technology

AT&T job cuts loom over bargaining with Communications Workers

February 19, 2020 By PAI

Since the GOP's tax cuts for corporations passed, AT&T has fired 37,800 workers.

Predictive analytics: How capitalism’s “knowledge economy” profiles us all

January 29, 2020 By Joel Wendland-Liu

Into the fiscal crisis step for-profit education companies offering a mixture of devious dispossession, futuristic technology, and high-pressure sales pitches.

In high-tech breakthrough, workers at Google contractor vote to join union

October 1, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

This marked the first time contract tech workers have unionized in the United States in an industry that is almost entirely non-union.

Tech companies’ account removals reveal pro-U.S. corporate slant

September 3, 2019 By Julianne Tveten

Who benefits as tech monopolies continue to remove or flag “coordinated” accounts in the name of “integrity” and “open conversation”?

Growing backlash against unethical tech, employees of Big Tech are speaking out

August 26, 2019 By Samantha Maldonado

Despite six-figure salaries and unlimited vacation time, many tech workers are questioning the effects of their work and joining forces with their more precarious blue-collar, service and contract-worker counterparts, pressing for better work conditions and pay.