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White House Splinters Education Department, Sending K-12 Programs to Labor – The 74
https://www.the74million.org/article/white-house-splinters-education-department-sending-k-12-programs-to-labor/

The Republican Party Is Fracturing Over Trump's Labor Agenda (Jade Lozada/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/economy/republican-party-trump-labor-agenda
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p18#a251217p18

Alternativprogramm zum Weihnachtsstress am Samstagvormittag gesucht? Nummernflanerie auf den Spuren eines armen Hundes - ein paar Plätze sind noch frei! https://labor-alltagskultur.at/die-nummern-eines-hundes/

Labor market lost 41,000 jobs over October, November;
Unemployment rate is up
The October loss of more than 100,000 jobs was particularly striking,
-- the sharpest losses since the covid pandemic-era recession.
But economists expected losses in October
-- because the data reflected tens of thousands of federal workers who deferred resignation and officially parted ways with the federal government in October.
Federal government payrolls fell by 162,000 j…

Unemployment rate rises, signaling weakness in the economy
The labor market cool down continued this fall, according to new jobs numbers released on a delayed scheduled by the Labor Department.

IDK if you can’t make games without making unethical shortcuts (labor exploitation, never-ending crunch, AI plagiarism, etc.) because otherwise you’d need “300 people and 7 years”, maybe work on making games that are better?
A lot of the really big games of the last decades were initially made by just a few people with really great basic game loops.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Carrtoons feat. Hailé Supreme:
🎵 Labor Of Love
#NowPlaying #Carrtoons #HailéSupreme
https://carrtoons.bandcamp.com/track/labor-of-love-feat-haile-supreme
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ENZwdXhaX0GT15fIwaFxU

As TSMC readies its €10B Germany plant for 2027, its Taiwanese suppliers say they're struggling with the EU's complex permitting, labor, and environmental rules (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/technol

Europe’s Chip Dreams Confront Business Realities
European chipmakers need TSMC’s help to grow their own semiconductor supply chain, but the chip giant’s Taiwanese suppliers find Europe a tough place to do business.

There’s a lot to be said about that story beyond just “Spotify sucks:” how internships can be exploitative, how creators in general do not receive (and historically long have not received) proper compensation for their own work, how orgs especially treat women and especially Black women as disposable free labor. Details left as an exercise for the reader.
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But Republicans want you to believe that "college is a scam" & unskilled labor & trade schools are what Americans should aim for.
Uneducated citizens make for voters that #Republicans can easily manipulate.
▶️ I Worked For Hyundai. What I Saw Will Shock You.

Jessie Price and David Pocock in conversation about the critical importance of community Independents on the crossbench in the context of a Coalition shambles and Labor majority - sharpening the role of the crossbench in holding the government to account and pushing for stronger action.
#JessiePrice #DavidPocock

A recurring issue:
Source of Truth vs Point of Truth with many-system setups.
Imagine having separate
- issue tracking (e.g. JIRA)
- time tracking (e.g. Toggl)
- development tracking (e.g. GitLab)
- daily team sync (e.g. Confluence)
- weekly sync with stakeholders (...)
Without diligent manual labor or a lot of handcrafted automation, those keep getting out of sync.

✊🏿 How One Black Labor Union Changed American History
#politics

How One Black Labor Union Changed American History
A century ago, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters launched a union drive against a railroad giant, changing the course of the 20th century and forever entwining the causes of labor and black civil rights.

Buenos días. Cafecito y a hacer la labor.

Multiple Labor Department staffers are on leave amid IG investigation into Secretary Chavez-DeRemer (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/multiple-labor-department-staffers-are-leave-ig-investigation-secretar-rcna254282
http://www.memeorandum.com/260117/p8#a260117p8

Three fave craft brewers of my thirsty youth are no more , multiple #WestCoast #IPA makers shut #microbrew operations and pubs due to economics & some related labor issues ...
The losses to palette include iconic Anchor Chri…

Did you choose your major poorly in college, and are so obsessed with being in London that you are willing to accept a sub-living wage to reside there? Or is your partner well enough paid to maintain you, but you don't want to be bored at home? Are you independently wealthy, perhaps? Please consider subsidizing the British State with your labor in exchange for a token sum of £38k per year.

