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Your CEO Makes 600 Times What You Do
Read more . . . →Aptiv’s CEO took home $18.8 million last year. The median worker at that same company made $9,052. That’s not a typo. Someone working full-time at Aptiv earns less than what most people spend on rent, while the guy running the place pulls in more per day than his employees see in a month. Ross Stores — same story. CEO gets $17 million, median worker gets $9,602. A hundred major companies are running this exact playbook and nobody blinks. Meanwhile the national conversation is about tariffs and culture war nonsense instead of the fact that corporate America built a caste system...
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Jack Dorsey Fired 4,000 People and Called It Innovation
Read more . . . →Jack Dorsey just cut 4,000 jobs at Block — nearly half the company — and proudly announced it was because of AI. Not a restructuring. Not a pivot. He looked at thousands of people who built his platform and said a chatbot could do their jobs better. This is now the largest single workforce reduction explicitly blamed on AI in corporate history, and Dorsey is wearing it like a badge of honor. The stock went up. Of course it did. Here’s the part that should make you sick: some of those workers got “quickly rehired.” Meaning they were fired, stripped...
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The Party of the Working Class
Read more . . . →The Trump administration just gutted joint-employer rules and independent contractor protections in the same month. Corporations can now wash their hands of the workers who make them rich while those same workers lose every legal avenue to fight back. The “party of the working class,” everyone.
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The Money's There, It's Just Not For You
Read more . . . →AT&T’s contract with 9,000 workers expires at midnight tonight. They’re hiking healthcare, outsourcing call centers, and replacing union stores with non-union dealers — while bankrolling a new corporate HQ and March Madness. The money’s there. It’s just not for the people who do the work.
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