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Evan G

Horrific life experiences helped shape Malcolm X | Share News - Local Canadian, Caribbe... - 0 views

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Malcolm

shared by Evan G on 05 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Recognizing that the name he was given at birth was forced on his ancestors by the White people who at some point had owned his ancestors
  • Louise Little, traumatized by the horrific murder of her husband, cheated of the insurance money she should have received at his death and unable to find work to support her children was further victimized when the government imprisoned her in a mental institution, seized and scattered her children into various foster homes.
  • Evan G on 05 Jan 12
     
    Source discusses the name trouble: the blacks are given names by their white slaveholders. Links to IM---blacks cannot find their own identity if they are being named and depersonified by the whites! Also discusses Malcolm's mom, who suffers, like IM, to the point of losing her mind and sanity, all at the hands of the white oppressors. 
Zaji Z

McDonald's May Drop Hourly Worker Coverage - 0 views

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fast food nation treatment of the worker insurance coverage

shared by Zaji Z on 30 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • McDonald’s May Drop Hourly Worker Coverage
  • because the high turnover of McDonald’s workforce, combined with the low dollar amount of most claims, creates high administrative costs in proportion to spending on medical care.
  • Zaji Z on 30 Sep 11
     
    In order to make money in today's society where lawmakers try to implement policies to protect workers, the corporation continuously finds ways to save themselves some dollars by cutting coverage to its typical worker. This is exactly what McDonald's has done to its workers. 
Zaji Z

McDonald's Admits Huge Gap Between Exec, Worker Plans - 1 views

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fast food nation treatment of the worker ethics

shared by Zaji Z on 01 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • company coughs up only between 10% and 20% of hourly store workers’ insurance premiums, while it picks up a generous 80% for most corporate employees and restaurant managers. Making matters worse, hourly workers not only shell out most of the cost of their McHealthcare — amounting to $710 in 2011 — but they’re entitled to coverage of only $2,000 a year. Corporate employees, on the other hand, have unlimited benefit allowances.
  • Zaji Z on 01 Oct 11
     
    The argument of who is in more risk of an occupational hazard: a McDonald's part time employee or the chain manager, it's a difficult decision to realize... of course, that was a sarcastic statement. Corporate giants and its executives have been indulging themselves in countless benefits including the benefit of proper health care while its typical kitchen employees struggle to keep up with quota demands set by greedy managers, providing an education for themselves and trying to raise children in order to maintain a family. This excerpt is clear proof of the sickening business ethics large corporations now follow: not to protect its workers, but rather the privileged who wallow in their own wealth. 
Willie C

Nickel and Dimed - 0 views

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nickel and dimed treatment of the worker ethics poor workers

shared by Willie C on 03 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Willie C on 03 Oct 11
     
    "...documents the daily tribulations of retail, housecleaning, and restaurant workers: daily humiliation from management, the inability to take time off for illness without docking pay, recriminations for promoting unions, company health insurance that is still unaffordable, etc"
  • Willie C on 03 Oct 11
     
    This quote comes from a personal blog but highlights important points about the hardships she endures while performing the various duties.
Ellen L

Barbara Ehrenreich on life on six bucks an hour | Books | The Observer - 0 views

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Nickel and Dimed politics

shared by Ellen L on 03 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • 'That was the biggest - and nastiest - surprise,' she says. 'Discovering how big an atmosphere of suspicion there was, how much surveillance we were under. First, there were the drug and personality tests, then the endless rules. At Wal-Mart, we were not even allowed to say "damn".' She touches the discreet gold hoops in her ears. 'These would have been way too big for Wal-Mart. All that was a shock and it got to me
  • As she soon discovered, turnover in the low-wage world is so fast that companies simply use people up - literally working them until their backs give up the ghost or their knees buckle beneath them - and then spit them out. The poor are unlikely to have health insurance or pensions, so there is no prospect of retirement.
  • I thought he was going to say he was paying out so much in labour it was killing him. In fact, he admitted that everything I'd said was true. He was embarrassed and apologised. So I said: "Why don't you raise the wages?" But he shrugged that off.' Their lattes drunk, the only concession she won from him was that he would clean the employee rest room
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  • The poor don't vote, because they don't see the parties addressing issues that matter to them; and the politicians don't address those issues, because they don't think those people vote.'
  • Ellen L on 03 Oct 11
     
    The author was contacted by an old boss and able to make a concession or two for the employers, talks about the cycle of the poor not being politically represented, and other commentary by the author
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