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In case you need some more arguments against Google: https://www.wired.com/story/hundreds-of-google-ai-workers-were-fired-amid-fight-over-working-conditions/

Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions
Over 200 contractors who work on improving Google’s AI products, including Gemini and AI Overviews, have been laid off, sources say. It’s the latest development in a conflict over pay and alleged poor working conditions.

"ICE raids have caused workers to lose hours and income, and forced them into hiding at home, according to interviews."
US Undocumented Farm Workers Feel ‘Hunted Like Animals’ Amid Trump’s Immigration Raids | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-07-14/us-undocumented-farm-workers-feel-hunted-animals-amid-trumps-immigration-raids

Someone counter-hacked a North Korean IT worker: Here’s what they found
https://cointelegraph.com/news/someone-counter-hacked-a-north-korean-it-worker-here-s-what-they-found

Undaunted Fighter for Workers (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/undaunted-fighter-for-workers
http://www.memeorandum.com/250815/p46#a250815p46

The roughly 1,350 State Department workers laid off by the Trump administration last week
included senior analysts specializing in Russia and Ukraine.
The loss of expertise in those countries comes as Trump presses to settle the war between them,
one of his top foreign policy goals.
In other federal job-cutting moves, the Health and Human Services Department finalized layoff notices for thousands of workers,
and the batch of career employees fired at the Justi…

Senate Advances Clawback of Foreign Aid and Public Broadcast Funds

Fulfillment of the Work Games: Warehouse Workers' Experiences with Algorithmic Management
EunJeong Cheon, Ingrid Erickson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09438 https://

Fulfillment of the Work Games: Warehouse Workers' Experiences with Algorithmic Management
The introduction of algorithms into a large number of industries has already restructured the landscape of work and threatens to continue. While a growing body of CSCW research centered on the future of work has begun to document these shifts, relatively little is known about workers' experiences beyond those of platform-mediated gig workers. In this paper, we turn to a traditional work sector, Amazon fulfillment centers (FC), to deepen our field's empirical examination of algorithmic managemen…

Supreme Court lets Trump fire hundreds of Education Department workers (Maureen Groppe/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/14/supreme-court-trump-education-department-workers/84070683007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p130#a250714p130

Don't miss today's packed Metacurity for a ton of critical infosec developments you should know, including
--UK to spend $1.1 billion relocating Afghan helpers following data breach
--DOGE worker published the private key for four dozen-plus LLMs,
--US gov't IT contractor to pay $14.75m fine for overstated cyber services,
--Italian cops arrest Romanian behind 'Diskstation' ransomware gang,
--OMB readies post-quantum standard,
--MSFT'…

UK to spend $1.1 billion relocating Afghan helpers following data breach
DOGE worker published the private key for four dozen-plus LLMs, US gov't IT contractor to pay $14.75m fine for overstated cyber services, Italian cops arrest Romanian behind 'Diskstation' ransomware gang, OMB readies post-quantum standard, MSFT's 'digital escorts' leave DoD vulnerable, much more

Jaime Alanís died a day after a frenzied immigration raid of Glass House Farms in Ventura county
where authorities arrested at least 200 workers.
The 57-year-old, who was from the town of Huajúmbaro in Michoacšn, Mexico, is the first known person to die during the Trump administration’s enhanced immigration enforcement operations in southern California.
The federal government’s ramped up enforcement activities have brought chaos across southern California as Ice agents des…

Trump’s all-out assault on immigrant communities and the rule of law
escalated to new heights when federal agents beat and arrested
David Huerta, a prominent labor leader and president of the Service Employees International Union
– United Service Workers (West),
while Huerta and others were observing an ICE raid in Los Angeles, CA, on June 6.
Huerta was released from federal custody, but he is still being charged with felony conspiracy to impede an officer,

EXCLUSIVE: David Huerta, union leader beaten & arrested at ICE raid, speaks out
In his first public interview since he was beaten and arrested by federal agents in June, David Huerta, president of the Service Employees International Union - United Service Workers (West), speaks about the status of his case and the roles unions must play in the fight against fascism.