Factory worker retires after 63 years in same job

A factory worker has retired after the "monumental achievement" of spending 63 years in the same job. Elaine Hipkiss, 78, ...

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The Bleak Existence Of The Factory Workers Behind Your iPhone. A U.S.-based labor watchdog group says it has uncovered ...
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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.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Justin Flint, 27, a software engineer at an oven manufacturing factory near Seattle, Washington. His employment and progression has been verified ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.

Justin Flint, 27, dropped out of college in 2019 and took a job at a factory. After inventing a fix while employed on the assembly line, he was promoted to software developer. Now, Flint works as a ...