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Online Casino Workers Went on Hunger Strike Over Working Conditions
28 days without food. Protests against online gaming company Evolution have gone to extremes in Europe—and are reverberating in the US.
For more than a month, thousands of employees of Evolution, an online gambling company, have been on strike in Tbilisi, Georgia, protesting over pay, allegations of harassment, and unsafe working conditions. But when striking workers escalated their protest by attempting to block the entrance to the building in mid-August, Diasamidze and employees who spoke to WIRED allege that non-uniformed private security people hired by the company beat the strikers. A representative of the culinary union shared the group’s joint public statement in which it “urges the Nevada Gaming Commission to reject Evolution’s application if it continues to refuse to treat its employees with respect and provide for decent wages and safe working conditions.”
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