The proletarianization of tech workers (doctorow.medium.com)
Remember when tech workers dreamed of working for a big company for a few years, before striking out on their own to start their own company that would knock that tech giant over?...
Solidarity Ale! SF's Anchor Brewing workers plan to turn closed company into a co-op (therealnews.com)
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Meanwhile in my country, employers are unionised. (lemmy.world)
No I kid you not...
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This "nonprofit" hospital in Chicago became notorious for its shady practices. Its workers are now on strike. (lemmy.world)
Support the workers! This will help a lot:...
Wabtec workers: Still on strike over a month later! (lemmy.world)
Support the workers! This will help a lot:...
Forget ‘quiet quitting’ — ‘loud laborers’ are killing workplace morale. Here’s how to spot them (www.cnbc.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/Feh55...
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Nearly 4m fewer UK working days in past year due to strike action, study says (www.theguardian.com)
Resolution Foundation report says much of industrial action ‘fuelled’ by public sector workers’ anger over falls in real-terms pay
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New Survey Reveals That Many Game Developers Consider Their Career Unsustainable (www.ign.com)
IGN can exclusively reveal the details from IATSE's 2023 Gameworkers.org Rates and Conditions Survey, where the organization asked hundreds of video game developers about their pay, benefits, and working conditions.
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Workers are not valuable
So, I just need to rant for a minute about what’s just happened. It’s made me feel fairly disposable as a worker. I work in I.T. support. I help people who can’t operate technology with highly complicated issues. I am highly skilled, well trained and I have a diverse set of understanding for technical issues....
Can the UAW Strike Help It Expand to Non-Union Plants? (prospect.org)
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Bandcamp Editorial Director: “Fuuuuuck Bandcamp United” (www.404media.co)
"Bandcamp United is privileged tech workers cosplaying as Amazon warehouse workers," he said.
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New At 6:30: Anti-Union Propaganda (www.levernews.com)
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‘Where There Are Scabs, There Is Violence’—That’s Why Scabs Are Illegal in Two Canadian Provinces (labornotes.org)
Auto Workers President Shawn Fain has vigorously condemned violence on the picket lines in Michigan, Massachusetts, and California—laying the blame on management for using replacement workers, or as we usually call them in the labor movement, scabs....
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Google Illegally Cut Contract Staffers Who Worked on AI, Union Alleges (www.bloomberg.com)
The Alphabet Workers Union accused Google and Accenture of violating federal labor law, which prohibits retaliation against employees for organizing
Labor Unions Are Industrial Policy (www.thebignewsletter.com)
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[Common Dreams] Teamsters Say Contract Talks Have Collapsed After UPS Made 'Unacceptable Offer' (www.commondreams.org)
The Teamsters said Wednesday that high-stakes talks with UPS over a new contract for more than 340,000 workers have fallen apart after the company presented an offer that union negotiators deemed badly inadequate.
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Hiroshima garbage-collection firm attracts women with free day care to find success (mainichi.jp)
HIROSHIMA -- After a garbage collection company in this west Japan city made efforts to improve its working conditions and go beyond a male-oriented atmosphere, women, including many with children, now represent around 40% of its workforce.
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[In These Times] Workers at The Trevor Project unionize (inthesetimes.com)
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‘It’s exhausting but I think I’m going to have to keep working’: the over-65s who can’t afford to retire (www.theguardian.com)
Many of those who have left the workplace are being forced to return by the cost of living crisis to bolster their finances.
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Stressed Out by Mass Layoffs, CD Projekt Staff Have Finally Set Out to Unionize — So What’s Next? (www.ign.com)
CD Projekt staff are unionizing in response to sweeping layoffs. IGN speaks to workers at the Cyberpunk 2077 developer to find out what's next.
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SAG-AFTRA Pushes For Another Video Game Strike (insider-gaming.com)
SAG-AFTRA is now targeting the gaming industry, pushing for strike action in a bid to secure better compensation for 'gaming performers'.
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Pluralistic: Bill Willingham puts his graphic novel series "Fables" into the public domain (pluralistic.net)
This was the culmination of a string of wage-thefts in which the company misreported his royalties and had to be dragged into paying him his due. When the company "practically dared" Willingham to sue ("knowing it would be a long and debilitating process") he snapped.
Former BioWare employees sue for better severance after layoffs (www.gamesindustry.biz)
A group of former BioWare employees are suing the studio for better severance pay after they were laid off in August.
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