#workersrights — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #workersrights, aggregated by home.social.
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Exploited Data Workers in the Global South Are “the Secret Ingredient of AI Itself”
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/27/data_workers
> Despite being branded as autonomous and self-sustaining, artificial intelligence relies heavily on human labor — an army of data workers all over the world, primarily in the Global South. These workers “are purposely hidden by the companies that produce AI because they are the secret ingredient of AI itself,” says sociologist Antonio Casilli.
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CEOs earn 614 times more than workers at US’s 100 lowest-paying corporations
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/27/ceo-worker-pay-ratio-us-analysis
> Analysis by Institute for Policy Studies found that between 2019 and 2025, CEO compensation increased 41.4%
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#USpol #Politics #Economics #Treasury #BondMarket #Debt #Austerity #Journalism #News #WorkersRights #Housing #History #Resist
· Full piece, including who Warsh is and why Bessent being his longtime friend matters → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/pay-the-fucking-rent-gratitude-doesn-t-cash-bessent-bails-out-the-bond-market-spain-guards-its-own-a?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica
· This is written with no advertiser and no owner, on the theory that whoever pays for the pipe starts editing the water. Weekly, small, no Stripe → liberapay.com/wendythedruid/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica
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That is not an abstraction. That's the clinic. That's the housing voucher. That's the Section 8 list your neighbor has been rotting on for four years while a fund manager clips a coupon.
When the bond market coughs, the whole apparatus of the state clears its throat and hands over a trillion dollars without a single hearing. #USpol #Politics #Economics #Treasury #BondMarket #Debt #Austerity #Journalism #News #WorkersRights #Housing #History #Resist
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Two weeks after the quarterly refunding announcement, which is the meeting where a Treasury Secretary is supposed to say things like this.
Strip the vocabulary and it is a man with an enormous checkbook walking into the room where his own debt gets priced and buying until the number looks nicer.
Here's the figure that matters.
#USpol #Politics #Economics #Treasury #BondMarket #Debt #Austerity #Journalism #News #WorkersRights #Housing #History #Resist
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The 30-year Treasury yield touched its highest level in roughly nineteen years this month.
So Scott Bessent's Treasury announced it will at least double its buybacks of 10-, 20- and 30-year bonds. Ceiling up from $2 billion to at least $4 billion. September 9 through November 4. #USpol #Politics #Economics #Treasury #BondMarket #Debt #Austerity #Journalism #News #WorkersRights #Housing #History #Resist
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Naming a number is easy. Funding it is the hard part.
Budget lines are what belief looks like when it stops being a mood and starts being a check that clears.
#TransRights #QueerNews #Transgender #LGBTQ #QueerRights #MutualAid #Solidarity #WorkersRights #Labor #Journalism #History #USpol
Her campaign is called Pay It → marshap.org?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica ·
The whole piece, and the part where I put myself in the exhibit → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/pay-the-fucking-rent-gratitude-doesn-t-cash-bessent-bails-out-the-bond-market-spain-guards-its-own-a?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica
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She didn't write an op-ed about it. She wrote a budget.
Pride Corps pays Black and Brown trans ambassadors, educators and organizers in every city the Institute enters, on the plain theory that local knowledge cannot be flown in and therefore has to be bought where it lives. #TransRights #QueerNews #Transgender #LGBTQ #QueerRights #MutualAid #Solidarity #WorkersRights #Labor #Journalism #History #USpol2/3
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Chastity Bowick runs the Marsha P. Johnson Institute, and this week she did the thing the movement's polite wing cannot stand.
Thirty-four percent of transgender people live in poverty. Eighteen percent are unemployed. Both of those figures sit underneath every we see you graphic any institution has ever posted, like a rotted joist under a fresh coat of paint. #TransRights #QueerNews #Transgender #LGBTQ #QueerRights #MutualAid #Solidarity #WorkersRights #Labor #Journalism #History #USpol1/3
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I read Mark Zuckerberg's dumb manifesto, so you don't have to. - Phil0bot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Otga0nxrDU
#FuckZuckerberg #ZuckManifesto #fuckai #manifesto #meta #research #epsteinclass #ZuckerbergManifesto #philosophy #history #argument #innovation #uspol #futurism #eattherich #taxtherich #ApocalypticFuturism #ethics #workers #workersrights
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Abolition isn't abstract.
🚨 David Sirota: How to get obscenely rich while losing to Donald Trump, the Democrats’ failures explained
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"Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks about the trade dispute with the United States at the Davie Shipyard in"
⚖️ ‘The red states, we’re going to hit hard’: Canadian politicians vow to make MAGA pay for Trump’s trade war
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"Ballots are tabulated on election night at the Fulton County Elections Hub and Operation Center on November 5, 2024 in Fairburn, Georgia."
⚖️ Democrats, groups fight back after Supreme Court clears way for Trump attack on mail voting
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⚖️ Beyond the Wire: stopping violence without police
Demonstrators march down the middle of street as they protest the death Freddie Gray, an African American man who died
https://therealnews.com/beyond-the-wire-stopping-violence-without-police
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"Mark Ruffalo speaks during HBO’s Task LA Screening and Panel in partnership with KCRW and The Ringer at Vidiots on"
🇵🇸 The Ellison family and Israel lobby’s smearing of Mark Ruffalo shows how tedious the ‘antisemitism scandal’ script is getting
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Flight attendant’s breast cancer was occupational disease, court rules
By Agence France-Presse in ParisSophie Lainault, who worked for Air France, wins legal case linking illness to more than 12,600 hours on flights
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/26/flight-attendant-breast-cancer-occupational-disease
#Breastcancer #Airtransport #France #Workersrights #Workcareers #Europe #Worldnews #AirFranceKLM #Cancer #TheGuardian #AgenceFrancePresseinParis
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Flight attendant’s breast cancer was occupational disease, court rules https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/26/flight-attendant-breast-cancer-occupational-disease #BreastCancer #AirTransport #France #WorkersRights #WorkCareers #Europe #WorldNews #AirFranceklm #Cancer
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A well known newspaper fired a columnist. She fought back and won:
"An arbitrator has ordered The Washington Post to rehire the opinion columnist Karen Attiah, who was fired in September over her social media posts about the assassination of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk. It also ordered the company to compensate her with back pay":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/business/washington-post-karen-attiah.html
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🪧 ‘Lawless killing spree at sea resumes’ as US announces fresh boat bombings
US Southern Command carries out a “lethal kinetic strike on a low-profile vessel” on August 23, 2026.
