One aim is to organize content-sharing between supporters and their friends on digital platforms, including TikTok and WhatsApp, where political advertising is not allowed.

The US Federal Trade Commission proposed a ban on non-compete agreements that prevent workers from switching jobs. This move could boost wages by $300 billion a year, or $2000 per worker.

A Q&A about winning digital strategy and how political campaigns are using TikTok to reach Gen Z and millennials.

Gaming industry workers in the USA are increasingly looking to unions to improve their working conditions and rights.

The company ran the ad with the CWA. (This follows the takeover by Microsoft of a bunch of video gaming studios.)

From time to time it is worth looking at what the “tech” and private sectors with subscription business models do with onboarding — while not everything is relevant for unions, there is a lot that can be translated.

Data, volunteer capacity, and institutional knowledge is not something that can be stood up overnight. Like a muscle, grassroots capacity atrophies without use.

Tate and his “team” manipulated the Youtube algorithm to create a multi-level pyramid marketing scheme that preyed on men at risk of right-wing radicalisation. It highlights how important it is for unions and progressive organisations to provide an antidote to this kind of toxic ideology. (See the next link.)

What’s driving the resurgence of extremists, racist right-wing politics, here in Australia and around the world?

A growing body of social science suggests the answer is economic anxiety and insecurity, worsened by financial shocks, austerity policies and globalisation.

Are unions the answer?

Trades Union Congress Paul Nowak says Twitter layoffs are driving new union sign-ups.

“YouTube has become one of the most important sources of political information”. How the far-right candidate used online platforms to build a political movement — and what it means for a post-Bolsonaro Brazil.

Automation will replace 11% of the female labour force but only 9% of the male labour force over the next two decades.

The explanation is simple: despite their making up less than half of the global labour force, many jobs often held by women (secretaries, cashiers, and fast-food workers) are 70% more likely to be replaced by automation.

TikTok is a critical platform for connecting with young voters — how do we make sure progressives are reaching them? (Parallels here for unions reaching new audiences and younger workers.)

Applying inadequate economic models to policy in the real world is akin to building bridges using flawed engineering models. Serious harm may follow.

“In the real world, it turned out, important economic outcomes are often the consequences of political forces. During 2010, people within regulatory bodies told me privately that false and misleading claims were affecting key policy decisions.”

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

Venture capitalists who have made fortunes investing in software and hardware are putting tens of millions of dollars into monetising the DNA of essential gut microbes that may be essential for human health. This probably won’t end well.

Western conservatives are at risk from generations of voters who are no longer moving to the right as they age