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"The supply chain is a struggle," an Ikea employee told Insider. "A customer said we didn't have anything in stock because our company is socialist."

Has women leaving the workforce or is there something else? >> well, care is a huge part of it, both the childcare and care for elders and those with disabilities, the fact that we dont have paid leave but we are still in a pandemic where people are getting ill, thats another significant part of it. but it also is that women have long been dominated in the jobs that pay the least wages and the jobs that were the least fragile, and the jobs that required you to show up in person. and that story t...

"Since the pandemic, everything has been worse," the employee told Insider. "I would ask anyone reading this to please be respectful to workers."

There were 11.4 million retail, food service, and cashier jobs in the US last year. "That's a lot of people getting stomped on," Steve Rowland said.

As a retail worker, Bennett Heyn thinks the stress of the pandemic and the tendency to panic-buy has made customer behavior worse than it was before.

People often ignore that they're being rude to service workers, who bear the brunt of their problems with a company and get paid the least to do it.

This unprecedented and rapidly-expanding worker-based solidarity has the potential to help end Israeli apartheid.

Some Starbucks staff members say they're sick of making what they consider overly complex, "disgusting" drinks with excessive numbers of ingredients.

Government solutions, were getting that right now in covid. and i think the pentagon is offering us a very good example of how to do this right. the pentagon is the worlds largest employer, employs almost 3 million people. its made a decision to actively protect service members health so they can protect the national security of the country. i have a son in the navy. hes serving right now. im glad theyre looking out for him, and i know he has no problem with getting vaccinated. hes already fully...

To adjust the nhs covid app or self—isolation rules urgently. if you look at the trajectory of where things are going, we now have 1000 staff off, who have been pinged. thats double the normal rate, and its rising at 50% week on week. so our big concern is that weve, ironically, we have kept all of our shops open throughout the pandemic, but now we have had to close one or two shops and reduce hours in others. but that could get a lot worse a lot quicker, unless the track and trace system is s...