and non-union workers," Janelle Jones, the chief economist at the Department of Labor, wrote on the department's website. "But there are other measures — if you have a union, you'll have lower turnover, workers will be more productive.

☆ Starbucks and Amazon's PR nightmare is coming true as one of their combined stores pushes to unionize
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Alex Bitter | Nancy Luna | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

About 30 Starbucks employees at the New York store will participate in the vote, Bloomberg reported. One of the Starbucks Amazon Go stores is considering unionizing this week. Roughly 30 Starbucks employees at the Times Square location will decide on December 15 whether to join Starbucks Workers United. The workers were protesting "short staffing and the company's failure to bargain with union stores," Starbucks Workers United said in a press release. A Starbucks Amazon Go cafe StarbucksBoth Amazon and Starbucks have cultivated reputations as progressive employers and pushed back against unionsBoth companies have painted themselves as forward-thinking on worker treatment and benefits.

☆ French prosecutors name Ukrainian suspect in Lebanese central bank probe
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( David Gauthier-Villars | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Dec 5 (Reuters) - French prosecutors said on Monday they have put a Ukrainian woman linked to the governor of Lebanon's central bank under formal investigation as part of a cross-border probe into alleged fraud to the detriment of the Lebanese state. A lawyer for Kosakova said he and his client would "react very soon" to the French prosecutors' decisions. Salameh, who has not been named as a suspect by French prosecutors but who had some of his real estate assets in France seized as part of the investigation, did not respond to a message seeking comment. A French lawyer for Salameh, Pierre-Olivier Sur, said the June decision on Kosakova "doesn't change anything". In the interview with Reuters, Riad Salameh has said he bought real estate assets with his own money, earned when he worked as an investment banker.

Nov 30 (Reuters) - Industrial conglomerate General Electric Co (GE.N) and defense contractor L3Harris Technologies Inc (LHX.N) are among those competing to acquire rocket maker Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings Inc (AJRD.N), according to people familiar with the matter. Aircraft producer Textron Inc (TXT.N) and private equity firm Veritas Capital are also vying to acquire El Segundo, California-based Aerojet, which has a market value of about $4 billion, the sources said. Aerojet has been running a process to sell itself after its $4.4 billion sale to Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) was thwarted by antitrust regulators in February, Reuters has previously reported. Spokespeople for Aerojet, General Electric, Textron and Veritas Capital did not respond to requests for comment. Its customers include the Pentagon, Boeing (BA.N), Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Technologies Corp (RTX.N).

Nov 15 (Reuters) - FTX Trading's new CEO John J. Ray III, a lawyer tapped to lead the collapsed crypto exchange's restructuring, previously oversaw the $23 billion bankruptcy of energy firm Enron Corp and has a reputation for boosting creditor recoveries. Ray, 63, on Monday declined to comment on his initial priorities as FTX's CEO. Serving as Enron's CEO throughout its years-long bankruptcy, Ray's work resulted in major settlements with banks accused of helping Enron deceive investors, including a $1.66 billion settlement with Citigroup in 2008. Mark Lichtenstein, an attorney who worked on Enron's bankruptcy, saw many parallels between FTX and that case. "You’ve got such a meltdown, similar to Enron, sort of a run on the bank," Lichtenstein said.

☆ GOP Insider readers: Dump Trump!
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Kayla Gallagher | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +26 min

Insider asked its Republican readers to send in their thoughts on Donald Trump following the GOP's dismal midterm performance. Subscribers to Insider's newsletter were asked two questions: Do you agree with the GOP insiders who blame Trump? Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Image— Joe S.I don't blame Trump per se. Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images— Julia T.I think Trump, DeSantis AND the GOP are EXTREMELY dangerous for our Democracy. The Republican Party needs to get away from the extremists in the party or the Republican Party will no longer exist.

