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What’s the Deal with Algorithmic Discrimination?

Mar 10, 2021 Hannah Hilligoss

It’s no secret that the hiring process is rife with bias and discrimination. Hiring personnel are only human, after all, and their personal biases lead to both unintentional and intentional discrimination. But what if hiring personnel weren’t human? What if we could replace them with objective, data-driven algorithmic assessments? No more bias! Or at least […]

Organizing for Morality in High Tech – Part One

Sep 30, 2020 Jacki Silbermann

This is the first post in a series of three. Check back tomorrow and Friday for part two and part three. It’s a fraught time for tech workers. The tech sector, which for decades has largely remained outside the realm of organized labor, has emerged over the past few years as a locus for collective […]

July 27, 2020
News & Commentary

Randon Herrera

Senate Republicans are expected to unveil plans for a new stimulus package today. White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow stated that the new plan will include another round of $1,200 checks for Americans. The Republican plan will also include enhanced unemployment benefits. However, it will deviate from the previous stimulus package which provided individuals with […]

June 15, 2020
News & Commentary

Randon Herrera

According to a study by Bloomberg, as many as 30% of current job losses could be permanent. The study suggests that many of these jobs will succumb to what is known as “reallocation shock” in which the current economic disruption essentially leads to a different makeup of the economy. Retail stores, for instance, may never […]

June 2, 2020
News & Commentary

Jon Levitan

The uprising in response to the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery has left a mark on the labor movement. After protestors broke windows and set the lobby of the AFL-CIO’s headquarters ablaze on Sunday night, the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689, a majority black local that represents transit workers in metro […]

They’re Looking Out for the Internet. But Who’s Looking Out for Them?

Apr 8, 2020 Jacki Silbermann

Ensuring that internet searches and social networking feeds remain free of graphic violence and explicit sexual content is no easy task. Companies like Facebook, Google and YouTube rely on thousands of content moderators in the U.S. and abroad to remove illegal or otherwise unacceptable content from their internet platforms every day. While much of the […]

October 29, 2019
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

Chicago Public School classes remain cancelled today as negotiations between the city and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) continue. The sides met for 16 hours yesterday, with talks extending into the early morning. As Tabatha noted yesterday, the city and members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) reached a tentative deal over the weekend. […]

September 26, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

Yesterday the House Education and Labor Committee approved the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act in a 26-21 vote. It now proceeds to the House Committee on Rules. Among other reforms, the bill would broaden the definitions of employee and employer under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), bar employers from permanently replacing strikers, […]

July 26, 2019
News & Commentary

Alisha Jarwala

More than 1.3 million Americans have lost their jobs in the past decade as a result of private equity ownership in retail, according to a new report from nonprofits and worker advocacy groups. This number includes 600,000 retail workers and 728,000 workers in related industries, and women and people of color have been disproportionately affected. […]

June 20, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

Two decades after its introduction, the Farmworkers Fair Labor Practices Act passed both the New York State Assembly and Senate yesterday. The bill guarantees farmworkers collective bargaining rights, workers’ compensation, and unemployment benefits, and also provides for overtime pay for work in excess of 60 hours a week. Governor Cuomo has indicated he will sign […]

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