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Sen. Bernie Sanders launches probe into Amazon’s labor practices

June 21, 2023 -

He kick-started the probe through a June 20 letter addressed to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. The Vermont senator demanded information about the company's "systematically under-reported" injury rates, employee turnover, productivity targets and adherence to federal and state safety recommendations. Sanders gave Jassy and Amazon a July 5 deadline to respond to his letter.

"Amazon sets an example for the rest of the country," said Sanders, the chairman of the Senate Committee on ...

Major U.S. corporations are relying on illegal migrants for cheap labor

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This helps explain why and how all of the new jobs created in this country since 2018 have gone to foreign-born workers and has effectively flooded the American labor market with millions of legally eligible workers who have no bargaining power when it comes to their wages because they are illegal immigrants.

Their employment pursuits have been facilitated by a non-governmental organization known as the Tent Partnership for Refugees, according to a report by Zero Hedge. Founded ...

Bureau of Labor Statistics reports ZERO GROWTH in manufacturing jobs in March

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This comes from the BLS's latest Employment Situation Summary for March, revealing that the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States remained at 12,956,000 – a figure that has not changed since February, following a decline of 10,000 jobs from January.

The figure comes despite the Biden administration launching an aggressive campaign to increase manufacturing employment through public subsidies enacted under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) of 2021 ...

JOBS CRISIS: Almost 107 million Americans are not in the labor force

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Despite these economic hurdles, the administration of President Joe Biden and mainstream media maintain an optimistic narrative, asserting that the unemployment rate is low and everything is under control. The recent employment report for February, however, has been dubbed by some as "the most ridiculous jobs report in history," revealing a puzzling paradox.

Digging into the report, it becomes evident that the number of native-born workers in the United States has plummeted ...

Biden’s post-pandemic “job recovery” driven almost entirely by MIGRANT LABOR, study finds

February 21, 2024 -

The Feb. 13 study noted that the entry of foreign-born workers into the U.S. labor force is responsible for Biden's "job recovery." It pointed out that the 2.7 million "additional" individuals joining the workforce in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2023 was only made possible due to an increase in 2.9 million immigrant jobs – both legal and illegal – and a reduction of 183,000 native-born American jobs.

It also mentioned that the 77 percent overall labor force participation ...

Popular U.S. food brands linked to forced labor by prisoners in AP exposé

February 11, 2024 -

While many of us associate forced labor camps with countries like Russia, prison labor plays a significant role in the journey from farm to table for much of the U.S.’s food supply. The Louisiana State Penitentiary, which was once a Southern slave plantation and is now the country's biggest maximum-security prison, is supplying big names like Walmart, McDonald’s and Cargill with meat via prison-raised cattle, according to a two-year investigation by the Associated Press.

This ...

Forced prison labor is supplying renowned U.S. food giants with millions of dollars worth of agricultural products

February 16, 2024 -

Coming out of Louisiana State Penitentiary are unmarked trucks packed with cattle. AP report indicated that prisoners here are sentenced to hard labor and forced to work, for pennies an hour or sometimes nothing at all. After rumbling down a country road to an auction house, the cows are bought by a local rancher. The news outlet followed another 600 miles to a Texas slaughterhouse that feeds into the supply chains of giants like McDonald's, Walmart and Cargill.

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More and more children are getting hurt in American workplaces as CHILD LABOR VIOLATIONS skyrocket by 600%

January 17, 2024 -

According to the Labor Department's data, child labor violations have more than tripled in the past 10 years, with violations in the food service industry increasing by nearly sixfold. In the first nine months of 2023, Labor Department officials found more than 4,700 teenagers under 18 working in violation of federal child labor laws. Of these, more than three-quarters worked in the food service industry. (Related: State legislators would rather resurrect child labor than pay ...

China’s humanoid robot factories to go online in 2025, HALF of human labor force to be eliminated

December 08, 2023 -

Communist China says it plans to begin unleashing its own humanoid robots, one of which is called GR-1, as soon as 2025. GR-1 will supposedly be so advanced as to render many human workers obsolete – you can see a picture of the GR-1 concept at Fftai.cn.

An English translation of a Chinese article about humanoid robots explains how they will come integrated with advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), high-end manufacturing and new materials. They ...

Australian Labor Party’s Net Zero plan involves killing koalas that get in the way of wind turbines

November 13, 2023 -

In February 2022, the koala was listed as "endangered" in Queensland, New South Wales (NSW) and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) under the federal Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act. (Related: Koalas now officially recognized as an endangered species.)

"This is supposed to be the premier law for protecting Australia’s environment, yet it is powerless." Sadly, "meaningful legislation is the only way to protect the iconic koalas," ...

