Last year, the number of workers coveredby a union contract rose to 16.5 million, the highest raw total since 2009. In theory, this increased representation should mean the National Labor Relations Board—the federal agency that protects the right of private-sector employees to organize, and adjudicates alleged unfair labor practices (ULPs)—will be awfully busy. For an agency that has long suffered from a workforce and inflation-adjusted budget decline, the growth of the organized workforce s…
CBS News workers hold 24-hour walkout for new contract (Michael Sainato/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/17/cbs-news-workers-24-hour-contract-walkout
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p93#a260317p93
There are some really good points in this: NHS patients should be able to write up their own medical records – Will Parman https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/16/nhs-patients-write-medical-records-healthcare-work…
You might (correctly) think that Google's AI summaries are hot garbage, but honestly eBay's AI stuff is even worserer.
A US judge rules ex-Palantir employees likely violated confidentiality and non-solicitation agreements in founding Percepta, but declines to stop their work (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
I want to stop hearing tech people whining about how they don’t get to pick what their employers want from them and it’s not their fault their employer requires them to work on evil projects
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/ice-dlr-group-detention-corecivic-contract-worker-resistance-trump/
The US DOJ says a judge sentenced two US citizens to a combined 16 years in prison for running laptop farms that let North Korean IT workers pose as US workers (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)
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