The working class is the fundamental force that produces the material conditions necessary for the reproduction of society, and through our collective labor we not only create food, shelter, healthcare, education, transportation, and communication networks, but we also sustain and reproduce the conditions that allow every aspect of social life to continue functioning, so that even those who do not work, whether they are managers, bureaucrats, or capitalists, depend entirely on our labor for …

Heute vor 74 Jahren: Am 19. November 1951 wurde mit dem atmosphärischen #Atomtest "Sugar" die Operation Buster–Jangle fortgeführt. Erstmals arbeitete das US-Verteidigungsministerium mit dem Los Alamos Labor zusammen.

I've always felt this was, at least, partly true. Can be extrapolated to also be a reason why #China dominated cleantech too - something that most #climate & #environment groups don't want to acknowle…

Why China’s Exploitative Labor System Gives It a Strategic Edge
China’s decisive source of global competitive advantage lies in its weak labor protections. And it’s driving a race to the bottom for labor rights.

Strikes run on pizza.
Turns out they also can begin to end on them.
Several pies, in fact, arrived on North Shore Drive on the brisk Tuesday that was Oct. 18, 2022,
when the strikers first walked out of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newsroom
because the PG had violated federal labor law.
The workers said they would not go back to their jobs until their employer followed the rules.
They had no idea it would take three years
and become the nation’s lon…

Pittsburgh journalists vote to end country's longest strike and notify the PG they are returning to work - Pittsburgh Union Progress
The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh’s most momentous gathering since the formation of a strike picket line more than three years ago began last week in the manner of all big strike meetings — with the arrival of a half dozen boxes of pizza. Pepperoni, plain and a vegetarian option. Strikes run on pizza. Turns out […]

VICE - North Korean Labor Camps (single part) - YouTube
#documnetary #korea

LEHMANN Audio 009 - ANNƒ
Lehmann Club / Labor Lehmann
#TechnoTuesday

We're wandering down this afternoon to the Jessie Price Keep Bean on the map: Reconnecting Our Supporter Community!
Enjoy a democracy sausage BBQ.
Jessie and David Pocock will be in conversation about the critical importance of community Independents on the crossbench in the context of a Coalition shambles and Labor majority - sharpening the role of the crossbench in holding the government to account and pushing for stronger action.
Tuggeranong Park Stage, 2-4pm and a…

🚁 Drones could cut travel delays and reduce spoilage of donated blood, study shows
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-drones-delays-spoilage-donated-blood.html

Drones could cut travel delays and reduce spoilage of donated blood, study shows
Delivering blood from collection sites to labs is a fast-paced, labor-intensive process. Donated blood can deteriorate within a few hours at room temperature, leaving little room to maneuver in case of unexpected traffic congestion or other delays between collection sites and blood centers.

"Software is no longer seen as an asset, as something to care for, to maybe even take pride in. It’s a throw-away product. Like a napkin. Just get one quick, wipe your mouth and throw it away. Like a novelty t-shirt."
(Original title: Software as Fast Fashion)
https://tante.cc/2026/01/15/software-a…

Software as Fast Fashion
Clothes have never been cheaper. These days a t-shirt is often cheaper that a decent cup of tea in a cafe. The wonders of capitalism. At least that is how it is often described. And when you point at the underpaid, gruesome labor that people in poorer regions of the planet have to do to […]

Finished "Life, and Death, and Giants" by Ron Rindo.
Gabriel, 18 lbs at birth, his unwed Amish mother shunned for refusing to name the father, dies in labor. Gabriel lives w/ family & friends, liminally between English & Amish communities.
Exceptionally kind, incredibly athletic (a giant at over 8' tall), Gabriel attracts a lot of attention from the world. His exceptional kindness is life-altering for so many.
Tragic, but beautiful.
4/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐…

