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City workers rally on the steps of San Francisco City Hall today to demand no cuts and no layoffs. Public services are essential, we won't let budget shortfalls fall on the backs of working-class communities.
#ProtectPublicServices #NoCutsNoLayoffs #SanFrancisco #CityWorkers #SEIU1021 #IFPTE21 #Unions #Labor
Reflections on Don Baldemar Velásquez’s visit to a SF union hall, where he shared lessons from decades of organizing migrant farmworkers, from the Campbell’s boycott to cross-border fights for justice.
https://sanfranciscan.org/2025/05/12/workers-who-had-never-heard-of-vacation/
#Labor #Union #Farmworkers #Solidarity #SanFrancisco
Baldemar Velásquez of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee spoke this afternoon to a small group of San Francisco labor activists about the many challenges of organizing migrant workers in the Midwest and South.
#FarmWorkers #ImmigrationReform #Immigration #Labor #Union #SanFrancisco
For Silicon Valley, AI isn’t just about replacing some jobs. It’s about replacing all of them
"...I recently found myself at a dinner in an upstairs room at a restaurant in San Francisco hosted by a venture capital firm. The after-dinner speaker was a tech veteran who, having sold his AI company for hundreds of millions of dollars, has now turned his hand to investing. He had a simple message for the assembled startup founders: the money you can make in AI isn’t limited to the paltry market sizes of previous technology waves. You can replace the world’s workers – which means you can capture their salaries. All of them...."
Just started reading *Time Anxiety* by Chris Guillebeau. "It's hard to overstate how deeply rooted the gospel of efficiency is in Western culture." Indeed--and people should remember that it was elevated to a twisted science on plantations worked by enslaved people. "Everything in its place" has a sinister history. See *Slavery and the Culture of Taste* by Simon Gikandi.
Next time you feel guilt about dragging every bit of productivity from your life, stop and ask why. #labor #bookstodon
While I'm still boycotting their parent company, I will still stand in solidarity with their workers!
Blizzard's Overwatch Team Has Unionized: "We're Not Just A Number On An Excel Sheet"
#Blizzard #Overwatch #Union #Labor #Microsoft #Xbox #Activision #HotLaborSummer #Gaming
"I've long maintained that the threat from AI to workers isn't that AI can do your job – it's that an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job" - @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/07/rah-rah-rasputin/#credulous-dolts
#Volvo Cars to cut 5% of #jobs at #SouthCarolina plant as #tariffs bite
#VolvoCars said on Wednesday it would make production changes & cut 5% of the #workforce at its #Charleston plant in the #UnitedStates due to changing #market conditions & evolving #trade policies, including #Trump’s tariffs.
#economy #labor #inflation #recession
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/volvo-cars-cut-5-workforce-south-carolina-plant-us-2025-05-07/
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
#bundeskanzler #kanzlerwahl #merz #misstrauen #groko #mehrheit #wahlgang #tränen #krokodilstränen #abstimmung #anonym #geheim #geheimewahl #analyse #weinen #chemie #labor #cdu #csu #union #spd #abgeordnete #abweichler #fraktionen #demokratie #bundestag #bundesregierung #koalition #kanzlermehrheit #trauer #freude #schadenfreude #denkzettel #cartoon #karikatur
"To address unjust policies and conditions, more than 70 incarcerated workers inside Centinela State Prison collectively decided last fall to “slow down” production for the California Prison Industry Authority (CALPIA). According to workers who spoke to Prism, the organizing effort was successful—and there may soon be another slowdown."
https://prismreports.org/2025/04/29/incarcerated-workers-california-work-slowdown/
This week's comic: A "manly" economy
#economy #oligarchy #gender #authoritarianism #labor #jobs #inequality #work
Content warning auspol
Der #Trump-Effekt: https://orf.at/stories/3392351/
#Labor holt die Absolute weil der liberalkonservative Kandidate als zu Trump-nahe empfunden wurde.
„[Duttons] als zu groß empfundene Nähe zu Trump kostete den früheren [liberalkonservativen] Innen- und Verteidigungsminister Zustimmungswerte.“
✊🏽Today is International Worker’s Day! May Day is honored around the world and started here in the United States. Although its history is covered up and distorted, the radical labor movement of this country won basic rights we enjoy today like the eight-hour workday.
Credit: @pslnational
#BostonWeekend 2/x
Thu #workers: #MayDay rally 530p @ #BostonCommon
https://www.instagram.com/p/DIwx1kYhqTR/ bit.ly/bos-mayday2025
#Boston #Labor #1u #UnionStrong #IWW #Massachusetts #InternationalWorkersDay
