When your Prime Day sales are down 14% and you need corporate volunteers to pack groceries the day before launch... Amazon's engineers are trading keyboards for warehouse carts. At least they can still take Zoom calls from the break room! 📦💻
When your Prime Day sales are down 14% and you need corporate volunteers to pack groceries the day before launch... Amazon's engineers are trading keyboards for warehouse carts. At least they can still take Zoom calls from the break room! 📦💻
Trade unions, workers and others in civil society have a role, too.
Francesca Albanese urges people in these groups:
'... to press for boycotts, divestments, sanctions, justice for Palestine and accountability at the international and domestic levels; together, the people of the world can end these unspeakable crimes.''
»AI Killed My Job« #Techworkers about how #AI is impacting their #jobs: While some fear complete job #displacement, others see AI as a tool to #streamlinetasks and improve #efficiency. https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-ai-is-killing-jobs-in-the-tech-f39?eicker.news #tech #media #news
These columns of ads…not really looking for applicants underscore the challenges facing US #TechWorkers & the striking disparities in the current #immigration landscape. As restaurants, meatpackers & countless other businesses now risk having workers targeted by #ICE, #tech employers have…escaped #Trump admin scrutiny for use of #ForeignLabor. Among companies sponsoring many #H1B employees for #GreenCards …are ones aligned w/ #Trump, such as #Oracle, #Palantir & #Musk’s #Tesla.
#labor #law #PERM
The #Tech Recruitment Ruse That Has Avoided #Trump’s Crackdown on #Immigration
“This ad is for a PERM filing,”she said. “A filing for a green card.”
To anybody familiar w/the #PERM system, those words meant the ad was not really intended to find applicants.…One of the most overlooked yet consequential corners of the US immigration system: the process by which employers sponsor #TechWorkers w/temporary #H1B #visas as a first step to getting them the #GreenCard….
#law
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-immigration-h1b-visas-perm-tech-jobs-recruitment
#Dubai’s #AI #jobmarket attracts #techworkers with its Golden Visa programme, tax-free income, and high salaries. https://restofworld.org/2025/golden-visa-ai-jobs-uae/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
Microsoft Filters Internal 'Palestine,' 'Gaza' Emails; Censors Critics
#Microsoft #Censorship #FreeSpeech #Palestine #Gaza #EmployeeActivism #TechEthics #Azure #BigTech #CorporateAccountability #TechWorkers
"The point of AI isn't to make workers more productive, it's to make them weaker when they bargain with their bosses."
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/some-animals/#are-more-equal-than-others
#AI #enshittification #techjobs #techworkers #JoinAUnion #ClassWar
It’s been a minute since I have actually seen Craig in my feed. I feel good but overwhelmed and getting stuff done, just not the right stuff…
But as your unofficial #InfoSec Shop Steward it’s time to stop working for the man, pick up the things that lift you, hobbies, family, friends, or if you’re like me, the trees.
#unionize #techworkers now✊
https://mstdn.ca/@CraigWeekend/114440720109202517
For years, North Korea has been secretly placing young IT workers inside Western companies. With AI, their schemes are now more devious—and effective—than ever.
https://www.wired.com/story/north-korea-stole-your-tech-job-ai-interviews/ #NorthKorea #Tech #IT #TechWorkers #Cybersecurity #Security #Hacking #AI
The fancy AI company, and every post on your bosses LinkedIn, is telling them that AI GIVES at least 30% of productivity boost. It doesn't matter the specifics.. It doesn't matter your opinion about it. They will push AI because, in their minds, they see profit potential. Also, they think that the competition is doing the same.
It's all about capitalists ambition and fear making pression in the weakest spot. The tech workers will be squeezed.
DeepMind London staff (~300) seek union talks. Key drivers: Google ditching its AI weapons/surveillance pledge and concerns over military contracts. Some staff already resigned feeling misled. #AIethics #Google #TechWorkers
If you’re a Booking worker, and you think layoffs suck, come join tomorrow for the second and *final* info session organized by the Tech Workers Coalition for Booking workers on how to resist layoffs ✊
Friday 25 April, 13:00-14:00 CEST
Get the session link: https://techwerkers.nl/en/events/2025-04-25/
And you know what’s fun? (Read: not!)
If Booking CEO Glenn D. Fogel were to get fired for no reason, they’d get $111,026,960
And as a regular worker? What do you get??
At the same time as it’s making billions in profits, Booking is planning to lay off masses of workers at its Amsterdam offices.
Why?
Supposedly because … “organizational agility” 🤔
Do you know how much money Booking*com made in 2024? No??
$5.88 billion.
Yes, that’s **BILLION**.
Anyone know any contract jobs for part time entry level Typescript backend programming roles?
3 to 6 months should be fine, but more interested in building up experience and potentially a portfolio while I get paid. I've been learning typescript for a friend who I just had a heated argument with (he has been a sexist ass the past few weeks) and not sure about the contract job he promised me after these two projects.
I've been mostly coding backend projects that use postswagger, express, and sequelize. Will complete these two projects and add them to my github repo, but interested in starting to do contract roles.
I am also interested in golang, but mostly entry level. I do have a lot of projects that use golang, but not sure I am good enough to code in it for a job. I do plan on learning c# properly in 3 months after I start working and making real money.
#ContractWorkers #techworkers #programming #backend #looking4work
Tech workers are leaving notes in robot taxis seeking workers and lovers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/12/waymo-handwritten-notes-jobs-ads/
#HackerNews #TechWorkers #RobotTaxis #LoveNotes #JobSearch #Waymo