#India: #Samsung management retaliates after hundreds of #union members allegedly try to force entry into management offices from lobby

https://www.dtnext.in/news/tamilnadu/workers-union-to-serve-strike-notice-alleging-vindictive-actions-by-samsung-828431

#Communists created dramatically increased living standards & sense of #dignity for people who otherwise would've been left to the #exploitation of the #imperialist powers.

The relatively high but #unequal #wealth of imperialist countries can't be compared to what communists built for themselves.

100% yes to this.

We treat post-doctoral researchers the way we treat sessional tutors: exploit them for their labour & intellectual property, then spit them out. A select few who are willing & able to play the games our research funding models require (designing projects that match the political times , then being named on a maximum number of publications - an inevitable incentive to dodgy research practice & ongoing exploitation of non-tenured staff) achieve tenure & build high profile careers. The rest of us suffer moral injury & burnout.

Whose interests are served by this?

#AusPol #research #AustralianResearchCouncil #exploitation

Changes to ARC grants will make it harder for Australia to combat Trump chaos, researchers warn https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/31/changes-to-arc-grants-will-make-it-harder-for-australia-to-combat-trump-chaos-researchers-warn?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Fast fashion. Cartoon for Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/

Ummm... #Florida considers easing #ChildLabor laws after pushing out #immigrants

A new law under consideration in the state Legislature would roll back child labor laws to make up for a dwindling labor pool.

By Ja'han Jones, March 27, 2025

Excerpt: "Florida Gov. #RonDeSantis backs the law and has defended the idea of teenagers and college students working these jobs. DeSantis also explicitly linked the effort to the loss of immigrant labor. Speaking about the consequences of state verification laws at an event with border czar #TomHoman, the governor said, 'Yes, we had people that left because of those rules, but you’ve also been able to hire other people. And what’s wrong with expecting our young people to be working part-time now?'

"In recent years, several states — many of them led by #Republican governors — have rolled back child labor laws. This map from the Economic Policy Institute illustrates the spike in states rolling back these laws from 2021 to 2024. Back in 2023, for example, #Arkansas Gov. #SarahHuckabeeSanders signed a bill that made it easier for companies to hire children without getting consent from their parents. One month earlier, The New York Times published a bombshell report about the #exploitation of immigrant children in #factories operated by some of the most well-known companies in the U.S.

"That story should have spurred a nationwide push to strengthen child labor laws. Instead, states like Florida are going in the opposite direction, weakening such laws in part to deal with the fallout from the conservative movement’s demonization of immigrants. They’re essentially using child labor to paper over the gaps left by their draconian immigration policies.

"#Project2025, the far-right playbook for Trump’s second term, specifically calls for rolling back 'hazard' regulations around child labor. The text claims, 'Some young adults show an interest in inherently dangerous jobs' and argues that 'with parental consent and proper training, certain young adults should be allowed to learn and work in more dangerous occupations.'

"Even as child labor laws are being rolled back, the Trump administration is working to gut #SocialServices, including funds that help provide #SchoolLunches to children and programs, like the supplemental nutrition assistance program [#SNAP], that help feed poor families. And if those cuts stay in place, they may leave American families with few alternatives to sending their children to work to keep food on the table."

Full article:
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/florida-child-labor-law-sb-918-rcna198275
#SB918 #FloridaPol #USPol #Scrooge #ICERaids #ChildLabor #HungerGames

What's better than immigrant employees who you can underpay, abuse and threaten to report to ICE if they try to organize?

That's right, Children!

Their tiny fingers and hands are ideal for unclogging gears and conveyor belts. Their youthful exuberance, energy, and sense of invincibility are easily exploitable to get the risky work you need done! Incentivize them with vape pens and pizza parties. Pay them a fraction of what you'd pay adults. And if they organize? Just fire them all and replace them with their younger siblings.

https://truthout.org/articles/fl-gop-bill-would-allow-employers-to-schedule-child-workers-for-overnight-shifts/

A thought for Saturday:

There are people behind #folklore of any sort. These people have told their stories, practised their rites, maintained their traditions because they believed in them, and because the folklore was theirs.

When we begin to view these people’s folklore as a means to our end (which nearly always means the extraction of filthy lucre, directly or otherwise), our practice removes us from the people who developed the folklore; we are rather conducting capitalistic, and ultimately colonialistic, #exploitation.

Is that who we want to be?

@folklore #FolkloreThursday #EthicalFolklore

Postal employees rally against #DOGE: "It’s about rich versus poor. Who built this country? It wasn’t people in suits. It was people in coveralls."

https://www.labornotes.org/2025/03/postal-workers-throng-500-rallies-save-postal-service

"Dévouées au travail"

Julien Debonneville : Le travail des agences de recrutement est de traduire les attentes des employeur·es en termes de compétences […] avec l'idée que les femmes des campagnes sont plus "dévouées au travail".

https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/cultures-monde/philippines-la-fabrique-de-la-domestique-modele-8488204

(recordedfuture.com) Apache Tomcat: Critical Path Equivalence Vulnerability (CVE-2025-24813) NOT (yet) under active exploitation

https://www.recordedfuture.com/blog/apache-tomcat-cve-2025-24813-vulnerability-analysis

Insikt Group notes specifically that this vulnerability has not yet been observed as being actively exploited in the wild.

Summary:
This article details CVE-2025-24813, a critical path equivalence vulnerability in Apache Tomcat that allows unauthenticated remote code execution under specific conditions. The vulnerability affects multiple Tomcat versions (11.0.0-M1 to 11.0.2, 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.34, 9.0.0-M1 to 9.0.98, and most 8.5.x versions). Greynoise has identified six malicious IP addresses attempting to exploit this vulnerability, targeting systems in the US, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, and Australia. Multiple proof-of-concept exploits have been published, increasing the risk of exploitation. Organizations are advised to upgrade to patched versions (11.0.3, 10.1.35, or 9.0.99) or implement network-level controls if immediate patching isn't possible.

the older I get the more I believe that the amount of wealth a person accumulates is directly correlated with the amount of exploitation they find acceptable
#wealth #morals #exploitation

#AI taking over creative jobs should be seen as abuse of human culture as well as a threat to upbringing, and a sign of #LateStageCapitalism.

The spirit needs its intellectual and emotional development, and it can indeed be gained through the liberal arts, through exploration, discovery and dedication.

But exploration turned #exploitation and all things falling into the hands of a few is such trite foreshadowing that people who want to play Captain Hindsight need to "I told you so" post haste.

Blasting Past Webp - An analysis of the NSO BLASTPASS iMessage exploit

CC: Ian Beer

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/03/blasting-past-webp.html

Last year I did a mix for a bicycle demo of the union riders collective.

You can listen to 20min teaser here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/WiseupRadioshow/092024-ride-the-collective-in-solidarity-with-riders-collective/

Or to the full 2-hour Editing-Madness:
https://www.mixcloud.com/WiseupRadioshow/092024-rideroll-4-riders-collective/

End precarity and exploitation everywhere!!