<p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> admin overrode <a href="/tags/socialsecurity/" rel="tag">#SocialSecurity</a> staff to list immigrants as dead<br>
A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office & put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency’s deaths database were ignored.
Two days after the SSA purposely & falsely labeled 6,100 living immigrants as dead, security guards arrived at the office of a well-regarded senior executive in the agency’s Woodlawn, MD, headquarters.</p><p><a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#Musk</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/12/trump-immigrants-dead-social-security/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/12/trump-immigrants-dead-social-security/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.washingtonpost.com/politic</span><span class="invisible">s/2025/04/12/trump-immigrants-dead-social-security/</span></a></p>
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<p><a href="/tags/whistleblower/" rel="tag">#Whistleblower</a> details how <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> may have taken sensitive <a href="/tags/nlrb/" rel="tag">#NLRB</a> data</p><p>In the first days of March, a team of advisers from <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>'s new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the Southeast Washington, DC, headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board.</p><p>The small, independent federal agency investigates & adjudicates complaints about unfair <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> practices.</p><p><a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/infosec/" rel="tag">#InfoSec</a> <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#privacy</a> <a href="/tags/nationalsecurity/" rel="tag">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#Musk</a> <br><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5</span><span class="invisible">355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security</span></a></p>
<p>A lax regulatory environment has led to the widespread abuse of farmworkers — including threats of violence, stolen wages and forced labor.</p><p>Experts say the Fair Food Program's reforms could help.</p><p>But few farms have signed on.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/fair-food-program-farmworker-abuse-exploitation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/fair-food-program-farmworker-abuse-exploitation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/fai</span><span class="invisible">r-food-program-farmworker-abuse-exploitation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/agriculture/" rel="tag">#Agriculture</a> <a href="/tags/farming/" rel="tag">#Farming</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/abuse/" rel="tag">#Abuse</a> <a href="/tags/exploitation/" rel="tag">#Exploitation</a> <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#Immigrants</a></p>
<p>Hello Fedi! We are the still-in-progress Twin Cities Radical Community Archive. This project aims to collect, preserve, and increase access to left-wing, working-class activism in the Twin Cities metro, both historically and currently.</p><p><a href="/tags/glam/" rel="tag">#GLAM</a> <a href="/tags/imls/" rel="tag">#IMLS</a> <a href="/tags/galleries/" rel="tag">#Galleries</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#Libraries</a> <a href="/tags/archives/" rel="tag">#Archives</a> <a href="/tags/museums/" rel="tag">#Museums</a> <a href="/tags/minnesota/" rel="tag">#Minnesota</a> <a href="/tags/msp/" rel="tag">#MSP</a> <a href="/tags/minneapolis/" rel="tag">#Minneapolis</a> <a href="/tags/stpaul/" rel="tag">#StPaul</a> <a href="/tags/twincities/" rel="tag">#TwinCities</a> <a href="/tags/antifa/" rel="tag">#Antifa</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/activism/" rel="tag">#Activism</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#Introduction</a></p>
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<p>Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr. helped Sofi secure an H-2A visa, promising a job on a Georgia blueberry farm.</p><p>When she arrived, she was not sent out to work in the fields like the others. She was forced to live at his house and sign a marriage license.<br><a href="https://projects.propublica.org/h2a-visa-farmworkers-operation-blooming-onion/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="projects.propublica.org/h2a-visa-farmworkers-operation-blooming-onion/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">projects.propublica.org/h2a-vi</span><span class="invisible">sa-farmworkers-operation-blooming-onion/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#Immigrants</a> <a href="/tags/farming/" rel="tag">#Farming</a> <a href="/tags/agriculture/" rel="tag">#Agriculture</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/visa/" rel="tag">#Visa</a></p>
<p>The H-2A visa program has failed to protect migrant farmworkers from wage theft, forced labor, violence and death.</p><p>Here’s what experts, lawyers and advocates think would make the program safer.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/h-2a-farmworker-visa-safety-suggestions-experts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/h-2a-farmworker-visa-safety-suggestions-experts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/h-2</span><span class="invisible">a-farmworker-visa-safety-suggestions-experts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/farming/" rel="tag">#Farming</a> <a href="/tags/agriculture/" rel="tag">#Agriculture</a> <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#Immigrants</a> <a href="/tags/visa/" rel="tag">#Visa</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/safety/" rel="tag">#Safety</a></p>
<p>I don't think people realize how precarious the existence of most academic professionals is. Very glad to see this group striking. (Hey MA, take notes.) <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> </p><p><a href="https://prospect.org/2026/02/25/nyu-professors-vote-to-strike-uaw-trump-labor-nlrb/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="prospect.org/2026/02/25/nyu-professors-vote-to-strike-uaw-trump-labor-nlrb/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">prospect.org/2026/02/25/nyu-pr</span><span class="invisible">ofessors-vote-to-strike-uaw-trump-labor-nlrb/</span></a></p>
<p>Wash It All Away – Episode 1</p><p>A story about clothing and community that promises low stakes but high satisfaction and thankfully delivers.</p><p><a href="https://www.animefeminist.com/wash-it-all-away-episode-1/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.animefeminist.com/wash-it-all-away-episode-1/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.animefeminist.com/wash-it-</span><span class="invisible">all-away-episode-1/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/anime/" rel="tag">#anime</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/japan/" rel="tag">#japan</a> <a href="/tags/washitallaway/" rel="tag">#washitallaway</a></p>