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I'd definitely be getting this (with Murena /e/os) if my gen 4 Fairphone wasn't still working perfectly
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"Residents watch as workers from True Cut Tree Care of Farmington, Michigan remove a tree from the front of a home after"
✊ ‘Katrina 2.0’: Residents of Gary, Indiana fight to survive without power for 12 days (and counting)
https://therealnews.com/katrina-2-0-residents-of-gary-indiana-fight-to-survive-without-power-for-12-days-and-counting -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@jlou/115924397884018118
The anti-democratic tendency comes from the non-democratic structure of business. There is a dark history of liberalism supporting personhood alienation contracts e.g. lifetime servitude, coverture marriage and non-democratic governance.
https://www.ellerman.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Reprint-EGP-Classical-Liberalism-Democracy.pdf
#Democracy #PoliticalPhilosophy #PoliticalTheory #Politics #Liberal #Philosophy #Ethics #HumanRights #Labor #WorkersRights
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Working from home should be a right, not a reward
#WorkFromHome #RemoteWork #WorkersRights #LabourRights #EmploymentRights #WorkLife #WorkplaceRights #Managers #WorkplaceWellbeing #ReturnToOffice
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Most employers expect you to negotiate a redundancy settlement. Most workers don't — and it costs them thousands. The amount, your reference, PILON, equipment, outplacement — all negotiable. The first offer is rarely the best. Know your position before you sign anything. Watch the video clip and read the full description at https://myredundancyrights.co.uk/blog #Redundancy #WorkersRights
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Ebola frontline workers missing wages as outbreak spreads ‘exponentially’
> People fighting to contain rapidly growing outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo describe the obstacles and dangers they face
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A call has been launched to participate in large scale strikes at the beginning of september to fight against the further destruction of social security by the current government. On September 4th dock workers in #Rotterdam, #Amsterdam and #Zeeland will lay down the work throughout the day. The following Wednesday, September 9th, the whole country will be shut down by a public transport and railway strike. The strikes are a response to the government plans to impose cuts on unemployment benefits (WW), disability benefits (WIA) and to raise the retirement age.
Strikes going on the offensive
These #strike actions are more conflictive than before in a number of ways. Previously actions only took place in a part of the day: public transport stopped only in the morning rush hours and the ports only during the night shift. Now the dock #workers won’t work all day and the public transport and rail strike lasts a full 24 hours. The entire rail sector and transportation services will stop at the same time. Buses in both cities and country side will not run, trams and subways will stop and all trains will be stationary. But also technicians and other logistical and infrastructural support staff from ProRail and DB-cargo will lay down their work. The entire rail service and infrastructure will be shut down.
Such a coordinated action has not occurred in the #Netherlands in a long time. What has not happened in the past decade is that the trade unions are calling for strike as a form of protest against government policy. Strikes are usually mainly about sector Collective Labour Agreements and not about political decisions. A choice has now been made to intervene in political decisions, something that has been put forward above all by the members of the unions themselves. It shows that people start to realise their class position and power and use it as a form of in it as counter-power.
Austerity politics is war
The austerity politics of the Jetten government is directly linked to the rising #military expenditures. Former Prime Minister Rutte, now #NATO Chief, announced without shame that #Europe should #finance the increased military budgets with money from people's pensions and by cutting into social security. The Netherlands obliged immediately. These cuts are a further attack on the working class and an offensive in a war waged against us from above.
The strikes on September 4th and 9th are a first active move to fight back. Not only are workers in ports and railways indirectly protesting the increase in military expenditures, they also directly – be it or not knowingly, wanting or explicitly - shut down the weakest link in the military logistics of the war machine in the Netherlands. What activist groups have been trying for years to achieve the workers can do in less than 36 hours. The quality of the actions themselves demonstrates the importance of mobilised workers and the ability of workers' organisation to counter-power and subversion.
Spread, support, agitate!
Let’s actively support the strikes of September 4th and 9th! By joining and spreading the strike itself to other sectors and services. By organising agitation and disturbances in the daily life that will do its best to keep going out like nothing's wrong. By actively supporting the strikers politically and morally. By attacking the institutions of the war machine and capital. By organising ourselves not only to defend our WW, WIA and AOW, but above all to reverse the war waged from above. Let us transform the #war of the bosses and politicians into war against bosses and politicians!
Against (austerity)politics – against the war machine!
Class war now!
https://acties.todon.nl/event/4-and-9-september-steun-de-staking-dolacz-do-strajku-grevi-destekle-support-the-strike#GeneralStrikeNow #generalstrike #WorkersRights #ClassWar #AusterityIsClassWar #NoWarButCalssWar #eupol EU #austerityPolitics #neoliberalism #capitalism #EatTheRich #FuckTheMilitary #FuckWarmongers #warmongers #workingClass
