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An Arizona woman was sentenced to more than 8 years in prison for helping North Korean workers obtain remote jobs at U.S. companies
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/07/25/north-korean-remote-workers-fraud-christina-chapman/

Arizona woman sentenced over $17 million North Korea worker fraud scheme
Christina Chapman helped North Koreans obtain remote jobs at U.S. companies under false identities, operating a “laptop farm” that funneled money to Pyongyang.

Workers at Google, TikTok, Adobe, Dropbox, CrowdStrike, and other tech firms recount how managers used AI to justify firing them, speed up their work, and more (Brian Merchant/Blood in the Machine)
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-ai-is-killing-jo…

AI Killed My Job: Tech workers
Tech workers at TikTok, Google, and across the industry share stories about how AI is changing, ruining, or replacing their jobs.

Trump cannot end union bargaining for federal workers, judge rules (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/us-judge-blocks-trumps-elimination-union-bargaining-federal-workers-2025-06-25/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p118#a250625p118

Qui aurait pu prévoir ?
"Les prix des courses sur Uber sont de dix Š vingt pour cent plus élevés que ceux des courses en taxi, et jusqu'Š 50 % plus élevés pendant les périodes de pointe (lorsque la demande est la plus forte)."
#Uber

Technologies that promise to track, manage, and supervise workers,
increasingly using artificial intelligence,
are entrenched in the developing world, according to a new report by Coworker.org,
a labor rights nonprofit based in New York. 
Audits of more than 150 startups and regional companies based in Kenya, Nigeria, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, and India showed
workplace surveillance is expanding in scale and sophistication, the researchers said.
While lar…

VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech
A funding surge has given rise to technologies to track, analyze and manage workers — often in countries with little regulation.

A US judge sentences an Arizona woman to 8.5 years in prison for running a "laptop farm" that enabled North Korean workers to secure IT jobs at 309 US companies (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/arizona-woman-sentenced-north-korean-laptop-…

Arizona woman sentenced to 8.5 years for running North Korean laptop farm
Prosecutors said Chapman helped the North Korean IT workers obtain jobs at 309 companies, including a major television network, a car maker, a media company, a Silicon Valley technology company and more.

Teachers & Workers Join STOP AI Protest Against Techno Fascist Sam Altman's Open AI : Indybay
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/07/26/18878390.php

I heard the same old food systems scholar on the radio this morning discussing Jamil Jivani's call to end temporary foreign workers. The host asked some interesting questions about the origins of the program but dude didn't have much to say beyond "when I was young and worked on a farm..." because he's not a historian.
For any journalists out there, try getting in touch with Edward Dunsworth instead. Ed's an excellent historian at McGill of migrant labour in C…

The Trump administration is planning to change the visa system for skilled foreign workers,
a program at the center of a dispute between immigration hard-liners and tech industry leaders,
said the new director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Joseph Edlow, the director of U.S.C.I.S., said the test to become a U.S. citizen was "too easy" and should change.
“The test as it’s laid out right now, it’s not very difficult,”
Mr. Edlow said on Thur…

Trump Administration Plans Changes to H-1B Visas and U.S. Citizenship Tests
In an interview with The New York Times, the new director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said the test to become a U.S. citizen was too easy.

His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He's Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp. (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/nathan-albers-fort-bliss-immigration
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p32#a250725p32

Arizona woman sentenced to 8.5 years for running North Korean laptop farm https://therecord.media/arizona-woman-sentenced-north-korean-laptop-farm

A Novel Coded Computing Approach for Distributed Multi-Task Learning
Minquan Cheng, Yongkang Wang, Lingyu Zhang, Youlong Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18025 https://

A Novel Coded Computing Approach for Distributed Multi-Task Learning
Distributed multi-task learning (DMTL) effectively improves model generalization performance through the collaborative training of multiple related models. However, in large-scale learning scenarios, communication bottlenecks severely limit practical system performance. In this paper, we investigate the communication bottleneck within a typical DMTL system that employs non-linear global updates. This system involves distributed workers, assisted by a central server, who collaboratively learn di…

Labor, Environmental, and Social Justice Groups Call on Micron to Protect Workers and Communities https://www.einpresswire.com/article/825724515/labor-environmental-and-social-justice-groups-call-on-micron-to-protect-workers-and-communities