Life, and Death, and Giants
A heart too big for this world. A life that changes eve…

The very excellent “what happened last week” newsletter by @… focuses on “the A in AI stands for African” this week, namely on how Chinese AI companies are turning Kenya with its chronic unemployment of 67 percent into a hot spot of cheap AI labor.
More and more Kenyan students and recent graduates are hired to label thousands of videos a day through opaq…

The hidden Kenyan workers training China’s AI models
An unemployment crisis has created fertile ground for companies to step in with opaque systems built on WhatsApp groups, middlemen, and bargain-basement wages.

In the USA there's now bipartisan acceptance that "steaks cost almost 17% more than a year ago" ,[1] 60 % of shoppers buy less beef,[2] 37 % consider plant-based substitutes[3] but not clear how many would simply increase e.g. pulses or go fully #vegan. Prices of lentils are down[4] and production of pulses is expected to go up.[5]
[1]

On Monday, Nov. 24,
after more than 1,100 days on strike,
Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh members were cheered on by supporters
at a rally in downtown Pittsburgh
before returning to work at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Even though strikers have returned to work, however,
many issues at the center of the strike are still in legal limbo
—and their fight for a fair contract is not over.
In this episode of Working People, we speak with three Newspap…

The longest-running strike in the US is over—and the workers won
After over 3 years on strike, members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh have returned to work at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. While the legal battle is still unresolved, this is a major victory for the labor movement.

"Although the leftist alliance led by Jeannette Jara of the Communist Party, who served as Boric’s labor minister, is ahead in the opinion polls, she will not get an outright majority in the first round as Boric did.  And a collection of right-wing parties is likely to combine their vote and get Kast into the presidential office in the second round in December."

Chile: another turn to the right?
Chile has a general election today. Around 15m voters can take part in the first round to elect a new president, the lower house and half the seats of the senate. Incumbent President Gabriel Boric,…

Much thanks and heartfelt support to @… for writing up the kind of article that I, too, have been dreading to have to write: that absolutist OSS is bad and we protect the commons with fair licensing, non-commercial and otherwise

Haply Robotics: haptische Schnittstelle für Robotik
Haply Robotics zeigt auf der CES 2026 ein haptisches Eingabesystem mit Kraft- und Positionsfeedback, das Gamecontroller in Labor und Industrie ersetzen soll.
https://w…

The Trump administration announced on Tuesday an aggressive plan to continue dismantling the Education Department,
ending the agency’s broad role in supporting academics at elementary and high schools and in expanding access to college.
Those responsibilities, which had been overseen by the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Office of Postsecondary Education,
will instead be largely taken over by the Labor Department.
Additional changes include movin…

Trump Administration Announces Steps to Dismantle Education Department
Responsibilities for K-12 and college programs, among others, will be moved to other federal agencies.

I've just had the misfortune of reading yet another smug, somewhat revered book "explaining" music, this time with all the same problems as most of the others.
It tricked me with its title: 'Music, The Brain, And Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination'.
Some choice excerpts:
"Composers working with [non-Western] scales must labor harder to devise deep musical relations, their melodies will prosper more by contour than harmony, and ultimately…

‘No More Blood for Oil’: Global Labor Movement Opposes Trump’s Attacks on Venezuela | Portside
https://portside.org/2026-01-11/no-more-blood-oil-global-labor-movement-opposes-trumps-attacks-venezuela

US BLS data: video and videogame subscriptions and rentals saw inflation of 19.5% in December; cable, satellite, and livestreaming rose 1.1%, same as music subs (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

“Streamflation” Is Real: U.S. Inflation Data Shows Soaring Price of Streaming Video Services
Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Tuesday showed that overall inflation cooled in December ... but streaming video prices soared by nearly 20 percent.

