The first-of-its-kind center, called the Little Apple, could be a model for other cities exploring ways to make life more affordable for workers.
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We follow 3.4 million people who submit 4 million job applications to 1,700 job postings across 150 employers and 11 industry sectors. Each job application was assessed by an AI hiring tool built by a single third-party vendor. Our new paper offers a rare look inside the “black box” of algorithmic hiring, showing that these tools increase racial bias and shut the same people out of jobs…
In Geneva, governments are negotiating the first binding global standard that codifies protections for gig workers and regulate their AI bosses.
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Even Crystal S. Carey, Republican general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, or NLRB, the federal agency that adjudicates labor-management disputes, thinks President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are screwing up her agency.
Carey, who before Trump appointed her general counsel was a partner at the union-busting law firm Morgan Lewis, didn’t put it exactly that way. In…
It has now been almost two weeks since the laborers keeping ICE’s Delaney Hall mega-jail open went on strike—demanding a chance to speak with New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, reviews of their cases, and ultimately, their freedom. Those workers are the detainees themselves, who serve as custodians, line cooks, hairdressers, laundry workers, and janitors at […]
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A great riddle of the 2024 election is how Donald Trump managed to double (to 14 points) his advantage among working class voters, defined as those lacking a college degree, compared to 2016. This is a mystery because Trump spent much of his first term undermining labor rights. The main (though by no means only) vehicle for doing so was the Trump-appointed majority on the National Labor Relations…
The right to strike is under attack throughout the world, including in the United States. Labor strikes are currently forbidden or restricted in the majority of countries.
Now, in a landmark 43-page advisory opinion issued May 21, the International Court of Justice (ICJ, or World Court) has determined that the right to strike is protected under the International Labour Organization’s (ILO)…
Greg Bovino, the Nazi-garbed former Border Patrol commander, was ousted in January after CBP and ICE agents during his tenure killed Minneapolis protesters Renée Good and Alex Pretti. These days, Bovino has a lot of time on his hands, and he’s using that time to post about wanting his job back—and offering to go to […]
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Soon-to-be-laid-off Meta contractors say they’re being treated differently than Mark Zuckerberg’s full-time employees, who stand to receive more generous severance packages.
The group has been fighting Rockstar Games in labor court for months
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An der Ecke Müllerstraße/Barfusstraße, unweit des Paul Gerhardt Stifts, gibt es eine Apotheke, die sich seit Jahren gegen einen Markt behauptet, in dem viele kleinere Betriebe längst verschwunden sind. Vor 25 Jahren gründete Apotheker Dr. Jozef Dobija die Paul-Gerhardt-Apotheke – heute sind dort rund 20 Mitarbeitende beschäftigt. Für den Norden des Weddings ist sie nicht nur Verkaufsort für…
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Following eye-watering Q1 performance, some 48,000 of Samsung’s semiconductor division workers are set to receive a new profit-sharing-style bonus structure that will give a bigger slice of the AI pie to those making baking it. Samsung’s compensation package was among the country’s most generous, as the tech giant accounts for a staggering 16% of national […]
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“The dignity of work” is a somewhat old-fashioned phrase that’s seldom uttered these days. The left tends to view it with suspicion because it sounds like a justification for mandatory work requirements for Medicaid and food stamps. The right rarely utters it because it risks implying that this dignity should be rewarded with labor rights. So leave it to the pope to enliven our conversation about…
It is time for the party to stop coddling “good” oligarchs while punching left and to reject the validity of the entire billionaire class.
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Pennsylvania bike shop owner John Ronca has been buying health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace for over a decade. Last year, with enhanced ACA tax credits enacted under the Biden administration, the premiums for his gold plan—the second-highest tier, which includes lower deductibles and often more flexibility in seeing specialists—tripled. Ronca decided to […]
Under a new payment system, writers at Valnet-owned TheGamer would no longer be guaranteed consistent pay for their work
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger
Ahead of a union vote of the Magic: The Gathering Arena team, Wizards of the Coast has been sending letters to workers full of tired anti-union talking points
Refugees from Cuba have always had to struggle for success in America. In Trump’s second term, they’ve been plunged into legal chaos.
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The country’s poultry and swine processing plants, already incredibly dangerous workplaces, are poised to get a green light from the Trump administration to vastly speed up the work. In February, the Department of Agriculture released two proposed regulations to increase evisceration line speeds for hogs, chickens, and turkeys. The swine plant proposal removes the current maximum of 1,106 hogs an…
The Teamsters hold a press conference on teh Faster Labor Contracts Act
SAG-AFTRA’s national board is recommending the guild’s latest contract with the major studios to its full membership for ratification. The board “decisively” approved the deal, tentatively sealed earlier this month, on Monday, per the union. SAG-AFTRA did not specify how the vote shook out. Now, the membership will need to vote. Among the provisions in […]
IATSE has made a deal with Mr. Beast. After the producers on Beast Games Season 3 voluntarily recognized the crew’s desire to organize, the trade union revealed Monday that the parties had an agreement. Per IATSE, the contract covers more than 500 crew members working on the Greenville, N.C.-based production. Members working on the production […]
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For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad.
The WGA West Staff Union has officially ratified its first collective bargaining agreement with the guild, ending an 82-day work stoppage. The inaugural contract was ratified by 89% of its members, and according to the organization’s announcement, codifies “many fundamental hallmarks of a unionized workplace,” including just cause protections with a progressive discipline process, seniority […]
This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Justin Smarsh and his family used to kayak a few times a year on the rivers and creeks near their home in Cherry Tree, Pennsylvania. High on the Appalachian Plateau, northeast of Pittsburgh, he spent hours in the woods and […]
This week I put together a reading list for my digital aura series. I recall starting to write around Thanksgiving — but when I looked back at my reading, I’d started reading for it months earlier. (No wonder it’s felt like such a big endeavor!) I’ve been thinking about taste for a while now, but […]
Some of the most useful books and articles I read to think about digital aura. ⭐ = most useful for the question The ur-text ⭐ The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin (1936) — my notes Booklist Presented in reverse chronological order. Aura, art, and media studies Ways of […]
The Psychonauts developer is the latest Microsoft studio to unionize
The WGA West appears to have finally reached a tentative agreement with its staff union. The Writers Guild Staff Union said on Friday that they’d reached a deal on their first union contract with their employers after nearly three months on the picket line. Now, the agreement will be put to the full 116-member bargaining […]
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