Tootfinder

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 …

'Thank You for Calling a Spade a Spade': Now-Fired Cinnabon Worker Who Called Black Customers Racist Slurs Draws $134,000 In Donations from Supporters
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/12/09/now-fired-cinnabon-worker-who-called-black-customers-racist-slurs-gets-donation/

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

It Turns Out That When Waymos ('self-driving taxis' in the US) Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines* "They provide guidance."
*) According to Waymo, some operators live in the US, but others much further away, including in the Philippines
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It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

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.

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.

" The Ford Motor Co. employee who heckled President Donald Trump during a January visit to the company's Dearborn Truck Plant. still has his job and "has no discipline on his record," a union official confirmed Monday."
Join. Your. Union.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/ford/2026/02/09/ford-worker-who-heckled-trump-keeps-job-no-discipline-for-incident/88588763007/

Huh, what do you know. Waymo (autonomous taxis in use in the US) seem less capable than we've been led to believe: https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymos-controlled-workers-philippines

Feds pay $125K after Border Patrol agent pointed gun at Portland hotel worker (Maxine Bernstein/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/01/feds-pay-125k-after-border-patrol-agent-pointed-gun-at-portland-hotel-worker.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260110/p1#a260110p1

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