Exclusive: Google provides cloud computing services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense, and the tech giant has negotiated deepening its partnership during Israel’s war in Gaza, a company document viewed by TIME shows.

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With a spike in road casualties related to food delivery this seriously crass comms from Bolt betrays their true contempt for workers:
- 'Now, the food delivery industry has a problem: unforeseen road incidents that can lead to food spillage.' - bolt.eu/en/blog/an-ope…

“We’re very disappointed with what the Teamsters did,” said CWA District 2-13 Vice President Mike Davis. “By selling out in secret, the Teamsters have not only damaged their own credibility but have also jeopardized the possibility of a fair settlement…” unionprogress.com/2024/04/11/cwa…

So when I tell you I put it all on the line for this strike, I’m not exaggerating. So the Teamsters going behind the backs of every single striker to make a secret deal that gives the PG (who cut off their healthcare over a $19 a week price hike) EVERYTHING it wants is a

Important to add that CWA isn't the only union the Teamsters sold out at the Post Gazette. They also sold out GCIU -- which was a Teamsters local when the strike started, before GCIU was forcibly disaffiliated from the Teamsters by Sean O'Brien.

this is why tacking racism, injustice, discrimination, bias, etc, without tacking power asymmetries is meaningless

I've been on this all day, but I'm being real when I say that I don't view labor with rose tinted glasses. I don't think everyone's always got each other's backs.

And none of that could've prepared me for Teamsters locals cutting a secret deal with bosses to bust a strike.

Disgraceful conduct: “The settlement by Teamsters Local 211/205, which represents Post-Gazette truck drivers, has set off a firestorm among the four other unions who remain on strike, including the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh.”
wesa.fm/economy-busine…

Jewish faculty at Columbia denounce the weaponization of anti-Semitism and call for the defense of the university as a 'site of learning, critical thinking, and knowledge production.' Really good letter, worth reading in its entirety. columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/0…

“SHEIN might be singled out as the worst fast-fashion retailer because the United States fears..China & it might be singled out b/c it is, in fact, the worst: the greatest polluter, the most flagrant IP thief, the largest violator of human rights” nplusonemag.com/issue-47/revie…

“I reject the use of Minnesotans w/ disabilities as a scapegoat for why Uber & Lyft can't pay their drivers a fair wage. [They] might say they care about their riders w/disabilities, but their actions over the past several years have suggested otherwise.” startribune.com/uber-and-lyft-…

~600 unionized Eaze cannabis delivery drivers & depot staff across CA could go on strike next week, ahead of 420; negotiations stalled over wages & mileage reimbursement rate. drivers say they r losing $300-$700 per month after Eaze slashed rate last year latimes.com/business/story…

Hawaii is on the verge of banning Airbnbs.

Hawaii is facing one of the worst housing crises in the U.S. and over half of the state's short-term rentals are owned by people out-of-state.

Two bills to let local governments enact bans just need final votes.
substack.perfectunion.us/p/hawaii-moves…

NEW INVESTIGATION: a California prison sergeant sexually abused an incarcerated woman for months, then harassed/stalked her for yrs after her release, records show.

🧵on Nilda Palacios' long fight to be believed + how Sgt Tony Ormonde evaded consequences: theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

Cecilia Mo, ISSI faculty affiliate, is co-author of an article on caste-class discrimination published by American Political Science Review analyzing police discrimination in Nepal when choosing cases to investigate. cambridge.org/core/journals/…