#instawork — Public Fediverse posts

What changed was the *vibe*. The #HotLaborSummer was a *rager*, and it's not showing any signs of slowing. Obviously that's true in California, where nurses and hotel workers are also striking, and where strikebreaking companies like #Instawork ("Uber for #scabs") attract swift regulatory sanction, rather than demoralized capitulation:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/30/computer-says-scab/#instawork

The hot labor summer wasn't a season - it was a turning point.
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She's also waging war on #RoboScabbing: app employment "platforms" like #Instawork that recruit workers to cross #PicketLines, under threat of being blocked from the app and blackballed by hundreds of local employers:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/30/computer-says-scab/#instawork

With #Cemex, Abruzzo is restoring a century-old labor principle that has been gathering dust for generations: the idea that workers have the right to organize #WorkplaceDemocracies without fear of retaliation, harassment, or reprisals.

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These aren't just any scabs, either. They're predominantly Black workers who rely on the $700m #Instawork app for gigs. These workers are being dispatched to cross the picket line without any warning that they're being contracted as #strikebreakers. When workers refuse the cross the picket and join the strike, Instawork cancels all their shifts and permanently blocks them from new jobs.

This is a new, technologically supercharged form of illegal strikebreaking.

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