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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.

Condé Nast employees rallied in New York to protest recent firings and suspensions following Teen Vogue layoffs; NY AG Letitia James joined the rally (Lucia Moses/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/ny-ag-letitia-james-dema…

NY AG Letitia James rallies for fired Condé Nast workers, telling the company 'I'll see you in court'
NY Attorney General Letitia James joined a Condé Nast union rally, protesting recent firings that followed a staff confrontation with HR.

Trump organization requested record number of foreign workers in 2025
https://thehill.com/business/5603478-trump-organization-foreign-workers-2025/

House passes bill to restore federal workers' bargaining rights (Lawrence Ukenye/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/12/11/congress/house-passes-bill-federal-workers-bargaining-rights-00687594
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p122#a251211p122

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.

'This is the dark side and true meaning of "business optimization." The optimal business pays its suppliers and workers nothing, and charges its customers everything it can. Obviously, businesses need to settle for suboptimal outcomes, because workers won't show up if they don't get paid, and customers won't buy things that cost everything they have⹋.
⹋ Unless, of course, you are an academic publisher, in which case this is just how you do business.'
…

From Press Progress
A Year of Government Interference in Collective Bargaining
More often than not, governments across Canada sided with corporations instead of workers.
#canpoli #cdnpoli

A Year of Government Interference in Collective Bargaining
More often than not, governments across Canada sided with corporations instead of workers.

When the working class organizes on the basis of solidarity and direct action, workers and communities can collectively manage and control the means of production, while federations of workers and local communities coordinate production and social life through mutual aid and federalist principles, without bosses or the state.
In an era marked by automation, precarity, and deepening inequality, the struggle for workers’ self-management, economic democracy, and social liberation remains …

Toxic Workplaces Are Worsening: 80% of U.S. Workers Say Their Job Hurts Mental Health - Slashdot
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/10/12/2016234/toxic-workplaces-are-worsening-80-of-us-workers-say-their-job-hurts-mental-health

An interview with 10 Kenyan AI annotators shows Chinese companies hire data labelers via opaque middleman networks and WhatsApp groups to avoid accountability (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/kenya-china-ai-workers/

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.

Since ChatGPT came out in late 2022, over *half a million* tech workers have been laid off. That fact, and their voices, aren't really shaping the conversation about AI, and what "AI" really means in culture. So I started to get into it: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/06/500k-t

500,000 tech workers have been laid off since ChatGPT was released
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

FilmLA: in Q3, LA-based commercial production dropped 18% YoY and was 40% lower than the five-year average, leaving a major hole in industry workers' safety net (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/busines

Hollywood’s Commercial Production Crews Are Losing a Lot of Work
Commercial production has long been crucial to sustaining entertainment workers in the Los Angeles area. But it continues to plummet.

😔 5 plead guilty to laptop farm and ID theft scheme to land North Koreans US IT jobs
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/11/5-plead-guilty-to-laptop-farm-and-id-theft-scheme-to-land-north-koreans-us-it-jobs/

5 plead guilty to laptop farm and ID theft scheme to land North Koreans US IT jobs
Fleets of laptops run from US residences gave appearance workers were in the US.

"Selon l'analyse du cabinet [Oxford Economics], « les entreprises ne semblent pas remplacer leurs employés par l'IA Š grande échelle », ce qui suggère plutôt qu'elles pourraient utiliser cette technologie comme prétexte pour réduire leurs effectifs de manière systématique."

ah yes, all workers should have the right to hurl racial slurs at black customers
-- Jamellebouie.net
https://bsky.app/profile/theatlantic.com/post/3m7sdbto26f2r

The Atlantic (@theatlantic.com)
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues: https://bit.ly/48wTLxe

Not surprised that the said #AI sweatshop workers are from the #Philippines ​🇵🇭
https://futurism.com/arti…

AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents
The powerful surveillance startup Flock was caught using workers in the Philippines to collate data on US residents.

