Labor Tech Research Network

Hybrid workshop where you can hear from Lucy Suchman, HCI legend and organizer with Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, the amazing Joan Greenbaum with Computer People for Peace, and other awesome organizers from #notechforapartheid and other tech-ademia organizing efforts

Grad students working on labor 👀 Check out this call for submissions for the @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Eric Wolf Prize. The recipient will receive a $250 and an invitation to develop the paper for publication in AWR @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social saw.americananthro.org/pub/2025-wol...

Fenway concession workers on strike

Data Centers Aren’t the Future of American Prosperity Tamara Kneese and Maia Woluchem cut through lobbying points and speculative myths to focus on what the evidence reveals about the tech industry’s claims.

Data Centers Aren't the Future of American Prosperity- @tamigraph.bsky.social & @mwoluchem.bsky.social bust the myths of data centers: they don't massively increase jobs, they don't increase clean energy investment, and they don't benefit local communities! OH SNAP datasociety.net/library/data...

Coping with Climate Crises on the Job Heat, smoke, flooding, hurricanes, fires, turbulence—on the job, workers are already facing the ravages of a changing climate. These problems are ripe for organizing—usually everyone is feeling it. Of...

Coping with Climate Crises on the Job

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Statewatch | Police racism and criminalisation across Europe increasingly fuelled by digital 'prediction' and profiling systems London, 30 June 2025 – The civil liberties organisation Statewatch has published a report that reveals how police and criminal legal system authorities across Europe are using data-based, algorithmic ...

Police racism and criminalisation across Europe increasingly fuelled by digital 'prediction' and profiling systems

www.statewatch.org/news/2025/ju...

🚨 Our next Speaker Series event is TOMORROW, July 24 @ 10am (ET US)

Hemangini Gupta will join us to discuss "Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India"

To RSVP/get Zoom info, email Angelica (angelica.martinez.ochoa @ gmail)

Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms (WOIP) Action Research with Delivery and Tech Workers in Brazil and Argentina

Event: Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms (WOIP) Report Launch

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Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule In an industry once known for cushy perks, some founders are now asking staff to commit to a 72-hour weekly schedule. You’re either in or you’re out.

Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule

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The US wants to use facial recognition to identify migrant children as they age A previously unreported project is intended to improve how facial recognition algorithms track children over time.

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The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.

The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE

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McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’ Basic security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers vulnerable on the “McHire” site built by AI software firm Paradox.ai.

McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’

www.wired.com/story/mcdona...

Trump’s Purge of Foreign Workers Arrives at Amazon’s Warehouses

Trump’s Purge of Foreign Workers Arrives at Amazon’s Warehouses

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/t...

Electronic Monitoring and Automated Decision Systems: Frequently Asked Questions - UC Berkeley Labor Center Accessible, non-technical FAQ answering common questions about AI and other digital technologies in the workplace, how employers use them, and how workers are impacted.

By LaborTech member Annette Bernhardt! with Lisa Kresge

Electronic Monitoring and Automated Decision Systems: Frequently Asked Questions

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🚨 Join us for our next Speaker Series event on Thurs, June 26 @ 11am ET (US)

MIchelle Lee will join us to discuss "Ecosystems of Fragility: Feasibility of Platform Worker Cooperatives in Fragile Contexts."

To RSVP/get Zoom link, email Angelica <angelica.martinez.ochoa @ gmail>

Samsung is desperate to compete on chips. Workers say it comes at a cost. Scarred by long hours, low pay, and a hostile work culture, many chip workers are leaving for competitors, including American companies.

Samsung is desperate to compete on chips. Workers say it comes at a cost.

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Weaponizing AGI: How Speculative Futures Undermine Worker Protections | TechPolicy.Press Natalia Luka critiques speculative narratives about AI's future and how they are driving policy inaction.

Weaponizing AGI: How Speculative Futures Undermine Worker Protections by member Natalia Luka

www.techpolicy.press/weaponizing-...

‘IAM Max’: Machinists Rally for Member Detained by ICE Rallying under the banner “IAM Max,” 200 union members and supporters gathered outside the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma, Washington, on June 6 to demand the release of Maximo Londonio, ...

‘IAM Max’: Machinists Rally for Member Detained by ICE

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AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations Say Exclusive: An FTC complaint led by the Consumer Federation of America outlines how therapy bots on Meta and Character.AI have claimed to be qualified, licensed therapists to users, and why that may be...

AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations Say

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New York State Updates WARN Notices to Identify Layoffs Tied to AI Analyzing trends in leadership, management and the art of career building.

New York State Updates WARN Notices to Identify Layoffs Tied to AI

www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

**Nominate your favorite organization for our Social Justice Award!**

Is there an org who is doing really important work right now? Is there an org whose work you want to boost?

Fill out this short Google Form by June 15!
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Deliveristas Protest Police Harassment in New York City Forty members and supporters of Los Deliveristas, an organization of app-based delivery workers in New York City, gathered in front of City Hall on May 28 to protest what they claim is police harassme...

Deliveristas Protest Police Harassment in New York City

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Take It from Turkish Workers: You Don’t Want a Strongman What has happened to workers in Turkey since the country voted to concentrate power in one man, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, should be a warning flashing red to workers elsewhere. “When democracy s...

Take It from Turkish Workers: You Don’t Want a Strongman

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Excited to give a new talk at @labortechresearchnetwork.org this Friday 6/13, 11am ET on Zoom. I'll discuss trans capitalism, funding models behind trans tech, and the unhinged saga of a doomed trans banking app. Info on how to attend: labortechresearchnetwork.org/speaker-series

🚨 Our next Speaker Series event is this Fri, June 13 @ 11am (ET US). Oliver Haimson will join us to discuss "The Political Economy of Trans Technologies: Trans Capitalism, Investment Funding, Mutual Aid, & Anticapitalist Approaches."

For Zoom info, email Angelica (angelica.martinez.ochoa @ gmail)

Response to the White House OSTP's Request for Information on Automated Worker Surveillance and Management "[T]hese products pose a variety of risks and harms for workers that extend beyond privacy, and go into economic well-being, health, including mental health."

Report: Little Tech Goes Global: The Expansion of AI and Workplace Surveillance

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AI & SOCIETY AI &amp; Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication, is an International Journal publishing refereed scholarly articles, position papers, debates, short ...

CfP: Collection on Cultural Workers and Generative AI

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Labor Defends Jailed Immigrants: Forklift Driver, Hospital Worker UPDATE: On May 29, SEIU Local 925 announced that Lewelyn Dixon was being released after being held by ICE for three months. An immigration judge ruled that Dixon could not be deported. "Because of our...

Labor Defends Jailed Immigrants: Forklift Driver, Hospital Worker

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How phony job ads on Facebook and Telegram lure tech workers to scam compounds Young Indonesians looking for jobs abroad are trafficked to fortified scam centers, where they are forced to weaponize AI chatbots and deepfakes.

How phony job ads on Facebook and Telegram lure tech workers to scam compounds

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