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.
EU politics
Kathimerini English: Workers hired ‘for trial period’ without pay or social security
This was always the goal of the EU and IMF: the destruction of unions, labour laws, and rights or workers. Read here
Corruption
HEAL: Ominous first step in EU renewal process of glyphosate: 4 member states suggest no risk for human health
Today’s announcement by France, Hungary, the NL and Sweden on the safety of glyphosate is a major step backwards. Read here
Economics
Peter Bofinger and Thomas Haas: A Nobel Award for the Wrong Model
Diamond-Dybvig-Bernanke is a flawed model of banking that has no room for a lender of last resort Read Here Ben Bernanke Dollar by Gage Skidmore
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