socel.net is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Socel is a place for animation professionals, freelancers, independents, students, and fans to connect and grow together. Everyone in related fields are also welcome.

Server stats:

315
active users

#employment

14 posts13 participants1 post today

In the current climate, everywhere, union membership is more important than ever.

  • Join your local tenants' union
  • Join your workplace union (if you don't have a unionised workplace, join a general workers union as they will still be able to support you)
  • Join your local credit union

"United Parcel Service on Tuesday said it would slash 20,000 jobs and shut 73 facilities...

"The move comes as Trump's aggressive trade policies have begun slowing economic growth and increasing expectations for a possible recession.

"'The world hasn't been faced with such enormous potential impacts to trade in more than 100 years,' CEO Carol Tome said on the company's earnings call."
reuters.com/markets/us/ups-rep

The rise of ‘polygamous workers’ — and efforts to catch them out

Having founded, run and then transferred the company to employee ownership this bewilders me. Most of us did multiple ‘jobs’ - be that child care, a wildlife warden (really) or some interesting niche mathematics. But everyone employed contributed and continue to do so to our goal and were assessed on that basis.

This stinks of incompetence. If you meet your goals then your time is yours.

archive.today/2025.04.27-21162

Replied in thread

@hrefna I’m not sure if #Zillow has always been doing this or if it’s a new thing, but I noticed that if you look at a property on Zillow and you scroll down the page they have a section called “Local legal protections”

It says stuff like this:

Housing

Including protection from being unfairly evicted, denied housing, or refused the ability to rent or buy housing.

Gender identity

Sexual orientation
Employment
Including protection from being fired, denied employment, or otherwise discriminated against by an employer.

Gender identity

Sexual orientation
Public accommodations
Including protection from being unfairly refused services or entry to places accessible to the public (stores, restaurants, parks, etc.).

Gender identity

Sexual orientation
Data Source: Movement Advancement Project (MAP)

(I copied this from my old address in Torrance California)

It’s so fantastic, people can use this if they’re looking for a new place to rent just to see if the area they are going to offers more or fewer protections.

That section I copied and pasted it looks extremely different if you’re looking at an address in Kentucky, for example.

Continued thread

The federal govt is a veritable cosmos of #information, made up of constellations of #databases: The #IRS gathers comprehensive #financial & #employment info from every taxpayer; the Dept of Labor maintains the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) system, which collects the #personal info of many workers; #DHS amasses #data about the movements of every person who travels by air commercially or crosses the nation’s borders; the #DEA tracks license plates scanned on American roads.