I don’t know who needs to hear this but companies sometimes announce layoffs, or do mass layoffs, or even financially unwise offshoring or whatever, just to send a “signal” to the stock market, because they’ve all been trained that Wall Street loves a company that’s slashed a bunch of jobs.
Tag: labor
Google ordered concerned employees back to a bedbug infested office.
And we know that employees weren’t happy about being called back to the bedbug infested office because that’s what leads to incidents like this leaking to journalists.
Labor precarity and the weaponization of communication.
People just don’t trust unknown funding, nor hiding stuff. And people don’t like to find out that someone they thought was speaking truth to power is actually towing a prescribed party line.
The Trump administration revoking the unions of VA nurses is a grotesque injustice.
The illegal executive order revoking federal workers’ right to unionize and collectively bargain is unacceptable. We have unions for a reason, it’s because they are needed…
Deregulation appears to be an attempt to grease the wheels toward corruption with political favours.
Why would anyone want to go backwards to a system that was more corrupt other than corrupt bad actors?
Whistleblower book about the culty Tesla workplace.
This is an eye opening interview with financial journalist Sönke Iwersen that includes lots of creepy deets about Tesla workplaces in Europe.
Every wage ought to be a livable wage.
My letter to reps: Please hear me clearly on this, the republican leader of the pennsylvania house is a dipshit. Every wage should be a livable wage. That ahole’s 16 year old son also deserves to be able to save up for college or a car or whatever else, because heaven knows if he didn’t […]
AI stuff is habit forming, but not always popular at work.
And that would seem to indicate they’re not particularly useful or everyone would be completely enticed into using them a lot.
The US needs migrant farm workers not because Americans are lazy, but because Americans are privileged.
I wish people (on the left) would stop saying that “immigrants do jobs Americans don’t want” because that just really plays into the right-wing frame of “lazy people don’t wanna work”.
Data center PR never mentions the burning gas or burning tires part.
These companies probably welcome investing in pointless and shoddy AI just to justify the mass layoffs so they can boost their stock value.
The temporary disability issue nobody talks about when they talk about work requirements and means testing.
Temporary health conditions do not necessarily qualify as “disabled” under the Medicaid rules.
The uncanny valley of the AI workplace apocalypse.
To some extent automation always seems to be a bait and switch.
The opposition leverages various things to neutralize effective activism.
These operations sometimes target people who are experts, or people who might be important in some way, because they carry clout. And then they treat them as if they’re very important.
RFKJr is also going after worker safety in the heat in a time of climate change.
Bloomberg – Heat Is Bad for Workers’ Health. RFK Jr. Doesn’t Care. Temperatures are soaring, so naturally Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is getting rid of all the experts who have been devising on-the-job protections. June 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM UTC By Mark Gongloff Soaring temperatures, which are deadlier than any other natural disaster, will […]
AI therapy doesn’t exist because it misses the point of therapy, which is a relationship.
Chatbot therapy is a good way to make yourself a sitting duck for political abuse of psychiatry.
Do voters really want right-wing Dem representatives?
It’s troubling to regularly hear about people who talk to Dem politicians and Dem operatives who are seemingly completely out of step with the Dem base entirely.
I don’t remember this many weird and scary stories about air travel a couple decades ago.
I haven’t used air travel in many years and at this rate I may never do so again.
Pope Leo XIV throws down the gauntlet against AI hype.
At his first “working meeting”, the pope outlined his priorities to include defending “human dignity” against the threat of AI, citing the dehumanizing effects of the industrial revolution.
NIOSH certification of N95 masks will shut down in June if Trump admin actions are not reversed at HHS.
This will have ramifications for workers in various fields and the general public.
The right-wing opposition to proxy voting is the same old opposition to remote anything.
There’s a bill in Congress to allow proxy voting for representatives with new babies. Mike Johsnon has gone so far as to just shut down everything for the week just to stop this bill, because there are Republicans who support it.