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Opinion | While Immigrants Die to Repair Bridges, US Politicians Risk Lives by Building Walls | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/immigrants-bridges-politicians-walls

While Immigrants Die to Repair Bridges, US Politicians Risk Lives by Building Walls
The lives of Miguel and the five other workers filling potholes on Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge have been cut short, but the hatred of immigrants, sadly, is alive, well and growing this election year.

Unionized editorial workers at LexisNexis-owned Law360 authorize a strike; the union says the vote is partly due to planned layoffs after record profits in 2023 (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/law360-staffers-vote-to-strik…

Law360 staffers vote to strike - Talking Biz News
Unionized editorial workers at LexisNexis-owned Law360 voted to authorize a strike Monday. The union says the strike is due to lack of progress at the bargaining table, unlawful tactics that violate union members’ rights and planned layoffs following record profits in 2023. Law360 Union is part of the NewsGuild of New York, which represents nearly […]

Unionized editorial workers at LexisNexis-owned Law360 authorize a strike; the union says the vote is partly due to planned layoffs after record profits in 2023 (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/law360-staffers-vote-to-strik…

Law360 staffers vote to strike - Talking Biz News
Unionized editorial workers at LexisNexis-owned Law360 voted to authorize a strike Monday. The union says the strike is due to lack of progress at the bargaining table, unlawful tactics that violate union members’ rights and planned layoffs following record profits in 2023. Law360 Union is part of the NewsGuild of New York, which represents nearly […]

"The Facebook Pages of national news outlets lost approximately 64% of their Facebook engagement following the end of news availability for Canadian users. Local news outlets lost approximately 85%. Almost half of all local news outlets stopped posting on Facebook entirely in the four months following the ban."
And user used workarounds hurting newspaper visibility. Bad choice. But going to be repeated in CH 🤦

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11599 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

The Role of Inclusion, Control, and Ownership in Workplace AI-Mediated Communication
Given large language models' (LLMs) increasing integration into workplace software, it is important to examine how biases in the models may impact workers. For example, stylistic biases in the language suggested by LLMs may cause feelings of alienation and result in increased labor for individuals or groups whose style does not match. We examine how such writer-style bias impacts inclusion, control, and ownership over the work when co-writing with LLMs. In an online experiment, participants wro…

Court filing: Amazon claims the NLRB is unconstitutional, after the agency said Amazon illegally retaliated against workers; SpaceX has made a similar claim (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/business/economy/amazon-labor-n…

Amazon Argues National Labor Relations Board Is Unconstitutional
The company made the novel claim, echoing arguments by SpaceX and Trader Joe’s, in a legal filing while fighting a case.

"Six people were working the night shift on the Francis Scott Key Bridge when it collapsed after being rammed by a cargo ship. The missing construction workers include men from El Salvador, Mexico, and Guatemala.
"Immigrants from Latin America are among the workers most likely to die in the workplace, according to a recent report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
"'They come here for better opportunities.'... filling jobs US-born workers won't."…

Bridge collapse victims were immigrants working risky jobs - Marketplace
Mexican and Central American workers have been the lifeblood of the Baltimore economy, but they're also part of the "lowerarchy.'"

Court filing: Amazon claims the NLRB is unconstitutional, after the agency said Amazon illegally retaliated against workers; SpaceX has made a similar claim (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/business/economy/amazon-labor-n…

Amazon Argues National Labor Relations Board Is Unconstitutional
The company made the novel claim, echoing arguments by SpaceX and Trader Joe’s, in a legal filing while fighting a case.

Interviews and court filings: 10 former Pinduoduo staff describe surveillance after leaving and lawsuits to enforce strict non-competes and stifle competition (Financial Times)
https://t.co/pyzhxWyEzn