Learning-based safety lifting monitoring system for cranes on construction sites
Hao Chen, Yu Hin Ng, Ching-Wei Chang, Haobo Liang, Yanke Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20475

Learning-based safety lifting monitoring system for cranes on construction sites
Lifting on construction sites, as a frequent operation, works still with safety risks, especially for modular integrated construction (MiC) lifting due to its large weight and size, probably leading to accidents, causing damage to the modules, or more critically, posing safety hazards to on-site workers. Aiming to reduce the safety risks in lifting scenarios, we design an automated safe lifting monitoring algorithm pipeline based on learning-based methods, and deploy it on construction sites. T…

sp_hospital: Hospital ward dynamic contacts (2010)
This dataset contains the temporal network of contacts between patients, patients and health-care workers (HCWs) and among HCWs in a hospital ward in Lyon, France, from Monday, December 6, 2010 at 1:00 pm to Friday, December 10, 2010 at 2:00 pm. The study included 46 HCWs and 29 patients.
This network has 75 nodes and 32424 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata

[co-workers talking about what the word "sigma" means]
Me: "I (younger Gen-X) have no clear idea what [sigma] means, either, but I'm pretty sure that boys classifying other boys with greek letters goes nowhere good"
[co-worker shares wikipedia page, which points to origin via Vox Day manosphere nonsense]
Me: "oh, I get it. the S is for incel"

Advocacy works, if done right. Find out how investigations by WorkerRights Consortium led to a joint effort along the supply chain to eliminate gender-based violence in Indonesia’s garment factories – more in my feature with TriplePundit.
https://www.triplepundi…

On Sunday, July 20, 2025, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez delivered the keynote speech at the national convention of the National Organization of Legal Services Workers (NOLSW), UAW Local 2320.
“I am here to report back to you from the front lines of struggle, without hesitation or hyperbole,
that we are at risk of losing everything,”
Alvarez told the crowd of union members.
“And so I am here not to extol the virtues of your union or the value of unions in …

What good is a union in Hell?
“Brothers, sisters, siblings, we stand here now on the precipice of oblivion… This isn't just about fighting for better wages and working conditions… This is about who is willing to fight for life itself?”

Who could've guessed?
https://ni.hil.ist/@mu/114840348453639236

Civilians butchered, babies left to die, aid workers and journalists deliberately targeted by Israel:
KEIR STARMER - This all seems fine to me. Carry on!
Pop group says something about genocide:
KEIR STARMER - This is an outrage! Ban them! Pull all their gigs! They're TERRORISTS!
#IsraelIsATerroristState

As an #ActuallyAutistic person, I’m hyperfixated on this image, which only amps up my interest in #NSFIAA

How Walmart, seeking to compete with e-commerce rivals like Amazon, built a multibillion-dollar HQ in Bentonville, aiming to attract workers and woo shoppers (Kevin Draper/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/business/walmart-rebrand-hea…

Walmart Tries to Shed a Stodgy Vibe to Battle Digital-Native Rivals
The retailing giant is spending billions to attract workers to a new headquarters and woo shoppers with drone delivery and a broader range of items (like Louis Vuitton handbags).

Safety-Aware Optimal Scheduling for Autonomous Masonry Construction using Collaborative Heterogeneous Aerial Robots
Marios-Nektarios Stamatopoulos, Shridhar Velhal, Avijit Banerjee, George Nikolakopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18697

Safety-Aware Optimal Scheduling for Autonomous Masonry Construction using Collaborative Heterogeneous Aerial Robots
This paper presents a novel high-level task planning and optimal coordination framework for autonomous masonry construction, using a team of heterogeneous aerial robotic workers, consisting of agents with separate skills for brick placement and mortar application. This introduces new challenges in scheduling and coordination, particularly due to the mortar curing deadline required for structural bonding and ensuring the safety constraints among UAVs operating in parallel. To address this, an au…

no restart jitter, no problem:
# Add up to 2mins worth of jitter to worker restarts.
export GRANIAN_WORKERS_LIFETIME=$((GRANIAN_WORKERS_LIFETIME RANDOM % 121))
🤓

A new equilibrium: COVID-19 lockdowns and WFH persistence
Laura Ketter, Todd Morris, Lizi Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16671 https://

A new equilibrium: COVID-19 lockdowns and WFH persistence
This paper documents a robust link between COVID-19 lockdowns and the uptake and persistence of working from home (WFH) practices. Exploiting rich longitudinal data, we use a difference-in-differences strategy to compare office workers in three heavily locked-down Australian states to similar workers in less affected states. Locked-down workers sustain 43% higher WFH levels through 2023 - 0.5 days per week - with a monotonic dose-response relationship. Persistence is driven by adjustments on bo…

#Philippines workers outraged by union busting at #Lululemon sportswear factory

"In this TED talk, Jason Fried, founder of 37 signals, discusses how people get work done. When asked where do you go when you really need to get something done, almost no-one says: the office (unless it is early in the morning or late at night)? This is especially for creative people and knowledge workers..."

