absolutely true in general of living in cities, and living in nyc through the pandemic super-charged this for me. I now live above a bar because I want to be able to hear my neighbors, know they’re out there, know we’re safe

It’s very interesting to compare to all of the research on metrics in journalism from the 2010s- Cristin and Petre and many others!

To a huge extent! Including internally-public leaderboards of how often workers use AI tools or how many tokens they use. Most companies are incorporating this into perf reviews in the form of “just don’t be an outlier, and no one will question it,” but this implicit pressure is sometimes explicit

Tell The New York Times to stop being heartless and let Rich Quan work at home Rich Quan, an engineer at The New York Times and a member of the Tech Guild, is a certified caregiver for his 96-year-old father, who is in the end stage of Alzheimer’s Disease. He provides vitally im...

Tell NYT to do the right thing and give Rich the remote accommodation he needs: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

The State of The Times: Heartless. Red banner with NYT Tech Guild logo

Today, NYT celebrates their successes from the past year, but we are witnessing a major failure of leadership: @nytimes.com mgmt is denying one of our members, Rich Quan, permission to continue working remote, even as a certified caregiver for his 96-year-old father, who suffers from Alzheimer's.

Arbitrary and capricious is a beautiful name for a girl ❤️❤️❤️

Our bargaining sessions are open to observation by all union members, and we are inviting faculty to observe Friday’s session too! Let me know if you are Columbia or Barnard faculty and you’d like to come. AI is only one of many articles we’ll be bargaining over on 2/27

We are fighting shoulder to shoulder with our faculty and students for a better university, and our union has a unique position on campus to be able to get some of these rules in a legally binding contract

@swcolumbia.bsky.social has just given Columbia our contract proposal on AI- our main demands are that student workers cannot be replaced by AI tools, nor can we be forced to use them in teaching or research (or retaliated against for refusing). Looking forward to their response on Friday 😇

3) I’d argue that the alternate pathway was in the other direction, that it was much more common for people with STEM skills to go into tech industry instead of tech workers join academia

2) does “preserve labor” include % reduction in overall # of software engineering jobs but “software engineer” still exists as a job category? Or does the total number need to be the same?

Great discussion, I’d only add that 1) this is all rapidly changing and no two companies are doing the same things- there are no hegemonic management practices re: AI coding tools yet,

Oh you’re gonna want to subscribe to this. Clarissa Redwine (an expert organizer who made the Kickstarter United Oral History podcast) worked with many, many Starbucks workers to tell their story here podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Student Workers of Columbia stand with NYSNA striking nurses!

One day longer, one day stronger 🔥
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Excellent new paper from @js-tan.bsky.social and Kathleen Thelen, on the political economy of the cloud company business model and how it feeds the AI race and techno-nationalism journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Despite Crackdown on Activism, Tech Employees Are Still Picking Fights

New from @noamscheiber.bsky.social, featuring @emilymazo.bsky.social @js-tan.bsky.social @techworkerscoalition.org @alphabetworkersunion.org & many more: “tech worker activism has continued amid the crackdown, albeit more cautiously”
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this whole thing smacks of gender. and McCarthyism

Interview Outreach Hi! Thank you so much for your interest in participating in my study on generative AI tools in the tech workplace. This form is intended to collect your contact information and give you a little more ...

For my dissertation, I'm looking to interview early-career tech workers about LLMs in the workplace! The interviews for this research study are confidential. If you are interested in being interviewed, or would like to know more, please fill out this form! forms.gle/xGnQthnM7wNZ...

Interview Outreach Hi! Thank you so much for your interest in participating in my study on generative AI tools in the tech workplace. This form is intended to collect your contact information and give you a little more ...

For my dissertation, I'm looking to interview early-career tech workers about LLMs in the workplace! The interviews for this research study are confidential. If you are interested in being interviewed, or would like to know more, please fill out this form! forms.gle/xGnQthnM7wNZ...

jon stop tweeting out my dissertation findings before I can write the dissertation

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Baby’s first published academic article! @js-tan.bsky.social and @nataliyan.bsky.social and I analyzed the @techactions.bsky.social archive and find that tech worker labor organizing stands on the shoulders of prior struggle- conflict begets class conflict journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The case for sabotage Creative tactics for a tech worker strike

We've just published the first response to our call for new organizing tactics in the tech sector, by an anonymous software engineer: The Case for Sabotage collectiveactionintech.substack.com/p/the-case-f...

my 2nd week at a big tech company, I ran a table scan on a prod db by accident and took the site down for two minutes. but we didn’t lose any data because no one had write perms on prod! because that is insane! expertise is developed over many years to proactively prevent problems like this

We are launching a new series at Collective Action in Tech (on our new substack!) on new/creative tactics for organizing and taking collective action in the tech industry. We would love to publish your ideas and experiences! Please submit!