Josh Bornstein
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employment/IR lawyer, tribunal member, author of ‘Working for the Brand: how corporations are destroying free speech’. Scribe .2024. Out now.👇
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Feb 7, 2025 |
smh.com.au | Josh Bornstein
Principal, Maurice Blackburn February 7, 2025 — 7.30pm February 7, 2025 — 7.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In the social media age, satire is highly risky because it can be so easily misunderstood or deliberately misrepresented. In the early days of social media in 2013, US public relations executive Justine Sacco posted an edgy joke on Twitter, satirising US insularity and racism.
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Nov 3, 2024 |
betterreading.com.au | Josh Bornstein |Labour Law
Josh Bornstein talks to Cheryl about corporate power, free speech, and the urgent need for a unified progressive agenda to tackle the various social and political crises confronting society today. His latest work, Working For The Brand, is out now.
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Oct 31, 2024 |
crikey.com.au | Josh Bornstein
Would it all have turned out differently had InterActiveCorp stared down the online mob? In December 2013, a public relations executive with the company, Justine Sacco, posted a joke on social media, satirising American insularity and racism. Sacco was about to board a flight to South Africa, from where her anti-apartheid family had emigrated, when she tweeted: “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get Aids. Just kidding, I’m white.” While Sacco was in the air and offline, her tweet went viral.
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Oct 30, 2024 |
australianbookreview.com.au | Josh Bornstein |Arts Highlights
Would it all have turned out differently had InterActiveCorp stared down the online mob? In December 2013, a public relations executive with the company, Justine Sacco, posted a joke on social media, satirising American insularity and racism. Sacco was about to board a flight to South Africa, from where her anti-apartheid family had emigrated, when she tweeted: ‘Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get Aids. Just kidding, I’m white.’ While Sacco was in the air and offline, her tweet went viral.
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Oct 6, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Josh Bornstein
Corporations now invest more than ever in their brands, which proclaim that they care, are imbued with commendable purposes and are activists for social betterment. In reality the corporate-brand industry is a form of ethics-washing. When threatened, the brand is unforgiving and ruthless. And as social media use has reduced our attention span to 45-second bites and upended our lives and culture, it has also threatened the brand.
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Australia has a proud history of standing up against human catastrophe. Gaza should be no exception | Ed Husic https://t.co/xPTg5s76sV
The federal court has now reserved its judgment on the question of penalty to be paid by Qantas for the biggest violation of industrial relations laws in Australian history. There is much at stake as this piece explains: https://t.co/rhadVzH7OS
It was an amazing experience to represent the @TWUAus against Qantas this week in the Federal Court. The Court is considering the imposition of a penalty on Qantas for its illegal sacking of 1820 employees. Kudos to the dedicated unionists & our terrific legal team. https://t.co/hiYiAHwrVQ
