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#workersrights

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Pablo Martini (Geezer)

Birmingham’s refuse workers are being told to accept pay cuts of up to £8,000 — or walk away.

These are the same workers who kept the city going through a pandemic, who now face losing out because of political failure they didn’t cause.

Labour MP Sarah Jones, on £120k+ and fresh from a 2.8% pay rise, says they should stop striking and accept the deal.

This isn’t solidarity.
This isn’t leadership.

This is aristocracy in red rosettes.

voxpoliticalonline.com/?p=9773

Vox Political · 'Let them lose pay' says Labour. Is it still the party of the workers? - Vox Political'Let them lose pay' says Labour. Is it still the party of the workers? And how will the Birmingham bin strike end?
#LabourParty#BinStrike#SupportTheStrikers
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta

My thread yesterday on #ai and #workersrights appears to have touched a nerve. I’ll try to finish it up today. I’ve been collecting sources on MS layoffs and learning about the broad strokes of German Works Councils

toot.cafe/@reconbot/1143310225

Toot CaféFrancis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta (@reconbot@toot.cafe)We have CEOs telling junior developers to not bother learning how to code, try to vibe code. That’s scary! You don’t learn much with vibe coding. Learning is the best part of the job! I tell my junior engineers to not outsource their learning. AI can’t do the modeling, the architecture, the understanding. Can it do boilerplate? Sorta! But the job isn’t writing boiler plate. We knew this way back with the no silver bullets essay on incidental vs necessary complexity. #workersrights #ai
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta

I have a little bit more time so lets start with a layoff done "right".

Back in September 2024 Microsoft laid off "650 roles across Microsoft Gaming" they had severance, extended healthcare, and outplacement services. The reasoning was "streamlining" and "sustainable future growth". Why people had to be fired for growth I'll never understand, but they had just purchased Activision and I guess they wanted to change the structure.

theverge.com/2024/9/12/2424269

Vector illustration of the Xbox logo.
The Verge · Microsoft lays off 650 more Xbox employeesBy Tom Warren
#workersrights
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta

This is where my clear tech workers bias shows. This shit has been prevalent in transportation, retail, chain restaurants, factory work, anywhere they have high turnover or hire and fire large groups of people regularly. I had Neighbor’s kids answer weird personality questions with the camera on to judge their fit for a role. That was for an analyst role at a large financial institution before this recent AI takeover!

#ai#workersrights#techworkers
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta

So, no training and a clear message that people who were doing their job well without AI were no longer considered to be performing.

Will AI models be used to analyze a profile of each worker to see if they “fit”? If the people doing the reporting are doing their newly defined job, then absolutely.

#workersrights#ai
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta

Shopify and other places… have publicly been reported to say that AI usage metrics are going to be used in performance reviews. (With memos obviously not vetted by HR.) This is a new job requirement and in Shopify’s case employees were directed to engage in self learning on their own time.

#ai#workersrights
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