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PugJesus

@PugJesus@piefed.social in historygallery · May 07, 2026

Harvesters in the Netherlands (Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted 1565 AD)

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Dragofix

@Dragofix@veganism.social · May 06, 2026

Brazil prosecutors launch suit against meatpacking giant JBS over beef tied to slavery-like labor https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/04/brazil-prosecutors-launch-suit-against-meatpacking-giant-jbs-over-beef-tied-to-slavery-like-labor/ #Brazil #environment #AnimalRights #AnimalAgriculture #JBS #meat #beef #slavery #labor

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Stefan Bohacek

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online · May 01, 2026

Happy #InternationalWorkersDay! ✊ #MayDay #workers #WorkingClass #WorkersRights #WorkerSolidarity #labor

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smeg

@smeg@assortedflotsam.com · Apr 29, 2026

‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia exec says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers https://fortune.com/2026/04/28/nvidia-executive-cost-of-ai-is-greater-than-cost-of-employees/ #ai #llm #aibubble #labor #labour #swe #claude #chatgpt #anthropic #openai #noai #stopai #fuckai

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Jen Sorensen

@jensorensen@mastodon.social · Apr 26, 2026

Latest comic: The post-human economy #labor #work #economy #workers #inequality #comic #cartoon

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Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · Apr 23, 2026

#Meta to cut 10% of staff as it pours billions into #AI Meta said Thursday it plans to lay off roughly 10% of its workforce, or about 8,000 people, the latest in a string of #tech industry #layoffs fueled in part by #ArtificialIntelligence. The company is also closing around 6,000 open roles, Janelle Gale, Meta’s chief people officer, wrote in a memo published by Bloomberg. The layoffs will go into effect on May 20. #jobs #labor #AIisComingForYourJobs https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-23/meta-tells-staff-it-will-cut-10-of-jobs-in-push-for-efficiency

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@blogdiva@mastodon.social · Apr 23, 2026

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@iamada/116455437413475828 a good time to remind y’all MAYA ANGELOU ―the poet laureate, 3 time Grammy winner, National Medal of Arts and Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree― once worked as a SEX WORKER; both as labor and management. there’s a whole generation of BLACK nanas and aunties that had to do what they had to do to care for our families. sex work isn't just the sex. many Black brothels were social, cultural, health centers for our communities. true allies stand by all sex workers. #labor #sexWork

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Kevin Stevens

@Solomon_G@mastodon.social · Apr 09, 2026

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The Bad Place

@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · Apr 08, 2026

The New Republic | The Disillusioned College Grads Turning to the Labor Movement by Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein Starting in about 2005, something nearly unthinkable began to happen: The lifetime value of a college degree began to decline. Up until then, and really for quite a while afterward, a degree was considered a smart bet on a person’s future income and prospects. Possessing a college degree (any degree!) generally meant higher income. At the late date of 2013, Barack Obama called higher education an “economic imperative.” Once upon a time, very few people got college degrees. About 6 percent of the population in 1950 had one (which itself, thanks to the GI Bill, was a remarkable high). College was, at some level, affordable, and by 2010 degree holders received a glorious 75 percent pay bump. And if you didn’t go to college, no sweat: Nondegree holders had plenty of options for work that paid OK, too—for instance, in skilled trades like electrical work or union jobs in hospitality. Over the years, more and more people went to college, and today more than 50 percent of working-age adults have college degrees. Overall, they still make more money than people without college degrees. But after 2005, the ever-rising prospects for degree holders began to slouch. The job market for grads shrank, wages flatlined or backslid, and college got so expensive that the debt some people took on to get their degree almost permanently ate into their expected windfall. Degree holders had been promised the world, and a vaunted place in the professional or managerial class. Yet five years after graduation, only 55 percent of college graduates were employed in jobs that require a degree, according to a 2024 report. Many ended up working in the service industry. Caught in low-wage, often precarious jobs, some sought to form unions. Read more: https://newrepublic.com/article/208726/mutiny-review-college-educated-labor-unions #big-tech #culture #labor #organizedlabor #unions

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@blogdiva__dup_156@mastodon.social · Feb 21, 2026

RE: https://phpc.social/@ramsey/116109626593551373 30% of India’s labor is unionized. 90% of the unionized labor joined the strike. ALL THIS INFORMATION IS IN THE LINKS I PROVIDED. yes, close to 300,000,000 workers ―in a country of +1 BILLION― did not show up to work in India on the 12th of February of 2026. THAT’S WHY IT IS HISTORIC AND NEWS WORTHY. #India #generalStrike #labor #unions

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Deb Nam-Krane

@dnkboston@apobangpo.space · Feb 25, 2026

I don't think people realize how precarious the existence of most academic professionals is. Very glad to see this group striking. (Hey MA, take notes.) #labor https://prospect.org/2026/02/25/nyu-professors-vote-to-strike-uaw-trump-labor-nlrb/

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@bss@social.coop · Feb 18, 2026

What we’ve seen in MN with middle class white folks putting themselves in harms way to protect their neighbors shows the spirit of what should serve as our path forward. The extension of empathy into action as solidarity. And going forward this is what we need not just in resisting fascism but in all of our efforts.

We need to dig deep for broad #solidarity in recognition that our real power comes from solidarity across all our superficial differences. Our politics should not be based on focus groups, calculations, establishment strategy but simply the value and principle of solidarity in service to all of us, the 99% that is the working class.

Universal Healthcare
Universal Basic Income
Opening the electoral process to multiple parties
Building of our movement outside of the political process: Workers in workplaces and community folk in neighborhoods building #labor organizing, mutual aid, self defense and lived, grassroots #democracy at the street level.