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“Uber and Lyft, because of their vast control of information and algorithms, are always in a position where they have the advantage,” said [David] Weil, who led the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division during the Obama administration.

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HAPPENING NOW: Alphabet Workers Union members are outside of the Google offices in NYC speaking out against the Trump administration’s H-1B visa proclamation!

Tune in: www.facebook.com/AlphabetWork...
AWU members hold a press conference outside google in nyc
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"We are drivers for Uber, and we’ll be joined outside the conference by others representing the vast majority of AI workers: those whom the technology is being used against. We are eager to share our stories."
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If DHS can violently attack journalists and citizen observers without any consequences, none of us are safe anywhere in the country.
#protest #LAProtests #PressFreedom #ProtectJournalists
Freedoms Under Attack: DHS Violence Against Journalists, Observers, and Protesters
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"Workers...claim they are increasingly concerned that they are being set up to replace themselves...GlobalLogic seems to be using these human raters to train the Google AI system that could automatically rate the responses, with the aim of replacing them with AI."

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Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions
Over 200 contractors who work on improving Google’s AI products, including Gemini and AI Overviews, have been laid off, sources tell WIRED. It’s the latest development in a conflict over pay and alleg...
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"The “MechaHitler” episode is no joke. It exposes how slight tweaks to AI products can trigger sudden, unpredictable downstream effects."

- Christopher Dols of @fedworkersunited.bsky.social in @thehill.com:

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"Almost everyone in the business community thinks the tariffs are a bad idea, but CEOs are all too aware that saying so could put their job and company at risk of retaliation from the administration" - Sachin Shivaram of the Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry:

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Opinion | My workers voted for Trump. Now they’re absorbing the impact.
Business was growing for our aluminum foundry. Then came the tariffs.
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We've covered stories of tech workers organizing internally at their companies against tech's authoritarian turn.

Today we're focusing on those who saw that a different path can be taken outside of the tech world entirely and gave it all up:

hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/leaving-or...
Tech workers are resigning, and not afraid of being blacklisted
Sparked in large part by the Israel-Palestine conflict, employees at large tech companies are leaving. What's next?
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