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@jensorensen@mastodon.social · 1d ago
Latest comic: The post-human economy #labor #work #economy #workers #inequality #comic #cartoon
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@Nonilex@masto.ai · 3d ago
#Meta to cut 10% of staff as it pours billions into #AI Meta said Thursday it plans to lay off roughly 10% of its workforce, or about 8,000 people, the latest in a string of #tech industry #layoffs fueled in part by #ArtificialIntelligence. The company is also closing around 6,000 open roles, Janelle Gale, Meta’s chief people officer, wrote in a memo published by Bloomberg. The layoffs will go into effect on May 20. #jobs #labor #AIisComingForYourJobs https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-23/meta-tells-staff-it-will-cut-10-of-jobs-in-push-for-efficiency
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social · 3d ago
RE: https://tech.lgbt/@iamada/116455437413475828 a good time to remind y’all MAYA ANGELOU ―the poet laureate, 3 time Grammy winner, National Medal of Arts and Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree― once worked as a SEX WORKER; both as labor and management. there’s a whole generation of BLACK nanas and aunties that had to do what they had to do to care for our families. sex work isn't just the sex. many Black brothels were social, cultural, health centers for our communities. true allies stand by all sex workers. #labor #sexWork
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@Solomon_G@mastodon.social · Apr 09, 2026
GENERALSTRIKE - May 1, 2026!! https://open.substack.com/pub/peoplepowerunited/p/workers-families-people-over-billionaires-a-may-day-demand-no-ice-no-war?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email #workersrights #billionaires #labor #greed #democracy #taxtherich #justice #uspol #noice #ice #fuckice #war #nowar #families #peace #publicmoney #opportunity #corporatepower #oligarchy #plutocracy #kakistocracy #lobbyists #superpacs #pac #students #generalstrike @peoplepowerunited@mastodon.social
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · Apr 08, 2026
The New Republic | The Disillusioned College Grads Turning to the Labor Movement by Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein Starting in about 2005, something nearly unthinkable began to happen: The lifetime value of a college degree began to decline. Up until then, and really for quite a while afterward, a degree was considered a smart bet on a person’s future income and prospects. Possessing a college degree (any degree!) generally meant higher income. At the late date of 2013, Barack Obama called higher education an “economic imperative.” Once upon a time, very few people got college degrees. About 6 percent of the population in 1950 had one (which itself, thanks to the GI Bill, was a remarkable high). College was, at some level, affordable, and by 2010 degree holders received a glorious 75 percent pay bump. And if you didn’t go to college, no sweat: Nondegree holders had plenty of options for work that paid OK, too—for instance, in skilled trades like electrical work or union jobs in hospitality. Over the years, more and more people went to college, and today more than 50 percent of working-age adults have college degrees. Overall, they still make more money than people without college degrees. But after 2005, the ever-rising prospects for degree holders began to slouch. The job market for grads shrank, wages flatlined or backslid, and college got so expensive that the debt some people took on to get their degree almost permanently ate into their expected windfall. Degree holders had been promised the world, and a vaunted place in the professional or managerial class. Yet five years after graduation, only 55 percent of college graduates were employed in jobs that require a degree, according to a 2024 report. Many ended up working in the service industry. Caught in low-wage, often precarious jobs, some sought to form unions. Read more: https://newrepublic.com/article/208726/mutiny-review-college-educated-labor-unions #big-tech #culture #labor #organizedlabor #unions
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@thylacine@universeodon.com · Mar 02, 2026
#Greens’ Shoebridge on #Iran strikes: ‘#Labor knows it’s illegal’ Greens senator #DavidShoebridge has accused Labor, the #Coalition and #OneNation of being the “three war parties”, and criticised the government for “rushing” to back the strikes on Iran. Speaking on his amendment to the Coalition’s motion, Shoebridge doesn’t hold back, saying the three parties have “never seen an attack by #DonaldTrump, an attack by #BenjaminNetanyahu, that they haven’t wanted to back in and support”. “We have seen the #Albanese Labor government rush to be the first country in the world to back in Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest #illegalwar, literally rushing to back in a war that Labor knows is in #grossbreach of #internationallaw. There’s a reason that the foreign minister has refused to discuss, even discuss, whether or not this war is illegal. It’s because Labor knows it’s illegal.” Shoebridge accuses the government and opposition of being “reckless” about the consequences of the #bombing on the Iranian people. “I can tell you that the mums who are pulling their kids out of the rubble, they don’t see freedom. They’re not talking about #regimechange. They’re grieving about the loss of their kids, their daughters. They see through your endless support of war … they see their country potentially being thrown into chaos.“ #auspol #TrumpRegime #RogueNation #uspol https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/mar/02/politics-updates-federal-parliament-anthony-albanese-labor-angus-taylor-coalition-nsw-budget-estimates-iran-war-reactions-ntwnfb?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-69a4d5508f0863f6a3eff706#block-69a4d5508f0863f6a3eff706
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@blogdiva__dup_156@mastodon.social · Feb 21, 2026
RE: https://phpc.social/@ramsey/116109626593551373 30% of India’s labor is unionized. 90% of the unionized labor joined the strike. ALL THIS INFORMATION IS IN THE LINKS I PROVIDED. yes, close to 300,000,000 workers ―in a country of +1 BILLION― did not show up to work in India on the 12th of February of 2026. THAT’S WHY IT IS HISTORIC AND NEWS WORTHY. #India #generalStrike #labor #unions
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@dnkboston@apobangpo.space · Feb 25, 2026
I don't think people realize how precarious the existence of most academic professionals is. Very glad to see this group striking. (Hey MA, take notes.) #labor https://prospect.org/2026/02/25/nyu-professors-vote-to-strike-uaw-trump-labor-nlrb/
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@bss@social.coop · Feb 18, 2026

