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The newest legal crisis in college sports is also the latest sign of the complex relationship between college athletes and their schools, conferences and the NCAA in the increasingly commercialized world of college sports. Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby, who reportedly received a $5 million deal to join the Red Raiders as a transfer from […]
Italian culture workers and arts collectives announced this week that they would be joining trade unions and other organizations across the country in participating in a “general cultural strike” on June 12. The strike will focus on supporting Palestine and championing workers’ rights. The organizations who communicated on Monday that they’d be part of the effort include […]
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The L.A. local of hotel and restaurant workers settles a contract dispute, but reserves the right to strike if ICE appears at Friday’s kickoff.
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Artificial intelligence may not be intelligent enough to accurately value AI companies.
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By Chris Gilbert – Mar 10, 2026 Any theory should be adjusted when it conflicts
People are shocked to find out how much delivery drivers make.
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Today's links Criticizing the everything machine: It slices, it dices, it even makes paperclips! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Parliament v DRM; Colbert's commencement; Counterfeiting x luxury goods; Joule thief; Lean-back media. Upcoming appearances: Kansas City, LA, Menlo Park, Toronto, NYC, Edinburgh, South Bend. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books:…
The New School in New York has laid off sixty-eight staffers and nineteen full-time faculty members, more than half of them tenured, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports. The cuts were telegraphed earlier this year and come as the university reckons with a $60 million budget deficit spurred in part by declining enrollment. The dip […]
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Seven Republicans have joined every House Democrat to bring pro-union legislation to the floor next week.
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The continued exposure of labor rights abuses across global supply chains shows that this approach is not working.
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Meta has backed off a little. After announcing in April that a tool called the Model Capability Initiative would log employees' keystrokes and mouse clicks to train its AI models, the company has now told staff they can pause the data collection for "up to 30 minutes at a time" or request an exemption altogether, according to an internal memo seen by the BBC. — Read the rest
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Reforms intending to strengthen protections for LGBTQIA+ people have passed NSW Parliament after a disturbing increase in performative crimes against […]
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It didn't take very long for the people who sell baseball to us to sour the vibe of a season that is barely a third of the way along. What promises to be an excruciating negotiation (and occasionally a refusal to negotiate at all) over Major League Baseball's next collective bargaining agreement opened with the MLB Players Association making an initial proposal, and owners responding with a…
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House Bill 1005 would have abolished a requirement in the Colorado Labor Peace Act that 75% of workers at a company sign off before unions can negotiate with businesses over union dues
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We face potential unemployment on par with the Great Depression. We need a mass employment program to get through it. AI can pay for it.
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This report covers incidents from May 19 to May 26 as recorded in the Stanford University Department of Public Safety (SUDPS) bulletin.
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Under a recently enacted state law, independent contractors can bargain collectively—and now, they will.
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Today's links The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble: No one had to force-feed the web to workers. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Website graveyard; Anti-librarian witch-hunt; Denmark v Marmite; The unnecessariat. Upcoming appearances: London, Kansas City, LA, Menlo Park, Toronto, NYC, Edinburgh. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep…
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After failing to gut a bill that legalized collective bargaining for state and local government workers, she opted to veto it.
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Coding was supposed to be a pathway to a high-paying job, but AI is pulling the rug out from young programmers.
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The gubernatorial candidate answered student questions at a Wednesday town hall.
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Cameron Seip describes his job as being a connector. As the executive director of Mo-Kan LECET — the Western Missouri and Kansas Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust — he tries to make “connections that make sense” among union workers, contractors, developers and governments. All so the union members and contractors he represents are able to […]
FRITZ! startet ab heute ein neues Laborprogramm für das kommende FRITZ!OS 8.50. FRITZ! hat ein neues FRITZ! Labor angekündigt, in dem Nutzer frühe Versionen von FRITZ!OS 8.50 testen können. Den …
RAs gathered at the Student Services Center to protest what they describe as University efforts to postpone union elections until summer break.
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More than one hundred employees at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) on May 13 announced their intent to unionize in a letter delivered by organizers to museum director and CEO Scott Stulen, the Seattle Times reports. The staffers, who are spread across more than twenty front- and back-end departments, are organizing under the name Seattle […]
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The contract kicks off a Trump administration plan to track workers at the Social Security Administration and Departments of Agriculture and Veterans Affairs.
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More than 7,700 men and women who served as “volunteer” coaches for Division I sports teams between March 17, 2019, and June 30, 2023, can expect at least $5,000 and on average $26,988.66 in payments after a California federal judge this week granted final approval of a $303 million settlement. The agreement closes Ray v. NCAA, an […]
Labor unions may be a dollar short and a day late in spending for their avowed champion. Connie Chan finds herself losing the money race.
Labor’s love lost? Union favorite Connie Chan has labor’s backing, but little of its cash.
The Maya civilization developed sophisticated pyramid automation systems that outsourced human labor long before the digital age. This ancient approach to task delegation reveals surprising parallels to modern AI and contemporary concerns about job displacement.
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