Department of Labor under fire for language similar to Nazi slogan (Kathryn Palmer/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/13/department-labor-post-nazi-slogan/88156878007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p129#a260113p129

Word of the day: AI-washing
"Where management wants to cut labor costs a la Amazon, shift to cheaper contract labor a la Klarna, or execute layoffs for ideological reasons, a la DOGE, “AI” is an extremely potent justification. Some business professors and analysts have taken to calling this practice “AI-washing.””
From Brian Merchants excellent Blood in the Machine newsletter/substack.

Today’s one small action to push SF progressives away from the embrace of car brain.
All candidates who have filed in that district oppose the park, so it’s an easy call that she would be my first place vote if I lived there, regardless. But unless that stance changes, am I spending my precious time on her campaign? Nah. #sfpol

"But they stop short of examining the forces that may be actually driving the minerals agenda: tech billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, who see Greenland not just as a source of rare earths, but as a laboratory for their libertarian economic and social experiments. These tech-billionaires envision unregulated “freedom cities” in Greenland, free from democratic oversight, environmental laws, and labor protections."

If I hadn't left the Netherlands or Switzerland to move to the country where ambition goes to die, I could have my white whale this week. Alas. Anyway, time to go put in another day of backbreaking physical labor for no reward!

"Teachers unions leverage contracts to fight climate change"
#Education #Climate #ClimateChange

Teachers unions leverage contracts to fight climate change
As federal support and financial incentives for climate action wither, this sort of local action is becoming more difficult but also more urgent, advocates say.

Part of why #Trump has always been so hard to pin down politically is that he was always representing highly conflicting interests. Now, as that eats him alive, the GOP is fracturing in to two main groups: the Pinochet/Franco wing and the Hitler wing.
The Pinochet/Franco wing (let's call them PF) are lead by Vance. PF are also a coalition with some competing interests, but basically it's evangelical leaders, Opus Dei (fascist catholics), tech fascists (Yarvinites), pharma, and the other normal big republican donors. They support Israel, some because apartheid is extremely profitable and some because they support the genocide of Palestinian in order to bring the end of the world. They are split between extremely antisemitic evangelicals and Zionists, wanting similar things for completely different reasons. PF wants strong immigration enforcement because it lets them exploit immigrants, they don't want actual ethnic cleansing (just the constant threat). They want H1B visas because they want to a precarious tech work force. They want to end tariffs because they support free trade and don't actually care about things being made here.
The Hitler wing are lead by Nick Fuentes. I think they're a more unified group, but they're going to try to pull together a coalition that I don't think can really work. They're against Israel because they believe in some bat shit antisemitic conspiracy theory (which they are trying to inject along side legitimate criticism of Israel). They are focused on release of the #EpsteinFiles because they believe that it shows that Epstein worked for Mossad. They don't think that the ICE raids are going far enough, they oppose H1Bs because they are racists. They want a full ethnic cleansing of the US where everyone who isn't "white" is either enslaved for menial labor, deported, or dead. But they're also critical of big business (partially because of conspiracy theories but also) because they think their best option is to push for a white socialism (red/brown alliance).
Both of them want to sink Trump because they see him as standing in the way of their objectives. Both see #Epstein as an opportunity. Both of them have absolutely terrifying visions of authoritarian dictatorships, but they're different dictatorships.with opposing interests. Even within these there may be opportunities to fracture these more.
While these fractures decrease the likelihood of either group getting enough people together, their vision is more clear and thus more likely to succeed if they can make that happen. Now is absolutely *not* the time to just enjoy the collapse, we need to keep up or accelerate anti-fascist efforts to avoid repeating some of the mistakes of history.
Edit:
I should not that this isn't *totally* original analysis. I'll link a video later when I have time to find it.
Here it is:
#USPol

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Lazarou/115707837146600329
@… WOW, that's a hot take omg.
Arguing that labor solidarity…

#Republicans view #education as BAD. This is why people like Mike Rowe gaslight people with simpleton arguments that trade schools & rote physical labor is better & "#college is a sca…

✊🏽 How Labor and the Left Can Bolster Zohran Mamdani
#labor

How Labor and the Left Can Bolster Zohran Mamdani
If Zohran Mamdani wins, he will face fierce resistance from business elites and the political establishment. Unions and grassroots member organizations like the Democratic Socialists of America can play a key role in helping him overcome this opposition.

