Published on: 2025-05-03 03:00:19
The video game industry’s first direct-join union has grown to roughly 445 members since its launch, amidst industry-wide job loss and an escalating federal crackdown on workers’ rights. The United Videogame Workers union, which launched with the Communications Workers of America (CWA), was announced March 19 at the Game Developers Conference. It’s an effort on behalf of developers and the CWA to champion unionization efforts without relying on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), a feder
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 15:01:27
Jobandtalent, an AI-based “workforce as a service” marketplace that connects people with companies looking for hourly workers, announced it has raised €92 million ($103 million). The Series F — which includes participation from Atomico, BlackRock, DN Capital, Hercules, Infravia, Kibo, and Kinnevik — values the Madrid, Spain-based company at €1.3 billion ($1.5 billion) post-money. On the surface, a unicorn raising a decent round of funding from a well-known list of backers might sound like pret
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-04 20:47:13
Google has reversed a policy forbidding employees from discussing its antitrust woes following a settlement with workers. The company sent a notice to U.S. employees last week saying it rescinded "the rule requesting that workers refrain from commenting internally or externally about the on-going antitrust lawsuit filed against Google by the U.S. Department of Justice," according to correspondence viewed by CNBC. Google settled with the Alphabet Workers Union, which represents company employee
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-13 12:17:54
What is Hatchet? Hatchet is a platform for running background tasks, built on top of Postgres. Instead of managing your own task queue or pub/sub system, you can use Hatchet to distribute your functions between a set of workers with minimal configuration or infrastructure. When should I use Hatchet? Background tasks are critical for offloading work from your main web application. Usually background tasks are sent through a FIFO (first-in-first-out) queue, which helps guard against traffic spi
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What is Hatchet? Hatchet is a platform for running background tasks, built on top of Postgres. Instead of managing your own task queue or pub/sub system, you can use Hatchet to distribute your functions between a set of workers with minimal configuration or infrastructure. When should I use Hatchet? Background tasks are critical for offloading work from your main web application. Usually background tasks are sent through a FIFO (first-in-first-out) queue, which helps guard against traffic spi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 15:20:58
President Donald Trump’s tariffs—which have been called “a complete fucking joke,” “insane and idiotic,” and “probably the most stupid economic step taken by a president in this generation“—haven’t even gone into effect yet, but economists, Wall Street, and people who value their 401Ks are all freaking out with equal abandon. With the stock market in free-fall and decades-long international trade partnerships in tatters, Trump is promising that his policies will somehow “make America wealthy aga
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-18 17:59:26
The Communication Workers of America union announced today that bargaining members of ZeniMax Media — the parent company of Bethesda and, thanks to a $69 billion acquisition, a subsidiary of Microsoft — have voted to authorize a strike against Microsoft. According to the CWA, this comes after over a year of failed negotiations for a first contract between the two. ZeniMax Workers United-CWA voted 94% for its leaders to authorize the strike, saying that Microsoft has failed to secure a contract
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-19 23:00:00
While working on their MBAs at Harvard Business School, Colombian immigrants Stephanie Murra and Lorenza Vélez noticed that most of the workers in the cafeteria were Hispanic. In conversations with them, a common theme kept coming up: how difficult it was for people who legally moved to the U.S. from Spanish-speaking countries to find their first jobs in the United States. Not speaking English well or at all, unsurprisingly, was the biggest challenge. “But then we’re looking at the news and see
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-29 07:00:56
Block has laid off 931 workers, which make up around eight percent of its entire staff, according to TechCrunch and The Guardian. The publications have viewed an email, wherein the financial technology company's co-founder and CEO, Jack Dorsey, has discussed the latest organizational changes. Dorsey said that Block is eliminating roles based on three areas, starting with strategy. The company is letting 391 people go, because it's reducing "teams that are off strategy." It's also parting ways wi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-29 07:35:00
In the second century BCE, Greek historian and geographer Agatharchides wrote about the severe working conditions of the criminals and prisoners of war who toiled in ancient Egyptian gold mines: “And those who have been condemned in this way—and they are of a great multitude and all have their feet bound—work at their tasks unceasingly both by day and throughout the entire night.” Archaeologists have discovered rare iron shackles that would have been used to bind the feet of workers, as describ
