#unionizing — Public Fediverse posts

Daily Hampshire Gazette: Emily Dickinson Museum tour guides negotiate first union contract a year after Amherst vote. “A year after voting to unionize, part-time tour guides and educators at the Emily Dickinson Museum, who throughout the spring, summer and fall are leading visitors through the historic homes and grounds that inspired the 19th century poet, are in the midst of negotiating their […]

Daily Hampshire Gazette: Workers at Eric Carle Museum petition to form a union. “A union representing workers at museum, universities, publishing houses and nonprofits in New York and New England is petitioning the National Labor Relations Board to allow 36 full- and part-time workers at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art to vote on forming a union. The petition from Local 2110 of the […]

Hollywood Reporter: QVC Hosts Vote to Unionize Amid Concerns Over Generative AI. “During the election, 37 hosts voted to join the national performers’ union while nine voted against, resulting in about 80 percent support. All full-time and part-time QVC and HSN hosts employed at the company’s West Chester, Pennsylvania headquarters, working across linear television as well as livestream and […]

The Guardian: Thousands of Google workers demand layoff protections amid AI boom in petition to CEO. “Google workers on Thursday delivered a petition calling for layoff protections as tech giants continue to slash their workforces while pouring billions into AI.”

NiemanLab: The Centre Daily Times unionizes after backlash to McClatchy’s AI tool. “Across the U.S., unions have been on the frontline of debates over the ethics and standards of AI adoption in journalism. Currently, 74 established newsroom units represented by The NewsGuild-CWA, the largest news worker union in the country, include some AI language in their union contracts. In a statement, […]

Associated Press: Actors’ union approves 4-year contract with studios and streamers. “Television and movie actors on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to ratify a four-year contract with studios and streaming services, a month after their union leaders negotiated a deal they say provides protections against synthetic actors created by artificial intelligence.”

NJ.com: N.J. union leader: AI and app-based work are racing to destroy the American middle class. “While much of big tech avoids talking about the inevitable consequences of these two advances in order to maximize profit by exploiting workers, low- and middle-income workers are about to be hit with a tsunami of job loss and a drastic reduction in benefits and protections. AI and the intentional […]

RE: https://wikis.world/@bvibber/116666605146141540

You probably heard about @bvibber and @wwu #organizing their workplace! (Never mind about the ham-fisted, probably illegal, bullying from the greedhead bosses: it already backfired spectacularly)

You may not have heard about #PSFA winning our election and #unionizing faculty at Penn State!

Devs and writers and educators and healers and you too, if you earn a paycheck, you're a worker. Your work? It's. Your. Work. You should have a say. YOU TOO SHOULD ORGANIZE YOUR WORKPLACE

#unions #solidarity

Daily Bruin: UCLA historians preserve documents, photos in ‘Power from the Past’ online archive. “UCLA historians launched a revamped digital labor history archive in April, preserving materials from movements led by Southern California unions. The Memory Work Research Initiative at UCLA – which the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment oversees – digitized documents, images […]

Washington-Baltimore News Guild: VICTORY: POLITICO agrees to shut down both AI tools at center of landmark arbitration. “The POLITICO and E&E News Guild (PEN Guild) members have earned a resounding final victory in one of the most significant labor-AI disputes in American journalism: following months of negotiations between PEN Guild leadership, the Washington-Baltimore News Guild (WBNG), and […]

The Guardian: Google DeepMind workers in UK vote to unionize amid deal with US military. “Workers developing Google’s artificial intelligence products in the UK have voted to unionize, in part out of concerns about a deal between the company and the US military that was announced last week.”

📣 New Podcast! "Tolpuddle Martyrs Sentenced: Punishment and Protest" on @Spreaker #1834_british #agricultural #britain_british #class #dorset #for #history_george #history_tolpuddle #labor #loveless #martyrs #movement_punishment #protest_early #tolpuddle #trade #uk #uk_1830s #union #unionizing
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/tolpuddle-martyrs-sentenced-punishment-and-protest--70369177

Mother Jones: Nevada Brothel Workers Are Unionizing to Protect Their Digital Rights . “According to three women with experience working at Sheri’s, the new contract made an unprecedented play for their intellectual property, one that they worry could be a bid to make money from their likenesses, including through AI, as well as potentially owning a piece of anything they might create while […]

Ubisoft shuttering freshly-unionised Halifax studio, 71 jobs affected

Ongoing "actions to streamline operations, improve efficiency, and reduce costs" hit studio which announced union this week

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ubisoft-shuttering-freshly-unionised-halifax-studio-71-jobs-affected

#Ubisoft #layoffs #gaming #unions #unionizing

Fuck the #gaming #industry. You can't have #games without #developers. You can't have developers without #workers rights and basic human decency. To fire these already overworked developers is fucking disgusting! #Unionizing is a part of our civil liberties and rights!