I’m somewhat annoyed by big parts of the “AI” discourse (“it’s useless” is patently wrong/wishful thinking and “it’s morally wrong” won’t convince anyone) so this banger by Cory Doctorow was godsend:
> [S]ome people will be on the workers' side because of politics or aesthetics. […] But if you want to win over all the people who benefit from your labor, you need to understand and stress how the products of the AI will be substandard.

Oh, look, the result of anti-immigration fascists' policies are labor shortages.
Who would've known?
(unless it's paired with starting a global trade war, I suppose; in that case you'd get an economic slump, bankrupcies and unemployment... if you don't TACO)
https://…

Italy's right-wing government unveils new work permit plan to address labor shortages
The Italian government has announced a significant increase in the issuance of work permits for non-EU workers, planning to distribute 500,000 …

TSA announces new labor framework on Jan. 11, 2026 (U.S. Department of Homeland Security ...)
https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/releases/2025/12/12/tsa-announces-new-labor-framework-jan-11-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/251212/p130#a251212p130

Am 6. September wird in Sachsen-Anhalt gewählt.
"Im Falle einer Regierungsübernahme würde die extrem rechte Partei Sachsen-Anhalt binnen kurzem in ein Labor für den autoritären Umbau der Gesellschaft verwandeln.
Sie wird ausprobieren, wie weit man es auf Landesebene mit der Durchsetzung rechter Politik treiben kann." - David Begrich

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Carrtoons feat. Hailé Supreme:
🎵 Labor Of Love
#NowPlaying #Carrtoons #HailéSupreme
https://carrtoons.bandcamp.com/track/labor-of-love-feat-haile-supreme
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ENZwdXhaX0GT15fIwaFxU

Sources: Oracle has pushed back completion dates for some data centers it is building for OpenAI from 2027 to 2028, largely due to labor and material shortages (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

The Liberty Justice Center
is the litigation arm of the
right-wing Illinois Policy Institute.
It has aggressively backed legal attacks on labor unions
(including the landmark Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court case),
attacked gun safety measures,
and promoted policies that undermine public schools, such as taxpayer-funded vouchers.

The Liberty Justice Center received $1 million in 2021 from the Marcus Foundation,
a charitable giving nonprofit run b…

Liberty Justice Center | Supreme Transparency
The Liberty Justice Center is the litigation arm of the right-wing Illinois Policy Institute. It has aggressively backed legal attacks on labor unions (including the landmark Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court case), attacked gun safety measures, and promoted policies that undermine public schools, such as taxpayer-funded vouchers.

from my link log —
How did TVs get so cheap?
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-did-tvs-get-so-cheap
saved 2026-01-08 https://…

How Did TVs Get So Cheap?
You’ve probably seen this famous graph that breaks out various categories of inflation, showing labor-intensive services getting more expensive during the 21st century and manufactured goods getting less expensive.

Yes! Well done nonprofit @… living your values! The #Union makes us strong.
#Utah #jouralism

False choice (with a value judgment in its wording).
You can, & should, continue to raise demonstrable & valid concerns about the accessibility of LLM output and _also_ consider if (or how) you can improve it (he offers options).
But no free labor from me.
https://www.

🎣 Feds seize $15 billion from alleged forced labor scam built on “human suffering”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/feds-seize-15-billion-from-alleged-forced-labor-scam-built-on-human-suffering/

Feds seize $15 billion from alleged forced labor scam built on “human suffering”
Scams like this one net billions from well-educated victims.

