Workers at Amazon warehouses and distrbution centres have staged protests – over low pay, poor working conditions and climate concerns – across Europe and the USA to coincide with the online retailer’s annual discounted shopping day, Black Friday. Protests have continued to cover Cyber Monday, another crucial sales period for Amazon.
Economics
DeStatis: German Manufacturing in June 2022: new orders down 9% year on year
New orders in manufacturing:June 2022 (in real terms, provisional): -0.4% on the previous month (seasonally and calendar adjusted) -9.0% on the same month a year earlier (calendar adjusted ) May 2022 (in real terms, revised): […]
EU politics
Quds News Network: Germany Condemns Iran, Not Israel, After Israeli Attacks on Iran
Germany has responded to the Israeli assault on Iran. Despite confirming that Israel struck Iranian sites overnight, Berlin condemned Iran’s expected response, not Israel’s action. Read Article HERE Nazi Germany’s Foreign Minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop. […]
Monopolies
Jason Resnikoff – The Problem With AI Is About Power, Not Technology
‘Artificial intelligence has the potential to seriously harm workers — not because of something inherent to the technology, but because bosses are in control of it.’ In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
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