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-31 09:00:00
One often-repeated phrase at this year's Nvidia GTC was "Physical AI," the kind of AI that allows robots to operate effectively in the physical world. To get there, Nvidia offers its Isaac GR00T N1, an open-source foundation model that is pre-trained with some of the basics and broken down into a fast system for taking action and a slow system for planning action. Demonstration of how teleoperation can be useful in teaching robots new skills Nvidia For teaching robots new tasks, lots of varie
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 23:00:23
For years, the US Internal Revenue Service has assured undocumented workers that they could file taxes without fear of their information leading to their deportation. It appears the agency will no longer be able to make that promise. According to the Washington Post, the IRS is close to completing a deal with Immigration and Customs Enforcement that would allow the previously private personal information to be shared. Under the agreement, ICE would be able to send requests for names and address
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 21:00:00
At GDC 2025, workers announced an industry-wide union with open doors allowing game developers, employed or not, to join. The United Videogame Workers, which organized under the Communications Workers of America, aims to empower games industry workers to collectively push for industry-wide benefits and protections. The UVW launched with 100 members, reaching a total of 200 on the first day as more workers joined. Right now, the union is focused on growing its membership to achieve the eventual
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-04 22:00:10
At GDC 2025, workers announced an industry-wide union with open doors allowing game developers, employed or not, to join. The United Videogame Workers, which organized under the Communications Workers of America, aims to empower games industry workers to collectively push for industry-wide benefits and protections. The UVW launched with 100 members, reaching a total of 200 on the first day as more workers joined. Right now, the union is focused on growing its membership to achieve the eventual
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 09:39:36
Walter Carpenter walks across the ski resort’s dining room on a knee that needs to be replaced and a hip that’s going bad. Lumbering into the kitchen, he deposits a brown bin of dirty dishes on a counter before heading back out to collect more bowls of half-eaten tomato soup and plates littered with sandwich crusts. “One foot in front of the other,” he jokes to kitchen prep worker Kim Hopper, 72, as they pass each other. Carpenter, 69, has worked winters at the Mad River Glen ski area in Waitsf
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 00:47:02
There’s now an industry-wide union for video game workers in the US and Canada. The United Videogame Workers-CWA (UVW-CWA) has a mission to bring together "artists, writers, designers, QA testers, programmers, freelancers and beyond to build worker power irrespective of studio and current job status." The union makes its official debut at the "Video Game Labor at a Crossroads: New Pathways to Industry-Wide Organizing" panel at GDC. Workers will be sharing a petition at the event to gain support
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 10:00:24
There’s now an industry-wide union for video game workers in the US and Canada. The United Videogame Workers-CWA (UVW-CWA) has a mission to bring together "artists, writers, designers, QA testers, programmers, freelancers and beyond to build worker power irrespective of studio and current job status." The union makes its official debut at the "Video Game Labor at a Crossroads: New Pathways to Industry-Wide Organizing" panel at GDC. Workers will be sharing a petition at the event to gain support
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 06:12:52
A federal judge has dealt a blow to Elon Musk’s DOGE agenda. On Thursday, Judge William Alsup of San Francisco said that the firing of tens of thousands of federal probationary workers had been based on a “lie” and that the government had conducted the expulsions illegally—further calling the initiative a “sham.” Alsup ordered that the workers be reinstated immediately. Probationary workers—that is, workers who are new to the workforce and haven’t received more advanced benefits and protections
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 10:21:42
As President Donald Trump has been trying to keep House Republicans in line over a continuing resolution to keep the government open through the fall, Elon Musk has expressed a desire for a government shutdown, four sources familiar with his position tell WIRED. Sources also tell WIRED that Musk has wanted a government shutdown—an aim that runs contrary to the White House’s stated desire to avoid one—in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousa
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 11:16:16
Employees of the General Services Administration, which manages government real estate and certain IT efforts, have been given a custom chatbot from Elon Musk’s DOGE to help automate tasks, according to a new report from Wired , with an internal memo telling workers it can be used to “draft emails, create talking points, summarize text, write code.” The chatbot, GSAi, gives users a choice of three models — Claude Haiku 3.5 (the default), Claude Sonnet 3.5 v2 and Meta Llama 3.2 — and is ultimatel
