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#Google et Israël : la révolte gronde chez les employés britanniques
https://europalestine.com/2026/07/29/google-et-israel-la-revolte-gronde-chez-les-employes-britanniques
Le personnel de #DeepMind, la division intelligence artificielle #IA de Google sonne la révolte. Des centaines d’employés basés au #RoyaumeUni ont voté pour se syndiquer, et exigent la reconnaissance du Syndicat des travailleurs de la communication (« Communication Workers Union », #CWU et du syndicat Unite comme leurs représentants
#boycottisrael

“Google AI workers unionize against tech giant's role in US, Israeli war crimes”

by The Cradle News Desk

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“On 6 May, Google DeepMind workers in the UK asked management to recognize the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Unite the Union as their workplace representatives, as staff prepare to challenge the use of Google AI technology by the US and Israeli militaries.

‘We don’t want our AI models complicit in violations of international law, but they already are aiding Israel’s genocide of Palestinians,’ one DeepMind employee said.”

https://thecradle.co/articles/google-ai-workers-unionize-against-tech-giants-role-in-us-israeli-war-crimes

#Press #SocialMedia #UK #Google #AI #DeepMind #PalestinianGenocide #Unionisation #UniteTheUnion #CommunicationsWorkersUnion #CWU

I am now a member of the #UTAW branch of the #CWU union. Figured I'd join to see what all the fuss is about, and see if other people are interested in campaigning around the planet killing cognitohazard #LLM technologies, and Covid safety with return-to-office mandates.

#TradeUnions #Activism

#RoyalMail workers in Scotland speak against #USO pilots: “The #CWU is trying to dress this up” - World Socialist Web Site

#PostalWorkers #Posties #Kretinsky

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/10/qhpo-m10.html

Ofcom’s “package of reforms”: a wrecking ball against the mail service and postal workers’ jobs and conditions - World Socialist Web Site

#PostalWorkers #Posties #USO #RoyalMail #CWU

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/19/hocr-f19.html

Postal workers speak on #USO pilots at #RoyalMail: “There is only one way it’s going, it's Amazon, and it will be all about parcels” - World Socialist Web Site

#Posties #CWU #PostalWorkers

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/26/qwjo-j26.html

Oppose the USO pilots imposed by #CWU and #RoyalMail! - World Socialist Web Site

#PostalWorkers #Posties

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/19/gtlc-j19.html

Call for mass movement against the rise of fascism in Europe after Le Pen victory in France | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/call-mass-movement-against-rise-fascism-europe-after-le-pen-victory-france

#Racism
#AntFacism
#MassMovementAgainstFacism
#LePen
#France
#RiseOfFacism
#StandUpToRacism
#Racism
#Islamaphobia
#CommunicationWorkersUnion
#CWU
#Europe

Over 80 detectives to be deployed for Horizon investigation | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/over-80-detectives-be-deployed-horizon-investigation

#Police
#Horizon
#HorizonITScandal
#HorizonScandal
#PostOffice
#PostOfficeScandal
#CriminalCharges
#MET
#CWU

General election 2024: Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda plan rubbished as Keir Starmer speaks out on Diane Abbott MP row | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/general-election-sunak-starmer-diane-abbott-2024-news-b2553201.html

#Sunak
#Rwanda
#Starmer
#Abbott
#GE2024
#GE
#HomeOffice
#ASLEF
#TSSA
#Unite
#NUM
#CWU
#FBU

“I have no faith in the union: they sold us down the river, the company got everything it wanted. I can leave 6,7,8 bags of mail in a day. My manager will just say, ‘As long as you get those parcels clear’.”

#RoyalMail #PostalWorkers #Posties #CWU

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/30/smdg-a30.html

Three positive things for today:
04/26/2024

1. Good afternoon woodworking.
2. Interesting #Geology video from Nick Zentner and #CWU.
3. 2021 Chateau Ste. Michelle Harvest Select Sweet Riesling. A nice (sweet) white table wine.

#ReasonsToBeCheerful
#3goodthings
@3goodthings

#RoyalMail demands end of six-day letters delivery, plans mass job destruction - World Socialist Web Site

#CWU #PostalWorkers #Posties

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/07/axhh-a07.html

Ex-Tory Treasurer and major party donor handed lucrative government contract to advise the Post Office | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-donor-post-office-contract-rishi-sunak-b2512826.html

#Cronyism
#Tories
#ToryDonor
#ExToryTreasurer
#PostOffice
#Corruption
#Karim
#Fenchurch
#Hester
#Abbott
#Racism
#PostOfficeScandal
#Horizon
#HorizonScandal
#HorizonITScandal
#Sikka
#NAO
#NationalAuditOffice
#CommunicationsWorkersUnion
#CWU
#Natixis
#IngeniousFilmPartners2
#HMRC
#TaxAvoidance

Three positive things for today:
03/29/2024

1. Great #Geology video from #CWU and Nick Zentner of the Cascadia #Earthquake faults.
2. Sitting in the sun on the patio after the walk. Wonderful weather!
3. Today's exercise: 1.9 mile 33 minute walk.