Seems like @… now encourages moving from Pages to Workers.
Tried it and realised that it doesn't support separate env variables for different branches/environments 🤦‍♂️

I would report these signs themselves as prima-facie, irrebuttable proof of a thing that disparages American values.
Imagine Manzinar - a concentration camp into which Japanese heritage US Citizens were moved during WW-II with no due process, no equal protection, and a complete and irrational abuse of American values.
Manzinar itself (like "Alligator Auschwitz") is a rebuke to American values. The new federal policy, and these signs and reports, raise the level of that…

A Trump Executive Order Prompts Park Workers to Report Displays That ‘Disparage’ Americans
Descriptions and displays at scores of parks and historic sites have been flagged for review in connection with an executive order from President Trump.

Altruism and energy flow in dynamic beehive models
Zachary Nathan, Daniel DiPietro, Olivia J. Chu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17923 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Altruism and energy flow in dynamic beehive models
This work explores the relationship between altruism and the genetic system of arrhenotoky through an evolutionary game theory (EGT)-inspired lens, using a dynamic model of beehive populations consisting of three castes: workers, drones, and the queen. Arrhenotoky is a form of asexual reproduction in which unfertilized eggs become males while fertilized eggs develop into females, leading to unusual patterns of genetic relatedness between family members. This mode of reproduction occurs in insec…

#Microsoft outsourced administration of classified #DoD data to cheap workers in #China. 🇨🇳 🕵️
My latest update on

🌎 Labor, Environmental, and Social Justice Groups Call on Micron to Protect Workers and Communities – American Indian Law Alliance (https://aila.ngo/labor-environmental-and-social-justice-groups-call-on-micron-to-protect-workers-and-communities/).

Nursing Homes Say Many Workers Aren't Showing Up - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/nursing-homes-say-many-workers-arent-showing-up/

🏗️ Supports distributable workers, multiple output formats & pluggable architecture for maximum flexibility
🔒 Execution without root privileges using #runc or #crun backends with #containerd

From Translink
Frontline transit workers wearing language pins to better support newcomers and tourists
New initiative makes it easier for customers to communicate with staff
More than 150 frontline transit workers across the TransLink system are now wearing pins that say “hello” in various languages – to let customers know which languages they speak in addition to English.
#Vancouver

❝I’d mostly discount the idea that this is largely about AI displacing educated workers.❞
YES. THANK YOU.
“AI is here doooom!! doooom!!” is such a common knee-jerk excuse for the miserable college grad job market right now, and…I don’t see it. In terms of real, actual, yes-it-worked, yes-you-can-clearly-replace-whole-highly-skilled-jobs successes inside of real actual businesses…I   just   don’t   see   it.
Whatever’s going on, the AIpocalypse is an •excuse•, not a •cause• here.

Avoid #Krogers until they agree to pay their workers.
#UnionStrong
https://masto.nyc/@GetMisch/1146944853

Trump and his Republican henchmen are pure evil
US agriculture secretary says Medicaid recipients can replace deported farm workers | US news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/09/trump-agriculture-medicaid-migrant-farm-workers

‘One day I overheard my boss saying: just put it in ChatGPT’: the workers who lost their jobs to AI
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/31/the-workers-who-lost-their-jobs-to-ai-chatgpt?CMP=Share_iO…

The US Treasury sanctions three senior North Korean officials accused of tricking companies into hiring North Koreans using stolen identities as IT workers (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/us-sanctions-north-korean-officers-it-worker-scheme

US hits senior North Korean officials with sanctions, $3 million bounties
Kim Se Un, Jo Kyong Hun and Myong Chol Min are accused of helping North Korea evade U.S. and United Nations sanctions through an IT worker plot that involved tricking companies into hiring North Koreans using stolen identities.