What we’ve seen in MN with middle class white folks putting themselves in harms way to protect their neighbors shows the spirit of what should serve as our path forward. The extension of empathy into action as solidarity. And going forward this is what we need not just in resisting fascism but in all of our efforts.

We need to dig deep for broad #solidarity in recognition that our real power comes from solidarity across all our superficial differences. Our politics should not be based on focus groups, calculations, establishment strategy but simply the value and principle of solidarity in service to all of us, the 99% that is the working class.

  • Universal Healthcare
  • Universal Basic Income
  • Opening the electoral process to multiple parties
  • Building of our movement outside of the political process: Workers in workplaces and community folk in neighborhoods building #labor organizing, mutual aid, self defense and lived, grassroots #democracy at the street level.
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@majorlinux@toot.majorshouse.com · Feb 13, 2026
I hope those folks find work soon. The Long Dark Studio Lays Off Workers After Game Delay https://aftermath.site/the-long-dark-studio-lays-off-workers-after-game-delay/ #TheLongDark #Layoffs #Labor #Gaming
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@mgmarkel@universeodon.com · Feb 12, 2026
Proud to announce that my upcoming #nonfiction #picturebook is This Is Your Fight! Genora Johnson and the Flint Sit-Down Strike, to be published by Harper Collins next year. And it's being illustrated by The Brave Union (artists Kevin and Kristen Howdeshell)! Yesterday marked the anniversary of the end of the 1936-37 strike- one of the most successful in American history. Workers occupied GM factories in Flint and persuaded the automaker to recognize the UAW. Photo shows Genora (second in from the right) with fellow members of the Women's Emergency Brigade- a group she organized to protect the striking men. #unions #UAW #laborhistory #labor #generalstrike #books
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@ProPublica__dup_31054@newsie.social · Feb 05, 2026
Experts say there aren’t enough state and federal inspectors to adequately vet whether labor contractors who oversee farmworkers are following the rules. Nor is there broad political support to invest more resources to protect foreign workers. https://www.propublica.org/article/h-2a-visa-farmworker-exploitation-regulators?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #Immigration #Agriculture #Labor #Abuse #Exploitation #Regulation
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@AlexGBardsley@epicure.social · Jan 29, 2026
Food Businesses and Farm Groups Call on Congress to Rein in ICE – Civil Eats https://civileats.com/2026/01/29/food-businesses-and-farm-groups-call-on-congress-to-rein-in-ice/ #agriculture #immigration #restaurant #labor
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@JazzyKindaFella@zirk.us · Dec 05, 2025
Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson: EU–US Split? EU Moves as the UK Economy Collapses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZQv9iHQuSM #starmer #macron #merz #puppets #europeanUnion missleaders commitring economic suicide on the backs of #European #labor #union #labor #worker #labour #democracy #resistance #usa #canada #africa #latinamerica #asia #europe
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@RaymondPierreL3__dup_5777@aus.social · Nov 25, 2025
@troberts@theblower.au Ha! So much for rebuilding the APS gutted out by the #LNP. #AusPol #Labor.
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