Freddy Reiber

NIH Says It Will No Longer Recognize the Research Fellows’ Union NIH leadership said the union “should never have been certified,” in an email to the union’s leadership.

Boo oooo

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The Fall and Rise of Massachusetts Rent Control - Working Mass By: Kelly Regan BOSTON, MA – “Uprooting members of a community degrades the public sphere,” observed Ben Greer, a Boston DSA member in multi-family residential architecture who works on affordable hou...

Thirty two years after rent control was banned in Massachusetts, housing justice advocates want to bring it back.

On the campaign for rent control 🧵

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"I am trying to uninstall Instagram more often"

-From an interview

Gospel Music

Joel Ross does not miss.

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I really wish the T would stop lying with these "trains every 6 to 8 minutes" claims. Just be honest and put it on a 30 minute schedule so I don't have to stand and waste 25 minutes.

One of my undergrad advisees, "If have been on my phone for too long and I go on my laptop it feels like I have been reading a book."

Why is BU's course registration page using the language "shopping cart"? Education is not a product that you pick off the shelf, it is a process of growth of learning, of being challenged, not something to be consumed and discarded.

No Contract, No Coffee | Starbucks Workers United Starbucks baristas brewing change. Join the movement for fair contracts, better wages, and worker protections.

Want to support baristas on strike?

✅ DON'T BUY STARBUCKS products anywhere (and tell everyone you know to do the same!)
✅ Sign our No Contract No Coffee pledge, & find a picket line near you: nocontractnocoffee.org
✅ Donate to our strike fund: sbworkersunited.org

The Stumo Brothers of Western Mass: On Mission Sailing with the Global Sumud Flotilla - Working Mass By: Reid Jackson SHEFFIELD, MA – Adnaan and Torleif Stumo are two brothers from a town in the westernmost corner of Massachusetts. On October 8th, 2025, they were in the epicenter of Israel’s violatio...

Gotta shout out Working-Mass's fantastic coverage of the Global Sumud Flotilla!

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Cover of Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry by the Capacitor Collective

Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today!

Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount

Just got my copy and very excited to read it!

Winning Online: 5 Digital Tactics That Powered Connolly and Zohran To Victory - Working Mass Digital organizers from the Catherine Connolly campaign give insights into the tech tools that helped drive Connolly and Zohran to victory. By Dan Albright and Henry De Groot In the last two weeks, tw...

Shout to my comrades Dan and Henry for their fantastic new piece of organizing tech for leftist campaigns!

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Gotta shout out my own (and fantastic editor Travis's) work!

The Establishment Supports the Less Progressive Candidate, Again. Somerville Can Do Better The Somerville Democratic City Committee (i.e. the “Somerville Dems”) is a local organization that, despite its name, includes many voting members who hold unelected, lifetime-tenure seats. Last week,...

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Will also be getting a Working-Mass article about the event up, so stay tuned for that! ✊

KICKSTARTER ON STRIKE RALLY: BOSTON Kickstarter United (OPEIU Local 153) is the union of designers, support specialists, product managers, engineers, and more who power Kickstarter. We fought to form this union to strengthen Kickstarter...

Kick-starter is on strike! Come out and support tech workers taking direct action!!

Hope to see you all there.

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MIT Refuses to Sign Trump Compact Following Pressure from Grad Workers' Union and Other Groups - Working Mass By: Frederick Reiber CAMBRIDGE, MA – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s students, workers, and union comrades gathered outside of the university’s Lobby 7 on Friday, October 10th to protest...

"This is a victory for every single one of us... we mounted a pressure that could not be ignored."

MIT refused Trump. Rather than the act of one individual university president, grad workers and other organizers applied pressure to make it happen.

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✨I’m on the academic job market ✨

I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻‍💻💪🏽💥

I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action

More info: cella.io

What a grim reality.

Lyft sending me an email urging me to "take action" and send an automatically generated text message to Brandon Johnson urging them not to increase taxes on Rideshare companies.

Perhaps it is time for "death of the user"

Starbucks Workers in Davis Square Join SBWU; Company Closes Store One Week Later - Working Mass By: Terence Cawley SOMERVILLE, MA – The last few weeks have been tumultuous for the workers at the Starbucks store in the Davis Square neighborhood. On Wednesday, September 17, workers voted to join S...

On Wednesday, Sept 17, Davis Square workers voted to join Starbucks Workers United. One week later, on Thursday the 25th, Starbucks announced the imminent closure of hundreds of stores nationwide. By the 27th, the store had permanently closed.

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Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

Giving another shout-out to Ta-Nehisi Coates. This is a really well done article by a man who has continuously gone up in my book as an artistic and intellectual voice worth following.

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What happened to Ritchie Torres? YouTube video by Zeteo

Mark Ruffalo is based I guess? HAHAHAHA

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Meta’s content moderators face worst conditions yet at secret Ghana… Hit by workers’ rights lawsuits in Kenya, the tech giant has moved its outsourcing to a top-secret new site – where life is grimmer still

There is nothing more double-think than watching someone directly involved in the exploitation of Kenyan workers speak about empathy through AI.

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BUT it also has the CCO (Chief Client Officer) of TP or Teleperformance a company famous for its deep and long history of union-busting, weaponizing the global south for exploitation, and are at the center of the awful working conditions for content moderators.

Currently sitting through a Boston University (my university) official seminar on AI and its effect on careers. Not only is this panel full of nothing-balls, with a full wide range of management word-vomit including: empathy, distribution, and literate.

There are two labor and tech writers in Boston? And they both have the name Freddy?!?

Doctor Who and the Israel Disaster YouTube video by verilybitchie

Fun lunchtime video if your head is spinning after a long week of work before an academic deadline!

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The notion that capitals boot will be removed by economic collapse is so dystopian and a-historic, but also feels so representative of our current times.

"I think we might be cooked chat"

And yet, in their posts and comments it seems like they are praying for an economic collapse under capitalism. But of course, as is well documented, economic crisis benefit the bourgeois, not workers (think bank bailouts and workers losing homes).

And for some reason this is really interesting to me. It seems like these redditors have correctly identified the mass-failures of neoliberalization, recognizing the need for a fundamental shift in how we allocate and produce resources.