<p>In 1992, Cicih Sukaesih led fellow Indonesian factory workers in a strike, part of a movement that led Nike to create its first code of conduct.</p><p>She's proud of the example she set. But she described her work as incomplete, as problems remain, including chronically low wages.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-factory-workers-rights-indonesia-advocate?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/nike-factory-workers-rights-indonesia-advocate?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nik</span><span class="invisible">e-factory-workers-rights-indonesia-advocate?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/nike/" rel="tag">#Nike</a> <a href="/tags/indonesia/" rel="tag">#Indonesia</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/union/" rel="tag">#Union</a> <a href="/tags/strike/" rel="tag">#Strike</a> <a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#Workers</a> <a href="/tags/advocacy/" rel="tag">#Advocacy</a> <a href="/tags/humanrights/" rel="tag">#HumanRights</a></p>
<p>RE: <a href="https://hachyderm.io/@jzb/115904367311777942" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="hachyderm.io/@jzb/115904367311777942"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hachyderm.io/@jzb/115904367311</span><span class="invisible">777942</span></a></p><p>Interesting perspective!</p><p>"Imagine if AI/LLM tools were not shareholder catnip, but a grassroots movement of tooling that workers were sharing with each other to work less.</p><p>[...]</p><p>CEOs would be screaming bloody murder. There’d be an overnight industry in AI-detection tools and immediate bans on AI in the workplace."</p><p><a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#workers</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/workersrights/" rel="tag">#WorkersRights</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a></p>
<p>"Behind every AI system is a huge amount of human effort. Most of this work is not done by well-paid engineers, but by millions of precariously employed workers."</p><p>Great explainer by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@superrr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>superrr</span></a></span>!</p><p><a href="https://superrr.net/en/blog/superrr-explained-data-work" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="superrr.net/en/blog/superrr-explained-data-work"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">superrr.net/en/blog/superrr-ex</span><span class="invisible">plained-data-work</span></a></p><p>Via <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@superrr/115463212350755926" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="social.tchncs.de/@superrr/115463212350755926"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">social.tchncs.de/@superrr/1154</span><span class="invisible">63212350755926</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/dataworkers/" rel="tag">#DataWorkers</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#data</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a></p>
<p>An average worker at the foreign factories that make Nike’s goods earns 1.9 times the local minimum wage, the company says.</p><p>None of the workers The Oregonian/OregonLive spoke with in Nike’s second-largest production hub said they earned that much.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-wages-clothing-shoe-factory-indonesia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/nike-wages-clothing-shoe-factory-indonesia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nik</span><span class="invisible">e-wages-clothing-shoe-factory-indonesia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/indonesia/" rel="tag">#Indonesia</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/work/" rel="tag">#Work</a> <a href="/tags/humanrights/" rel="tag">#HumanRights</a> <a href="/tags/nike/" rel="tag">#Nike</a> <a href="/tags/wages/" rel="tag">#Wages</a></p>
<p>Experts say there aren’t enough state and federal inspectors to adequately vet whether labor contractors who oversee farmworkers are following the rules.</p><p>Nor is there broad political support to invest more resources to protect foreign workers.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/h-2a-visa-farmworker-exploitation-regulators?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/h-2a-visa-farmworker-exploitation-regulators?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/h-2</span><span class="invisible">a-visa-farmworker-exploitation-regulators?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/agriculture/" rel="tag">#Agriculture</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/abuse/" rel="tag">#Abuse</a> <a href="/tags/exploitation/" rel="tag">#Exploitation</a> <a href="/tags/regulation/" rel="tag">#Regulation</a></p>
<p>"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."</p><p><a href="https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymos-controlled-workers-philippines" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymos-controlled-workers-philippines"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">futurism.com/advanced-transpor</span><span class="invisible">t/waymos-controlled-workers-philippines</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/waymo/" rel="tag">#waymo</a> <a href="/tags/automation/" rel="tag">#automation</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#workers</a></p>
<p>Nike Is Moving Jobs to Low-Wage Regions of Indonesia<br>---</p><p>Over the last decade, Nike has sharply expanded production in regions of Indonesia where workers don’t earn a living wage while cutting its workforce in places where they do.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-jobs-indonesia-living-wages?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/nike-jobs-indonesia-living-wages?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nik</span><span class="invisible">e-jobs-indonesia-living-wages?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/nike/" rel="tag">#Nike</a> <a href="/tags/indonesia/" rel="tag">#Indonesia</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/jobs/" rel="tag">#Jobs</a> <a href="/tags/work/" rel="tag">#Work</a> <a href="/tags/wages/" rel="tag">#Wages</a> <a href="/tags/factory/" rel="tag">#Factory</a></p>
<p>"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."</p><p><a href="https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.404media.co/ai-is-african-</span><span class="invisible">intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a> <a href="/tags/bigtech/" rel="tag">#BigTech</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/workersrights/" rel="tag">#WorkersRights</a></p>
<p>We should be wise about what we labor for.<br>We do too much for nothing. <br>Too much labor, too many resources, too much waste. For not much good, but a lot of generational & existential harm. We could get rid of 90% of it and live better. </p><p>Working not because we must ‘make a living’ but work to make a better life for all. <br>Choosing what we extract from the earth more responsibly. <br>Raise your standards! (Pun intended)</p><p><a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/labour/" rel="tag">#labour</a> <a href="/tags/job/" rel="tag">#job</a> <a href="/tags/resistance/" rel="tag">#resistance</a> <a href="/tags/standards/" rel="tag">#standards</a></p>