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IT factory worker dismisses users’ story that standing up prevents them from logging in, but then testing reveals keys were switched on keyboards

Another case for working from home ...
Business Insider

I went from factory worker to software engineer after 3D-printing a fix that impressed my boss. Here's my top tip for getting promoted.

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ProPublica

She Was a Key Voice of the 1990s Labor Movement in Nike’s Indonesia Factories. Today She Relies on Donations From Abroad.

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Yahoo

‘I felt like a factory worker.’ Why VA psychologists are burning out

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each year, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ internal watchdog sends a survey to all 139 of the agency’s medical centers coast ...
Oregonian

Nike says its factory workers make nearly double the minimum wage. In Indonesia, workers say, ‘It’s not true’

Through boom times and, more recently, slumping sales, Nike Inc. has stuck by a key claim about its overseas suppliers: They pay the average factory worker about twice the local minimum wage. It’s a ...
AOL

Factory worker sets world record as the fastest person to peel and slice a pineapple

A factory worker has become the fastest person in the world to peel and slice a pineapple. Dominika Gasparova, 35, a senior team leader at the Del Monte factory in Cambridgeshire, achieved the ...
Oregonian

She was a key voice of the 1990s labor movement in Nike’s Indonesia factories. Today she relies on donations from abroad

Once a month, American labor activist Jim Keady logs into Remitly, an app for transferring money abroad, at his New Jersey home and sends $100 to a former Nike factory worker in Indonesia. Cicih ...