☆ EXCLUSIVE Rocket maker Aerojet solicits acquisition offers -sources
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( David Carnevali | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Aerojet, which is providing propulsion engines for NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket, is working with advisers on an auction process and asked for indications of acquisition interest earlier this month, the sources said. Aerojet develops and manufactures liquid and solid rocket propulsion and hypersonic engines for space, defense, civil and commercial applications. Its customers include the Pentagon, Boeing (BA.N), Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Technologies Corp (RTX.N). Activist hedge fund Elliott Investment Management disclosed it had accumulated a 3.7% stake in Aerojet in August. Aerojet Chief Executive Eileen Drake said in September that "low to mid-single-digit" sales growth was most probable for the company this year.

☆ US Midterms 2022: 5 States Are Voting to Ban Slavery in Prisons
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Bethany Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Voters in Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, and Vermont will be voting on changing this legislation. The landmark 13th Amendment to the US Constitution, ratified on December 6, 1865, officially abolished slavery but allowed it to continue as a punishment in prisons against convicted felons. For states in the former Confederacy, the loophole was a tool to maintain the dynamics of slavery, post-abolition, said AP. But in some states, including Alabama, inmates get paid nothing for their work. "For an entire generation, it put Black men and women back into slavery by incarcerating them and selling their labor to private corporations," said Chase.

Instead, they're embroiled in a battle over who is the legal owner of all that stolen crypto. A company spokesperson told CNBC that Bitfinex customers could have sold the tokens for cash and then used the cash to buy more bitcoins at the time. The decision to offer customers tokens came after the company decided to generalize its losses across all account holders by 36%. Bitfinex hack victim Rafal Bielenia. Will Hogarth, who also had his crypto stolen in the Bitfinex hack, told CNBC, "I still expect my bitcoin back and I don't see any reason why they would keep it."

☆ Inside the cold war between Amazon and unions, which are wielding drones and secret agents to expose the company's labor practices
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Katherine Long | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Unions infiltrated Amazon construction sites in Oregon and Washington seeking regulatory violations. On a frosty morning in February 2021, Tom Tanner walked into an under-construction Amazon warehouse in eastern Washington seeking work. Campaigns to organize Amazon warehouse workers have grabbed national headlines. Amazon workers at the LDJ5 Amazon Sort Center join a rally in support of the union on April 24 in Staten Island, New York. Wendell Jeffson in a boom lift at the Amazon warehouse in Shelby, Michigan, when he was 17.

☆ New: The Accused Crypto Couple
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailNew: The Accused Crypto CoupleIn February 2022, the Justice Department announced charges against Heather Morgan & Ilya Lichtenstein for their alleged roles in the conspiracy to launder $4.5 billion in stolen cryptocurrency.

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☆ Amazon Labor Union faces next showdown in upstate New York
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

The next month, that same group, the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), fell short at a smaller facility across the street. On Wednesday, workers at an Amazon facility near Albany, New York, will begin voting on whether to join the ALU and become the second unionized Amazon warehouse in the United States. It also comes as Amazon has still not formally recognized the union in Staten Island or come to the bargaining table. Chris Smalls, a leader of the Amazon Labor Union, leads a march of Starbucks and Amazon workers and their allies to the homes of their CEOs to protest union busting on Labor Day, September 5, 2022, in New York City, New York. “I think they have an uphill battle ahead,” Kochan said of the union vote at the ALB1 facility.

The case centers on how courts decide when an artist makes "fair use" of another's work under copyright law. The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the estate's appeal of a lower court's decision favoring Goldsmith. The Supreme Court's eventual decision could have broad or narrow implications for fair use depending on the ruling, Tushnet said. The Warhol estate told the Supreme Court the 2nd Circuit's decision "casts a cloud of legal uncertainty over an entire genre of visual art, including canonical works by Andy Warhol and countless other artists." Goldsmith's lawyers told the Supreme Court that a ruling favoring the foundation would "transform copyright law into all copying, no right."

