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Frito-Lay workers end their 20-day strike after getting higher wages and a day off each week
Now, according to a statement from Frito-Lay, workers at the Topeka plant will see "4% wage increases to employees in all job classifications over the two-year contract" — and at least one day off every week, along with the end of those "suicide shifts," which the company calls "squeeze shifts." … According to the New York Times, hourly wages will now range from $19.09 to $38.40. Still, shop steward Paul Klemme told The Times that he had hoped wages could increase more, with the Times reporting that "some departments had not had an increase in hourly pay of more than 20 to 40 cents in the past six to eight years."
https://www.businessinsider.com/frito-lay-workers-end-strike-get-higher-wages-day-off-2021-7

Harry Dunn: US tries to prevent disclosure of alleged killer’s work record
The US government has requested that the country’s civil courts prevent the disclosure of the employment details of Harry Dunn’s alleged killer in the interests of “national security”. The 19-year-old’s parents, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, lodged a claim against Anne Sacoolas and her husband after the teenager’s death in a road crash outside a US military base in Northamptonshire two years ago.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/24/us-government-moves-to-prevent-disclosure-of-employment-record

Study: Get ready for many more record-shattering heatwaves
The study, published Monday in Nature Climate Change, also finds that looking to past extreme temperatures when making infrastructure decisions offers a poor guide to the future given how quickly human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are transforming the likelihood of unprecedented heat extremes.
https://www.axios.com/record-shattering-heat-waves-becoming-far-more-likely-study-e13fde50-45d8-4bcd-bc86-efecba6c5217.html

As drought cuts hay crop, cattle ranchers face culling herds
As the drought worsens across the West and ushers in an early fire season, cattle ranchers are among those feeling the pain. Their hay yields are down, leading some to make the hard decision to sell off animals. To avoid the high cost of feed, many ranchers grow hay to nourish their herds through the winter when snow blankets the grass they normally graze.
https://apnews.com/article/business-science-environment-and-nature-droughts-bb2a2455f9d1e8d67a07817df6d51a00

25 States Are Forcing Face Recognition on People Filing for Unemployment
CNN reports that 25 states are currently using the commercial face recognition software ID.me to verify the identities of people filing for unemployment benefits, which likely adds millions of people to the state face recognition database. (As of early July, 9.5 million people are unemployed throughout the U.S., according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.)
https://gizmodo.com/25-states-are-forcing-face-recognition-on-people-filing-1847350707
https://archive.is/yuKha

Inflation fears and politics shape views of Biden economy
Fewer than half, 45%, judge the economy to be in good shape, while 54% say it’s in poor shape. Views are similar to what they were in AP-NORC polls in June and in March, despite increases in vaccinations and the flow of aid from Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. The results suggest that Americans not only filter their thoughts about the economy through their politics but also see uncertainty as the country is still 6.8 million jobs below pre-pandemic levels.
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-government-and-politics-coronavirus-pandemic-economy-only-on-ap-4dafe5b7a4adf2502280bb23b775af07

Insurance brokers Aon and Willis Towers Watson end $34 billion merger amid DOJ suit
Insurance brokers Aon (NYSE: AON) and Willis Towers Watson (Nasdaq: WLTW) this morning terminated their $34 billion merger agreement, just five weeks after the U.S. Department of Justice sued to block the deal. This had been the Biden administration's first major antitrust action, with the DOJ's complaint citing an unidentified Aon executive who crowed about how the merger would create an "oligopoly."
https://www.axios.com/insurance-aon-merger-antitrust-willis-towers-watson-2884ade7-a085-47d9-ba49-d13ca202349d.html

'SPOT THE FED’: DEF CON hacker event roasted on social media after inviting top US Homeland Security official as keynote speaker
One person commented that perhaps he could be asked about “the amount of data processed” to allow Mayorkas “to deport 2.1 million Mexicans when he was deputy secretary [of the Homeland Security Department]” during the second Obama administration. Another individual suggested that Mayorkas could be asked for his thoughts on “recycling server cabinets as cages” to house illegal immigrants and whether that would be a “sustainability goal” to support.
https://www.rt.com/usa/530257-spot-fed-def-con-hacker-convention/

