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The NLRB has ruled that employers can't tell workers that forming a union will hurt their relationship with management.
This ruling overturns a precedent established in 1985 and deals another blow to the union-busting playbook.
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-…
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Last panel of this year's talk series!
We'll discuss GenAI labor's impacts and how translators, artists and writers are forced into unpaid data work.
🗓️Monday, Nov 11,
9:00 – 11:30 am PT
12:00 – 1:30 pm ET
6:00 – 7:30 pm CET
RSVP: events.zoom.us/ev/AoEkvePmTH…
Speakers🧵👇
ALT Flyer for the event. Data Workers' Inquiry talk series. 11/11. data-workers.org/events. Who else does data work? Speakers: John López (wga), Alex Minshall (Guerrilla Media Collective), Oscar Araya (Arte es Ètica), Rafael Grohmann (University of Toronto). Moderation: Milagros Miceli. English with captions.
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"Many workers have said that a big sticking point is bringing back pensions, which Boeing hasn’t offered to anyone hired since a 2014 contract ratification. Instead of pensions, the company had offered improvements to those employees’ 401(k) plans."
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NEW: Salesforce invented a new way for companies to make money, and we're paying the price.
Everything is a subscription now. Printers, refrigerators, and even cars make you pay monthly fees.
So you’re forced to rent the things you already own, while greedy execs get rich.
Labor Tech Research Network retweeted
Next up in our TCP Speaker Series, @HZeavin of @ucbhistory joins us to explore how midcentury metaphors of "hot" and "cold" mothers shaped psychological studies, media theory, and the modern discourse on parenting, race, and neurodivergence.
RSVP to join: eventbrite.com/e/technology-…
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MC Forelle & I wrote a paper about #assetization
in the automotive sector, forthcoming in Engaging Science, Technology & Society. "Driving into a paywall: The subscriptionization of consumer vehicles." Pre-print here papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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📢In this commentary Ben (@bshestakofsky) and I discuss four relationships that shape AI/emerging tech in the context of work and organisations.
Studying a nebulous, emerging tech is messy business. We suggest the 4 relationships can anchor analysis
doi.org/10.1177/002188632412…
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For those at UW or online, I'm excited to be discussing Silicon Valley Imperialism with @NassimParvin and @imagethnography this Friday at 12:30PT at @CSDE_UW! csde.washington.edu/seminar/… @DukePress
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On the academic job market and interested in the sociology of data, algorithms, and AI?
Check out this job at University of South Carolina on socially informed AI! Yes, located in a Sociology dept! @ASA_SKAT @CITAMS_ASA @ASAnews
uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/1757…
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A series of events in Toronto involving artists, academics, and activists to explore the intersections of time, labor, technology and decolonial strategies in a fashion of forming "temporal insurgency". Join us for Bad Timekeepers, 10/19 – 23 & 11/7, 2024
akimbo.ca/listings/bad-timek…
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The National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health (NEBOSH) has asked me to speak about gig worker safety in November:
nebosh.org.uk/events/nebosh-…
Labor Tech Research Network retweeted
Chippendales in Vegas are unionizing.
A supermajority of the performers at the Rio have signed union cards and announced plans to join the Actors’ Equity Association.
They have also filed paperwork with the NLRB to hold a union election.
reviewjournal.com/entertainm…
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Job: Assistant Professor in Feminist Media
Tulane's Department of Communication is seeking to hire a feminist media scholar whose work engages people-centered research methods, such as critical ethnography, interviews, oral histories, focus groups, and digital methods.
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come work with me and the media & technology studies unit @UNCComm! job call highlights cultural studies of tech, disability queer communities, environment & tech, feminist media studies, and more unc.peopleadmin.com/postings…
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My article on Indian tech workers' experience of "covert carcerality" in the United States has been published (open access) in Sociological Forum doi.org/10.1111/socf.13028
Read to know how the #greencardbacklog devalues these workers, and deprives them of the dignity they deserve.
Labor Tech Research Network retweeted
BREAKING: 45,000 port workers from Maine to Texas are on strike for the first time since 1977.
The members of the International Longshoremen’s Association walked off the job after their contract expired.
They're pushing for higher wages and to prevent job-killing automation.
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Good news (1/2): the Department of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in the area of technology, justice, and equity. Learn more about the position and apply here: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDe…
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Reminder! Upcoming deadline for submissions for our The DATA LIFE Conference @UCPH_Research 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟳, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰! @ERC_Research #criticaldatastudies
📢𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀
📅𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: 5 November 2024
📍𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: University of Copenhagen @UCPH_Research
🎫𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk…
📧𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Louis Ravn [email protected]
Labor Tech Research Network retweeted
We're hiring at @UW_iSchool! 🦭🗻🏙️ Come join us in Seattle
2 x tenure-track Assistant Prof in Informatics: apply.interfolio.com/150031
1 x tenure-track Assistant Prof in LIS: apply.interfolio.com/150038
1 x teaching-track Assistant Prof in LIS: apply.interfolio.com/150033
Happy to chat!
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In a new article in @SASE_Meeting Socio-Economic Review, I draw on findings from Behind the Startup and additional data to examine how a VC-backed startup organized labor to create value for investors. academic.oup.com/ser/advance…