☆ Made Men: A photo tour of the most notorious sites of New York Mafia history – and what they look like now
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-23 | by ( Andrew Lichtenstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +25 min

Andrew Lichtenstein for InsiderManhattan's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, on the western edge of Midtown, got its name from its crowded tenements. On March, 13, 2019, Gambino family crime boss Frankie Cali was shot dead in the driveway outside his Todt Hill home. Andrew Lichtenstein for InsiderThe service road to the Belt Parkway runs through the northern edge of the Brighton Beach neighborhood. John Gotti's Family Home, Howard Beach, QueensThe home where John Gotti, the leader of the Gambino crime family. It's here that John Gotti, the leader of the Gambino crime family and thus the 'Godfather' of the American mafia, lived and raised his family.

☆ Camere din picturi celebre, aduse la viață prin imagini generate de computer
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-11 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +1 min

De la umilul dormitor al lui Van Gogh din Camera din Arles, din 1888, până la pictura lui Roy Lichtenstein, cu picturi odihnitoare din 1991, fiecare operă de artă oferă pasionaților de artă sau de design interior o idee despre tendințele de decorare ale perioadei respective. O agenția de creație din Marea Britanie a expus aceste interioare din picturi, ca și cum ar fi camere din viața reală. Cele șase camere prezentate din colecție dau viață picturilor celebre din ultimii două sute de ani, prin tehnologia CG. Pentru a crea interpretări realiste, echipa a colaborat cu cercetătorul specialist Charlie Ashton, editorul general Jonathan Addy, artistul și designerul interior CG Andrey Barinov și directorul de artă Povilas Daknys, menționează Homeadvisor. # „Camera din Arles”, Vincent van Gogh# „The Sun shine on the Corner”, Grant Wood# „My dining room”, Wassily Kandinsky# „Kitchen”, Konstantin Korovin# „Living room”, Roy Lichtenstein# „Empress Alexandra Feodorovna’s Sitting Room”, Eduard Petrovich Hau

Persons: Van Gogh, Roy Lichtenstein, Charlie Ashton, Jonathan Addy, Vincent van Gogh, Grant Wood, Wassily Kandinsky, Konstantin Korovin, Alexandra Feodorovna’s, Eduard Petrovich Locations: Arles

☆ O nouă ligă de fotbal ar putea apărea în viitor în Europa
▼ + stars: | 2021-03-17 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Astfel, toate cele 25 de cluburi profesioniste din Belgia, sunt pentru crearea noii competiții, a cărei denumire va fi BeNeLeague.Contractele cu deținătorii de drepturi TV din cele două campionate vor expira în 2025, iar oficialii își doresc ca noua ligă să debuteze chiar de atunci.Despre formatul competiției se discută de mai mult timp, însă deja se cunoaște că aceasta va include 8 cluburi din Belgia și 10 din Eredivisie. Celelalte echipe vor continua să evolueze în campionatele naționale.O companie renumită de consultanță financiară și audit a estimat că noul turneu ar putea genera un profit anual de peste 400 de milioane de euro din marketing și drepturi de televizare a meciurilor.Dacă va fi creată, BeNeLeague nu va fi prima competiție din Europa la care participă cluburi din două țări.Grupările galeze Cardiff City, Swansea City, Newport County și Wrexham evoluează în campionatul Angliei, FC Andorra joacă în a treia ligă valorică din Spania, echipele din Lichtenstein - în campionatul Elveției, iar AS Monaco este una dintre forțele din Ligue 1, prima divizie franceză.

Organizations: Cardiff City, Swansea City, Newport County, FC Andorra, AS, Ligue Locations: Belgia, Eredivisie, Europa, Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Angliei, Spania, Lichtenstein, Elveției, AS Monaco, franceză

☆ Adunarea generală a Ligii Profesioniste Belgiene a votat în unanimitate unirea cu Eredivisie
▼ + stars: | 2021-03-17 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

