Green Class Struggle: Workers and the Just Transition

https://classautonomy.info/green-class-struggle-workers-and-the-just-transition/

Inspiration for decarbonizing industry and creating green jobs is within the hands of those already facing precarity in today’s economically unstable times. A resilient history of worker’s initiatives overcoming redundancies, alongside recent activist…

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Pluralistic: "Flexible labor" is a euphemism for "derisking capital" (10 Nov 2025)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/10/zero-sum-zero-hours/

https://www.opb.org/article/2025/10/31/portland-housing-director-on-leave/

He has pushed for funding outside companies to oversee housing projects, like the Atlanta-based PadSplit, a company that allows property owners to rent out a house by room, rather than altogether. Wilson included $500,000 in this year’s budget to go toward a pilot project to create a “home-sharing” program similar to PadSplit.

The company, which has been accused of having poor accountability measures for its landlords, was the focus of a city-funded trip to Atlanta this summer, which Wilson and Hisserich attended.

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PadSplit is predatory garbage which will absolutely harm working class people experiencing precarity. It will increase destitution and homelessness so that landlords can “10x” their income. Wilson should be embarrassed.

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fuck this “padsplit” trash, renting is already a goddamned nightmare for working class people in Portland https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:27nhdm3im7orsagglrv2365e/post/3m4mdyy55a22e

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https://archive.ph/2TI8J

At the same time, more than half of Gen Z members say they are struggling to make ends meet, yet a majority buy themselves a small treat, such as a pastry, coffee, or sweet, at least once a week. That can lead to overspending, according to a new study of more than 1,000 people done for Bank of America.

#classwar #austerity #UsPol #precarity #poverty #Capitalism

To give or not to give?: https://www.aurianneor.org/to-give-or-not-to-give-give-or-not-give-giving/

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"Wray proposes a detailed series of recommendations to unions for things they should demand in their contracts to maximize their chances to capitalize on the opportunities afforded by the Platform Work Directive, such as establishing a "governance body" within the company "to govern data formation, storage, handling and security issues. This body should include shop stewards and all members of the body should receive data training."

He also sets out technological tactics that unions can fund and capitalize on to maximize their use of the directive, such as hacking apps to allow gig workers to increase their earnings. He writes warmly of "the sock-puppet method," where many test accounts are used to place and book work through platforms to monitor their pricing systems to detect collusion and price rigging. This has been successfully used in Spain to create the basis for an ongoing lawsuit over price collusion.

The new world of algorithmic management and the new Platform Work Directive offers many opportunities to organized labor. However, there is always the possibility that an employer will simply refuse to follow the law – as Uber has done, after it was found guilty of violating data disclosure work and was fined €6,000/day until it came into compliance. Uber's now paid €500,000 in fines and has not disclosed the data that the law and the courts require of it.

With algorithmic management, bosses have figured out new ways to evade the law and steal from workers. The Platform Work Directive gives workers and unions a whole suite of new tools to force bosses to play fair. It's not going to be easy, but the technological capacity workers and unions develop here can be repurposed to wage all-out digital class warfare."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/25/roboboss/#counterapps

#EU #PWD #PlatformWorkDirective #AlgorithmicManagement #Roboboss #GigEconomy #Precarity

https://slate.com/technology/2025/08/millennials-gen-z-death-rates-america-high.html

Many of these early adults are disillusioned with a political and economic system that does not provide living wages, stable employment, housing security, or affordable health care. As social mobility in the U.S. has decreased, the prospect of homeownership and marriage has also become unattainable for many early adults, regardless of how hard they work. And now millennial and Gen Z Americans are far more likely to die than their age peers in other rich nations.

#classwar #uspol #mortality #desperation #millennial #genZ #MAGA #fascism #precarity #massShooter #suicide #addiction #depression