#ReasonsToBeCheerful
#3goodthings
@3goodthings

Shots fired near #CWU
Students advised to shelter in place.
#Shooting

Three positive things for today:
02/09/2024

1. Another sunny day. The Columbia Basin may be out of the seasonal foggy/overcast weather and heading back to sunny times.
2. Got my hair cut. It needed it!
3a. YoutTube #Geology - #CWU presentation a #Volcano in Chile.
3b. YoutTube #Geology - Another update from Shawn Willsey on the #Iceland volcano.

Bonus.
4a. Today's exercise: 34 minute/1.9 mile brisk walk
4b. Exercise goal of 5 days per week exceeded. This was the 6th day exercising.

Yeah, it was a good day.

#ReasonsToBeCheerful
#3goodthings
@3goodthings

Three positive things for today:
01/26/2024

1. Good exercise session - 20 minutes on the bike and 40-45 minutes of "Rice Krispy" strength training.
2. A good #CWU #Geology YouTube lecture today.
3. Walla Walla College Cellars 2019 Zinfandel. 🍷

#ReasonsToBeCheerful
#3goodthings
@3goodthings

Union blasts Ofcom for leaking Royal Mail plans to cut Saturday service without consulting staff | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/union-blasts-ofcom-for-leaking-royal-mail-plans-to-cut-saturday-service-without-consulting-staff

#Ofcom
#CWU
#CommunicationsWorkersUnion
#RoyalMail
#UniversalService
#SaturdayDeliveries
#UniversalServiceObligation
#USO

Three positive things for today:
01/05/2024

1. The sun 🌞 came out from behind the clouds for the first time in at least a week!
2. A new Central Washington University (#CWU) #Geology lecture today.
3. Shawn Willsey of the College Of Southern Idaho (#CSI) #Geology update on the Iceland Volcano.

#ReasonsToBeCheerful
#3goodthings
@3goodthings

Three positive things for today:
11/3/2023

1. Sprinklers have been blown out and are ready for winter.
2. Watched the Nick Zentner / #CWU #Geology live-stream.
3. Maker's Mark Bourbon Whiskey. 🥃

#ReasonsToBeCheerful
#3goodthings
@3goodthings

Three positive things for today:
10/8/2023

1. Watched a couple of Nick Zentner #CWU #Geology videos
2. Last day of warmer weather.
3. A decent #F1 auto race today.

#ReasonsToBeCheerful
#3goodthings
@3goodthings

Hospitality Workers Vote for Strike

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JG4RgIXUIo&ab_channel=red.

The Culinary Workers Union, representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada, US, has overwhelmingly voted to favor a strike, with 95% supporting the action. This strike is set to impact 22 casino resorts along the Las Vegas Strip and holds historical significance, as the union hasn't organized a strike for over three decades.
#CWU #Strike #casinos #hospitality #vote

Our postal workers should be allowed a cup of tea now and again. What type of Victorian manufactory are #RoyalMail running? #CWU #TeaBreak

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-66486405

Connect Conference - Part 1

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2009/07/connect-conference-part-1/

I'm still writing up my notes from the Connect Biennial Conference in Blackpool which I hope to turn into a full post this week.

However, I found an anonymous article in the Socialist Worker decrying the merger vote.

Socialist Worker accept comments for publication in the paper, but not on their website, so here's the response I emailed them.

Dear Sir,

I was a delegate at the Connect Conference.  I must take issue with your statement "The whole weight of the union machine was used to force this through in the debate."

There was a fair and open question and answer session.  We had a polite and orderly debate.  Everyone who stood to speak for the CWU was called.  We heard a wide range of opinions, discussed them and voted.

In the end there was more support from the members for Prospect.  That wasn't a "union machine" that was democracy.

You also say merger with CWU would have created "one industrial telecoms union".  70% of CWU members work for the Post Office - how are they in any way connected to the telecoms industry?

The Post Office is in crisis - I don't make any comment on whether it deserves to be or what should be done.  But without a doubt, the massive CWU will spend the next few years fighting for its members' rights. How can they possibly represent professional and managerial staff in the flourishing telecoms sector when concentrating on the Royal Mail pension crisis, possible privatisation, redundancies and modernisation?

The CWU is, I'm sure, a fine and noble union.  But its critical lack of resources means it would be poorly placed in serving Connects members.

That is, in part, why we voted to merge with Prospect.

Yours,

You can read more about the conference and the order of business etc. (Via Calvin Allen's Connected Research)

Edit 31/07/2009 My letter has been published in issue 2160 (18th of July 2009)

#Cbc09 #connect #cwu #prospect #unions