A close look at Nike’s massive supply chain offers a case study in the possible ripple effects of the escalating global trade war and shows how vulnerable factory workers could get squeezed.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-trump-tariffs-impact-workers-prices?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
workers
📣 Friends, fans, job seekers…
AI is struggling.
Humans keep applying for jobs. We had to intervene.
Definitely don’t share these posters on May 1st. International Workers’ Day. Shush! 🤫
#SaveTheAI #AIhype #FutureOfWork #Jobs #Workers #Workersday #Trabajadores #DiaInternacionaldelosTrabajadores
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#Fedify 1.6 is approaching with three major enhancements: RFC 9421 HTTP Message Signatures support with double-knocking for seamless backward compatibility, a new builder pattern for better code organization in large applications, and native #Cloudflare #Workers support for serverless deployments. These additions strengthen Fedify's standards compliance while expanding deployment flexibility across different environments. Stay tuned for the official release! 🚀
#ActivityPub #fedidev #fediverse #RFC9421 #CloudflareWorkers
"As technologists, we are workers first. We cannot individually stop the machine of capitalism from exploiting our labor, and, while this tide will shift, many of us are too romanced by the technofuturist dream of [Large Language Models] — despite widespread, multidisciplinary criticism of the technology and disastrous consequences in its application so far — to easily reconsider our adoption of it."
https://henry.codes/writing/economics-and-labor-rights-in-ai-skepticism/
via @henry
Emails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “Fraud” on The Courts
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The Trump administration cited “performance” failures to justify its mass firing of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the administration had not conducted any such performance assessment.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-firings-doge-fraud-law-job-performance?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
NEW: ProPublica journalist Max Blau spent a year reporting on abuses of farmworkers.
It left him wondering: Is there any way to find out whether the produce he buys at the grocery store comes from farms with a record of mistreating workers?
https://projects.propublica.org/blueberries-farmworker-mistreatment/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Food #Farm #Agriculture #Ethics #Labor #Groceries #Immigrant #Workers
How Dems Come Back: Be Real; FIGHT #Trump & His #MAGA Mobsters - I debated Jonathan Larsen on #Substack!
Check it out!! Then Subscribe!!
https://www.blueamp.co/p/cliff-v-jonathan-fight-ordebate-about #news #politics #donaldtrump #russia #usa #us #america #unitedstates #ukraine #fascism #democracy #sherrodbrown #workers #workingclass #economy
Meanwhile in Ireland, a cultural Basic Income (focussed on artists) has moved from pilot to sustained policy, with the confirmation of an ongoing programme of awarding 2,000 artists €18k per annum.
Interestingly the cost of the programme was less than the benefits to the Irish economy, and the artists in receipt of funds were able to switch earnings from non-art activities to work related to their art practice.
A more general lesson here for UBI?
#UBI #workers
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ireland-basic-income-artists-program-permanent-1234756981/
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.
She's proud of the example she set. But she described her work as incomplete, as problems remain, including chronically low wages.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-factory-workers-rights-indonesia-advocate?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Nike #Indonesia #Labor #Union #Strike #Workers #Advocacy #HumanRights
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jzb/115904367311777942
Interesting perspective!
"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.
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CEOs would be screaming bloody murder. There’d be an overnight industry in AI-detection tools and immediate bans on AI in the workplace."
"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."
https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymos-controlled-workers-philippines
#news #technology #TechNews #AI #waymo #automation #labor #workers
"According to new research from consulting firm Robert Half reviewed by Fast Company, nearly a third (32%) of hiring managers say that their organizations eliminated a role or let someone go primarily due to productivity gains from AI or automation, and then later rehired for that same role."
In Aberdeen (and elsewhere) workers are yelling 'how many more jobs must be lost' before the UK Govt. acts (although its not like the oil sector has been out of favour for long).
But what of academic staff shouting the same about universities?
Our political class gives a lot more weight to workers in industry (who claim the Govt. can help) than those in universities (whose plight is directly related to Govt. funding decisions).
The value of universities is still obscured!
"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.”"
https://www.labornotes.org/2026/03/four-union-strategies-fight-ai
#workers #WorkersRights #labor #unions #AI #LLMs #technology
"Duolingo will “gradually stop using contractors to do work that Al can handle,” according to an all-hands email sent by co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn announcing that the company will be “AI-first.”"
https://www.theverge.com/news/657594/duolingo-ai-first-replace-contract-workers