Month: April 2022

‘I’d never noticed the icon before’: Ukrainian photographer Arthur Bondar’s best phone picture

A surreal image taken in Moscow When Arthur Bondar came out of the metro station near Moscow’s Bolshoi theatre, he was heading to a book fair. Besides his work as a photographer, he collects second world war negatives, and there was a catalogue of work by the war photographer Olga Ignatovich he was excited to …

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Teamsters president vows to pressure Amazon after New York votes for union

Sean O’Brien says it’s vital to organize Amazon, asserting that the e-commerce company has ‘total disrespect’ for its workers The Teamsters’ new president has pledged his powerful union will step up the pressure on Amazon and mount its own efforts to unionize the company after workers in New York voted to form the company’s first …

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Amazon union vote: organizers see hope in two tight US elections

If a majority of workers votes yes in either New York or Alabama, it would mark the first successful US organizing effort in the company’s history Labor organizers always knew it would be tough to convince Amazon workers to unionize. But a surprisingly strong early showing in a New York election and a still-uncertain outcome …

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‘Two years ago it was impossible’: how tech turns dance into a multisensory fantasy

From the Barbican in London to shopping centres around the country, audiences can become part of sophisticated new XR dance spectaculars – diving into Lewis Carroll’s imagination or an extravagant ballroom I’m in an abandoned-looking house, where a woman appears like a dancing apparition. Then I’m going down a rabbit hole into a tea party …

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