Post-Gazette Closure: SCOTUS Decision Ends 240-Year Legacy https://pghguild.com/2026/01/07/pittsburgh-post-gazette-owners-couldnt-bust-the-union-so-they-shut-down-the-paper/

Post-Gazette Closure: SCOTUS Decision Ends 240-Year Legacy
The PG shuts down its 240-year-old paper after losing court battles over workers' rights. Discover the details behind this historic closure.

I repel my toxic negative co-workers by being toxic positive so I don't have to talk to them. Does that make me a double agent?

»Promise based Web Worker Messaging«
Without the use of the Web Worker with JavaScript in the browser, the Internet would stand still locally on your own device ;)
🧑‍💻 https://muffinman.io/blog/web-workers-promises/

Promise based Web Worker Messaging · Muffin Man
A simple way to make Workers feel more synchronous using Promises.

"E-waste recycling in Ghana exposes workers to toxic pollution and health risks"
#Ghana #EWaste #Recycling

E-waste recycling in Ghana exposes workers to toxic pollution and health risks
A University of Michigan study has found that people in Ghana and across the Global South who recycle electronic waste face a difficult paradox: earning livelihoods to ensure survival comes at the cost of severe long-term exposure to toxicity and dramatic environmental pollution.

Trump administration lays out plan for federal workers’ back pay after government reopens | Semafor
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/12/2025/trump-administration-lays-out-plan-for-federal-workers-back-pay

Market Value 💵
市场价值 💵
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Just what public safety demands: Skilled workers in a complex environment requiring attention and awareness are now working second jobs. (When I worked in industry, many of the problems arose at the ends of long shifts, when workers were tired.)
"Most controllers are working mandatory overtime six days a week during the shutdown without pay, and some are taking second jobs to pay their bills, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) has said."

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.

Ubisoft closes its mobile-focused Halifax studio weeks after majority of the workers voted to unionize, as CWA Canada says it is "demanding information" (Chris Kerr/Game Developer)
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/ubis…

Ubisoft closes Halifax studio weeks after devs vote to unionize
Workers at the Canadian studio voted to unionize in December in search of security in an era of 'studio closures, layoffs, and increasing instability.

Since ChatGPT came out in late 2022, over *half a million* tech workers have been laid off. That fact, and their voices, aren't really shaping the conversation about AI, and what "AI" really means in culture. So I started to get into it: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/06/500k-t

500,000 tech workers have been laid off since ChatGPT was released
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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.

The 'No Hire' Economy -- US Job Growth has Zeroed Out as Hiring Rates Sink, Hitting Young & Low Income Workers the Hardest (Joseph Politano/Apricitas Economics)
https://www.apricitas.io/p/the-no-hire-economy
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p45#a260111p45

"Hundreds of staff working across Transport for London and the wider rail network could face deportation under recent changes to Skilled Worker visa rules."
RMT transport workers at No 10 demand end to deportation threat | Morning Star
https://morningstaronl…

Butcher shop goes viral offering free meat for SNAP recipients, federal workers
https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/local/fort-collins/2025/10/31/butcher-shop-offers…

Butcher shop goes viral offering free meat for SNAP recipients, federal workers
Fort Collins' Friendly Nick's Butcher is offering free meat packages to SNAP recipients and furloughed and unpaid workers during government shutdown.

#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

"Another important element of anarcho-syndicalism is that it doesn’t limit itself to workplace activity, seeing tactics such as rent strikes and unemployed organising as means to further working class demands outside the workplace, alongside the more typically syndicalist direct action of strikes, occupations and sabotage by workers at the point of production."
--

Migrant workers in #Taiwan are mostly from Southeast Asia, the #semiconductor industry esp. pulls from the #Philippines. Entire neighborhoods cater to

"Recent raids on one of #Myanmar 's most notorious internet #scam hubs sparked a recruitment rush as fleeing workers scrambled to enlist at nearby #fraud factories"

Local governments across China are funding dozens of "robot training centers", where human trainers mimic movements like folding clothes to teach the robots (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/china-robots-training-centers-workers/

In Chinese data factories, workers teach humanoid robots boring tasks
Local governments are building training centers to address a shortage of robotic data, as China makes embodied intelligence a national priority.

