Who protects the people protecting us online? Only 23% of U.S. data workers—including content moderators—surveyed by @alphabetworkersunion.org and TechEquity are covered by health insurance from their employer.

Silicon Valley promises that technology will save us. But what if the financial system powering that dream is actually poisoning everything it touches? @catherinebracy.com of @techequity.bsky.social on the @nerdreich.bsky.social podcast with @gilduran.com: www.thenerdreich.com/techs-psycho...

"Demanding that your union or your employer divest your pension and retirement from companies that do business with Israel can have a big impact" - Ramah Kudaimi of @acrecampaigns.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com: inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

Fighting layoffs is just the start - better working conditions for all is the goal: www.chronicle.com/article/anxi... @uptecwa.bsky.social

Think that gig work requires sacrificing worker rights? Pronita Gupta and I describe a way to provide good jobs and REAL flexibility for those who need both. And it doesn't rhyme with "tuber." www.commondreams.org/opinion/gig-... @caseygrants.bsky.social @theworkeragency.com

"National Guard troops can provide a “cover” for these other federal entities to make arrests" - @katechatfield.bsky.social, executive director of @calpublicdefenders.bsky.social in @missionlocal.org: missionlocal.org/2025/10/nati...

"We are trying to bend the arc of the tech industry towards making sure that the industry is creating opportunity for everybody. Not just sucking all the wealth up to the top." - @catherinebracy.com of @techequity.bsky.social on @thedailyshow.com last night! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD-4...

"Retaking control of our collective financial investment is an essential part of the fight against fascism and the destruction of our communities." - @acrecampaigns.bsky.social's @saqibbhatti.bsky.social and Sare Myklebust in @inthesetimes.com: inthesetimes.com/article/stra...

"One factor is declining job security in white-collar industries, a trend particularly apparent to tech employees. Since 2020, tech companies have unleashed rounds of mass layoffs, inspiring calls for worker protections across the industry." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

“The way layoffs happened at Google, where it wasn’t clear what the reason for people getting laid off was, definitely created a sense of job insecurity and mistrust” - Parul Koul, @alphabetworkersunion.org prez + Google engineer, in @washingtonpost.com: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

“Uber and Lyft, because of their vast control of information and algorithms, are always in a position where they have the advantage,” said [David] Weil, who led the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division during the Obama administration. www.kqed.org/news/1205779...

“The gist of it is making sure workers are protected from these crazy and spontaneous changes that the Trump administration has been making. We’re fighting for job security for all of us.” - Olivia Asemota of @alphabetworkersunion.org in @calmatters.org: calmatters.org/economy/2025...

"If we shift our perspective from managing to prevention, we can look at how we might change the conditions that lead to domestic violence all year long." - @jacpatrissi.bsky.social in the @bostonherald.com: www.bostonherald.com/2025/10/02/p...

"This program, like so many other Uber tactics, is...a piece of corporate theater, carefully staged to magnify the smallest possible outcomes while obscuring the widespread harm" - Veronica Avila of @acrecampaigns.bsky.social in @phoenixnewtimes.com www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/op-ed-a...

HAPPENING NOW: Alphabet Workers Union members are outside of the Google offices in NYC speaking out against the Trump administration’s H-1B visa proclamation! Tune in: www.facebook.com/AlphabetWork...

"We are drivers for Uber, and we’ll be joined outside the conference by others representing the vast majority of AI workers: those whom the technology is being used against. We are eager to share our stories."

Yesterday, Uber drivers held an action in front of the AI Conference in San Francisco where Uber VP of AI and Product Jai Malkani was a featured speaker, telling their story about what it is like when AI is used *against* you. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

If DHS can violently attack journalists and citizen observers without any consequences, none of us are safe anywhere in the country. #protest #LAProtests #PressFreedom #ProtectJournalists

"Workers...claim they are increasingly concerned that they are being set up to replace themselves...GlobalLogic seems to be using these human raters to train the Google AI system that could automatically rate the responses, with the aim of replacing them with AI." www.wired.com/story/hundre...

"Workers are a crucial line of defense against unlawful or noncompliant behavior by management. We see it first...When workers have a union...those calculations can change." - Stephen McMurtry of @alphabetworkersunion.org in @techpolicypress.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/empowered-wo...

"The “MechaHitler” episode is no joke. It exposes how slight tweaks to AI products can trigger sudden, unpredictable downstream effects." - Christopher Dols of @fedworkersunited.bsky.social in @thehill.com: thehill.com/opinion/tech...

“When we were making the case for Lisa Cook’s nomination, we found that only two of 417 Federal Reserve staff positions at the time were Black; 318 of them were White. That’s a really big problem” - @saqibbhatti.bsky.social of @acrecampaigns.bsky.social in @cnn.com : www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/e...

"Almost everyone in the business community thinks the tariffs are a bad idea, but CEOs are all too aware that saying so could put their job and company at risk of retaliation from the administration" - Sachin Shivaram of the Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

New in @capitolweekly.bsky.social - @katechatfield.bsky.social and @brendonwoodspd.bsky.social on getting ICE out of California courthouses: capitolweekly.net/ice-raids-in...