Byzantine-Resilient Distributed Computation via Task Replication and Local Computations
Aayush Rajesh, Nikhil Karamchandani, Vinod M. Prabhakaran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16014

Byzantine-Resilient Distributed Computation via Task Replication and Local Computations
We study a distributed computation problem in the presence of Byzantine workers where a central node wishes to solve a task that is divided into independent sub-tasks, each of which needs to be solved correctly. The distributed computation is achieved by allocating the sub-task computation across workers with replication, as well as solving a small number of sub-tasks locally, which we wish to minimize due to it being expensive. For a general balanced job allocation, we propose a protocol that …

Many of these fake workers use Minions and other “Despicable Me” characters in social-media profiles and email addresses.
How to Spot North Korean Scammers in the American Workforce: Look for Minions
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/north-korea-

"On nous a assuré que le seul engagement de la BCE en faveur de la stabilité des prix était un impératif technocratique - non touché par la politique, non façonné par l'idéologie.
Cependant, la nouvelle Revue Stratégique 2025 de la BCE confirme ce que les syndicats ont depuis longtemps mis en garde :
cette neutralité est un mythe, et les politiques de la Banque continuent Š faire pencher le terrain de jeu économique en faveur du

We built a regulatory system for a reason - our history is replete with pipeline breaks resulting in leaks and explosions (natural gas, for example), oil well leaks and fires, chemical plant releases, exposure of workers to hazardous conditions. We have seen over and over again how industry's cost cutting ends up killing and injuring people. Yet the #GOP is bound and determined to gut the policies …

We built a regulatory system for a reason - our history is replete with pipeline breaks resulting in leaks and explosions (natural gas, for example), oil well leaks and fires, chemical plant releases, exposure of workers to hazardous conditions. We have seen over and over again how industry's cost cutting ends up killing and injuring people. Yet the #GOP is bound and determined to gut the policies …

We in Game Workers Unite Ireland stand in solidarity with Animation Workers of Ireland, and the international trade union coalition happening to organise against the threat of AI in the animation industry, and we support their call to acton.
Join them Thursday 12 June at 14:00 at the Pâquier in Annecy!!
#Animation

IDK, but as someone who's #ActuallyAutistic, I just have to say, https://nsf-iaa.org does some seriously cool shit!
I absolutely love them and can’t help but sympathize with what they’re all about.

North Korea Will Send 5,000 Workers to Russia, Kremlin Says - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/world/europe/north-korea-workers-russia.html

What happens when stakeholders along the #supplychain join forces to eliminate #gender-based violence? Find out how investigations by WorkerRights and empowering #women

Trump loves saying 'You're fired.' Now he's making it easier to fire federal workers (Andrea Hsu/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/23/nx-s1-5431871/federal-employees-fired-hiring-trump-civil-service
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p25#a250623p25

Russia is systematically recruiting migrant workers from Central Asia to fight in its war against Ukraine as "cannon fodder".
Citizens of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and other countries in the region are increasingly being drawn into Russia's war effort under duress or with misleading promises, HUR said.
Many of those recruited are reportedly killed on the front lines.
According to HUR, Russia's security servicestarget migrant workers who arrive in the country …

Russia recruits Central Asia migrants as 'cannon fodder' in Ukraine war, HUR says
Citizens of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and other countries in the region are increasingly being drawn into Russia's war effort, Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) says.

Trump U-turn on deporting farm workers came after fury from Noem and Miller, report claims | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-deporting-farm-workers-noem-miller-b2771836.html

sp_hospital: Hospital ward dynamic contacts (2010)
This dataset contains the temporal network of contacts between patients, patients and health-care workers (HCWs) and among HCWs in a hospital ward in Lyon, France, from Monday, December 6, 2010 at 1:00 pm to Friday, December 10, 2010 at 2:00 pm. The study included 46 HCWs and 29 patients.
This network has 75 nodes and 32424 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata

Krugman:
❝What we’re looking at now isn’t the worst job market college graduates have ever seen. It is, however, the worst such market compared with workers in general that we’ve ever seen, by a large margin.
…
We have low overall unemployment, only slightly above historic lows, but unemployment among college graduates between 22 and 27 at recession-like levels.
This has never happened before.❞
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/bad-times-for-college-graduates

#Laravel Worldwide #Meetup - #Queues, Jobs, and Workers:
Building Resilient Background Processing
📺

Memo: Intel's manufacturing VP said Intel plans to cut 15%-20% of staff, starting in July, "to meet our affordability challenges and current financial position" (Mike Rogoway/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/…

Intel will lay off 15% to 20% of its factory workers, memo says
Next month’s layoffs will take place at Intel factories around the world but could have an especially big effect in Oregon.