Great 'text on maps' work presented by Katie and Bert #FF2025
Katie posted: If you want to play around with our text on maps data viz interface the link is https://text-on-maps-viz.allmaps.worke

Doge cuts cost US taxpayers $10bn to cover workers' paid leave, analysis finds (Tom Perkins/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/09/doge-taxpayer-costs-federal-workers
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p52#a260109p52

In his latest attack on healthcare workers,
Donald Trump 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱 #𝗻𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲,
-- 𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗻𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲.
This is a direct attack on the health care workforce.
And it’s one more reminder why we need scientists, educators, an…

HOME | Dr. Jasmine Clark for Congress

In ant colonies infected by a tapeworm parasite, uninfected workers show signs of stress-related gene activity, in part because they're caring for infected nestmates (Photo by Matt Hamer, via AntWiki)
Parasite prevalence in a social host has colony-wide impacts on transcriptional activity and survival
https://doi.org/10.1093/ev…

From The Maple
How did labour fare in 2025?
In many respects, last year was a mixed bag for workers and unions in Canada. Though union wage gains were relatively healthy, the overall economy continued to cool with unemployment creeping up and many workers still feeling the cost-of-living crunch.

Here’s How Canadian Workers And Unions Fared In 2025
Union wage gains were relatively healthy, but unemployment crept up and workers felt the cost-of-living crunch.

There are many key lessons for higher education in @…'s Enshittification. One is about mission:
"...the double edged nature of vocational awe. Sure Googlers [faculty] had been willing to pull long hours, putting work before personal life and health, in order to realize the company's [university's] mission, but the quid pro quo those workers expected was for the company [university] to take that mission as seriously as they did."
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/

Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI https://www.404media.co/flock-uses-overseas-gig-workers-to-build-its-surveillance-ai/

"The reason for the carnage? The plant life was overgrown and limiting visibility for drivers, DPW says."
Looking at the photo of median, it's pretty clear that DPW assumes people are driving Go-Karts, not cars. Just one example of why the proposed Street Tree legislation allowing "the Director" to make non-appealable decisions re street trees is based on false assumptions of infallibility.
An artist spent a decade beautifying her Divisadero block. The …

San Francisco guerrilla garden ripped out for Divisadero Street replanting
An artist had tended to plants in NoPa for 10 years until city workers removed the greenery.

This has allowed me to make clear something that's been at the back of my mind. Something that is at the heart of so much blind stupidity in big tech.
It's the assumption that we will change one thing and all else will be the same.
In this case, we will fire lots and lots of employees all over the world and we will make lots of profit. We're smart enough to make the AI, and we're dumb enough to think that there will only be one consequence. 1/n

An OpenAI survey of 9,000 workers at 100 companies: it saves workers ~40 to 60 minutes per day on average for professional tasks; OpenAI has 1M business clients (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

🤑 Nearly Half of Young Japanese Workers Spend Big on Fandom Activities
https://www.tokyoweekender.com/japan-life/news-and-opinion/young-japanese-workers-spend-big-on-idol-fandom/

Nearly 50% of Young Japanese Workers Are Investing in Idol Fandom Activities
A recent survey suggests that Japanese 20-somethings are increasingly turning to fandom culture for motivation at work.

(NYT) Self-driving cars can't see without their eyes: the immense amount of tedious human labor behind self-driving cars https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/opinion/ai-self-driving-cars-workers.html?un…

TIL that the author of the Black auto-formatter settled on 88 columns because too many co-workers at Facebook complained that 80 was too strict (and exceeding it failed the deploy). So they added 10%, making it 88. Some people then claimed it was a neo Nazi code word.
https://lobste.rs/c/mrhnfm

"The last hit song of Belgian singer Stromae, called “Santé”, is a tribute to all those workers behind the scenes in our modern world; the ones growing or catching the food we eat; the ones transporting us; the ones building and cleaning our facilities; those who more often than not, we simply do not see.
How long until Stromae releases an update to this song including software workers among those groups? Not very long."

