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East Bay Health Care Workers Strike Forces County to Disband the Boss

Leave a Comment / bosses, health care, labor, Strike / By max cyril

On day two of their five-day strike, Alameda Health System workers in California’s East Bay won a landmark victory. After years of stalling, the elected Board of Supervisors of Alameda County suddenly announced they would disband the unelected Board of Trustees that has long mismanaged this public safety-net health care system. In 1998, Alameda County …

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Amazon Expects Its Employees to Operate Like Fast-Moving Machines. This Amazon Picker Is Fighting Back.

Leave a Comment / accountability, bosses, Capitalism, Essential Worker, productivity, Uncategorized / By max cyril

For Sean Carlisle (a pseudonym) a 32-year-old graduate student and native of California’s Inland Empire, the last three years at his local Amazon fulfillment center have been an education. As a student of urban planning, he studies how built environments shape a community’s behavior. As a picker, he packs items at a breakneck pace amid stacks of inventory and snaking …

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CEO Who Threatened Workers if They Voted for Obama Violated Wisconsin Law

Leave a Comment / bosses, Workplace Conditions, workplace issues / By max cyril

Jed Lewison wrote a piece today about Mike White, the CEO of Rite-Hite industries, and his threat to his employees: “all employees should understand the personal consequences to them of having our tax rates increase dramatically if President Obama is re-elected, forcing taxpayers to fund President Obama’s future deficits and social programs (including Obamacare), which …

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Too Much Money Can Make the Boss Mean

Leave a Comment / bosses, executive pay / By max cyril

Here’s another reason to do away with runaway CEO pay. A study shows bloated CEO pay can make the boss mean. The study examined the corporate behavior of 261 companies and found a close correlation between pay inequality and poor treatment of workers. In companies where CEOs made much more than their average workers, the …

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Who Makes the Worst Bosses?

Do You Have to Be a Jerk to Be an Effective Leader?

Leave a Comment / bosses, management / By max cyril

Business is tough in the best of times. And few would probably argue that these are the best of times. A part of the problem is the rift between workers and their bosses. From an old Harris Poll that found only 37% thought their management had integrity, emails to Workplace911 and almost any conversation overheard …

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East Bay Health Care Workers Strike Forces County to Disband the Boss

Amazon Expects Its Employees to Operate Like Fast-Moving Machines. This Amazon Picker Is Fighting Back.

CEO Who Threatened Workers if They Voted for Obama Violated Wisconsin Law

Too Much Money Can Make the Boss Mean

Who Makes the Worst Bosses?

Do You Have to Be a Jerk to Be an Effective Leader?

Praising the Boss on Boss’s Day? Not So Fast.

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