Big 3 carmakers paid their CEOs $1 billion since 2010 and now say they can't afford to pay striking workers what they're demanding | Tragedy strikes Israeli and Palestinian tech workers | ‘I’m out of your league’: crash victim amputee in China rejects patronising men | Litzy Santana, Uno Queen

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Big 3 carmakers paid their CEOs $1 billion since 2010 and now say they can't afford to pay striking workers what they're demanding - Fortune

The United Auto Workers’s historic standoff with Detroit’s three carmaking giants is centered on an age-old tension: The union says corporate greed is keeping workers from earning fair wages, while Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co. and Stellantis NV say they can’t afford union demands.

While both arguments have some merit, one fact stands out: The 10 individuals who’ve served as chief executive officers of the companies since 2010 have collected more than $1 billion of compensation. Meanwhile, wages of US auto workers — unionized or not — have declined around 17% in that time frame.

This reality underpins the strike now entering its fifth week that’s playing out against the backdrop of growing income inequality and rising executive compensation. “We went backward in wages in the last 15 years,” UAW President Shawn Fain told reporters last month. “Hell, most of our members can’t even afford to buy what we make.”

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Tragedy strikes Israeli and Palestinian tech workers - Fortune

The current situation in Israel and Palestine is tragic, ugly, and quite capable of touching all our lives in some form soon. For tech workers there, it’s already had a devastating effect.

Several years ago, Nvidia bought an Israeli-American networking company called Mellanox for $7 billion, using it as the basis for a center that employs 3,000 people. As reported Friday by CTech, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wrote to Israeli employees to offer his condolences to Mellanox founder Eyal Waldman, whose daughter Danielle was among those slaughtered by Hamas militants at the Supernova music festival—her partner, former Nvidia employee Noam Shai, also was killed.

Nvidia employee Avinatan Or and his girlfriend Noa Argamani are hostages. And hundreds of Nvidia’s workers have been called up to return to military duty. “Our thoughts are constantly with you, and we hope for your safe return,” Huang wrote. “Nvidians worldwide will rise to cover for our colleagues in Israel and pick up and offload whatever work you need. We are here for you.”

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‘I’m out of your league’: crash victim amputee in China rejects patronising men - South China Morning Post

A young woman in China who lost an arm and a leg in a car accident has become an online influencer dedicated to encouraging disabled people like herself to love life, cheering up many people online.

Weng Xinyi, 28, from southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, was the front-seat passenger in a Porsche sports car when her friend crashed it in 2020.

Weng is now a volunteer with the local Disabled Persons Federation and an influencer with 280,000 followers on Douyin, the mainland equivalent of TikTok.

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Litzy Santana, Uno Queen - The New Yorker

On any given workday, downtown Manhattan teems with ambitious transplants, many of them aspiring hot shots fresh out of college. The other afternoon, Litzy Santana, a twenty-two-year-old who graduated from Texas State in August, set up a red tent at Pier 17 for a day’s work at her dream job. White letters on her black T-shirt declared her title: “CHIEF UNO PLAYER”—as in the multicolor, match-based card game made by Mattel. Two months earlier, on TikTok, Santana had seen a call for applicants for the temporary position and responded within minutes. Soon she was in New York for the first time. “Honestly, it could’ve been in the middle of nowhere and I would’ve applied,” she said. “It’s an Uno job.”

For four hours a day, four days a week, Santana had been filming promos and luring passersby to try Uno Quatro, a new Uno variant that involves connecting four tiles with matching numbers or colors on an upright grid. For this she was being paid the handsome and branding-aligned salary of forty-four hundred and forty-four dollars and forty-four cents a week—more than even most of her apprentice stock-trading contemporaries were making. She demonstrated her pitch: “It combines the concept of four in a row”—not Connect 4, a Hasbro property—“with the magic of Uno.” A nearby security guard seemed intrigued. “You’ll get tired of my spiel,” Santana warned.

Santana, who wore Capri jeans and sparkly eyeshadow, was once known at her Austin high school for always carrying an Uno deck; she owns more than seventy iterations. (But not the mobile version: “I try to stay away from my phone.”) She was five days shy of completing her marketing degree when TikTok’s algorithm fed her Uno’s chief-seeking missive. She dashed off a video highlighting her credentials in one take, ending it with aplomb: “Do I call Uno or does Uno call me?” The clip had drawn just ten likes before Santana received a direct message from the game’s official account. “I literally replied, ‘No way, OMG,’ ” she said. Her mom couldn’t believe it, either: “She was, like, Did no one else apply?” Santana gave notice to the granite company where she worked as an administrator and prepared to relocate. Mattel set her up with a studio apartment in the area, sparing her one undignified New York rite. “I was ready to live in a shoebox,” she said.

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