Divide Et Impera
Divide and Conquer is a common technique for algorithm design: quicksort, discrete Fourier transforms, and even MapReduce are common examples of such a technique. It consists in breaking down a problem into smaller parts, so as to solve the whole of the problem. It is also a common technique in politics, known and applied since before the times of the Roman Empire. It consists in breaking down society into smaller parts, so as to rule the whole of society.

This advert really make it look like Groupon have branched out into vouchers for sex workers.

Can two Amazons survive? Invisible e-waste is poisoning the world https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/can-two-amazons-survive-invisible-e-waste-is-poisoning-the-world/

Can two Amazons survive? Invisible e-waste is poisoning the world
“I live in Accra, Ghana,” says Isaac Dinwe, who works for Closing the Loop, a Dutch NGO that’s seeking to increase recycling in the electronics industry. “The e-waste problem in my country is so huge we are unable to manage it. Most of our e-waste ends up in city centres. Informal workers extract what they […]

The great majority of people have to work in order to earn a livelihood, and a sizable proportion of them are productive workers. A huge number of workers are unproductive as well. They operate entirely with the circumstances and framework created by the capitalist system, such as shuffling invoices, contracts, credit slips, insurance policies, and so forth. Probably nine out of ten "workers" wouldn't have any work to do in a rational society -- one that would not require insur…

Amazon Employees for Climate Justice strike again! https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-employees-open-letter-artificial-intelligence-layoffs/?emci=8691…

Amazon Workers Issue Warning About Company’s ‘All-Costs-Justified’ Approach to AI Development
Amazon Employees for Climate Justice says that over 1,000 workers have signed a petition raising “serious concerns” about the company’s “aggressive rollout” of artificial intelligence tools.

Lower/middle class Trump voters: This is your fault.
The trillions$ in #taxbreaks #Trump is redirecting to billionaires is obscene.
#ReleasetheEpsteinfiles
▶️ Red stat…

Red state workers could lose out on disability benefits as Trump admin rewrites eligibility rules
Particularly in states that voted for Trump, millions may find it harder to qualify for disability benefits.

Chip giants' efforts to turn Phoenix into a US hub may hinge on training local workers; an estimated 115K local chip jobs are set to be created in four years (Peter S. Goodman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/business/tsmc-arizona-workers-…

A Growing U.S. Tech Hub Needs Workers. Colleges Try to Keep Up.
The success of efforts to turn Phoenix into a dominant center of semiconductor manufacturing may hinge on efforts to train local workers.

Black Google workers one step closer to $50 million settlement in discrimination lawsuit | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/black-google-workers-one-step-closer-to-50-million-settlement-in-discrimination-lawsuit/

The US military has always had a massive global advantage against enemies by having bases all over the world. There are bases in every NATO country. This would appear to be a powerful threat to anyone willing to oppose American hegemon, and under normal conditions it would be.
But a lot of those kids serving on those bases joined, not because they love America but, because they needed a ticket out of poverty. They joined for the education, for the money, maybe a bit for the adventure, but, more than anything, to escape the ghetto or podunk backwater that trapped them. Under normal times, this is the best deal they could expect. Maybe they risk their lives, usually they sit around being bored for a few years, and they get to come out with respect and paid college.
But what they are being offered is normal in most of the countries they're stationed in. Free healthcare, cheap or free education, is just what citizens in a lot of countries have come to expect. If the US attacked a NATO country, how many would snap up citizenship if they were given a chance to defect? Bonus points for taking some hardware with you, I'm sure.
But there are some who love their country. There are some patriotic Americans on those bases. Some of them joined specifically to protect the US from all enemies, foreign *and* domestic. Given a chance to fulfill that oath or violate international law, what happens?
There are a good number of former military folks too who now are unsafe in the countries they served, who would do just about anything for citizenship in any EU country and almost any NATO ally. Some of those folks know things they swore an oath to never share, but the country they swore an oath to has betrayed them. Today there's no value in leaking those secrets, but in a war between the US and NATO allies things would be different. Some of those former military folks still believe in their oath, and know exactly who the real enemy is. What happens when there's a real threat of war, when they can use their knowledge to fulfill that oath to protect the US against those domestic threats?
There are a bunch of civilian tech workers who have become targets of the regime. Some of them had clearance, or know about the skeletons in the closet. They know about critical infrastructure, classified systems, all sorts of things that would be extremely valuable to an opponent. But the opponents of the US have always been a frightening *other*, never familiar societies these folks look up to, have visited, have thought about moving to, are trying to escape to.
All I'm saying here is that invading Venezuela and kidnapping the president has a very different calculus than does attacking Greenland. I don't know if Trump or his people are able to understand that, but if he and his folks aren't then I hope European leaders are. But more than that, I hope it never comes down to finding out.
But perhaps we should all think about what we would do to make sure things ended quickly if American leadership ever made such an incredible mistake.

