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"Adam Lampert, the chief executive of Texas-based Cambridge Caregivers and Manchester Care Homes, which provides assisted living and in-home care, says about 80% of his 350 staff are foreign-born.
'I don't go out and place ads for non-citizens to fill our roles,' he says. 'It is the immigrants who are answering the call.' "
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpd4gp78j06o
#healthcare #hospitals #AssistedLiving #HomeCare #immigrant #immigration #labor #workers #workforce #ICE #DHS #USpol
“Employer-sponsored coverage remains the bedrock of how people get health insurance in the United States,” Rae said. “I would say that getting a job is not a guarantee you’re going to have health insurance. It just increases your chances of getting it.”
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/fact-check-thune-health-insurance-workplace-job-employers/
#healthcare #insurance #ACA #HealthPolicy #medicaid #work #labor #benefits
"As Amazon pushes us harder, it creates organizing opportunities. People have already begun to fight back."
https://labornotes.org/2025/06/amazon-workers-defy-dictates-automation
No, You Aren’t Hallucinating, the Corporate Plan for AI is Dangerous
https://socialistproject.ca/2025/06/no-you-arent-hallucinating-corporate-plan-for-ai-dangerous/
#tech #ethics #ai #chatgpt #tiktok #geopolitics #labor
@humanities
@socialsciences
#education #technofascism #techbros
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon
#union #work #socialism #america #mexico #africa @watch_union
@ucl @unionsolidaires @UnicornRiot
> "Why We Have Fewer Friends Than Our Grandparents (And It's Not What You Think). Our drive for efficiency destroyed the "inefficient" moments where real relationships form—and we're paying the price in unprecedented isolation." by Phil McKinney
https://www.philmckinney.com/why-we-have-fewer-friends-than-our-grandparents-and-its-not-what-you-think/
Bottom line: Drive to efficiency and just get shit done. Then again, at least for me, I don't go to work to make friends (they are my coworkers, not friends, big difference).
"A week before they are due to start work at U.S. hospitals, hundreds of doctors from abroad are still waiting to obtain visas granting them temporary stays in the country.
Many of them have been in limbo since late May, when the State Department suspended applications for J-1 visas, which allow people to come to the U.S. for exchange visitor programs."
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/international-doctors-visa-problems-rcna213710
#healthcare #hospitals #GME #MedEd #immigrant #immigration #visas #work #labor
Several of the LLMs have produced inaccuracies which have been uncritically communicated to our customers by CrowdStrikers who failed to exhibit due diligence. Those errors were caught by said customers, and they were embarrassing to us all.
...
Now we have an engineer, if you can call him that, working on a project that will introduce more than 30k lines of AI generated code into our codebase, without a single unit test. It will be impossible to do a proper code review on this much code and it will become a maintenance nightmare and possibly a security hazard. I don't need to tell you how much management is cheering on that.
From @brianmerchant@mastodon.social 's latest newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-ai-is-killing-jobs-in-the-tech
A ticking timebomb in the making. It's especially galling that CrowdStrike is doing this, given their epic fail just last year.
A while back I wrote in a post here:
under Taylorism …
Several of the LLMs have produced inaccuracies which have been uncritically communicated to our customers by CrowdStrikers who failed to exhibit due diligence. Those errors were caught by said customers, and they were embarrassing to us all.
...
Now we have an engineer, if you can call him that, working on a project that will introduce more than 30k lines of AI generated code into our codebase, without a single unit test. It will be impossible to do a proper code review on this much code and it will become a maintenance nightmare and possibly a security hazard. I don't need to tell you how much management is cheering on that.
From @brianmerchant@mastodon.social 's latest newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-ai-is-killing-jobs-in-the-tech
A ticking timebomb in the making. It's especially galling that CrowdStrike is doing this, given their epic fail just last year.
A while back I wrote in a post here:
under Taylorism the workers who actually do the work and know it best no longer have a say (opinion) in how that work gets done. Pseudo-scientific principles (scientific management, the astrology of MBAs) dictates all. Computers, from the very first, were intended and designed for this purpose.
riffing on what a lousy person Charles Babbage was and the lousy anti-worker plans he had for the proto-computers he designed. Among other things generative AI is another manifestation of the MBA pseudoscience known as scientific management and exists in a long line of digital technologies stretching all the way back to Babbage's.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #tech #dev #computation #ComputerScience #labor #organizing
Another day and another man having the sads. Dude, if my wife was the one making bank, believe me, I'd be happy to stay home and run the house. Dude, you got nothing to worry; it will not fall off.
> My wife's new higher salary has made me depressed and less confident. What can I do? VICKY REYNAL answers
https://archive.ph/HjdbM
@workingclasshistory Dockers in particular, and workers in general, have no private ownership of the places where they work. If they think their wages are too low, they should find another job. But no, they just want more. More than the labor market can provide.
#unions #labor
"Men can tap the power they have accrued and take risks that senior women often can’t, without the risk of hurting their own careers. Senior male leaders should ask themselves, 'How many women do I know? How many women do I trust, spend time with, respect?' she advises. 'All those women that you know and respect, you should be sponsoring.'"
https://www.yahoo.com/news/one-hardest-jobs-business-being-130704692.html
#work #labor #career #careers #sponsor #sponsorship #mentor #mentorship #leadership
Labor action at San Francisco City Hall right now to protect public services from unnecessary cuts.
#sfpol #SanFrancisco #labor #union #ProtectPublicServices
> Companies Bragging About Their AI Furious as Job Applicants Use AI During Interviews https://futurism.com/companies-bragging-ai-job-applicants
"Yes, we use #AI, encourage AI use, no, not like that."
In the #BadEconomy
The #TrumpOrganization has consistently made use of temporary #visa programs to hire #ForeignWorkers for #MarALago, 4 #Trump #GolfClubs & his Virginia #winery — filing to bring in at least 1,880 seasonal workers since 2008, including 382 during Trump’s 1st term, acc/to Dept of #Labor data.
The company’s use of short-term, temporary visas has increased steadily in recent years, from requesting 121 in 2021 to asking for a high of 178 in 2024.
#law #immigration #hypocrisy
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/06/12/trump-organization-foreign-workers-visa-hiring-mar-a-lago-golf-clubs-winery/
I have a laundry list of reasons I refuse to use “generative AI,” but this is by far the biggest one:
“The real threat posed by generative AI is not that it will eliminate work on a mass scale, rendering human labour obsolete. It is that, left unchecked, it will continue to transform work in ways that deepen precarity, intensify surveillance, and widen existing inequalities. Technological change is not an external force to which societies must simply adapt; it is a socially and politically mediated process. Legal frameworks, collective bargaining, public investment, and democratic regulation all play decisive roles in shaping how technologies are developed and deployed, and to what ends.”
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/is-the-ai-bubble-about-to-burst
