"Seventy-one percent of people in the U.S., according to a Reuters poll on A.I., are concerned “too many people will lose jobs.”"
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#workers #WorkersRights #labor #unions #AI #LLMs #technology
A corporate artificial intelligence frenzy is sowing fear for workers on a massive scale. Seventy-one percent of people in the U.S., according to a Reuters poll on A.I., are concerned “too many people will lose jobs.Labor Notes
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" #oil shocks transmit unevenly through #labor #markets with lasting impacts across #countries #sectors and demographic groups, extending well beyond short-term #macroeconomic fluctuations"
This disruption is not a blip - horrifying impacts will continue for the poorest and most vulnerable folks for a long long time!
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Little to no sympathy for these assholes - they oppress #women and treat #foreign #labor as #slaves + #airports #flights #airlines are for the #rich anyway. If these horrible places collapse - the world would be a better place.
The Gulf's hub airports made long-distance travel cheaper - but now their future looks unclear.Theo Leggett (BBC News)
hamilton’s assessment here—that if airport and airline workers weren’t so constrained under federal labor laws, the current airport crises would have been resolved already—is very good, and worth your time
i’ll just quietly add that i’ve thought more than a few times since last january that if the federal workforce was legally allowed to strike, the last year would have looked very, very different
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Savage inequality and long TSA lines.Hamilton Nolan (How Things Work)
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Well worth the long read - "deepening material divisions within the working classes seem to have played a key role, unraveling historic solidarities that were once the basis of left politics"
#labor #democracy #equality #elections #voting #union
Reconciling cepalino and dependency theory, Aníbal Pinto developed a powerful framework for understanding the internal fractures in the working class.Fernando Rugitsky (Phenomenal World)
"Restructuring" strikes again!
Tomb Raider studio hit with fourth round of layoffs in 12 months, but remake and Catalyst development continues
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#TombRaider #CrystalDynamics #Layoffs #Labor #Restructuring #Gaming
Crystal Dynamics has announced another wave of layoffs. This is the fourth round of layoffs in 12 months for the Tomb Raider studio.Victoria Phillips Kennedy (Eurogamer.net)
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"This is what concerns her more than the #AI itself: that it’s bringing to #knowledge work the sort of precarious #platform #labor that has transformed #taxi #driving and #food #delivery."
#genai #llm #employment #jobs #scientists #workers
3/x - In a dry IP case, this prob makes sense. You assume its all #confidential by default & people can't just sue a biz to learn their secrets & exploit that info. However, the #Constitution is very clear that logic is irrelevant in public policy cases like #labor disputes
When one side wants to conceal misconduct, they insist on these orders. Then a public policy lawyer fights it. The court has to hear full #FirstAmendment briefing & Judge can't ok an order w/out detailing why its justified.
"These multinationals are coming to rule and dominate here. It’s a very unfortunate supply chain, and my call today as data labelers is to build up on this—as we are fighting for labor rights, we are also fighting for the environment […] we are fighting big companies."
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#news #TechNews #technology #AI #LLMs #BigTech #labor #WorkersRights
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
Rest of World publication is paying $1000 per story for stories about labor and tech
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#Journalism #Writing #GetFediHired #Labor #Tech
In its third year, Rest of World’s Labor x Tech program, underwritten by the Ford Foundation, is tackling the changing nature of work at a moment of extreme upheaval. AI tools and robotics are quickly…Rest of World
Closing Ceremony of Sit-in for the Truth-Finding of Death of the late Tu Anh
(2026-01-06, In front of the presidential office in Yongsan)
#OlympusXA2 #Fujifilm400 Dev.&Scan: 옥상필름(#OxangFilm)
#Struggle #Labor #LaborPhotography #FilmPhotography #ImmigrantWorker #KCTU #민주노총 #노동 #외국인노동자 #이주노동자 #필름사진 #사진
A hunger strike for non-regular workers at Seoul regional employment and labour office (2025-12-30)
Detail: pressian.com/pages/articles/20…
#Labor #Struggle #노동 #투쟁 #LaborPhotography #FilmPhotography #FilmIsNotDead #필름사진 #사진
비정규직 노동자들이 정부가 마련한 개정 노동조합법 2조 시행령의 폐기를 촉구하며 서울고용노동청에서 농성을 시작했다. 하청 노조와 원청 사업주 간 교섭을 가능하게 하려는 법 취...www.pressian.com
"Let's fight together and win together"
2025-12-30
#OlympusXA2 #Fujifilm400 Dev.&Scan: 옥상필름(#OxangFilm)
#FilmPhotography #LaborPhotography #FilmIsNotDead #SejongHotel #세종호텔 #노동 #투쟁 #Labor #Struggle #Union
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"new figures reveal that total payroll growth was revised downward by approximately 403,000 #jobs . Crucially, this downward revision occurred while real #GDP remained robust, including a 3.7 per cent #growth rate in the fourth quarter."
#labor #employment #democracy #ai #genai #billionaires #siliconvalley #wallstreet #justice #humanrights
New economic data suggests the US is transitioning to a phase of measurable gains from the technologyErik Brynjolfsson (Financial Times)
"One of the core goals of Wiki Workers United is to improve the Wikimedia Foundation's transparency and accountability toward the Wikimedia movement community.
