The rise of LLMs sparks debate on labor organization in software engineering. Some call for unions to counter potential salary reductions, degraded conditions, and job displacement. Others fear stifling innovation. #TechLabor 6/6

AI side hustles: what you need to know

I got to chat on the Kim Komando Show @kimkomando.bsky.social last week! My segment starts around the 19-minute mark. Didn’t get to dive as deep into the AI supply chain as I wanted, but it was a fun convo.
#AI #InvisibleWorkers #TechLabor #datawork

🔍 The Hidden Workforce Behind Your AI

#AIEthics #TechLabor #DigitalExploitation #TheInternetIsCrack

Please Be Moral to Your AI Chatbot What if the real tragedy of modern tech isn’t that AIs might become conscious, but that we never noticed when they already did?

🚨 Months ago, I warned this would happen.

In my @GoodMenProject piece, I predicted that underpaid human workers could be used to masquerade as AI chatbots.

Now it's real. 700 Indians.

🔗 goodmenproject.com/featured-con...

#AIethics #TechLabor #DigitalExploitation #FutureOfWork #HumanBehindTheBot

I’ve Worked at Google for Decades. I’m Sickened by What It’s Doing. For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.

A must-read piece from a tech worker at Google, on the urgent need for a worker-led “AI arms embargo”: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

#ai #NoTechForApartheid #TechLabor #TechWorkers #organizing

HEY WONDERFUL NEWS www.alphabetworkersunion.org/press/google...?

#1u #TechUnions #TechLabor

Protest poster with white text on a black background titled “Science For The People”. Underneath, an illustration of a red upraised forearm with a fist clenching strips of computer printout tapes. Underneath the illustration, it reads “Computer Workers - Join With Other Workers. Make Computers Serve The People! Atlantic City ’71.” At the bottom, two addresses are shown: “CPP, Dolphin Center, 137A W 14th St, NY 10011” and “SESPA, Science for the People Center, 9 Walden St, J.P., Mass, 0213.” (The last digit of the ZIP code is clipped from the image.)

oh my yes detroithistorical.pastperfectonline.com/archive/DC6A...

#labor #TechLabor #LaborHistory #1u

The New York Times Tech Guild is officially on STRIKE 📢

#unions #TechUnions #TechLabor #1u

What happens if the NYT’s tech staff strikes on election night? A message from Times journalists to executives asks: “Can you imagine if our election needle didn’t work?”

“The Tech Guild says Times management bargained for only seven hours in September, what they considered insufficient to reaching a deal.”

Some good coverage from @washingtonpost.com on the NYT Tech Guild’s strike threat: www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

#1u #labor #TechLabor #TechUnions

Why Are They Trying to Outlaw Rank Choice Voting? And Ethan Marcotte, You Deserve a Tech Union • KKFI On the final day of its 2024 session, the Missouri legislature added ranked choice voting to the August ballot. With ten states already banning it, will Missouri voters follow? Also, author Ethan Marc...

BABY’S FIRST RADIO INTERVIEW! I had a wonderful time on KKFI’s Heartland Labor Forum, getting interviewed about tech unions, who gets to be a “tech worker,” and — you guessed it — YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION:

kkfi.org/program-epis...

#YDATUbook #radio #interview #labor #TechLabor #1u

Reacquired. — ethanmarcotte.com Last year, I wrote a book. Several months later, my publisher closed its doors. This is about what happens next.

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Last year, I wrote a book called YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION; several months later, my publisher decided to close its doors.

This is a post about what happens next: ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/reacqu...

#YDATUbook #TechUnions #TechLabor #1u

Kernel | A Labor of Luck It’s July 13, 2023 on a hot Florida day. I’m on a Zoom call with the rest of the bargaining committee of Code for America (Cf...

A wonderful essay from @jacky.wtf, with background on how CfA Workers United fought for — and together, how they *won* — their first contract. www.kernelmag.io/4/labor-luck

#unions #TechWorkers #TechLabor #1u