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Jess F

Are you attending #ALAAC2025 in Philly? Join comrades before the conference on Thursday, June 26 and learn to #Organize Your #Library! Supported by the Library Freedom Project and rank-and-file workers like you.

More info/register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

Google DocsOrganize Your Library!Coming to Philadelphia for ALA Annual? Join us before the conference on Thursday, June 26, 2025 and learn to Organize Your Library! This event will bring library workers from across the U.S. together to develop concrete skills that can help us build solidarity in the workplace, learn how to fight for (and win) improvements in working conditions, and understand why organizing and collective bargaining are the tools we need to respond to our current political climate. The training will be facilitated by Daniel Reyes, a public school teacher and member of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers. Workers from all library types are welcome. This event is free. Registration will be capped at 40, so we encourage you to sign up soon. Organize Your Library! PJB Workers United Union Hall 22 S. 22nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103 Thursday, June 26, 2025 10AM - 2PM Lunch included This event is supported by the Library Freedom Project and rank-and-file library workers like you. Questions? Contact emily.drabinski@gmail.com
#Workers#Union
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“The story of automation in the US is that it has mostly impacted on manual workers in manufacturing. For example, factory employees — such as carmakers — performing routine tasks have lost their jobs to robots — or lower-cost Asian competitors.

#IndustrialAutomation has tended to affect lower-skilled, #BlueCollar jobs in the “#rustbelt” heartlands and small-town, less-educated communities in the south and midwest.

But a recent study from the #BrookingsInstitution suggests that the communities most exposed to AI-driven job dislocation will be #WhiteCollar information workers. The researchers studied the usage of #OpenAI’s #GenerativeAI tools across more than 1,000 occupations and mapped this against where those jobs were most commonly located.

Their analysis suggests that many #coders, #lawyers, #FinancialAnalysts and #bureaucrats in cities such as San Jose, San Francisco, Durham, New York and Washington DC might want to rethink their futures. But #NonOffice-bound #workers in places such as Las Vegas, Toledo, Ohio and Fort Wayne, Indiana may be less exposed to AI disruption.”

My observation since 2022 when #ChristopherHohn an influential shareholder decided to *speak out* about “reducing its head count and paying (hi-tech) workers less”. [1]

This is the decade where extreme (cost) pressure will be forced on White collar workers by the introduction of AI.

<archive.md/YqF03> / <ft.com/content/04343a69-8204-4> (paywall)

[1] <forbes.com/sites/jonathanponci>

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I had a whole pithy mini-essay planned on LLMs, the "AI" scam that is attempting to build the ultimate dystopia, the companies pushing it, the workers and citizens who are its victims, and what it means for society as a whole.

Presentation was to be a "future history"-type approach, which I've always had a soft spot for in sci-fi.

And ... I just can't. Trump today decided that not only was driving the world's largest economy off a cliff the prudent thing to do, merely crashing it wasn't enough, so he decided to fill the backseat with lit sticks of TNT, and stick a lit rag in the fuel filler.

The streets tomorrow will be (only metaphorically, with luck) running with blood. People everywhere are going to be hurt, some devastatingly so.

I wonder if this is the kind of thing that Charles Stross means when he talks about the world stopping him from writing or finishing something he'd been planning on. It feels awful.

#AI#LLM#scam
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William Lindsey :toad:

"According to a report from Rachel Maddow on Tuesday evening (which I cannot independently verify), the HHS cuts will close all HHS programs that provide care and support for Alzheimer’s victims and their families."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #RFKJr #HHS #CDC #healthcare #medicine #research #science #firings #workers #Alzheimers #elderly
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roberthubbell.substack.com/p/w

Today's Edition Newsletter · We have every reason to be hopeful, but no reason to be complacentBy Robert B. Hubbell
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William Lindsey :toad:

“We’ve had a lot of devastating days, but this really is unfathomable. It’s astounding, it will affect patients with all kinds of different kinds of infections, and Americans will suffer, and people will die, and that’s a horrible thing to see coming.”

~ Wendy Armstrong, director of infectious diseases at the University of Colorado

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #RFKJr #HHS #CDC #healthcare #medicine #research #science #firings #workers
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thebulwark.com/p/people-will-d

The Bulwark · ‘People Will Die’—RFK Jr. Guts America’s Health BureaucracyBy Jonathan Cohn
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

And here are some examples of the costs & difficulties people have at work... given that these stories come from MPs in the House of Commons, perhaps Keir Starmer & Rachel Reeves might therefore know of some people impacted exactly in the way the TUC suggests disabled workers are....

Will that change their mind about disability benefits cuts? I doubt it...

#disability #workers #politics

theguardian.com/politics/2025/

The Guardian · Disabled MPs speak of difficulties they face working in UK parliamentBy Peter Walker
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Matthewchat

"JD Vance says that Denmark does not respect its people but people in Denmark do not need to worry about healthcare costs or the cost of their education. The government covers 75% of the cost of childcare to help people rejoining the workforce after a year of paid maternity leave. People in Denmark get 30 days of sick leave at full pay for each illness or injury and 32 paid days off a year is the legal minimum."

#denmark #usa #workers #benefits
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Instagramamerica_is_the_bad_place on Instagram: "JD Vance says that Denmark does not respect its people but people in Denmark do not need to worry about healthcare costs or the cost of their education. The government covers 75% of the cost of childcare to help people rejoining the workforce after a year of paid maternity leave. People in Denmark get 30 days of sick leave at full pay for each illness or injury and 32 paid days off a year is the legal minimum. Where is people in the United States look like they are in an hostile relationship with their government. #worklifebalance #greenland #healthcare"29K likes, 1,278 comments - america_is_the_bad_place on March 31, 2025: "JD Vance says that Denmark does not respect its people but people in Denmark do not need to worry about healthcare costs or the cost of their education. The government covers 75% of the cost of childcare to help people rejoining the workforce after a year of paid maternity leave. People in Denmark get 30 days of sick leave at full pay for each illness or injury and 32 paid days off a year is the legal minimum. Where is people in the United States look like they are in an hostile relationship with their government. #worklifebalance #greenland #healthcare".
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Jay Drake 🇨🇦 ≠51

They (kleptocrat corporate capital) are already beginining to remove tooling equipment from Canadian factories to send south of the border.

Time for the Canadian government to nationalize assets of companies that attempt do this and halt them.

ctvnews.ca/windsor/article/win

A protest is taking place at Titan Tool and Die in Windsor, Ont., seen on March 31, 2025. (Michelle Maluske/CTV News Windsor)
CTVNews · Windsor auto workers block equipment from leaving tool and die plantA handful of members from Unifor Local 195 are blocking the path of a transport at Titan Tool and Die.
#Never51#Canada#CanadaStrong
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R. Scott Pert

Ontario Raising Minimum Wage to Support Workers

> TORONTO — The #Ontario government is increasing the #minimumwage from $17.20 to $17.60 an hour effective October 1, 2025, to support #workers and businesses. This annualized #wage #increase is based on the Ontario Consumer Price Index (CPI) of 2.4 per cent and will bring Ontario’s minimum wage to the second highest provincial rate in #Canada.
news.ontario.ca/en/release/100 #ONpoli #tariffs #MAGA #CDNpoli #TradeWar #ElbowsUP

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