If you don’t already know, I’m an anarcho-syndicalist and I’m tired of people thinking that means I’m some authoritarian commie pretending to be leftist. I don’t bootlick party lines or worship dead strongmen. Centralized power rots no matter what color the flag is.
Hear me out, I’ve read actual labor history, I know what labor power means. We build our politics on horizontal organizing and direct action, not on some bureaucrat ordering purges in the name of the people. Real socialism …

Federal data belatedly released Tuesday shows that the
US unemployment rate
rose to the highest level in four years last month
as Donald Trump’s administration continues its assault on the government’s workforce
and American corporations lay off workers at a level not seen in decades.
The unemployment rate rose to 4.6% in November,
up from 4.4% in September,
according to the Labor Department report, whose release was delayed due to the recent governme…

Trump Economy 'Stalling Out' as Unemployment Rate Hits Highest Level in 4 Years | Common Dreams
"Trump may give himself an A++++ on the economy, but these latest jobs numbers are failing working families."

Louisiana asks Fifth Circuit to ax heat restriction on prison farm labor | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/louisiana-asks-fifth-circuit-to-ax-heat-restriction-on-prison-farm-labor/

The USA has only a million elevators, about as many as Italy, and they cost four times as in Switzerland.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250827193631/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/opinion/elevato…

Opinion | Why Are Housing Costs So High? The Elevator Can Explain Why.
An illness led Stephen Smith to study why America has so few elevators. What he learned explains why housing costs are so high.

"We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate": Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days (In These Times)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/minneapolis-renee-good-ice-shooting-labor-unions
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p167#a260113p167

The Ninth Circuit affirms a temporary order blocking OpenAI from using "io" as a trademark in some instances while an infringement suit against it proceeds (Kyle Jahner/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-la

Ban Against OpenAI Using ‘io’ Trademark Backed by Ninth Circuit
The Ninth Circuit affirmed a temporary order blocking OpenAI Inc. from using “io” as a trademark in certain circumstances while an infringement suit against it proceeds.

I just got a "Decomputing" talk accepted by a very tech-focused business conference (as a Keynote even) and a labor rights organization who wanted me to propose a talk instantly went for the "The Luddites were right" suggestion. Two things that a few months ago would not have been possible I think.
Things are changing, the dire state of the world sometimes allows new narratives to punch through.

And yes it was designed to be racist to evoke the image of free labor from Black slaves
Exactly as today’s chatbots are designed to be sycophantic

Heute mit dem Labor Alltagskultur im Winter Wonderland Strasshof!

A US appeals court panel orders the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to restore striking journalists' benefits from 2017, ruling the paper bargained in bad faith (Megan Swift/TribLIVE.com)
https://triblive.com/local/regional/appellate-court-…

Appellate court panel sides with striking Post-Gazette workers; PG will appeal decision
A federal appeals court panel on Monday ruled in favor of striking journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, possibly heralding an end to a long and bitter labor dispute that led newspaper staffers to walk the picket line for more than three years. The decision by three judges on the U.S.

Weeks after the Trump administration lowered minimum wages for some temporary farmworkers,
the Trump Organization sought approval to hire 36 foreign workers for its Virginia winery at a pay rate nearly $2 an hour below what it previously offered
—highlighting the company’s continued reliance on overseas labor even as Donald Trump argues Americans are being pushed out of jobs

Trump Vineyard Seeks Foreign Workers At Lower Wages After Trump Administration Policy Shift
Records show the Trump Organization has requested over 2,000 foreign workers since 2008. Its latest request seeks a $13.90 hourly wage—the lowest the winery has offered since 2021.

What A Shocker: ICE Tracking Pregnant Women, Even During Labor | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/12/what-shocker-ice-tracking-pregnant-women

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer under investigation for 'inappropriate' relationship with employee (Josh Christenson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/01/09/us-news/labor-secretary-lori-chavez-deremer-under-investigation-for-inappropriate-relationship-with-employee/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p141#a260109p141

😬 Organizing Amazon Should Be a Priority for Labor Globally
#amazon

Organizing Amazon Should Be a Priority for Labor Globally
Whether workers can organize Amazon will be pivotal for the fate of the labor movement worldwide. Initial victories in Coventry, England, and elsewhere show that when unions put serious resources into organizing, they can win.