Super interesting look at the machinations of state government potentially standing in the way of important AI regulation, featuring @techequity.us: calmatters.org/economy/tech...

"70% of Californians believe in the need for “strong laws to make #AI fair”" according to polling from @catherinebracy.com and @techequity.us New from @billyperrigo.bsky.social at Time: time.com/7310716/cali...

“This latest attack by the Trump administration goes against everything Head Start stands for” - Clarissa Doutherd of Parent Voices Oakland New from @oaklandside.org: oaklandside.org/2025/08/15/a...

New from @hard-reset.bsky.social -

"The glaring exposure of Microsoft’s connection to the atrocities in #Gaza has the potential to be a spark that starts a small fire." Latest from @hard-reset.bsky.social and @williamfitz.bsky.social - read the full piece now: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/will-big-t...

ReWork the Bay's success in empowering workers to advocate for better pay and protections is highlighted in @npquarterly.bsky.social: nonprofitquarterly.org/building-tog...

The real reason why there hasn't been a San Francisco Zohran (hint: it isn't for lack of dimples and cinematography chops) - jacobin.com/2025/08/san-... via @jacobinmag.bsky.social

"Big tech’s response to the real needs of our communities is simply “let them eat chatbots.” - @bmitra.bsky.social at Hard Reset: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/machine-le...

"There is a lot of really exciting progress that has been happening in the field of machine learning over the last decade. But a lot of what big tech would like all of us to believe AI will do is actually unsubstantiated..." - @bmitra.bsky.social hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/machine-le...

Great piece in the @eastbayexpress.com showcasing a new report from @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social on how @workingeastbay.bsky.social was part of a coalition that won the most progressive Community Benefits Agreement to date, and that model's future potential: eastbayexpress.com/is-the-oakla...

“The tide has definitely turned against tech workers” - @techequity.us's @catherinebracy.com in @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/t...

Our colleagues Erin Williams and Marianne Glaser will be at @netrootsnation.bsky.social this week! There’s never been a stronger time to have strategic comms. We’re working on some of our biggest campaigns against authoritarianism and we’d love to chat! Say hi in person or message them on LinkedIn.

Just published - @calpublicdefenders.bsky.social and @katechatfield.bsky.social in @kqednews.kqed.org on a CPDA-sponsored bill to require police to disclose AI use in reports: www.kqed.org/news/1205077...

The @oaklandballers.bsky.social tap into the rich well of local talent to end the first half of the season with the Pioneer League's best record. Now they're setting their sights on a title in the team's second year of existence (via @oaklandside.org): oaklandside.org/2025/07/31/o...

Great piece on the @uptecwa.bsky.social veterinary tech action in Davis yesterday! "Dozens of technicians, many represented by the union UPTE-CWA 9119, gathered outside the hospital holding signs that read, “Love Animals? Support Workers!”" davisvanguard.org/2025/07/uc-d...

The Coalition on Homelessness holds a rally and silent vigil at SF city hall as Lurie cuts affordable housing, via @timredmondsf.bsky.social @48hills.bsky.social: 48hills.org/2025/07/supe...

"Are these people who are the mothers or fathers, sons or daughters of American citizens? Are they criminals or law-abiding people? Are they members of community service groups that give back to society? ICE doesn't care. They just want bodies" Read more: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/trump-was-...

"Juvenile offenders deserve a chance to prove themselves as adults" - Jaubrae Dixon on fighting for AB 1279 and other related juvenile justice bills: www.bakersfield.com/opinion/comm...

Trump and Kennedy Throw Head Start Into Reverse: capitalandmain.com/trump-and-ke... via @capitalandmain.bsky.social

Is the world ready for "AI-powered" law firms? This week Hard Reset talked to experts from many different backgrounds to get their perspectives on whether legal services can be performed by emergent companies like Crosby AI. Read the full article: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/venture-ca...

The @bostonglobe.com covers the amazing work that the @caseygrants.bsky.social and others have done to step up and help nonprofits as the Trump administration has axed funding: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/12/n...

Great article by @saqibbhatti.bsky.social of @acrecampaigns.bsky.social in @jacobinmag.bsky.social on the power of divestment strategies in this moment to exert leverage over companies like Tesla and nations like Israel: jacobin.com/2025/07/dive...

Incredible piece in @theguardian.com by @ericms.bsky.social of Alliance for Boys and Men of Color on where we stand five years after the uprisings of 2020: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@elirosenberg.bsky.social interview with Glenn Danas, a lawyer and partner at Clarkson Law Firm, which is representing workers in the misclassification lawsuit against Scale AI, for @theworkeragency.com’s Hard Reset newsletter: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/meet-the-n...

Clarissa Doutherd, Executive Director of Parent Voices Oakland, joins the @edsource.org podcast to discuss the devastating impact of Trump's budget on California kids: edsource.org/podcast/scho... @parentvoicesca.bsky.social

Important piece from @edsource.org on the devastating impact Trump's cuts will have on California families, with Parent Voices Oakland hammering home exactly what this will mean to vulnerable populations: edsource.org/2025/medicai... @parentvoicesca.bsky.social