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Fairness for the People, by the People: Minority Collective Action
Omri Ben-Dov, Samira Samadi, Amartya Sanyal, Alexandru \c{T}ifrea
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15374 https://

Fairness for the People, by the People: Minority Collective Action
Machine learning models often preserve biases present in training data, leading to unfair treatment of certain minority groups. Despite an array of existing firm-side bias mitigation techniques, they typically incur utility costs and require organizational buy-in. Recognizing that many models rely on user-contributed data, end-users can induce fairness through the framework of Algorithmic Collective Action, where a coordinated minority group strategically relabels its own data to enhance fairne…

Podcasts as a Medium for Participation in Collective Action: A Case Study of Black Lives Matter
Theodora Moldovan, Arianna Pera, Davide Vega, Luca Maria Aiello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13197

Podcasts as a Medium for Participation in Collective Action: A Case Study of Black Lives Matter
We study how participation in collective action is articulated in podcast discussions, using the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement as a case study. While research on collective action discourse has primarily focused on text-based content, this study takes a first step toward analyzing audio formats by using podcast transcripts. Using the Structured Podcast Research Corpus (SPoRC), we investigated spoken language expressions of participation in collective action, categorized as problem-solution,…

On activists taking action against warplanes to prevent genocide:
https://www.developmenteducationreview.com/issue/issue-26/hammer-blow-how-ten-women-disarmed-warplane
I worked at BAe in Warton when this occurr…

Collective action gets the goods, yet again.
It seems that the government didn't think Section 107 would hold up in court (at least not with this strike), and the Air Canada employees effectively called their bluff. This is exactly the kind of stand that needs to be taken to keep labor rights from being rolled further and further back.
(Also, I didn't realize just how tightly connected the government is with Air Canada)

Strike 'Ends Unpaid Work' As Union Reaches Deal With Air Canada – The Rover
Low wages and unpaid labour led to flight attendants using food banks, sleeping in cars.

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
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- Fairness for the People, by the People: Minority Collective Action
Omri Ben-Dov, Samira Samadi, Amartya Sanyal, Alexandru \c{T}ifrea

Having a union is like being on a version of Blind or Glassdoor where you can spill the tea *and* actually take collective action together with your coworkers. Recommended to say the very least!

From David Suzuki Foundation
The Suzuki Sessions: Resistance and Solidarity in the Face of LNG
Together, they’ll dive into the most pressing issues of our time, from climate to environmental justice, and explore real opportunities for collective action. Expect lively, thought-provoking discussions that spark ideas and fuel hope for a better future.
The first session will feature the voices and perspectives of front-line land defenders resisting fossil fuel expansion on thei…

The Future of Tech Labor: How Workers are Organizing and Transforming the Computing Industry
Cella M. Sum, Anna Konvicka, Mona Wang, Sarah E. Fox
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12579

The Future of Tech Labor: How Workers are Organizing and Transforming the Computing Industry
The tech industry's shifting landscape and the growing precarity of its labor force have spurred unionization efforts among tech workers. These workers turn to collective action to improve their working conditions and to protest unethical practices within their workplaces. To better understand this movement, we interviewed 44 U.S.-based tech worker-organizers to examine their motivations, strategies, challenges, and future visions for labor organizing. These workers included engineers, product …

Algorithmic Collective Action with Multiple Collectives
Claudio Battiloro, Pietro Greiner, Bret Nestor, Oumaima Amezgar, Francesca Dominici
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19149 http…

Algorithmic Collective Action with Multiple Collectives
As learning systems increasingly influence everyday decisions, user-side steering via Algorithmic Collective Action (ACA)-coordinated changes to shared data-offers a complement to regulator-side policy and firm-side model design. Although real-world actions have been traditionally decentralized and fragmented into multiple collectives despite sharing overarching objectives-with each collective differing in size, strategy, and actionable goals, most of the ACA literature focused on single collec…

Santa Clarita, CA
#NoKings #NoBillionaires
Rally · Volunteer organized for May Day Strong
Saturday, October 18
9am – 2pm PDT
"Good Trouble" Corner
Valencia Boulevard & McBean Parkway
Santa Clarita, CA 91355

Santa Clarita, CA #NoKings #NoBillionaires · People For the American Way
Billionaires are converting the government into their private slush fund and just passed the largest wealth giveaway in the history of the US. The money they take from our families, they put in their overstuffed pockets. **Just like any bad boss, the way we stop the takeover is with collective action.** We are working people rising up to stop the billionaire takeover–not just through the ballot box or the courts, but through building a bigger and stronger movement. We are fighting for a coun…

I’m not your go-to for deep economic theory. I'm just your regular Fediverse baby anarchist, who has a huge crush on Rudolf Rocker's syndicalist takes!
But what I do know is that I don’t need bosses or rulers telling me how to live my life. We’re all capable of working together, making decisions as equals, and building something better without anyone lording over us.
I believe in solidarity and collective action. We deserve workplaces and communities where everyone has a …

Resisting AI Solutionism through Workplace Collective Action
Kevin Zheng, Linda Huber, Aaron Stark, Nathan Kim, Francesca Lameiro, Wells Lucas Santo, Shreya Chowdhary, Eugene Kim, Justine Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08313

Resisting AI Solutionism through Workplace Collective Action
In the face of increasing austerity and threats of AI-enabled labor replacement at the University of Michigan, a group of workers and students have coalesced around the project of "AI resistance" since Fall 2024. Forming a cross-departmental coalition including librarians, faculty, staff, graduate workers, and undergraduate students, we have hosted a public workshop questioning the techno-deterministic inevitability of AI use at the University and are working with other campus organizations to …

Global Sumud Flotilla 🍉
Launch Dates: Barcelona – August 31
Tunis & Sicily – September 4
#flotilla

This August, we’re turning concern into collective action and you’re invited.
Our founder & executive director @cdelawalla.bsky.social breaks it down here 👇
https://youtu.be/AaYs9Il9Hy0?si=u3pgbSQGhWcEb5_v
We’ve got the tools, training, & community to make it …

Why should I care about electing representatives when my immediate community faces urgent material and social needs that require direct, collective action and self-management?
#Anarchism #Syndicalism

Cultural tightness and social cohesion under evolving norms
Filippo Zimmaro, Jacopo Grilli, Mirta Galesic, Alexander J. Stewart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01848 https://

Cultural tightness and social cohesion under evolving norms
Successful collective action on issues from climate change to the maintenance of democracy depends on societal properties such as cultural tightness and social cohesion. How these properties evolve is not well understood because they emerge from a complex interplay between beliefs and behaviors that are usually modeled separately. Here we address this challenge by developing a game-theoretical framework incorporating norm-utility models to study the coevolutionary dynamics of cooperative action…

Microscopic pairing in fission dynamics
A. Zdeb, A. Baran, S. A. Giuliani, L. M. Robledo, M. Warda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00664 https://

Microscopic pairing in fission dynamics
Nuclear fission can be modelled as a quantum tunneling process driven by the interplay between the nuclear binding energy and the collective inertia. Within the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin formalism, spontaneous fission half-lives can be obtained by minimizing the action integral in the multidimensional space of collective degrees of freedom. Hence, including the relevant collective variables is crucial for properly describing spontaneous fission probabilities. Pairing correlations play an essent…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.ET. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.ET/new
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- Heating reduction as collective action: Impact on attitudes, behavior and energy consumption in a...
Bielig, Malewski, Bandurski, Kutzner, Vogel, Klingert, Gorzenski, Kacperski