If you’re a Booking worker, and you think layoffs suck, come join tomorrow for the second and *final* info session organized by the Tech Workers Coalition for Booking workers on how to resist layoffs ✊
Friday 25 April, 13:00-14:00 CEST
Get the session link: https://techwerkers.nl/en/events/2025-04-25/
And you know what’s fun? (Read: not!)
If Booking CEO Glenn D. Fogel were to get fired for no reason, they’d get $111,026,960
And as a regular worker? What do you get??
At the same time as it’s making billions in profits, Booking is planning to lay off masses of workers at its Amsterdam offices.
Why?
Supposedly because … “organizational agility” 🤔
Do you know how much money Booking*com made in 2024? No??
$5.88 billion.
Yes, that’s **BILLION**.
Anyone know any contract jobs for part time entry level Typescript backend programming roles?
3 to 6 months should be fine, but more interested in building up experience and potentially a portfolio while I get paid. I've been learning typescript for a friend who I just had a heated argument with (he has been a sexist ass the past few weeks) and not sure about the contract job he promised me after these two projects.
I've been mostly coding backend projects that use postswagger, express, and sequelize. Will complete these two projects and add them to my github repo, but interested in starting to do contract roles.
I am also interested in golang, but mostly entry level. I do have a lot of projects that use golang, but not sure I am good enough to code in it for a job. I do plan on learning c# properly in 3 months after I start working and making real money.
#ContractWorkers #techworkers #programming #backend #looking4work
Tech workers are leaving notes in robot taxis seeking workers and lovers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/12/waymo-handwritten-notes-jobs-ads/
#HackerNews #TechWorkers #RobotTaxis #LoveNotes #JobSearch #Waymo
"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
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/google-employee-speaks-out-war-contracting/
A must-read piece from a tech worker at Google, arguing for a worker-led “AI arms embargo”: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/google-employee-speaks-out-war-contracting/
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 
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?
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Do you want to learn more? Get involved? Join the onboarding call 😀
Tuesday 15 April at 5:00 pm (today!)
Register to get the link: https://bit.ly/twc101-apr2025A
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