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#techworkers

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Kit 🔻

"As tech workers, we have a moral responsibility to resist complicity and the militarization of our work before it’s too late."

Emma Jackson, who's been at Google for over 20 years, on the sickening realization that Google has turned into a genocide supporting arms contractor

thenation.com/article/society/

The Nation · I’ve Worked at Google for Decades. I’m Sickened by What It’s Doing.For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.
#Google#DropNimbus#TechWorkers
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Kit 🔻

What sort of workplace action can you do without getting fired? (Or, well before getting fired?)

A guide from @techwerkers on legal protections for workplace action 🇵🇸 within Dutch law, prepared by an actual official Dutch labour lawyer :blue_elf_nail_care:

Includes:

  • Can I refuse to perform certain tasks with an appeal to conscientious objection?

  • Can I strike when I don’t agree with the activities of my employer because of conscientious objection?

  • Can I denounce my employer publicly or with other colleagues because of immoral activities based on conscientious objection?

Check out the full guide

Top view of three cans of spray paint on the street
#TechWorkers#Law
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Kit 🔻

Soooo what can you do once you've decided that you're going to do all you can to stop genocide in Palestine? Ibraheem suggests:

1) Organize

"You must join the other workers who are raising their voices against their employer for their support of this genocide."

#Google#Amazon#Microsoft
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta

This is where my clear tech workers bias shows. This shit has been prevalent in transportation, retail, chain restaurants, factory work, anywhere they have high turnover or hire and fire large groups of people regularly. I had Neighbor’s kids answer weird personality questions with the camera on to judge their fit for a role. That was for an analyst role at a large financial institution before this recent AI takeover!

#ai#workersrights#techworkers
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Peter Riley

@gee8sh

actionnetwork.org/letters/tell

actionnetwork.orgTell Microsoft To Stop Partnering With Israel's GenocideBREAKING: Microsoft is a core partner in Israel’s AI-powered massacres of Palestinians. Leaked documents published on Jan. 23, 2025, expose the deep partnership between Israel’s military operations and Microsoft.  Take action: mpowerchange.org/microsoft We now know that Israel’s military used Microsoft’s cloud platform (Azure), a “suite of communications and messaging systems,” millions of dollars of engineering support, and more. Take action with us — and support the Microsoft workers organizing to cut ties with the IDF. Israel’s so-called “demands of the war” on Gaza called for outside tech support. To that end, Israel’s military operational capabilities were “upgraded” during the current war in Gaza thanks to the “wonderful world of cloud providers” that enabled “very significant operational effectiveness.” The sanitized language of “operational effectiveness” is a weak cover for Israel’s AI-powered war machine, unleashed on Gaza for 15 months. Israel’s AI program “has been a behind-the-scenes force accelerating the death toll in Gaza, which has claimed 45,000 lives….” Microsoft has lofty public-facing AI goals. These include AI for Humanitarian Action: “aimed at harnessing the power of AI to support disaster response and recovery, help ensure the safety and wellbeing of children around the world, protect refugees and displaced people, and promote respect for human rights.” The Jan. 23rd exposé shows that Microsoft has caused the opposite of their stated aims, and its actions of support for Israel accelerated an AI-powered genocide. Microsoft supported what the International Criminal Court sees as “plausible genocide. Microsoft should be held accountable.
#azure#Microsoft#palestine
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N-gated Hacker News

🚀 "Tech workers: the misunderstood artists of the digital age, hired not for code, but for their ability to stare blankly at screens. Somehow, code emerges through an alchemical process of existential dread and passive aggressive IMs. 🤖 Maybe the secret to #innovation is just a monitor-shaped void where a co-worker used to be." 🙃
idiallo.com/blog/code-for-hire #TechWorkers #DigitalArtists #CodeCreativity #ExistentialDread #HackerNews #ngated

Ibrahim Diallo BlogThe Reality of Working in Tech: We're Not Hired to Write Code"So, is everyone losing their minds yet?" My ex-coworker asked me over yahoo messenger. He quit after getting enraged by new work policies that specifically targeted him. I looked up from my screen,
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Peter Riley

The industry-wide union for video game workers in the US and Canada: 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."
aol.com/one-10-video-game-deve?

AOL · One in 10 Video Game Developers Were Laid Off in 2024, GDC Report FindsBy Jennifer Maas
#LaborMovement#Organize#solidarity
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Kit 🔻

“Google’s acquisition of Wiz is yet another example of the company’s ongoing antitrust violations. While mired in antitrust lawsuits, Google spent a whopping $33 billion to acquire Wiz—the most expensive acquisition for the corporation to date. Emboldened by its coziness with the Trump administration, Google is playing with fire and trusting that its performative overtures toward new leadership in the country will protect it.

But changing political winds will not deter us. As workers, we remain steadfast in our commitment to force the company to end Project Nimbus and end its business with Israel.”

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#NoTechForApartheid#Google#Wiz
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