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Unpaid labor prevails, including salaries below minimum wage, unpaid overtime, wage deductions for costs of work, and ‘significant’ debt bondage, the report found. Indonesian shrimp farmer Yulius Cahyonugroho operated more than two dozen ponds only a few years ago, employing seven people and making more than enough to support his family.

Unions representing auto workers, actors, hotel housekeepers, and aircraft-assembly workers all called strikes as organized labor made itself heard over the past year. The U. S. dockworkers who went on strike early Tuesday are just the latest unionized group to back their demands for better contracts by walking off the job to illustrate their value to both the national economy and their employers’ bottom line.

The changes mostly focus on creating new avenues for employees and customers to raise concerns and more stringent beta testing. Speaker company Sonos laid out a number of new plans and commitments on Tuesday in an attempt to turn around the beleaguered sound company following a bug-riddled app relaunch in May that’s still impacting the company.

A new study examines the relationship between the type of beats you listen to and your productivity on certain tasks. Jamming out at a concert puts music front and center in a person’s life, but only for a moment. Most of the time, music serves more as sonic wallpaper, spicing up the background while we go about the business of our day.

The California startup is aiming to list its shares on the Nasdaq at a time when the IPO market is still sluggish. With demand for AI chips soaring, California-based AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems has filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in preparation for an initial public offering.

Denver’s only lesbian bar will soon close after more than a decade as a hotspot for the LGBTQ+ community on Colfax Avenue. Blush & Blu, which opened in 2012, will celebrate its final night of service on Oct. 5, according to a post on social media. In the closing announcement, owner Jody Bouffard lamented the changes in the gay bar scene: As of 2017, Blush & Blu was the last standing lesbian bar in Denver and by 2021, it was one of just 21 nationwide. “When I moved to Denver in 1996, there were over 200 lesbian bars across the country, each a beacon of refuge, though not always safe,” the post read in part.