Via the #TennesseeHoller

#BREAKING: UNION YES! 🎉

4000+ #CHATTANOOGA #VW workers just voted overwhelmingly to join the #UAW and unionize — despite pressure from Governor #BillLee, Speaker #CameronSexton and other powerful state #Republicans pressuring them not to. #UnionStrong 💪🏽

Via #StevenGreenhouse:
vote totals at 2,578 for to 933 against
Percentage: 73% vs 27%

#Union #Volkswagen

And AI monitors the conduct of workers on temp-work apps. If a worker is dispatched to a struck workplace and refuses to cross the picket-line, the AI boss fires you and blacklists you from future jobs for refusing to robo-scab:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/30/computer-says-scab/#instawork

Writing in *The Guardian*, #StevenGreenhouse describes the AI-enabled workplace, where precarious, often misclassified workers are monitored, judged, and fined by algorithms:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/07/artificial-intelligence-surveillance-workers

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Pluralistic: When the app tries to make you robo-scab (30 July 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

The US supreme court is facing a crisis of legitimacy

There’s a growing sense among many Americans that the Roberts court with its 6-3 hard-right supermajority is irrevocably broken

The Guardian