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 10:15:01
At one time, freelancing was seen as the domain of plucky young writers and daring web designers. Now, it's a growing fact of life for billions of workers around the world, as companies break up full-time positions into contract work with less stability and protection by labor laws. That was already becoming the case back in 2009, when the fallout of the Great Recession forced thousands of out-of-work professionals to become freelancers to pay the bills. Jump ahead to 2024, when over 76 millio
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-28 16:43:55
For years now, experts have been warning that AI automation could lead to huge numbers of people losing their jobs. Whether those fears will come to fruition is still a matter of debate as even the most advanced AI continues to struggle with persistent issues around accuracy and reasoning. But what's becoming increasingly clear is that, among tech leaders, the vision for the industry is that it will displace large numbers of workers — a prospect we're already seeing hints of as tech giants inv
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-28 19:27:53
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is investigating the data-labeling startup Scale AI for compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act, TechCrunch has learned. That’s a federal law that regulates unpaid wages, misclassification of employees as contractors, and illegal retaliation against workers. The investigation has been active since at least August 2024, a document seen by TechCrunch shows. And it’s ongoing, according to a person directly familiar with the matter. The mere existence of an
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 02:43:55
For years now, experts have been warning that AI automation could lead to huge numbers of people losing their jobs. Whether those fears will come to fruition is still a matter of debate as even the most advanced AI continues to struggle with persistent issues around accuracy and reasoning. But what's becoming increasingly clear is that, among tech leaders, the vision for the industry is that it will displace large numbers of workers — a prospect we're already seeing hints of as tech giants inv
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 14:25:02
The Severance innies. (Credit: Apple) When we first meet Dylan G (Zach Cherry) in Severance, Apple TV+’s Sci-Fi series now in the throes of its second season, he comes off as the most well-adjusted innie in his team. He stays motivated by working towards company “perks”, like finger traps and waffle parties, which he’s rewarded with in exchange for hitting the targets set by his enigmatic employer, Lumon. All in all, Dylan G seems pretty content. But when a blip in the system means that he acc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 14:14:36
CNN — Millions of federal workers were ordered to return to offices across the country in recent weeks, marking an end to Covid-era rules allowing more flexibility to work from home. Many have come back to workplaces that weren’t ready for them. In one Department of Health and Human Services office, there was no Wi-Fi or full electricity in the first hours when people returned last week. Department of Education employees at an office in Dallas returned to ethernet cords in piles around the f
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 00:52:12
is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. Federal workers started getting emails on Friday night, “asking them to provide a list of accomplishments from the week,” reports The New York Times. According to the outlet, the message told workers they’ll now be expected to provide such a list every Monday by 11:59PM ET. This time around, the Times writes that “employees who worked only on classified o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 03:20:51
Scientific Management, sometimes called "Taylorism" after its founder, Frederick W. Taylor, is the idea that human workers can be fine-tuned to be more efficient. If a garment factory worker could make a shirt two seconds quicker by standing instead of sitting, then a Taylorist boss would have them stand, because those two seconds per shirt add up over time. That was back in the 1880s, but lately Taylorism hasn't just been surviving — it's thriving, as wireless gadgets and management software a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-10 11:29:44
John W. Banagan/Getty Images Since the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT in 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have become increasingly entrenched in our daily lives. However, a new study suggests that the American workforce seems largely uninterested in adopting AI en masse. According to a Pew Research study released this week, around 80% of Americans don't generally use AI at work, while those who do use AI seem unenthusiastic about its benefits. Moreover, fewer than one-third of those
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-11 23:21:45
is a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. DoorDash is paying restitution after keeping tips from as many as 63,000 of its New York delivery workers thanks to a settlement with the New York Attorney General’s office, The New York Times reports. Attorney General Letitia James announced on Monday that DoorDash will pay $16.8 million, which will be spread across workers who were subjected
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