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University of California’s frontline workers have canceled the
system-wide strike originally planned to begin on Thursday after reaching a tentative agreement with the UC on Wednesday night. 
These 42,000 service and patient care workers
— represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 (AFSCME)
— have worked without a ratified contract since 2024, due to “stalled” negotiations with the UC, according to union leadership. 

The AP confirms it is laying off an unspecified number of US-based journalists today; News Media Guild: of 120 journalists offered buyouts, around 40 took them (Jocelyn Noveck/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/news-industry-ap-layoffs-3906d6f2c…

AP lays off small group of US-based journalists, part of restructuring plan
The Associated Press has confirmed it is laying off an unspecified number of U.S.-based journalists. The layoffs are part of a restructuring that would turn the news organization’s focus away from print journalism and newspapers to visual journalism and other revenue sources. The AP would not say how many employees were affected. The News Media Guild, which represents AP journalists, said 20 journalists had been laid off by midafternoon Friday. AP said the layoffs were in Iine with a restruct…

The ancient Middle-East had a solution for surviving the heat without chillers: windcatchers (and the related solar chimneys). Such things should be employed for first-tier cooling where possible to reduce energy demand, leaving chillers to take up the slack (until we figure out how to get infinity gigawatts of free power into every house, at which point we should just capture all the excess heat from running chillers and use the Seebeck effect to convert it into electricity to power a giant…

Prof. Sabine Hark, Leitung des Zentrums für Interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung an der @… im Interview zu Wissenschaft gegen Faschismus: https://www.

email_company: Manufacturing company email (2010)
A network of emails among employee email addresses at a mid-sized manufacturing company. Each directed edge represents an email sent from address i to address j. Edges are timestamped, and occurred over a 6 month period in an unspecified year.
This network has 167 nodes and 82927 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

The Chinese ambassador in Berlin has been summoned for urgent talks about media reports that Russian soldiers were being trained in China, the German foreign ministry said on Friday.
These “deeply disturbing” reports point to support for Russia from Chinese state actors, in particular the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, it said.
“Anything that enables Russia to continue its war of aggression against Ukraine also represents a threat to our security,”
the ministry sa…

Ukraine war briefing: Germany calls reports Russian soldiers are being trained in China ‘deeply disturbing’
German foreign ministry says anything that enables Russia to continue its war of aggression against Ukraine represents a ‘threat’ to Germany’s security. What we know on day 1,592

Sources: the US EEOC is poised to sue the NYT over a white male employee's allegation that he was denied a sought-after promotion because of his race and gender (Rebecca Davis O'Brien/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/busines

E.E.O.C. Investigating Discrimination Claim at The New York Times
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently referred a reverse-discrimination complaint by an employee to the agency’s legal unit for review.

email_company: Manufacturing company email (2010)
A network of emails among employee email addresses at a mid-sized manufacturing company. Each directed edge represents an email sent from address i to address j. Edges are timestamped, and occurred over a 6 month period in an unspecified year.
This network has 167 nodes and 82927 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

US employers spend more than $1.5bn a year on labor union opposition efforts, according to a report published on Wednesday by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
Employers spent company money hiring consultants and law firms specializing in union avoidance and on legal counsel, representation, and litigation services during union elections and organizing campaigns.
US employers spend $442m on union-avoidance consultants annually, according to an estimate by the EPI. Amazon alone…

The Writers Guild Staff Union, which represents about 110 WGA West employees, reaches a tentative deal for a new contract after nearly three months on strike (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/wga-west-deal-strike-wgsu-1236675282/

WGA West Reaches a Deal to End Staff Union Strike
The WGA West reached a deal to end the strike by the Writers Guild Staff Union.