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The Alphabet Workers Union sends a layoff protection petition with 4,500 signatures to Sundar Pichai, calling for guaranteed severance and buyout options (Sanya Mansoor/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/16/google-workers-la…

Thousands of Google workers demand layoff protections amid AI boom in petition to CEO
The petition to Sundar Pichai, the CEO, included more than 4,500 signatures and included calls for buyout options

RE: https://mastodon.social/@workchronicles/116941546576643364
O Ministério da Educação em quatro desenhos.

They have done similar stuff with warehouse workers in the past:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-under-fire-for-software-that-recommends-firing-workers/

Workers Party deputy leader Chris Williamson quits in Galloway row | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/chris-williamson-quits-workers-party-george-galloway

„World of Warcraft: Forever“: Blizzard erfindet das alte Azeroth neu
„World of Warcraft: Forever“ erweitert das ursprüngliche MMORPG um neue Geschichten als dauerhaftes drittes WoW neben Classic und Retail.

„World of Warcraft: Forever“: Blizzard erfindet das alte Azeroth neu
„World of Warcraft: Forever“ erweitert das ursprüngliche MMORPG um neue Geschichten als dauerhaftes drittes WoW neben Classic und Retail.

Maybe someday Boston won't suck to bike in. https://csindie.com/does-mayor-wu-actually-feel-sorry-about-her-dead-co-worker/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=activitypub

Does mayor Wu actually feel sorry about her dead co-worker - Cambridge | Somerville Independent
The mayor of Boston is on the news again. In each interview, her voice is warbling and unsure, yet each word conveys her utter grief over her friend’s death. For weeks, she has told anyone who will listen that she “will never get over it,” and that...

Yesterday we had a regular message from university about when and what to do.
Today woken up woth 15 replies to that message, apparently some students were lazy to write an email to some workers from uni and just replied to anouncement which goes to ALL groups from uni, one student replied with laugh emoji, while worker replied "Dont laugh youre expelled" )

The Australian state of Victoria was due to enforce a legal right to work from home starting September 2026.
But just weeks away from its implementation, the new premier, Ben Carroll, has announced a year’s delay in response to fierce business opposition.
Thousands of miles away, in Portugal, parents of young children already have a legal right to work from home without needing their employers’ approval.
All of these developments raise the question:
How should workers b…

Working from home should be a right, not a reward
An Australian state is set to introduce a law supporting the right to work from home, and it’s already in place for some parents in Portugal. Should it happen elsewhere?

Internal memo: ICE bars its employees from wearing Meta's AI glasses, saying they "could unintentionally capture, record, or transmit sensitive information" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/technol…

ICE Bars Its Workers From Wearing Meta’s Smart Glasses on the Job
The agency joins a growing number of workplaces and groups to ban Meta’s devices, which have spurred privacy concerns.

The British state has recast protest as terrorism.
"the legal definition of terrorism in Britain .. includes [political] 'damage to property'"
"the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), ... is proscribed in Britain. Its Syrian offshoot, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), is not, because PYD-led forces became Western allies in the fight against ISIS (ISIL)."
Just one of the stupid contradictions.
Likewise Hamas's civilians.

The British state has recast protest as terrorism
Britain’s ever-broader terrorism laws are erasing the line between political violence, protest and dissent.