This issue has been a long-standing concern for many workers at the Wikimedia Foundation, and a key reason for forming this union."
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via federation.p1k3.com/@brennen/1…
#WorkersRights #unions #labor #wikimedia #WikimediaFoundation #WikiWorkers #WikiWorkersUnited
just gonna leave this here: https://wikiworkersunited.org/brennen (federation.p1k3.com)
Onions grow in the hotel lobby (2026-01-31)
#Agat18k #Fujifilm400 Dev.&Scan: 옥상필름(#OxangFilm)
#Struggle #Labor #Union #KCTU #민주노총 #세종호텔복직투쟁 #Solidarity #FilmPhotography #FilmIsNotDead #SejongHotel
A few days later, the police arrested 12 workers and solidarity citizens, and the hotel demolished the farmhouse. The police requested an arrest warrant for Ko Jin-soo, the chairman of the branch, but the court rejected it and released him.
can i just say something about #Colbert?
whomever negotiated his #CBS #labor & production contracts are geniuses.
have y’all noticed how, notwithstanding everything, they can't get rid of him outright?
Colbert must have nuclear options in his & his workers contracts that exponentially raise the costs of CBS getting rid of them under any circumstances.
this is only possible with the backing of labor #unions. Hollywood proves #unionization is the only path to wealth for the working classes.
Colbert calls out CBS… again
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/18/entertainment/video/berman-stelter-stephencolbert-cbs-cnc?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypubPosted into Entertainment @entertainment-CNN
Solidarity with striking workers ✊
"Ubisoft workers are on day two of a three-day strike [...] The move comes after the publisher implemented a return-to-office (RTO) mandate, revealed plans to cut up to 200 jobs amid a larger shakeup that saw seven upcoming games delayed, and six titles canceled outright [...] and fired a [...] developer for speaking criticizing these decisions on social media. Now, employees are fighting back."
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#news #labor #WorkersRights #strike #ubisoft
The strike comes after the publisher revealed plans to cut up to 200 jobs and ordered remote workers back into the officeClaire Lewis (Polygon)
Meanwhile, in the #BadEconomy. The way #academia and #HigherEd treats adjuncts is basically a fucking disgrace. Still, fact so many still choose to do it makes one wonder, but YMMV.
> Few Adjuncts Say Teaching Is Their Primary Source of Income, Study Finds chronicle.com/article/vast-maj…
#exploitation #labor #work #jobs
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No shit Sherlock! The explicit goal of #AI #GenAI #technology #SiliconValley #WallStreet #billionaires is to replace #labor with #machines - LITERALLY. They have been shouting about it from the rooftops all along.
"It’s one thing when a taxi is replaced by an Uber or a Lyft. It’s another thing when the jobs just go completely overseas."
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#news #technology #TechNews #AI #waymo #automation #labor #workers
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.Victor Tangermann (Futurism)
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"When did the financial sector stop fueling the real economy and start consuming it? When consuming it began offering the biggest pay packages."
#democracy #finance #justice #labor #humanrights #climatechange #capitalism
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What happens when #oil sales drop thanks to #China #EV growth? And it is so hot that borderline enslaved #migrant #labor from #poor parts of the world literally cannot survive the #heat
#tax will go up in some shape or form to make up for those two things and then what?
Bankers and billionaires are flocking to the city where income tax is zero but critics say it ignores money laundering – and pay disparities are hugePhillip Inman (the Guardian)
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Worth the long read - #mobilizing VS #organizing - what we need is more of the latter.
#democracy #justice #humanrights #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #democrats #politics #movements #labor
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It is time!
#progressives #liberals #democrats #labor #union
Minnesotans urged not to work, shop or go to school as part of protests against ICE and the death of Renee Nicole GoodMichael Sainato (The Guardian)
A lot of Europeans and even some Americans don't seem to understand why Americans aren't "doing more" to fight fascism. So as an American here's an explanation.
First, we are. It's not being reported. Our media has congealed into a few huge oligarchies. I was involved in a local protest in rural Georgia. Local media decided to send a reporter and photographer to a local high school volleyball game instead. Our protest didn't even get a mention
#USPol #Labor #Labour #Antifa #fascism #union
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If #corporations don't care about national borders why are mass movements (e.g. #labor #unions #advocates #activists etc.) not uniting to take them on globally? Make these #companies follow better #laws #regulations everywhere instead of the opposite
#billionaires #plutocrats #oligarchs #tech #meta #google #microsoft #amazon
"#Courts... often encounter #antisemitism indirectly, addressing it through adjacent #legal concepts such as proportionality, neutrality, constitutional loyalty, or public security—concepts that were not developed with antisemitism as their primary object.
This post examines how #German courts navigate this tension by analyzing three recent cases drawn from different areas of #law: #labor law, #citizenship law, and #civilservice law. The cases are taken from the Seeing Antisemitism Through Law (SATL) database, a comparative research project that examines how antisemitism appears—or fails to appear—in #legalpractice."
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Maybe this will bring these folks down before they burn down the world.
