ChatGPT was hailed as one 2022’s most impressive technological innovations upon its release last November. The powerful artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot can generate text on almost any topic or theme, …
Noncompete Clauses: What Are They and How Is the FTC Trying to Ban Them?
Should your employer be able to stop you from getting a new job? If you have a summer internship, for example, should the company be able to prevent you from …
US: The Supreme Court’s Conservative Supermajority May Sabotage Unions’ Right to Strike
Glacier Northwest is an attack on workers’ collective power. It also has frightening implications for American democracy. Remember those pesky analogy questions on the SAT? Here’s one for you, straight from …
U.S. Moves to Bar Noncompete Agreements in Labor Contracts
In a far-reaching move that could raise wages and increase competition among businesses, the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday unveiled a rule that would block companies from limiting their employees’ …
Labor contractor sentenced for forced labor conspiracy of H-2A workers
Bladimir Moreno, owner of farm labor contracting business Los Villatoros Harvesting LLC, has been sentenced for leading a federal racketeering and forced labor conspiracy that targeted Mexican H-2A agricultural workers …
Movement grows to abolish US prison labor system that treats workers as ‘less than human’
More than 150 years after slavery was outlawed in the US, California remains one of dozens of states in the country that allows slavery and indentured servitude as a punishment …
Significant NLRB Move Will Aid Pursuit of College Athletes Becoming Employees
In an interview last January, ESPN lead football analyst Kirk Herbstreit made a proclamation: You might as well make college athletes employees. “I say we’re on a path to unionization,” …
Bexar County Performing Arts Center Foundation d/b/a Tobin Center for the Performing Arts and Local 23, American Federation of Musicians (Bexar II)
The Board issued a decision in Bexar County II, restoring the rights of workers employed by a contractor to engage in protected concerted activity in their workplace. The new decision overturns Bexar County …
Biden Labor Board Relaxes Standard for Access to Property
The NLRB dumped its Trump-era legal test for deciding when property owners can lawfully exclude employees of contractors, reinstating an earlier standard that gives those workers more leeway to protest …
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THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS: THE ALGORITHMIC GAMBLIFICATION OF WORK
In a new article, I draw on a multi-year, first-of-its-kind ethnographic study of organizing on-demand workers to examine these dramatic changes in wage calculation, coordination, and distribution: the use of …