Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Aug 24, 2025
“ #Klarna had to admit their mistakes, returning to hiring #human staff this year — but still took the opportunity to move to a #precariousemployment model where #workers are given ‘remote and flexible’ zero-hours contracts for the sake of the company’s profiteering” tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/ai-i...

AI Is a Total Grift
AI Is a Total Grift

Much of what’s known as ‘AI’ has nothing to do with progress — it’s about lobbyists pushing shoddy digital replacements for human labour that increase billionaire’s profits and make workers’ lives worse.

SubtleBlade ⚔️Jun 14, 2024

#UK has seen ‘explosion’ in #InsecureWork since 2011, says #TUC report

Record high of 4.1 million people found to be in #PrecariousEmployment such as #ZeroHoursContracts and #CasualWork
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/14/uk-explosion-in-insecure-work-tuc-report
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Employment #TheInsecurityIsThePoint #GE2024

UK has seen ‘explosion’ in insecure work since 2011, says TUC report

Record high of 4.1 million people found to be in precarious employment such as zero-hours contracts and casual work

The Guardian
News from ItalyMar 8, 2024
#Italy's #property market slumps, sales down 10% in 2023 - Ansa.it. Could poorly paid #PrecariousEmployment be to blame?
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/business/2024/03/07/italian-property-market-collapses-down-10-in-2023_6952cfab-38cf-43de-b406-eefecafef2b4.html
Italian property market collapses, down 10% in 2023 - Business - Ansa.it

The Italian property market collapsed last year showing a 10% fall in real terms over 2022, the inland revenue agency's observatory on the real estate market said Thursday. Some 710,000 residential properties changed hands last year, the observatory said. (ANSA)

Agenzia ANSA
Gladwyn d’SouzaJan 10, 2024

https://capitol.press/archive/inside-another-senate-lollygag-on-migrant-rights/

#AsymetricBorderRuleCreatesAutocrats: will Russia get to keep the territory it has seized in exchange for peace?
Most Senators either don’t know or won’t say, though several Republican lawmakers in both chambers are skeptical of funding Ukraine’s war with Russia no matter how many #migrantrights concessions get chucked aside in the Senate negotiations. This is all to say that a deal on migrants rights and Ukraine is unlikely at this point, and probably always was.
#StopInstallingKleptocratsForResourcesPredation
#GenocideJoeKnows
#BigAgro
#farmworkers #precariousemployment #laborexploitation #dehumanization #PesticideExposure

Inside Another Senate Lollygag on Migrant Rights

Good morning! We're super excited to bring you the news, especially on the migrant beat, which we consider our staple. Let’s jump in.. --- Negotiations on...

Capitol Press
Gladwyn d’SouzaDec 22, 2023

https://truthout.org/articles/biden-is-paying-growers-to-replace-farmworkers-with-bracero-contract-labor/

#GenocideJoe subsidizes MAGA supporting white farmers despite unemployment in farmworker communities being higher than in urban areas! Because #BigAgro’s been intent on keeping wages extremely low. The Bracero Program was abolished due to widespread abuse — one of the main achievements of the Chicano civil rights movement. But even at its height, the U.S. government never actually paid #settlers to bring in workers.

#farmworkers #precariousemployment #laborexploitation #dehumanization #PesticideExposure #InsufficientAccessToHealthcareAndSocialBenefits
#AllJobsShouldBeUnionJobs

Biden Is Paying Growers to Replace Farmworkers With Bracero Contract Labor

Under the new visa pilot program, the administration is prioritizing growers’ profits over farmworkers’ rights.

Truthout
Ganga NewsSep 9, 2023

Study conducted by Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet has shed light on the life-threatening consequences of precarious work conditions.

#KarolinskaInstitutet #Health #PrecariousEmployment #Research

https://www.ganganews.com/fact-check/study-precarious-employment-higher-risk-of-premature-death/

Study: Precarious Employment, Higher Risk of Premature Death : Ganga News

A study conducted reveals a direct connection between precarious employment conditions and a heightened risk of premature death.

Ganga News
Mercedes SheldonNov 14, 2022

While this article is targeted at readers in Minnesota, it's speaks to the reality of #PrecariousEmployment across #HigherEd.

https://mndaily.com/274370/opinion/opinion-your-professor-may-be-a-gig-worker/#

Opinion: Your Professor May Be a Gig Worker

Forty-three percent of faculty at the University of Minnesota lack job stability, academic freedom and often a livable wage; this harms undergraduates.

The Minnesota Daily