Clorox lawsuit says help-desk contractors handed over passwords in 2023 cyberattack https://therecord.media/clorox-cyberattack-lawsuit-cognizant-it-contractor

Do Temporary Workers Face Higher Wage Markdowns? Evidence from India's Automotive Sector
Davide Luparello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08222 https://

Do Temporary Workers Face Higher Wage Markdowns? Evidence from India's Automotive Sector
Are temporary workers subject to different wage markdowns than permanent workers? This paper examines productivity, output markups, and wage markdowns in India's automotive sector during 2000--2020. I develop a model integrating CES production, nested logit labor supply, and differentiated labor market conduct: Nash-Bertrand wage setting for temporary workers versus Nash bargaining for unionized permanent workers. Results reveal declining output markups as marginal costs outpace prices through …

Federal workers fear Trump will fire them after court ruling: ‘We are toast’
After the Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump on Tuesday to resume firing government workers, federal employees rushed to Signal group chats and anxious phone calls, trying to figure out what it meant for them.
Some federal workers cried. Some shook their heads and began updating their resumes. Others — including union leaders — vowed to fight, determined to hang on to the government jobs that …

Federal workers fear Trump will fire them after court ruling: ‘We are toast’
The ruling could usher in a more professionalized round of layoffs, compared to the erratic rush of firings carried out by Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service.

Trump Told Park Workers to Report Displays That 'Disparage' Americans. Here's What They Flagged. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/trump-national-park-service-history-changes.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p130#a250722p130

"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

US government takes down major North Korean ‘remote IT workers’ operation
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/us-government-takes-down-major-north-korean-remote-it-workers-operation/

US government takes down major North Korean 'remote IT workers' operation  | TechCrunch
US prosecutors indicated a total of 13 people involved in the fraudulent scheme to steal and launder money for North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

Filipino workers in Taiwan's chip industry report struggling with overwork and discrimination, citing overnight shifts of up to 16 hours and abusive treatment (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/filipino-workers-taiwan-chip-industry/

Workers describe abusive treatment in Taiwan’s semiconductor factories
A record number of people are leaving the Philippines to work in Taiwanese factories, where they face long shifts, low pay, and unequal treatment.

Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent (Alexa Robles-Gil/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/science/trump-science-foundation-letter.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p142#a250722p142

What does jamming a crowbar into the fracture point look like?
When the Trump admin says they’re backing off deporting agricultural workers, remind the racists that Trump screwed them over to appease its ultawealthy corporate ag owners.
When the Trump admin keeps deporting undocumented people seeking work and thus drains the abusable labor pool, remind the rich corps who employ those people that Trump screwed them over to appease the racist chucklefucks who really control it.
/5

Good size for a class action if they don't get their 'trump buyouts'
7,500 Interior workers took Trump buyouts or early retirement - E&E News by POLITICO
https://www.eenews.net/articles/7500-interior-workers-took-trump-buyouts-or-early-retirement/

Donald Trump’s immigration plan needs a hard reset
On the one hand, the presence of millions of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. makes a mocks our laws and outrages much of the public.
On the other, many industries rely on them and their sudden departure would disrupt the economy
Those dueling impulses are why the past few decades have seen tough laws and lax enforcement.

Trump’s most recent idea for splitting the difference
— cracking down in blue areas of the …

Donald Trump’s immigration plan needs a hard reset
The president’s 360-degree turn on workplace raids shows his current policy isn’t working. There’s an easier way.

Ten current and former Samsung semiconductor engineers say many are leaving for SK Hynix and other rivals due to long hours, heavy workloads, and lower bonuses (Michelle Kim/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/samsung-electronics-chip-division-d…

Samsung is desperate to compete on chips. Workers say it comes at a cost.
Scarred by long hours, low pay, and a hostile work culture, many chip workers are leaving for competitors, including American companies.

