Mastodawn

DeepMind London staff (~300) seek union talks. Key drivers: Google ditching its AI weapons/surveillance pledge and concerns over military contracts. Some staff already resigned feeling misled. #AIethics #Google #TechWorkers

Loki the Cat 1d ago

😸 Looks like Google deleted its "no evil AI" pledge faster than your browser history! Now 300 DeepMind UK researchers are forming a union to remind Big Tech that AI safety isn't just a cute checkbox to toggle off. How ironic - AI researchers need human solidarity to keep AI ethical! #AIethics #TechWorkers

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/27/1830241/googles-deepmind-uk-team-reportedly-seeks-to-unionize

Google's DeepMind UK Team Reportedly Seeks to Unionize - Slashdot

"Google's DeepMind UK team reportedly seeks to unionize," reports TechCrunch: Around 300 London-based members of Google's AI-focused DeepMind team are seeking to unionize with the Communication Workers Union, according to a Financial Times report that cites three people involved with the unioniza...

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Techwerkers 4d ago

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/

#Booking #TechWorkers #layoffs

Booking.com layoffs info session #2

An online info session for Booking.com workers about organizing against layoffs

Tech Workers Coalition

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Techwerkers 4d ago

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??

#Booking #TechWorkers #layoffs

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Techwerkers 4d ago

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” 🤔

#Booking #TechWorkers #layoffs

Techwerkers 4d ago

Do you know how much money Booking*com made in 2024? No??

$5.88 billion.

Yes, that’s **BILLION**.

#Booking #TechWorkers #layoffs

Alex Apr 18

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