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A disturbing look at "conflict resolution" within Amazon where workers are asked to referee one another's firings in a way that raises significant questions about fairness. With its huge workforce, managing grievances is a challenge but Amazon's efforts to change its culture--it had been quick to fire workers instead of seeking to resolve what might be significant problems--has hit a wall. After eighteen months, the hearing process has been dubbed "a kangaroo court."
No company thrives with a workforce that is denied fair redress; evidently 10 percent of Amazon's workers leave every year. Turnover is costly so reducing turnover is a smart move. Back to the drawing board, Amazon. You have the resources to do this right.
Amazon Workers Facing Firing Can Appeal to a Jury of Their Co-Workers
bloomberg.com
The hearing process has raised questions about fairness, according to workers and their attorneys.Most of the time the public will be concerned mainly with major crimes--murders and shootings and major thefts-- but the everyday work of a police officer involves dealing with disputes, sometimes between landlords and tenants, family and neighborhood issues that they are called upon to address. These disputes don’t necessarily make "the news," but sometimes what you get on the news in terms of violence is what erupts after minor disputes remain to escalate, and so, according to the policy chief, the training is timely as he looks to a more community-oriented kind of policing. Smart move!
Police officers learn more on mediation - LoveFM
lovefm.com
The Police Department is hosting a one week Community Mediation Training for seventy police officers. Senior Superintendent of Police and legal advisor for the Department, Bart Jones says officers from the ranks of Inspectors to constables are taking the training. Bart Jones: What they have done is....Further on yesterday's post about the ending of two decades of war between neighbors Eritrea and Ethiopia. Both nations declared an end to their "state of war" over their border, acting in concert to open relationships that ignore a border.
Ethiopia and Eritrea Declare an End to Their War
nytimes.com
Embassies will reopen and flights will resume. The countries’ leaders say, “A new era of peace and friendship has been opened.”The logo, or symbol, of the peace organization, Pax Christi (Peace of Christ), is a rose growing out of barbed wire. It represents the origins of the organization as a movement for reconciliation of former enemies after World War II.
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Pax Christi (Latin for Peace of Christ) was established in France in 1945 through the inspiration of Marthe Dortel-Claudot and Bishop Pierre-Marie Théas. Both were French citizens interested in reconciliation between French and German citizens in the aftermath of World War II. Some of the first actions of Pax Christi were the organisation of peace pilgrimages and other actions fostering reconciliation between France and Germany. Although Pax Christi initially began as a movement for French-German reconciliation, it expanded its focus and spread to other European countries in the 1950s. It grew as “a crusade of prayer for peace among all nations.”
Pax Christi was recognized as “the official international Catholic peace movement” by Pope Pius XII in 1952.
“The peace process now belongs to the people. Both leaders cannot deny the public pressure anymore.” War started in 1998; a peace agreement, reached in 2000, was never implemented; 80,000 people have died; many Eritreans migrated...... With new leadership in Eritrea, and public pressure in both nations, change has come. Ethiopia has now accepted the terms of that peace deal to end the border conflict.
Ethiopia and Eritrea, Longtime Foes, Meet for Peace Talks
nytimes.com
The leaders of the once-warring nations are holding a summit meeting in Asmara, Eritrea, to end a near 20-year military standoff.