So I just watched a video that compares UK vs US basic worker’s rights and it has left me with a question that maybe some american tumblr users could answer for me, because I am very curious now. This video was by an american who has moved to the uk and has worked in both and they mention how in America he would go into work sick because there are no laws that give workers sick days or pay. I live in the UK and I used to work in a cafe where obviously I was around and handling food and drink. We have a rule that says if you are sick at work (as in you’ve thrown up) then you have to be sent home. That wasn’t an offer for you to go home either you had to leave whether you wanted to or not. If you are sick at home then you have to call in sick too, as an employee you are obligated to inform your manager immediately if you have certain symptoms such as vomiting etc. This is because of food safety regulations as certain viruses and bacteria could comtaminate the food and food surfaces and cause customers to become ill.  My question is, in America is there anything similar to this when it comes to food establishments? Like if you work in a restaurant and you fall ill at work and end up throwing up would you be forced to leave work because you work around food or would you be expected to finish your work day? If you have an illness with symptoms like vomiting would you have to stay home from work?   

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‘Get rid of the cleaners, rubbish collectors, bus drivers, supermarket checkout staff and secretaries, for example, and society will very quickly grind to a halt. On the other hand, if we woke up one morning to find that all the highly paid advertising executives, management consultants and private equity directors had disappeared, society would go on much as it did before: in a lot of cases, probably quite a bit better. So to begin with, workers need to reclaim a sense of pride and social worth. Doing so would be a big step forward in making the case that the wages and conditions of low-paid jobs must be improved in order to reflect the importance they have in all our lives.’

– Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class (2020)

since it looks like all of y'all bitches have forgotten. if you're protesting in the UK and someone hands you a sign advertising the Socialist Worker's Party, either don't take it or rip the name off.

they're shady as fuck, they've covered up sexual assaults, and they raise a bunch of money ostensibly for "socialist causes" that they use to line their own pockets. don't buy the newspaper, don't advertise their shit, and don't carry their signs at protests

Google "comrade delta" for more information I cba to add it but its publicly available knowledge

Every Worker!

I've heard ppl joking about mass work strikes across different industries and I am in love with it!!

By the end if the summer I want retail staff and farmers and transit members doing 'in work' strikes where they keep working but don't charge ppl.

I want nurses and doctors and therapists to be able to keep doing their jobs but refuse to charge ppl for care.

I want the media industry to completely dry up for a few years and we all get obsessed with classics and physical media again. I want to wait years and years for art to come out, be it video games or movies or music,

I want fast fashion to completely hault and we all just learn DIYing and sewing and circulating already made stuff.

I want mail and delivery to take months with proper priority orders (ex medical over my weird 3 am shopping trip)

I want all of us to agree money isn't real and our time and enjoyment are!!

We talk about how evil the American rich and they are but here what one british company decided to do the British rich are on a whole other level of evil

We're officially in August, which means the start of 2023's gay media month:

- heartstopper season 2 on 3 August

- rwrb movie on 11 August

- only friends the series on 12 August

Update: Apparently dangerous romance is dropping on 18 August?? WE STAY WINNING

What a great time to be gay

(Now announce some new GLs and QLs in general, or even just news about filming or something, it's 🏳️‍🌈 media month time to capitalise on that production companies)

"The only time working-class people are allowed to become heroes is when they are trapped, dying or dead [...] If there is a pit disaster [the miners are heroes], if there is a wage claim, they are militants" – Tony Benn, 1989

Mick Lynch suggests that if the anti-strike bill passes, then workers should engage in workplace disobedience, and I think that's a pretty damn powerful thing for a union leader in the UK to say.

And where he leads, I think others will follow.

The number of children who have died from starvation and dehydration in Gaza has now risen to 31.

- PRCS

‘Sold a dream’: migrant workers at children’s care chain left without pay for months

From the article:

'The affected workers were hired through agencies as part of a drive to fill 400 vacancies at Cambian children’s services – part of the CareTech group – and are mostly female nurses from India recruited for residential support worker roles.

They are understood to have spent as much as £18,000 each on relocation costs, “training” charges and other fees to take up jobs in homes that provide taxpayer-funded care for disabled and vulnerable children, including those with complex trauma and learning difficulties.

Before they left India, the nurses were promised by agents that they would receive financial support from their 11th day in the UK while inductions and background checks were completed. But after they landed earlier this year they were told this was not the case, and they would be paid only after starting shifts, according to evidence seen by the Observer.

Administrative delays and the temporary closure of several Cambian children’s homes – leaving fewer vacancies than expected – means some workers have been waiting for up to four months to start work, without any income. They are unable to find other work because their visas are tied to their employer.'

This week in 1966, (May 22nd), the Labour government of Harold Wilson declared a State of Emergency, one week into a strike by UK merchant mariners. This would provide the legal power to, amongst other things, cap food prices, and allow the Royal Navy to take control of shipping in British harbours. The Prime Minister told the House of Commons that such powers would not be used unless absolutely necessary, stating, "The government must protect the vital interests of the nation. This is not action against the National Union of Seamen."

International shipping had all but ground to a halt. Around 40 million pounds worth of exports were tied up, and both freight and passenger services were paralysed. As soon as the Queen Mary arrived in Southampton from New York carrying 850 passengers, 900 crew members immediately stopped work. (It's interesting to note the passenger-crew ratio, which speaks volumes about the state of transatlantic shipping at that time).

One of the union's demands was a reduction in working hours from 56 to 40 hours per week. Minister of Labour Ray Gunter conceded that pay and general working conditions for seamen needed to be modernised, but argued that the overtime claims that would inevitably result from the change in conditions the union was demanding, would derail the government’s attempts at wage restraint and their fight against inflation.

A week later, on May 28th, the Prime Minister upped the rhetoric, alleging that Communists were using the strike to gain influence over the National Union of Seamen. He said they were "endangering the security of the industry and the economic welfare of the nation". Not all of the governing Labour Party approved of Harold Wilson's new hard-line approach, but the strike then quickly ended, following a compromise between the union and shipowners, and the government’s commitment to set up an inquiry into employment conditions for merchant mariners.

(Main Source; BBC News)

Who else thinks zero hours contracts f*cking suck ⁉️ Bit of a long one, but this is just my thoughts and personal experience with this hellish aspect of working life in the UK. I think we deserve better!