>>403439
>"4% wage increases to employees in all job classifications over the two-year contract"
they got fucked in that deal

How Cuba’s Communists Survived the Fall of the Soviet Union: AN INTERVIEW WITH EVEN SANDVIK UNDERLID
Before the July 11 protests, the last major display of public dissent in Cuba came in 1994, early in the “Special Period” of economic hardships following the collapse of the USSR. Since soon after the 1959 revolution, the Eastern Bloc countries had been important allies for Havana, but Mikhail Gorbachev’s 1980s reforms and then the USSR’s final crisis spelled trouble for Cuba at a time of defeats for the Left across Latin America. Yet the revolution survived — also proving that it had sunk deeper roots in society than Eastern Bloc governments. Even Sandvik Underlid is author of Cuba Was Different: Views of the Cuban Communist Party on the Collapse of Soviet and Eastern European Socialism, a study based on extensive interviews with members of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) as well as a systematic examination of the party daily, Granma. He spoke to Jacobin’s David Broder about how Cuban media presented events in Eastern Europe, PCC members’ sense of Cuban “national specificity,” and the changes in the country since the Special Period.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/07/cuba-cuban-communist-party-revolution-july-protestspcc-granma-ussr-gorbachev-castro

Meet Toka, the Most Dangerous Israeli Spyware Firm You’ve Never Heard Of
This past Sunday, an investigation into the global abuse of spyware developed by veterans of Israeli intelligence Unit 8200 gained widespread attention, as it was revealed that the software – sold to democratic and authoritarian governments alike – had been used to illegally spy on an estimated 50,000 individuals. Among those who had their communications and devices spied on by the software, known as Pegasus, were journalists, human rights activists, business executives, academics and prominent political leaders. Among those targeted political leaders, per reports, were the current leaders of France, Pakistan, South Africa, Egypt, Morocco and Iraq. The abuse of Pegasus software in this very way has been known for several years, though these latest revelations appear to have gained such traction in the mainstream owing to the high number of civilians who have reportedly been surveilled through its use. The continuation of the now-years-long scandal surrounding the abuse of Pegasus has also brought considerable controversy and notoriety to the Israeli company that developed it, the NSO Group. While the NSO Group has become infamous, other Israeli companies with even deeper ties to Israel’s intelligence apparatus have been selling software that not only provides the exact same services to governments and intelligence agencies but purports to go even farther.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/meet-toka-the-most-dangerous-israeli-spyware-firm-youve-never-heard-of/278020/

Antonio Gramsci 1924:Against Pessimism
There can be no better way to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Communist International, the great world-wide association of which we, us revolutionary Italians, feel more than ever an active and integral part of, than to take a look at ourselves. We should take a look at the little that we have done and the enormous amount of work we still have left to do; this should help to dissipate the thick, dark cloud of pessimism which is oppressing the most able and responsible militants, and is in itself is a great danger. It may in fact be the greatest danger we face at present, given that its consequences are political passivity, intellectual slumber, scepticism about the future. This pessimism is closely linked to the current situation in which our country finds itself; the situation explains it to a certain extent, but, of course, does not justify it. What difference would there be between us and the Socialist Party, between our will and the party’s tradition, if we also knew how to work and were only actively optimistic in periods when the cows were plump, when the situation was favourable? What difference would there be between us if we were only actively optimistic when the working masses advanced of their own accord, because of an impulse they could not fight, and the proletarian parties could take up a prime position and grab hold of the reins of their own accord? We have our own things to take into account, our own points of view, a greater sense of responsibility and we must show that we have such; the real worry to of having to get organisational forces and suitable materials ready, which will adorn every event, but what difference would there be between us and the Socialist Party if we lapsed into fatalism? What if we fooled ourselves under the sweet illusion that events could only follow a certain sequence, as we predicted, in which they would inevitably run into the dikes and channels that we constructed; what if they were directed by these and took historical form and power in them?
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/1924/03/pessimism.htm

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>>403391
>KPRF MP
<Investing in foreign assets
Russian people deserve more than opportunist boomers as their socialist leaders. Fuck this shit.

Thanks news anon