A “solid and dedicated majority” have signed union cards.

“1,400 workers at a rural Georgia factory, who build electric school buses, have voted to unionize. The workers at Blue Bird, one of the nation’s largest school bus manufacturers, will join the United Steelworkers, despite the company’s union-busting.”

What happens next depends on Amazon, the workers, and the interpretation of outdated US labor law.

“Can’t quite believe I’m writing this: Today, 150 African workers behind ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook voted to unionize at a landmark meeting in Nairobi. These AI workers are invisible, underpaid, and the backbone of the tech in all our pockets: https://t.co/IXK5xqj0fH”

More than 150 workers for Facebook, TikTok and ChatGPT pledged to establish the first African Content Moderators Union

“We’re not slowing down!! 57 Starbucks stores and counting have filed for union elections this year, bringing 1500+ new workers into the movement. Wish your store was one of them? The only way to get started is to reach out: https://t.co/PUaajSEuyo”

From the incomparable dialogue of Succession to Ted Lasso’s goofy metaphors, we’ve all delighted in the endless options streaming has provided. But, behind the scenes, it has come at a massive cost.

“The companies’ behavior has created a gig economy inside a union workforce, and their immovable stance in this negotiation has betrayed a commitment to further devaluing the profession of writing.”

Staff on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ have also been guaranteed health insurance through September

Watch out for news stories that paint writers as greedy or uncaring while ignoring the studios’ role in the current strike.

United Parcel Service and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union on Monday started U.S. private sector labor contract talks covering roughly 340,000 U.S. drivers, package handlers and loaders at the global delivery firm.

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Spending too little on overhead deprives nonprofits of the competitive salaries, staff training, equipment, and other resources they need for long-term success.

Very, very few women are saying to themselves, “I’ll freeze my eggs now so that I can continue to compete in a high-pressure corporate environment throughout my 20s.”

“unless you have some mechanism for collective action in your workplace, your boss is going to try and figure out a way to replace you with an AI”

As a society, everyone is motivated to regulate AI development. For individual companies, though, the opposite is true.

Gary Marcus and Anka Reuel argue that global governance must be prioritised to address the risks of bias, misinformation or worse

Bad actors could seize on large language models to engineer falsehoods at unprecedented scale.

The well known chatbot is automated, but that automation is guided by low-paid human workers labelling data.

Google apparently doesn’t pay its hardest-working translators

The chatbot is named “Tessa” and will replace the entire Helpline program starting June 1.

Mark Zuckerberg spent years trying to make the Metaverse happen, but now it has been replaced by AI and is headed to the tech industry idea graveyard.

Good creative isn’t simply clever or well designed

In the race to create the new Instagram, rivals morph into each other, losing what makes them special in the first place, says Ysabel Gerrard, a senior lecturer in digital communication

It turns out people just like telling others they’re wrong.

No matter what happens with generative AI, its disruptive forces are already beginning to play a role in the fast-approaching US presidential race.

It could reshape how campaigns are run and how voters are informed — or misled.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly making headlines, thanks to advancements in technologies such as large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and synthetic media like AI-generated images, audio, and video. These technologies have the potential to revolutionize the way we work and communica…

Opposition party says AI was ‘an innovative way to drive our social media’ and said it was ‘committed to using it responsibly’

Major GOP campaigns have thus far stayed away from strategies aimed at reaching younger audiences online

Canadian columnist Andrew Coyne explains why efforts to combat fake news by cutting off supply are barking up the wrong tree.

“When low-paid workers lose their job, how much do they receive in #UnemploymentBenefits? On #WorkersDay, compare rates across OECD countries as a percentage of previous earnings. Read the analysis by @OECD_Social 👉 https://t.co/RR8eW17CG0”

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