SPY IN THE SKY: NYPD will use surveillance drones to monitor private Labor Day parties this weekend

September 01, 2023 -

In a press conference, NYPD Assistant Commissioner Kaz Daughtry explained: “If a caller states there’s a large crowd, a large party in a backyard, we’re going to be utilizing our assets to go up and go check on the party.”

The idea is to send drones over people’s yards to check out barbecues and other parties that neighbors have complained about to determine whether it is worth sending officers in. Daughtry said it is a way to use their resources more efficiently.

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Big Tech and Big Government to subsidize salaries of MSM journalists in Canada

December 12, 2023 -

LifeSiteNews expounded on the $100 million agreement involving search engine giant Google and the government of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The outlet also cited the augmented subsidies from Ottawa as outlined in the Fall Economic Statement. These two, LifeSiteNews said, are poised to significantly subsidize the salaries of MSM journalists.

Rudyard Griffiths, journalist and executive director of Canadian news site The Hub, said journalists earning up to ...

OBSOLETE MAN: Leading economist warns that “almost all forms of human labor” will be taken over by AI

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One such individual is former Treasury Secretary and leading economist Larry Summers. He recently joined the board of directors for ChatGPT creators OpenAI, and he has served in the Obama and Clinton administrations. Summers is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. His connections to the global elites give a lot of weight to the predictions he makes about the world's economic future, so humanity should take heed of his recent prediction ...

Report suggests legacy automakers and EV manufacturers are “at risk of ties” to Uyghur FORCED LABOR in China

February 14, 2024 -

The region in China's northwest is an important aluminum producer and accounts for at least nine percent of global supply. The report suggests that the industry is linked to state-sponsored labor transfer programs that have been accused of forcing Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities into jobs.

This means legacy automakers Toyota Motor Corp., General Motors Co. (GM) and Volkswagen AG (VW), along with electric vehicle manufacturers Tesla Inc. and China's BYD Co., are ...

Department of Labor says California poultry supplier must pay $3.8 million for illegally employing children in “dangerous jobs”

December 15, 2023 -

According to the Department of Labor (DOL), the company hired children as young as 14 to debone poultry using dangerous tools like sharp knives, and to operate power-driven lifts to move pallets.Employers slashed the wages of workers who cooperated with DOL investigators

Officials who investigated the matter said minors worked "excessive hours" in violation of federal child labor regulations. Employers later punished workers who cooperated with DOL investigators by ...

America IGNORING human rights, child labor abuses in the DRC to secure supplies of METALS for EV batteries

September 15, 2023 -

Known as the world's "king of cobalt," the DRC has long been regarded as the world's largest producer of the metal, accounting for nearly three-quarters of global output in 2022. A third of that output comes from the country's informal mining sector, made up of artisanal miners and children who often work with no safety equipment in dangerous, hand-dug mines. (Related: Big Tech demand for cobalt drives SLAVE MINES in the Congo.)

Cobalt has become an essential component ...

BIG BRIBES: Big Tech spent at least $250M to kill regulatory proposals in Congress

July 10, 2023 -

The National Pulse's Jack Montgomery shed light on the scheme in a July 7 article, claiming that the tech giants shelled out huge amounts to block any bills limiting their censorship of conservatives.

"Republicans concerned about censorship worked alongside Democrats championing unions to pass bills with bipartisan majorities. None of them made it to the floor of either chamber of Congress, despite public support for regulating Big Tech," he wrote.

According to Montgomery's ...

EIGHT key body systems are under PERPETUAL ATTACK by Big Food and Big Pharma

May 22, 2023 -

Those same consumers develop symptoms of "bad food disease" (BFD) and they begin suppressing those signs with over-the-counter medications, which is about as smart as cutting the wire to the "check engine" light on an automobile and thinking that might fix the problem.

After a few days or weeks of covering up all the symptoms of BFD, these same folks head off to their allopathic doctor, who has ZERO college education or training in nutrition, who says all the problems are ...

EU COVID jab purchases point to organized criminal collusion between Big Pharma and Big Government

December 19, 2023 -

The deal between von der Leyen and Bourla took place over text messages that, conveniently, have since "disappeared." We know the conversation took place in March 2021 when von der Leyen agreed to purchase Bourla's jabs over text in a deal worth around €35 billion.

The following January in 2022, the Pfizer jabs von der Leyen purchased were distributed across Europe, but the EC president's team was unable to ever find the text messages that facilitated all this.

"It ...

Big Food, Big Pharma responsible for creating DANGEROUS U.S. dietary guidelines that actually HARM people

October 17, 2023 -

Nine of the 20 DGAC members are on the dole of drug companies like Abbott, Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, as well as private endeavors and companies like the National Dairy Council and Weight Watchers International. These 20 folks are considered food and nutrition "experts," providing recommendations for updating the United States government's official dietary advice to the country.

For its report, which was published on October 4, U.S. Right to Know compiled publicly available ...