I've seen and lived this pitch before and it is unsustainable for a life worth living: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/21/why-silicon-valley-tech-workers-are-embracing-996/
How to convince young people to be…

Analysis | Why Silicon Valley tech workers are embracing ‘996’
The Washington Post’s essential guide to tech policy news.

BREAKING: Workers should own factories.

NLRB: DreamWorks remote workers, Netflix animation production workers, and "Ted" production workers vote to unionize with the Animation Guild and Editors Guild (Jazz Tangcay/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/artisans/news/drea…

Artists at DreamWorks, Netflix and 'Ted' Show Vote to Unionize with The Animation Guild
Artists at DreamWorks, Netflix and 'Ted' Show vote to unionize with The Animation Guild.

"The reason for the carnage? The plant life was overgrown and limiting visibility for drivers, DPW says."
Looking at the photo of median, it's pretty clear that DPW assumes people are driving Go-Karts, not cars. Just one example of why the proposed Street Tree legislation allowing "the Director" to make non-appealable decisions re street trees is based on false assumptions of infallibility.
An artist spent a decade beautifying her Divisadero block. The …

San Francisco guerrilla garden ripped out for Divisadero Street replanting
An artist had tended to plants in NoPa for 10 years until city workers removed the greenery.

#Anarchism

Trump DOJ Argues Key Anti-Discrimination Law Doesn’t Apply to Federal Workers | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-12-07/trump-doj-argues-key-anti-discrimination-law-doesnt-apply-federal-workers

MAGA Pushes Racist Cinnabon Worker's Fundraiser Past $100,000 (J.D. Wolf/MeidasTouch News)
https://meidasnews.com/news/maga-pushes-racist-cinnabon-workers-fundraiser-past-100000
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p133#a251208p133

Taboo in the clean room: workers in #semiconductor fabs, e.g. TSMC in #Taiwan, face high mental pressure. They cannot eat pizza – it’s too similar to the form of an IC waver. 😬
I will continue dropping these insights, here from clinical psychology. Unions are banned, btw., so better med…

A look at US efforts to train workers for semiconductor manufacturing, led by Arizona, which has secured over 60 semiconductor expansion projects since 2020 (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

US races to train tech workers for manufacturing, but will AI get the jobs first?
Immigration issues and China competition further complicate Trump's vision of an industrial revival

Interesting post, and towards the end an interesting observation:
Forbes also noted that, despite the administration’s hardline approach to immigration and its shocking ICE raids on alleged undocumented migrant communities in Democrat-run cities, the president’s wineries applied to hire 31 short-term, temporary workers from overseas this year, according to Department of Labor records.

🤦‍♂️ “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.

220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/09/upshot/trump-workforce-cuts-table.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DFA.Y-Uo.a9yrh4xIr_wE

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.

