Sainsbury’s worker sacked after not paying for 30p bags for life during £30 shop
by The Independent
The Independent— The Sainsbury’s employee was sacked after working at the London supermarket for nearly 20 years
The Guardian—‘Every day I cry’: 50 women talk about life as a domestic worker under the Gulf’s kafala system. Denounced as giving a ‘veneer of legality to slaveholding’ and despite claims of reform, kafala laws persist, allowing bosses to abuse women, who vanish from society. This is their testimony, gathered over two years in a Guardian investigationCondemned as dangerous and abusive, the kafala labour system not only disregards migrant workers’ rights but depends on exploitation. But 10 years after Qatar was advised by the UN to abolish kafala (“sponsorship”) entirely and replace it with a regulated...
The Scottish Sun—Inside Michael Jackson’s revamped Neverland theme park as it’s brought back to life for film featuring star’s nephew. SINGER Michael Jackson’s Neverland theme park has been brought back to life for a film on the life of the late King of Pop. Fairground rides appear to have been repainted and the lush landscaping r
www.counterpunch.org—Life and Life Only. A good memoir should be more than an autobiography and less than a confessional but contain elements of both. As a reader, I am less interested in being overwhelmed with family trauma and pathos except when it informs the greater tale being told. Quite often, it is the memoirs that feature an excess of pathos More