Don't leave for the weekend without reading today's Metacurity for the top infosec developments you should know, including
--US feds seize nearly $8 million from fake DPRK IT workers
--Cellebrite buys Corellium for $200m,
--Play gang breached 900 orgs,
--Two ViLE members sentenced,
--UK revenue offices lost $64m to phishing scam,
--One-fifth of Ukraine IP space under Russian control,
--Cairncross defends his lack of tech expertise,
--Ukr…

US feds seize nearly $8 million from fake DPRK IT workers
Cellebrite buys Corellium for $200m, Play gang breached 900 orgs, Two ViLE members sentenced, UK revenue offices lost $64m to phishing scam, One-fifth of Ukraine IP space under Russian control, Cairncross defends his lack of tech expertise, Ukraine claims hack of Russian aviation giant, much more

Microsoft’s 2025 work trend index report found that many workers are increasingly grappling with “infinite workdays”,
which start before sunrise and stretch late into the night.
They are interrupted by some 270 pinging notifications along the way, about one every two minutes.
https://www.…

Breaking down the infinite workday
To unlock AI’s full potential, we need to clear one key barrier. A follow-up to the 2025 Work Trend Index.

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

Trump admin blasted for new 'barrage of attacks' on workers: 'Showing their true colors' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-department-of-labor/

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/openai-chatgpt-north-korean-it-workers
OpenAI blocks ChatGPT accounts linked to North Korean IT worker fraud

OpenAI blocks ChatGPT accounts linked to North Korean IT worker fraud
OpenAI blocked accounts used to create resumes that are likely tied to the long-running scam.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont)
is taking on the “retirement crisis” in the U.S.
with a new bill aimed at guaranteeing pensions or solid retirement plans for every worker in America.
On Thursday, Sanders introduced the "Pensions for All Act",
which would require corporations to provide a retirement plan equivalent to or better than the pensions plan offered to members of Congress.
“If we are serious about addressing the retirement crisis in America,

Sanders Introduces “Pensions for All Act” to Ensure Workers Can Retire
Only 9 percent of Americans have pensions today, compared to 44 percent in 1975.

'They quit after a few hours': Farmers admit they can't find American workers (Tom Boggioni/Raw Story)
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-farmers-2672410822/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p48#a250621p48

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday drew instant jeers when she defended the mass deportation of immigrant farm laborers -- and suggested that they could be replaced by Americans who are currently enrolled in Medicaid.
While speaking in Washington, D.C., Rollins declared that there would be "no amnesty" for immigrant farm workers
despite President Donald Trump sayingjust days ago that he was willing to let these workers stay at their jobs.
Instead, …

Trump Agriculture Chief Mocked for Suggesting Medicaid Recipients Could Replace Deported Farm Workers | Common Dreams
U.S. Agriculture Secretary defends mass deportation of immigrant farm laborers, suggests Americans on Medicaid can replace them.

Some Amazon Warehouses are Losing Hundreds of Workers After Changes in Legal Status - Slashdot
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/07/13/2345250/some-amazon-warehouses-are-losing-hundreds-of-workers-after-changes-in-legal-status

Amazon ends an experiment started in 2023 to make same-day deliveries with drivers in Kia Souls and will rely on Amazon Flex drivers who use their own cars (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

On Thursday evening, the night of Juneteenth, Donald Trump took to Truth Social with a classic “old man yells at cloud” complaint:
Americans get too much time off work.
“Too many non-working holidays in America. It is costing our Country $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep all of these businesses closed,” he wrote.
“It must change if we are going to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
For good measure, he also opined that workers themselves agreed with him on this.
The presi…

Trump’s Truth Social rant on Juneteenth is part of a nasty history
On Juneteenth, Donald Trump took to Truth Social with a classic “old man yells at cloud” complaint: Americans get too much time off work.

State Department starts firing more than 1,350 workers in Trump's shake-up of diplomatic corps (Humeyra Pamuk/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/state-department-says-it-will-fire-more-than-1350-workers-trumps-shake-up-2025-07-11/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p29#a250712p29

Ingraham: Migrant Farm Workers Are "Dangerous" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/ingraham-migrant-farm-workers-are-dangerous/

'They quit after a few hours': Farmers admit they can't find American workers - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-farmers-2672410822/

Hundreds of Federal Workers at Voice of America Receive Layoff Notices (Minho Kim/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/us/politics/voice-america-layoffs.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p76#a250620p76

Hundreds of employees at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
have signed an open letter,
directed to Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Sean Duffy,
criticizing proposed cuts to the agency
and condemning recent policies that could potentially harm the U.S.
The letter, titled
“The Voyager Declaration”
in honor of two spacecraft that were launched by NASA in the 1970s
(that continue to zoom beyond the boundaries of t…

Hundreds of NASA Employees Write Open Letter Blasting Trump Over “Rapid and Wasteful Changes” to Agency
Trump’s cuts will “leave the American people without the unique public good that NASA provides,” NASA workers wrote.