#Gig workers in #Indonesia are coming together to demand fair compensation and better working conditions, despite immense challenges & an anti-#labor government.
Read more in my latest at

Gravis Robotics, which adds cameras, sensors, and AI to heavyweight construction machines so they can operate autonomously, raised $23M led by IQ and Zacua (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/28/gravis-robotic…

Exclusive: Gravis Robotics raises $23M to tackle construction’s labor shortage with AI-powered machines
The Swiss startup is aiming to automate construction equipment as the industry faces a severe shortage of skilled operators and surging demand.

"the 26th labor and delivery unit closure in the United States this year."
Trump-Loving County Loses Labor And Delivery Unit Thanks To Medicaid Cuts
https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-loving-county-loses-labor-and

The Labor Department says it will release a key report on the September job market next Thursday, almost seven weeks behind schedule.
The jobs report is one of many closely-watched economic indicators that were held up by the government shutdown.
The report — which details hiring, layoffs and the unemployment rate for September — was almost complete when the government economists who tally jobs were abruptly furloughed by the shutdown.
Since the data was already in hand, th…

Japan faces bottlenecks in data center construction due to labor shortages and more; DC Byte says Japan's capacity has tripled to 6.8 GW in the past five years (Tsubasa Suruga/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Bottlenecks in data center construction threaten Japan's AI ambitions
Labor shortages, rising costs and outdated building processes delay construction

'Cloudy Weather': Hassett Says Some Economic Data Was Never Collected During Shutdown (Tyler Spence/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/economy/kevin-hassett-economic-data-shutdown-bls-bureau-labor-statistics-jobs-report-cost-of-living
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p90#a251111p90

🤦‍♂️ “Premajority Unionism” Is Not a Promising Path for Labor
#politics

“Premajority Unionism” Is Not a Promising Path for Labor
“Premajority unionism” is a new term for corporate campaigns, in which workers try to win concessions from employers using channels outside the workplace, like investor pressure and appeals to the public. Such efforts are not likely to achieve much.

You can call me an AUTHORITARIAN bootlicking COMMIE all you want, I don’t care. I ain’t shutting up EVER.
LABOR people know more than your damn boss ever will. We run the machines, we keep it all working, we ARE the reason your fancy office even has lights on.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Carrtoons feat. Hailé Supreme:
🎵 Labor Of Love
#NowPlaying #Carrtoons #HailéSupreme
https://carrtoons.bandcamp.com/track/labor-of-love-feat-haile-supreme
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ENZwdXhaX0GT15fIwaFxU

In " Trump v Slaughter" the Supreme Court is likely to rule that
Trump has the power fire FTC head Rebecca Slaughter
(and, by implication, the heads of many other agencies thought to have a measure of independence,
such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Federal Election Commission)
at his discretion.

The problem is that such a decision wouldn’t restore the constitu…

In this Supreme Court case, a sledgehammer is better than a scalpel
On Trump’s ability to fire the heads of agencies, the Supreme Court should take the harder route.

Trump-Loving County Loses Labor And Delivery Unit Thanks To Medicaid Cuts
https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-loving-county-loses-labor-and

Texas AG Ken Paxton says he is investigating Shein to determine whether it violated state laws on unethical labor practices and the sale of unsafe products (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/shein-

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The Commissioner-General of Immigration, the former Knights of Labor President Terence V. Powderly, advised the couple to marry to settle the matter, but they refused and were deported back …

A labor-led coalition plans a protest outside the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building Thursday to "demand an end to the bloodshed and inhumane treatment of immigrants by" Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
The coalition gathers outside the federal building every Thursday, but the protest comes one day after the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman by an ICE officer in an immigration-related operation in Minneapolis.
"Protesters in San Diego are calling for an end…

