BossFeed: Short-circuiting the argument

BossFeed, the week in work: the robotic uprising is not a moral force; $15 blowing in the wind; the opposite of going above & beyond at work; free expression vs. free evangelism; and the last line says it all.

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BossFeed: Plunder twins, deactivate!

The week in work: a right to organize for Uber & Lyft drivers; lower wages for the lowest-wage workers; a company union in the carnival industry; selling plasma to survive; plus rams, monkeys, and chickens.

 

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BossFeed: Go retro

The week in work: airport workers demand $15 in inflation-adjusted 2014 dollars, retroactive to last January 1st; the opposite of raising Arizona is filing suit against $15; it was like Uber for your work schedule, but you’re the driver; a graphical account of changing conditions at nail salons; and animals-as-metaphors. 

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BossFeed: Make it work moments

BossFeed, the week in work: unpaid interns sue the Olsen Twins; Wendy’s executives make oddly familiar minimum wage predictions;  sex workers and the call for decriminalization; and angry eagles, sad turtles, and distressed horses. 

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BossFeed: Other duties as assigned

BossFeed, the week in work: Starbucks CEO not running for President, not that you were asking; textile mills moving *from* China; Walmart workers unhappy about a raise; Seattle restaurant anecdotes go sideways; and wildlife misfires.

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BossFeed: Make a short story long

The week in work: a short career in department store retail; the long view on a $15 minimum wage story; time to make a donut shop argument about raising wages; and pandas, rattlesnakes and otters refuse to do as asked.

 

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BossFeed: Fears for tiers

BossFeed, the week in work: United Auto Workers try to mend their wage scale; your boss isn’t your family; organizing isn’t a gig yet; and 0111 swans a swimming.

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Secret of their success

BossFeed, the week in work: having rich parents is a funny form of luck; the fast food life in Greece; LGTBQ employment discrimination now illegal; and bad seeds in the animal kingdom. 

 

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Despite all my rage, I am still just a bat in a cage

BossFeed, the week in work: profanity, safety, and coal miners; localization, corporate control, and fast food franchises; siblinghood, bootstraps, and inheritance; and sharks, monkeys, and bats.

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When it's time to change

BossFeed, the week in work: retail lobbyists work it against overtime; one cheer for minimum wage; Victoria lets on a secret; and beavers, turtles, and robots do what they do.

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Living wage on a prayer

BossFeed, the week in work: women’s clothing & brain function; discrimination at Zara; farmworkers pick the right fights; and various things that don’t quite measure up.

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So many ways to hit rock bottom

BossFeed, the week in work: the Uber ick-factor; a consensus vote of no confidence; Tacoma rocks it against visible poverty; and animals reborn free.

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The sigh of the tiger

BossFeed, the week in work: another McDonald’s new hire; fair housing enforcement; a look at working on an ocean liner; and tigers everywhere but your tank. 

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That story has legs

BossFeed, the week in work: the only bad news about fifteen is a sea serpent; retail work and wholesale racial disproportionality; the look of religious freedom; and KFC just can’t help themselves.

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What's the opposite of poetic justice?

BossFeed, the week in work: Jimmy John’s controls khaki color but not wages; captions change everything; the $156 million man; when you don’t have $101,000 to spare, and a cow ends up where it ends up.

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Until justice rolls down like spiders…

BossFeed, the week in work: more abuses at the Tacoma immigrant detention center; how to adjust $15 over space and time; can anyone afford the rent these days; and animals that work, shop, and probably tweet #yolo.

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Don’t know much about art but I know what I strike

The week in work: $15 advances from Facebook & Hamburglar to Connecticut & LA; turns out the deadliest catch is in fact the deadliest job; the richest week of art sales ever; poverty, food insecurity, and body image; and untapped animal potential.

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If the new Grimace goes on strike, we’re definitely winning

BossFeed, the week in work: McDonald’s takes an even sleazier turn; NYT finds sweatshop conditions in nail salons; Domino’s tracks drivers’ speed and musical tastes; and animals roam less-than-free. 

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That's not chaos, that's progress

BossFeed, the week in work: class identification on the move; movie extras walk out for justice; pizza place anecdotes and antidotes; lions, tigers, buffaloes and monkeys push back.

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Basically, American labor law is like a Full House of Cards

The week in work: slapping a service charge and a restraining order on the Prime Minister of New Zealand; making ends meet at the ends of the state; something’s backed up in Bentonville; and zebras + spiders + Ashley + Mary-Kate.

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