#ai #genai #techbros #billionaires #plutocrats #oligarchs #datacenters #democracy #justice #affordability #humanrights #labor
Americans are getting wise to the threats posed by the lightly regulated facilities competing with humans for resources.Gabrielle Gurley (The American Prospect)
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Let that sink in - less than 10% of the people live in non-closed/repressed/obstructed countries as of 2025. What began after WW2 - #democratization, #liberalism, #equality, #equity, #progress, #labor #rights #law etc. is barely hanging on by its fingernails.
Yet another reason to open up mass #migration - #work #jobs #employment #services #labor
And don't say #ai #genai will take care of it. That is a laughable idea for now.
The #stock #market keeps breaking records and so do #profits of #corporations. But #jobs keep getting slashed. That is what their dream is. They keep hoping that the stupid #AI #Genai will help them lop off even more jobs. #Tax the #billionaires #oligarchs #plutocrats NOW!
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Now if only the #electric #gas #utilities #companies and the rest of the #fossilfuels #corporations get out of the way to actually do this. The #regulators keep siding w/ the utilities (w/ or w/o bribes).
#jobs #employment #development #electricians #plumbers #contractors #labor #climatechange #energy #efficiency #conservation #solar #batteries
Upgrading home appliances, solar, and storage can meet rising data center demand while creating up to a million local jobs each year nationwide.www.rewiringamerica.org
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If #California is looking the other way when this is happening within its borders, then god help those being exploited elsewhere in the world.
#humanrights #children #justice #childlabor #labor
State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.Robert J. Lopez (The American Prospect)
November Z#Magazine hot off the presses!
• The Trump administration’s dangerous military escalations in Venezuela
• #PuertoRico increasing role as a U.S. military hub
• #Gaza’s resilience and the global call for accountability
• #Ireland’s presidential election
• A strike at Coca-Cola #Germany and international #labor movements
• #Mamdani’s major political victory—and what comes next
When you subscribe, your first edition is free, sustainers get one each month.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
Stop #greenwashing #AI #genai
#climatechange #humanrights #justice #heatwave #drought #flood #hurricanes #labor #capitalism #colonialism #chatgpt #openai #google #meta #amazon #microsoft
Some experts think AI could be used to lower, rather than raise, planet-heating emissions – others aren’t so convincedOliver Milman (The Guardian)
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"#Heatwaves are systematically hotter, longer and more frequent the longer net zero is delayed and reach their highest values when net zero is delayed until 2060. Moreover, most regional trends show no decline over the entire 1000 years of each simulation, indicating that heatwaves do not start to revert to preindustrial conditions"
#climatechange #adaptation #migration #humanrights #justice #labor #capitalism #colonialism
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Yet another fund for #climatechange #adaptation
#humanrights #justice #heatwave #drought #flood #labor #capitalism
BELÉM, BRAZIL | November 13, 2025 — Over 35 leading philanthropies unite to address the escalating public health crisis driven by climate change — whichThe Rockefeller Foundation
Tears not shed for #Labor politicians who never knew "the rage."
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Make no mistake - this is a coordinated attack on #labor by #capital They know exactly what they are doing!
#immigration #AI #genai #humanrights #climatechange #justice #fascism #slavery #colonialism #billionaires #plutocrats #oligarchs #racism #fundamentalism #misogyny #discrimination
The stock market says “all good.” Consumer sentiment says “2009.” Both can be true—if the scoreboard is rigged, and sends the wrong signals in the context of AI-overexuberance and a two-class system tBrad DeLong (DeLong's Grasping Reality: Economy in the 2000s & Before)
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"#inclusive, social-democratic #institutions—expanding access to #education, #public services, #labor rights, #progressive #taxation, and #democratic participation—has been central to achieving both greater #equality and higher #prosperity."
#democracy #justice #humanrights
Equality and Development: A Comparative & Historical Perspective 1800-2025 This paper combines income and wealth inequality series from the World Inequality Database (WID) and new global series on hourly productivity and human capital expenditure to …WID - Wealth and Income Database
nytimes.com/2025/10/26/technol…
So... #Amazon is funding colleges for #AI
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Amazon is also laying of tens of thousands because of AI
Make it make sense!
#democracy #genai #justice #humanrights #labor #jobs #education #students #employment #unemployment
Did you know there's a Labor & Unions Mastodon Starter pack? Check it out!
Got suggestions? I promise I didn't leave anyone out on purpose, just let me know who I'm missing and I'll be happy to take a look!
Tell me, if *I* regularly "hallucinated" on the job, how long before I was separated?
AI up here being treated like a rich white man's nephew in the workplace!
"Researchers say AI transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said" from AP News
#AI
#LLM
#nepotism
#labor
#AtWillEmployment
#fired
#ErrorRate
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In Marxist #theory, those who control material infrastructure (e.g. railroads) control industrial #production and #ForcingFunctions of social life.
Railways symbolized the “circulation of #capital,” through which profit depended on accelerating the movement of goods and #labor.
The system’s #efficiency and national scope served to deepen dependence on wage labor, displace small producers, and subsume all commerce under #capitalist dynamics rather than #public need.
