technology
S.F. judge: Uber, Lyft drivers are ‘employees’ with worker rights, not ‘contractors’
August 11, 2020The big ride-sharing apps Uber and Lyft break California law by misclassifying their drivers as “independent contractors,” not “employees” with worker rights, a judge has decided.
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TikTok – Trump’s anti-China tech war is a protection racket for U.S. capital
August 7, 2020Microsoft or some other oligarch gets one of the world’s top social media sites for peanuts, and a Chinese competitor gets choked out of the U.S. entirely. It’s a protection racket on an international scale.
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Out of bounds: How media monopolies keep radical ideas off the agenda
July 16, 2020The solution to bad media is not no media; it’s a genuine revolutionary media that focuses on truth and how it affects the working people, and what we can do about it.
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Public Tools for Public Schools: Stopping tech giants’ online education takeover
June 29, 2020The tech oligarchs are about to get a lot richer, and you and I are going to pay for it.
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AT&T job cuts loom over bargaining with Communications Workers
February 19, 2020Since the GOP's tax cuts for corporations passed, AT&T has fired 37,800 workers.
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