The Supreme Court’s Van Buren decision today overturned a dangerous precedent and clarified the notoriously ambiguous meaning of “exceeding authorized access” in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the federal computer crime law that’s been misused to prosecute beneficial and important online activity.
Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED) is a global network of trade unions and close allies committed to advancing and defending public ownership of energy, which is essential to achieving an ambitious, socially just, and economy-wide transition to a sustainable future. Established in 2013, TUED brings together unions from all sectors and all regions, in order to bring the technical knowledge and political weight of organized labor to bear on the urgent struggle for solutions to the climate emergency, extractivism and pollution of all kinds.
New data that Amazon reports to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration shows injury rates that are nearly double those at warehouses run by other companies.
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The bombs rain down on Gaza city and the rest of the strip compounding the nightmare that Gaza is already for the people living there. Gaza, measuring 375 square kilometers (145 square miles) is home to around 2 million Palestinians, more than half of them refugees. Since 2007, the besieged enclave has been under a crippling Israeli and Egyptian blockade that has gutted its economy and deprived its inhabitants of many vital commodities, including food, fuel and medicine.
For the first time ever, Uber has entered into a formal trade union recognition agreement for the purpose of genuine collective bargaining.
We congratulate our affiliate GMB on securing this agreement after many years of steadfast organising in support of app-based private hire drivers in the UK. Now all 70,000 Uber drivers in the UK will be guaranteed the right to union representation.
CUPE NB, representing over 28,000 workers in New Brunswick, held a press conference to announce its ultimatum to NB Premier Blaine Higgs. “Starting Sunday, May 30th, Premier Higgs has one hundred (100) days to settle collective agreements for all the CUPE locals who have been waiting long enough for a fair deal,” said CUPE NB President Stephen Drost
Dans le cadre de mon zèle évangélique pour le logiciel libre, j'ai récemment envoyé à quelques amis et camarades un appareil Pine64 avec Linux préinstallé. Ces petites boîtes leur seront une introduction au monde du logiciel libre. Elles peuvent servir comme plateforme de jeu, comme serveurs, ou comme matériel informatique avec lequel on peut bricoler et, j'espère, s'amuser. Quoique vous ne soyez pas sur la liste pour recevoir un tel cadeau, vous pouvez toujours en commander un de Pine64, ou d'une autre compagnie qui vend les ordinateurs monocartes, et mettre la machine à l'épreuve.
The current long-term care model is designed to squeeze costs using a private delivery process. It is the state that sets the terms of spending and care delivery. The private system is being used to limit costs through obscuring the state's role in under-funding the service.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and changing pandemic restrictions, youth had to make difficult decisions in the fall of 2020. A new study released today shows that, at the start of the 2020/2021 school year, when faced with unprecedented youth unemployment and postsecondary education moving online, young women aged 17 to 24 responded by enrolling in postsecondary institutions at a higher rate than a year earlier. There was no increase among young men.
As part of my evangelism around free software, I have provided several of my friends and comrades with one of two Pine64 devices with Linux pre-installed. These boxes are to introduce people to this world of free software (and the freedom it brings) and to provide a useful and (hopefully) a little fun computer