Protest planned at downtown federal building following Minneapolis ICE shooting
A labor-led coalition plans a protest outside the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building today to "demand an end to the bloodshed and inhumane treatment of immigrants by" Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

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Trump's Labor Secretary under investigation for 'inappropriate' liaisons with subordinate - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/lori-chavez-deremer-2674868513/

The House has voted on a bipartisan basis
to restore labor rights to 1 million federal workers
after Donald Trump yanked them away in an executive order earlier this year,
in a rare show of defiance against the president by over a dozen GOP members.
In a 231 to 195 vote on Thursday afternoon,
the House passed the "Protect America’s Workforce Act",
which would nullify Trump’s ordersin March and August to exempt workers at dozens of agencies from c…

House Passes Bill to Undo Trump Order to End Federal Workers’ Bargaining Rights
The bill passed with 20 Republicans joining all Democrats in voting “yes,” in a rare rebuke to Trump.

An MIT study finds that AI can replace 11.7% of the US labor market, or ~$1.2T in wages, based on the "Iceberg Index", which measures job automation potential (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/mit-study-

MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.

India's November 21 labor law has granted legal status to millions of gig workers, but benefits are unclear and access to social security remains elusive (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/24/indi…

India's gig workers win legal status, but access to social security remains elusive | TechCrunch
India is restructuring its gig economy with a new labor law, but much more is needed before gig workers see real benefits.

Trump says the job market is booming for U.S.-born. The data doesn't show it. (Lauren Kaori Gurley/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/02/trump-americans-jobs-immigrants-labor/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260102/p73#a260102p73

Some of the Trump administration’s anti-worker moves included
♦️rescinding a Biden-era executive order that raised the minimum wage for federal workers,
♦️rolling back laws prohibiting workplace discrimination,
♦️pulling out of an international agreement that would have imposed a minimum tax on corporations,
♦️and killing dozens of workplace safety rules.
Trump’s most vicious moves targeted immigrant workers,
many of whom have been terrorized by the un…

Despite Trump’s War on Workers, Labor Movement Notched Crucial Wins in 2025
As Trump prepares to escalate attacks on unions and immigrant workers, the labor movement must build power to stop him.

Family says Indiana hospital discharged mom in labor, leading to roadside birth - ABC News
https://abcnews.go.com/US/family-indiana-hospital-discharged-mom-labor-leading-roadside/story

After Shutdown, Labor Dept. Says Some Data Is Gone for Good (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/business/economy/labor-department-economy-data-october.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p110#a251119p110

US applications for jobless benefits fell below 200,000 last week with layoffs historically low (Matt Ott/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/unemployment-benefits-jobless-claims-layoffs-labor-5e0ab36c477fdb0e4924c3851b852725
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p32#a251231p32

Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO, said Unions are gearing up to challenge the US president’s “Billionaire First” agenda in 2026
– and drive candidates in key elections to stand up for “struggling” Americans.
In an interview with the Guardian, she described how the federation has pushed to restore collective bargaining rights for federal workers,
-- and filed lawsuits against the Trump administration’s efforts to weaken unions and worker protections.
“People were …

Democrats' rift with unions erupts as shutdown pain worsens (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/30/democrats-unions-labor-trump-shutdown-airlines
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p136#a251030p136

We introduce the Remote Labor Index (RLI),
a broadly multi-sector benchmark comprising real-world, economically valuable remote-work projects
designed to evaluate end-to-end agent performance in practical settings.
Across evaluated frontier AI agent frameworks, performance sits near the floor,
with a maximum automation rate of 2.5% on RLI projects.

In a state where organized labor is not known to be a major political force,
supporters of teachers, police, firefighters and other public sector workers rallied to force the repeal of a particularly ill-advised, if not downright mean, act of the Utah Legislature.
An ad hoc alliance of labor unions
-- not just those representing public sector workers
-- arose under the title of
"Protect Utah Workers".
It included unions whose members primarily work…