Administration hints furloughed workers may not be paid after shutdown (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/04/shutdown-back-pay-federal-workers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p74#a251104p74

Venezuela's union representing press workers said at least 14 were detained on Monday, including 13 from international media organizations; one was deported (Sibylla Brodzinsky/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan

Interesting post, and towards the end an interesting observation:
Forbes also noted that, despite the administration’s hardline approach to immigration and its shocking ICE raids on alleged undocumented migrant communities in Democrat-run cities, the president’s wineries applied to hire 31 short-term, temporary workers from overseas this year, according to Department of Labor records.

220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump's Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/09/upshot/trump-workforce-cuts-table.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DFA.Y-Uo.a9yrh4xIr_wE&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p103#a260109p103

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…

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. 

Since the summer, Trump officials have been trumpeting the idea that job creation is booming for U.S.-born workers.
Trump said so, too, during a prime-time address last month aimed at assuaging Americans’ concerns about the economy

Trump administration officials also said recently that more than 2.5 million U.S.-born workers gained jobs in 2025
as 1 million immigrants left the workfor…

Trump says the job market is booming for U.S.-born. The data doesn’t show it.
The idea that employment is surging for U.S.-born workers is routinely trumpeted by Trump officials. But economists say otherwise.

The AI boom has led to high demand and more pay for the construction workers that build data centers; a trade group says there is a shortage of ~439K workers (Te-Ping Chen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle…

Federal Workers Declare Five-Alarm Fires at Agencies | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-09-26/federal-workers-declare-five-alarm-fires-agencies

ICE is sending a chill through the construction industry (Scott Neuman/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/06/nx-s1-5575539/ice-immigration-construction-latino-workers
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p73#a251106p73

What is Anarcho-Syndicalism and how we work: An Open letter to Media and all workers all over the world
https://iwa-ait.org/content/what-anarcho-syndicalism-and-how-we-work-open-letter-media-and-all-workers-all-over-world<…

A look at "TSMC Village" in North Phoenix, as TSMC brings an influx of skilled workers from Taiwan who face challenges like adapting to a sprawling suburbia (Peter S. Goodman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/business/tsmc-phoenix-little…

In Arizona Desert, Taiwanese Families Create Community and Build a Factory
Skilled workers from Taiwan engaged in the chip industry have found ways to ease the transition to America while making an imprint on Greater Phoenix.

Grand Canyon, Glacier, Joshua Tree National Park Workers Rally to Unionize - Bloomberg
https://archive.ph/mgycZ

00:07—Good night #Fediverse! 😴💤
Time for bed, and yes, also time to shitpost the sacred image of the workers, activism at its finest.
https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/1…

In a Reversal, FEMA Won't Reinstate Suspended Workers (Maxine Joselow/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/climate/fema-reinstates-workers-letter-leave.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p95#a251201p95

After identification of a Thai worker's remains, the first phase of Gaza’s tenuous 8-week-old ceasefire is
a step closer to completion, with one more hostage’s remains still to be returned.
The subsequent phases under a U.S.-drafted, U.N.-backed plan for Gaza remain deeply uncertain.
There has been no word on how provisions for Hamas’ disarmament will be carried out,
or how a planned international administration and security force will be established.

A single hostage remains in Gaza after identification of Thai worker's remains
JERUSALEM (AP) — The subsequent phases under a U.S.-drafted, U.N.-backed plan for Gaza remain deeply uncertain.

Linking to Tipped and Overtime Income Deductions Would Worsen State Shortfalls, Do Little to Help Workers – ITEP
https://itep.org/tips-overtime-income-tax-deduction-state-budgets/

Embattled Republican Representative Cory Mills
was caught with sex workers on an unofficial mission to Afghanistan in 2021, when he was still a congressional candidate. 
Mills was traveling with a group to Afghanistan to save Americans after former President Biden’s withdrawal from the country left the Taliban in power.
On their way, the group stopped in Tbilisi, Georgia, where Mills was caught in a hallway with sex workers,
leaving the group he traveled with irate, NO…

Republican Rep. Caught With Sex Workers Ahead of Trip to Afghanistan
Cory Mills can’t have one day without a scandal, apparently.