Weekly Notes: November 17–23, 2025: A week in the life of…. Thoughts, photos, links, and miscellany from the past week. https://michaelhans.com/eclecticism/2025/11/23/weekly-notes-november-17-23-2025

#Dogma #HiPro #HighlineProfessionals #TheFamilyPlan #TheFamilyPlan2 #Union #UnionStrong #Unionizing #WeeklyNotes #Wicked #WickedForGood #Personal #Tech #TVAndFilms

University of Maryland Libraries: The Labor Audiovisual Collections: Missouri Right-To-Work . “This small but mighty collection documents the efforts of the AFL-CIO and affiliated organizations in a 1978 campaign to stop an anti-union amendment from being added to the Missouri state constitution.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/13/the-labor-audiovisual-collections-missouri-right-to-work-university-of-maryland-libraries/

Tubefilter: Will the WGA unionize the writers of YouTube? . “Two years after the resolution of the Hollywood labor disputes, the Writers Guild of America is debating whether to include YouTube-based scribes in its numbers. With the WGA West election cycle underway, YouTube is a significant topic of discussion, as the platform pays the bills for a rising number of writers who are not currently […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/07/tubefilter-will-the-wga-unionize-the-writers-of-youtube/

UNI Europa: New database of collective agreements and social dialogue initiatives in Live Performance . “Developed through a 2024 survey of national social partners throughout Europe, this living resource compiles a wide range of collective bargaining agreements, joint initiatives, and success stories. It aims to build collective knowledge on key issues shaping the sector, including skills & […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/06/uni-europa-new-database-of-collective-agreements-and-social-dialogue-initiatives-in-live-performance/

The US Caribbean & Florida Digital Newspaper Project: Miami Citizen, Miami Labor Citizen, and Labor Citizen now Digitized. “Content from the Miami Citizen (1938-1949), Mami Labor Citizen (1949-1956) and the Labor Citizen (1956-1959) have been digitized and are live in Chronicling America! Miami’s Central Labor Union decided to begin publishing a newspaper in March 1918, due to lack of […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/10/the-us-caribbean-florida-digital-newspaper-project-miami-citizen-miami-labor-citizen-and-labor-citizen-now-digitized/

Society for the Study of Labour History: Yorkshire Miners Association archives now indexed and catalogued online. “Work at the Modern Records Centre to catalogue the archive of the Yorkshire Miners Association is now complete with a catalogue live online at the University of Warwick website.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/06/society-for-the-study-of-labour-history-yorkshire-miners-association-archives-now-indexed-and-catalogued-online/

Financial Times: DeepMind UK staff seek to unionise and challenge defence deals and Israel links. “Google DeepMind staff in the UK are seeking to unionise in an effort to challenge the company’s decision to sell its artificial intelligence technologies to defence groups and ties to the Israeli government. Around 300 London-based employees of the tech giant’s AI arm, which is led by […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/28/financial-times-deepmind-uk-staff-seek-to-unionise-and-challenge-defence-deals-and-israel-links/

If you are in tech, then it is time to https://unionize.fyi ✊

> The tech industry is a runaway train, and if we don’t do something soon, we’re going to get run over. [..] it’s all going to keep getting worse unless we take a stand. #Unionizing isn’t just a nice idea - it’s a necessity.

> So let’s do what hackers do best: let’s disrupt. [..] Let’s take back our industry, take back our jobs, and take back our futures.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43427002

#unions #unionize #WorkingInCommons #SOSS

#Amazon accused of using #algorithms to push #warehouse workers to breaking point
Amazon has used tricks, algorithms, and #surveillance to discourage warehouse employees from #unionizing
"Weaponizing the Workplace: How Algorithmic Management Shaped Amazon's Antiunion Campaign in Bessemer, Alabama," was conducted by Teke Wiggin, a researcher at Northwestern University in the US. It's worth reading the full write-up if you have time; we'll summarize some of it here:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/18/amazon_algorithmic_worker_management/