"Being pro-labor and pro-AI is incompatible, as AI devalues the work that actual workers do, making them less valuable to the market and easier to underpay going forward."
https://www.vulture.com/article/ghibli-portrait-chatgpt-ai.html
The local chapter of the Service Employees International Union has put out a call to action to support detained workers like Lewelyn Dixon.
The SEIU Union demands that the University of Washington:
– Protect detained workers’ jobs
– Provide leave for immigration proceedings
– Educate all employees on their rights
Cuts to fuel excise favour the wealthy, reduces funding of roads, and gives nothing to those who do the right thing and take public transport or have electric vehicles. The #LNP will always support such regressive measures. #Labor's election sweetener is marginally better in that the tax cuts appear mostly progressive. The #LNP have never supported, or understood, action on climate change.
We should be much more progressive in taxation and use funds to improve public transport in all forms. We no not need or want nuclear or massive gas projects. Renewables with grid stabilisation, already mostly negates the idea that we need gas or nuclear to meet baseload demand. #FederalElection2025
#auspol #election2025 #Politics
It is not #Labor induced cost of living crisis, but from the seeds sown during the last 9 years of #LyingNastyParasites being in power. #Labor inherited almost 1 trillion debt which has been reduced a lot by their management.
#FuelExcise cut for 12 months? Sounds good, but is not solving the structural problems or ensuring a better future.
The #Nuclear power proposal will take decades to come and double energy prices. And be an enormous burden on our economy. And where is the water coming from? There isn't enough.
TOMORROW 
#LABOR & COMMUNITY MASS ACTION
Northwest Detention Center
1623 East J St #Tacoma WA 98412
Thursday March 27 5:30pm
In support of detained #Immigrant #Union #Workers
#ShutdownNWDC #LaResistencia
#EvergreenResistance
HB 1208—introduced by state Democrats and widely supported by Colorado’s most powerful lobbying groups and politicians—would have slashed wages for some of the lowest paid workers in the state. Thanks to the overwhelming opposition of workers and labor organizations, the bill has now been severely amended. In a massive win for workers, the wage cut was scrapped. 
https://pslweb.org
#usa #us #colorado #psl #partyforsocialismandliberation #labor #workers #wages
@ZhiZhu@newsie.socialDOGE's 'AI-first' strategist is now the head of technology at the Dept of Labor
The ex-Tesla engineer #ThomasShedd has quietly become the CIO of the #labor dept as mass #layoffs & federal workforce automation continue.
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/doges-ai-first-strategist-is-now
"Shedd... made waves for announcing that #DOGE would be implementing an “AI-first strategy” across the #government as it orchestrated the firing of... federal workers. Now he’s in charge of the #US #labor department’s #technology."
A group of cross-discipline #VideoGame workers in the #UnitedStates and #Canada announced the first-ever direct-join industry-wide #union called the United Videogame Workers, organized with the Communications Workers of America (UVW-CWA)
The man behind #DOGE's "#AI-first" strategy, the 28 year-old ex-#Tesla engineer #ThomasShedd, has quietly—& possibly illegally—become the head of technology for the Department of #Labor.
- Brian Merchant
@brianmerchant
#law #Trump #Musk #technocracy #USpol #government #regulation #broligarchy #plutocracy #NeoReactionary #NRx #Technofeudalism
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/doges-ai-first-strategist-is-now
CWA has officially started a video game industry union open to all workers in the industry regardless of role or company. It's also not limited to full time employees, unemployed workers and freelancers can join, as well as community supporters who just want to support the effort. Join the union today!
https://uvw-cwa.org/membership
More info: https://uvw-cwa.org/news/read-uvw-cwa-gdc-2025-zine
Let's fucking go!
#UnionStrong, baby!
Video game workers in North America now have an industry-wide union
Emails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “Fraud” on The Courts
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The Trump administration cited “performance” failures to justify its mass firing of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the administration had not conducted any such performance assessment.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-firings-doge-fraud-law-job-performance?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Hat eigentlich IRGENDWER mitbekommen, dass die kommende Koalition den 8-Stunden-Tag killen will? #groko #merz #germany #worker #schwarzrot #sondierung #labor #union
I am downright delighted to announce that my latest book, YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION, has a brand new look. I really love it, and I hope you do too.
Here’s a look at what’s changed and—maybe more importantly—what’s stayed the same:
https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/refresh-a-new-look-for-you-deserve-a-tech-union/
What a world. #Capitalism "externalizes" costs to the point where the costs are "externalized" into our own bodies.
In 2019, Iceland became one of the first countries to approve a four-day workweek. Here's how things have been going for them.
2021: "Trials of a four-day week in Iceland were an "overwhelming success""
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57724779
2024: "Iceland’s economy is outperforming most European peers after the nationwide introduction of a shorter working week with no loss in pay."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/25/business/iceland-shorter-working-week-economy/index.html
2025: "The effects of the shorter workweek in Iceland have extended far beyond the office."
@noxypaws@packmates.orgdone. voted "withhold" for all three nominees.
