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Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?
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NOEMAWhy Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? | NOEMAA lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.posted in Technology
Sign of the Times: An Account of the First Tech Workers’ Strike
longhaulmag.com/first-tech-workers-strike/
Long-Haul MagSign of the Times: An Account of the First Tech Workers’ Strike | Long-Haul MagWorkers in the New York Times Tech Guild went on the first official tech workers’ strike in the United States, during the week of the presidential election in November, 2024. Following the strike, the Times Tech Guild became the nation’s largest union of tech workers with a collective bargaining agreement.posted in Technology
Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work
jacobin.com/2026/08/uc-upte-tech-workers-union
jacobin.comUnions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech WorkTwo University of California tech workers explain their unionization process — and how unions can help recapture the original promise of tech being used to better people’s lives rather than make the worst people in the world ever richer.posted in Technology
Welcome To The Resistance: Meet The Workers Dodging (And Sabotaging) Their Employer's AI Mandates
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AftermathWelcome To The Resistance: Meet The Workers Dodging (And Sabotaging) Their Employer's AI Mandates'When I copy-edit writing I take an extra twenty minutes to double check, then say I had Claude copy edit it as well. Everyone’s really happy with my performance'posted in Technology
EPIC and the National Institute for Workers’ Rights Release White Paper on Algorithmic Unionbusting
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EPIC - Electronic Privacy Information CenterPRESS RELEASE: EPIC and the National Institute for Workers’ Rights Release White Paper on Algorithmic UnionbustingWashington, D.C. — Today, EPIC and the National Institute for Workers' Rights (NIWR) released a white paper titled Who's Got the Power? Restoring Worker Power in the Age of Algorithmic Unionbusting, documenting how employers increasingly use surveillance technologies, algorithmic management systems, and vast stores of worker data to identify, monitor, and interfere with workers seeking to organize.posted in Technology
Double Fine Is Unionizing
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AftermathDouble Fine Is UnionizingThe Psychonauts developer is the latest Microsoft studio to unionizeposted in Technology
Wikimedia Will Not Voluntarily Recognize Union a Supermajority of Its Workers Want
www.404media.co/wikimedia-waits-until-after-its-massive-conference-to-say-it-wont-voluntarily-recognize-union/
404 MediaWikimedia Will Not Voluntarily Recognize Union a Supermajority of Its Workers WantThe Wikimedia Foundation waited until immediately after its largest annual conference to say it wouldn't voluntarily recognize its workers' union.posted in Technology
Whose freedom is it anyway?
collectivefutures.blog/whose-freedom-is-it-anyway/
our collective futuresWhose freedom is it anyway?Artificial Intelligence and the old promise of the emancipatory machine, from the washing machine, the personal computer, the internet, and social media.posted in Technology
Tech Workers Coalition Members Mixer - Jul 26th
techworkerscoalition.org/events/twc-members-mixer/Big Tech is hiding $1.65tn in off-balance-sheet AI debt
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