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I am downright delighted to announce that my latest book, YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION, has a brand new look. I really love it, and I hope you do too.

Here’s a look at what’s changed and—maybe more importantly—what’s stayed the same:

ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/refres

ethanmarcotte.comRefresh. — ethanmarcotte.com
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“Today, Alphabet Workers Union-CWA members on the Google Help team secured a first collective contract with Google vendor Accenture, becoming the first group of AWU-CWA represented workers to bargain a collective contract and only the second group of Google office workers ever to do so.”

WONDERFUL NEWS alphabetworkersunion.org/press

www.alphabetworkersunion.orgGoogle Help Workers Ratify Collective Contract With Accenture, First In Alphabet Workers Union-CWA HistoryDec 18, 2024 - Press Release from AWU-CWA

Always remember that advances in “artificial intelligence” are driven directly by exploited human labor: specifically, by underpaid contractors working under tremendous precarity, often while reviewing horribly traumatizing content:

cbsnews.com/news/labelers-trai

(cw: descriptions of having viewed violent, extreme content; discussion of resulting trauma by those who viewed it)

ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL NEWS: thebaltimorebanner.com/economy

“Workers at Maryland-based Bethesda Game Studios, the company behind blockbuster games such as ‘Starfield,’ the ‘Elder Scrolls’ series and the ‘Fallout’ series, have formed a union, according to the Communications Workers of America.”

The Baltimore Banner · Maryland-based Bethesda Game Studios employees unionizeThe workers at Bethesda Game Studios now represent the first wall-to-wall union at a Microsoft video game studio, according to the union.

”In [management’s] view, the mere act of attending the meeting was enough to demonstrate their good faith. Instead, they inadvertently made the union’s case clear: that if we do not push, we will not receive; that if we choose not to speak, we will never be heard.”

A wonderful essay from @jalcine, with background on how CfA Workers United fought for — and together, how they *won* — their first contract. kernelmag.io/4/labor-luck

Kernel MagazineKernel | A Labor of LuckIt’s July 13, 2023 on a hot Florida day. I’m on a Zoom call with the rest of the bargaining committee of Code for America (Cf...

Funny how Sam Altman is available to do interviews about unrelated topics like #remote work and how it's not possible.

“A spokesperson for OpenAI said no one was available to answer questions about its use of AI contractors.”

well, yes nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/op
#labor #TechLabor #InvisibleWorkers

NBC NewsOpenAI contractors make $15 to train ChatGPTBy David Ingram