Florida Universities to Stop Hiring Foreign H-1B Workers Under DeSantis Plan (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/us/florida-universities-h-1b-workers-desantis.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p49#a251030p49

GM lays off 1,700 workers making EVs and batteries in Michigan, Tennessee - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10/weak-ev-demand-sees-gm-lay-off-1700-workers-at-two-plants/

New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders
joined striking Starbucks workers
on the picket line Monday to demand the coffee giant reach a fair contract with its unionized workforce after years of delay tactics.
Speaking outside a store in Brooklyn,
Mamdani said New York is a
“union town,”
and vowed to continue joining pickets even after he is sworn in as mayor on January 1.
Responding to a question from Democra…

“This Is a Union Town”: Zohran Mamdani & Bernie Sanders Join Striking Starbucks Workers’ Picket
New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders joined striking Starbucks workers on the picket line Monday to demand the coffee giant reach a fair contract with its unionized workforce after years of delay tactics. Speaking outside a store in Brooklyn, Mamdani said New York is a “union town,” and vowed to continue joining pickets even after he is sworn in as mayor on January 1. Responding to a question from Democracy Now!, Sanders said Mamdani’s success…

The era of mega AI layoffs is here: Amazon's full-throttle layoffs are a warning sign for white-collar workers everywhere. - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-layoffs-ai-job-apocalypse-white-collar-workers-2025-10

More than 50 Amazon employees seeking to unionize
walked off the job early Tuesday morning at a Riverside delivery facility, according to the Teamsters.
The overnight walkout marked what union leaders say is the beginning of a new organizing drive for Amazon workers in the Inland Empire,
under which workers are demanding better working conditions and pay for the value they bring to the e-commerce giant.
Workers at the Krameria Avenue facility in Riverside, dubbed DJT6 …

RivCo Amazon Warehouse Workers Have Walked Off The Job. Here's Why
Dozens of employees say they have been pushed to their limit and are demanding better working conditions and pay.

Trump indefinitely barred from firing federal workers during shutdown (Emily Peck/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/28/trump-shutdown-firings-blocked-federal-workers
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p124#a251028p124

As 19 States Raise Minimum Wage
the Federal Rate is Stuck at $7.25
"One Fair Wage" noted that
“tipped workers can still legally be paid as little as $2.13 an hour,
a system advocates describe as a direct legacy of slavery.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/minimum-

'A National Disgrace': 19 States to Raise Minimum Wage But Federal Rate Stuck at $7.25 | Common Dreams
One Fair Wage noted that "tipped workers can still legally be paid as little as $2.13 an hour, a system advocates describe as a direct legacy of slavery."

Judge extends order barring mass firings of federal workers during shutdown (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/28/government-shutdown-federal-workers-rifs-ruling-00626042
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p132#a251028p132

Federal Workers Sue Over Ban On Trans Healthcare - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/01/federal-workers-sue-over-ban-on-trans-healthcare/

Until now, Social Security disability benefits got easier to qualify for as a person reached 50 and above. The Trump plan would end that.

New Work World: The administration contends that injured laborers have more access to technology and more nonphysical job options than in the past.

Red State Blues: Under the plan, millions — particularly in states that voted for Trump — could find it more difficult to qualify for disability benefits in the future.

Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules
Planned changes to Social Security’s disability program could leave hundreds of thousands of older blue-collar workers ineligible for aid. These changes would fall disproportionately on some of President Trump’s most loyal supporters.

The Washington Post reports on 996,
"a term popularized in China that refers to a rigid work schedule in which people work from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week..."
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/10/25/0…

Some Startups Are Demanding 12-Hour Days, Six Days a Week from Workers - Slashdot
The Washington Post reports on 996, "a term popularized in China that refers to a rigid work schedule in which people work from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week..." As the artificial intelligence race heats up, many start-ups in Silicon Valley and New York are promoting hardcore culture as a way ...