Jeff Bezos’ Amazon is purging workers who had status revoked under Trump: report | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jeff-bezos-amazon-migrant-workers-b2787608.html

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

The US takes down a North Korean operation that, from 2021 to 2024, impersonated 80 people to get remote jobs at 100 US firms, using "laptop farms" in the US (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/us-g…

US government takes down major North Korean 'remote IT workers' operation  | TechCrunch
US prosecutors indicated a total of 13 people involved in the fraudulent scheme to steal and launder money for North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

Inside Trump's Extraordinary Turnaround on Immigration Raids (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/us/politics/trump-immigration-raids-workers.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p2#a250615p2

CDC workers in walkout protest call on Kennedy to resign - Axios Atlanta
https://www.axios.com/local/atlanta/2025/06/10/cdc-workers-protest-walk-out-advisory-committee-rfk

With new power, Trump will move immediately to lay off federal workers (USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/09/trump-wins-broad-authority-to-lay-off-federal-workers-without-congress/84520149007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p99#a250709p99

Survey: US employees who use AI at work at least a few times per year rises from 21% in 2023 to 40% in 2025, and 19% report frequently using AI, up from 11% (Ryan Pendell/Gallup)
https://www.gallup.com/workplace/691643/work-nearly-doubled-two-years.aspx

AI Use at Work Has Nearly Doubled in Two Years
White-collar workers and leaders are the primary users. Leaders can further drive AI adoption by clearly communicating why and how to use it.

Donald Trump admitted on Truth Social that his mass deportations are hurting farmers and the economy.
Those removals are “taking very good, longtime workers away” from farms and hotels, Trump declared,
adding that those workers are proving “impossible to replace.”
To be clear, Trump was talking about his own immigration policies.
That’s a stunning acknowledgment that Trump’s forced mass removals are targeting hard-working folks and that those undocumented immigrants…

Trump Accidentally Reveals a Dark MAGA Truth—and Hands Dems an Opening
A little-noticed letter from vulnerable House Republicans acknowledges the flaw at the heart of Trump’s mass deportations. Democrats: Seize on this!

ICE head says agents will arrest anyone found in the U.S. illegally, crack down on employers of unauthorized workers (Camilo Montoya-Galvez/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-head-todd-lyons-agents-will-arrest-anyone-found-illegally-crack-down-on-employers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250720/p41#a250720p41

Supreme Court clears way for Trump to gut education department – live updates
The supreme court has cleared the way for Donald Trump’s administration to resume dismantling the Department of Education -- part of his effort to shrink the federal government’s role in education in favor of more state control.
In the latest high court win for Trump, the justices lifted a federal judge’s order that had reinstated nearly 1,400 workers affected by mass layoffs at the department and block…

Trump Got the Green Light to Fire Federal Workers. Now, They Wait. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/politics/trump-federal-workers-firings.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p160#a250708p160

A British surgeon in Gaza has claimed medical workers are seeing “clear patterns of injury”, suggesting IDF soldiers are deliberately shooting Gazan children in different body parts depending on the day of the week. | Independent TV
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/israel-gaza-war-children-british-doctor-video-b2791687.html

“This is another snake-oil salesman’s pitch to make him look good and reward the billionaires and millionaire executives and stakeholders for US Steel,”
said Doug May, who worked for 43 years as a steel worker at a mill in Granite City, Illinois, from the age of 19.
“He’s a proven flip-flopper.
Just look at his trade cases:
on again, off again.”
Trump ditched his opposition to the deal
– which Joe Biden blocked in January, citing national security concerns …

Federal workers face mass firings this summer after Supreme Court ruling (Emily Peck/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/13/federal-workers-rif
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p17#a250713p17

'They're hiding': Construction industry reels as ICE snatches workers - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/california-ice/