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Media from: @AnarchistUnionJournal
01:17—Good Night #Fediverse!
Media from: @AnarchistUnionJournal
If you are in tech, then it is time to https://unionize.fyi
> The tech industry is a runaway train, and if we don’t do something soon, we’re going to get run over. [..] it’s all going to keep getting worse unless we take a stand. #Unionizing isn’t just a nice idea - it’s a necessity.
> So let’s do what hackers do best: let’s disrupt. [..] Let’s take back our industry, take back our jobs, and take back our futures.
Todo nuestro apoyo para les compañeres de Saber Interactive que han constituido sección sindical con @cntmadrid ¡Estamos aquí para vosotres!
¡Por la organización de nuestra clase en todos los centros de trabajo!
#Amazon accused of using #algorithms to push #warehouse workers to breaking point
Amazon has used tricks, algorithms, and #surveillance to discourage warehouse employees from #unionizing
"Weaponizing the Workplace: How Algorithmic Management Shaped Amazon's Antiunion Campaign in Bessemer, Alabama," was conducted by Teke Wiggin, a researcher at Northwestern University in the US. It's worth reading the full write-up if you have time; we'll summarize some of it here:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/18/amazon_algorithmic_worker_management/
Does anyone have resources on #unionizing a #restaurant ? I'd like to print out and attach some URLs to the cash tips I leave.
"In this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses unionizing Whole Foods workers VS. Amazon and Trump and the contradictions, dangers, and global retaliation of the new administration's tariff program. The show's second half features an interview with political scientist Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III on the China-U.S. competition: its costs, the stakes, and why the U.S. is losing."—Democracy at Work
https://youtu.be/mm1Li2JxBHE?feature=shared
Economic Update: U.S. Policy toward China: A Failing Effort to Contain Historic Change
@leobm @rbreich The loss in purchasing power is untenable, I’m retired on a fixed income but support raising the minimum wage to at least $15, but organizing and #Unionizing is the only real way to improve wages. Back in ‘68, I think that CEO’s made 22 times the amount paid to their workers, but now it’s closer to 225, iirc
Congratulations to the Trader Joe’s workers in Oakland for #unionizing! They are the first TJ’s in the West Coast to #unionize. #UnionStrong #Solidarity #Oakland #sfba
https://oaklandside.org/2023/04/24/trader-joes-unionization-oakland-rockridge-labor-violations/