NYC is about to regulate AI in hiring. Critics say the new law doesn’t do much
Why Local Law 144 isn't just a missed opportunity, but dangerous.
Labor
Starbucks fired a union organizer. New York City got him rehired
Austin Locke was sacked days after he helped unionize workers. A monumental new labor law means he’s back on the job.
How delivery workers won their first charging hub
"It makes me think nothing is impossible,” said Gustavo Ajche, founder of Los Deliveristas Unidos.
The AI startup erasing call center worker accents
New software can make overseas call center workers sound American — but at what cost?
‘This can’t be real’: Grubhub promotion turns New York City restaurants into a ‘war zone’
A food delivery platform Grubhub went badly awry – and proved there’s really no such thing as a free lunch.
Elon Musk praises Chinese workers for ‘burning the 3am oil’ – here’s what that really looks like
How Elon Musk makes Chinese workers put in hours that would be unacceptable elsewhere.
E-bike batteries are setting a record-breaking number of fires every year
The people most in danger are New York City's delivery workers.
Gig workers of the world are uniting
The sunniest of platform capitalist narratives can’t overcome a simple reality: Workers fight back.
The workers who sued Uber and won
Former Uber driver James Farrar on why we must treat digital rights as worker rights.
Jing Fong couldn’t survive. Will Manhattan’s Chinatown?
Was it the pandemic that felled Jing Fong, or policies that have made the neighborhood vulnerable ?
What Nomadland gets wrong about gig workers
It feels less like artistic license than a betrayal of workers’ reality.
Can American labor survive Prop 22?
Prop 22 marks a dangerous new phase in big tech’s onslaught against workers.