O nouă ligă de fotbal ar putea apărea în viitor în Europa. Adunarea generală a Ligii Profesioniste Belgiene a votat în unanimitate unirea cu Eredivisie - primul divizie al campionatului Țărilor de Jos.Astfel, toate cele 25 de cluburi profesioniste din Belgia, sunt pentru crearea noii competiții, a cărei denumire va fi BeNeLeague.Contractele cu deținătorii de drepturi TV din cele două campionate vor expira în 2025, iar oficialii își doresc ca noua ligă să debuteze chiar de atunci.Despre formatul competiției se discută de mai mult timp, însă deja se cunoaște că aceasta va include 8 cluburi din Belgia și 10 din Eredivisie. Celelalte echipe vor continua să evolueze în campionatele naționale.O companie renumită de consultanță financiară și audit a estimat că noul turneu ar putea genera un profit anual de peste 400 de milioane de euro din marketing și drepturi de televizare a meciurilor.Dacă va fi creată, BeNeLeague nu va fi prima competiție din Europa la care participă cluburi din două țări.Grupările galeze Cardiff City, Swansea City, Newport County și Wrexham evoluează în campionatul Angliei, FC Andorra joacă în a treia ligă valorică din Spania, echipele din Lichtenstein - în campionatul Elveției, iar AS Monaco este una dintre forțele din Ligue 1, prima divizie franceză.

Organizations: Adunarea, Ligii Profesioniste Belgiene, Cardiff City, Swansea City, Newport County, FC Andorra, AS, Ligue Locations: Europa, Eredivisie, Jos.Astfel, Belgia, Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Angliei, Spania, Lichtenstein, Elveției, AS Monaco, franceză

☆ Fotbalistul moldovean Nicolae Milinceanu a semnat un contract cu PAS Giannina, club din Super Liga Greciei
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-15 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +1 min

Fotbalistul moldovean Nicolae Milinceanu a semnat un contract cu PAS Giannina, club din Super Liga GrecieiInternaționalul moldovean Nicolae Milinceanu a devenit astăzi jucătorul clubului PAS Giannina, care evoluează în Super Liga Greciei. Atacantul a semnat un contract valabil până în iunie 2022. În 40 de meciuri a marcat 8 goluri și a dat 5 pase decisive. Anterior, Nicolae Milinceanu a evoluat la cluburi precum Rapid București, Petrolul Ploiești (ambele – România), Granit Mikashevichi (Belarus) și Chiasso (Elveția). În tricoul Naționalei Moldovei, Nicolae Milinceanu a disputat 14 meciuri și a marcat un gol.

Persons: Nicolae Milinceanu, Milinceanu, Oleg Reabciuk, Ferreira Organizations: Liga Greciei, FC Vaduz, Rapid București, Petrolul Ploiești, Academia Chișinău, grec Olympiacos Locations: Lichtenstein, România, Belarus, Chiasso, Elveția, Moldova, Chișinău, Nisporeni, Zimbru Chișinău, Moldovei, grec Olympiacos Pireu

☆ Numărul cazurilor de HIV creşte îngrijorător în Europa de Est, Rusia şi Asia Centrală
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-27 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

În total 136.000 de persoane au fost diagnosticate cu HIV, în 2019, în regiunea acoperită de Biroul pentru Europa al OMS - dintre care 80% din cazuri în partea de est a acestei regiuni. Din această regiune fac parte 53 de ţări - inclusiv Rusia şi mai multe state din Asia Centrală. ”În pofida accentului pus în acest moment asupra covid-19, nu trebuie să pierdem din vedere alte probleme de sănătate publică, precum HIV. Un diagnostic mai precoce al HIV este o prioritate urgentă”, subliniază într-un comunicat Andrea Ammon, care conduce Centrul european. Numărul noilor diagnostice de HIV în această regiune ”a crescut cu 19% în ultimul deceniu”, subliniază autorii raportului, potrivit cărora numărul ”persoanelor care trăiesc în regiune cu HIV fără să fie dagnosticate creşte”, la rândul său.

Persons: Andrea Ammon Organizations: OMS, ONU Locations: Europa, Rusia, Asia Centrală, Islanda, Lichtenstein, Norvegia, Andorra, Belgia, Monaco, Macedonia de Nord, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

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