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Here are the demands that Filter RAs, working at Facebook Reality Labs, sent to management.
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We took a couple days off from the internet over the holidays, so we're catching up on stories we missed. First off, metrics are all lies, and our bosses got rich by selling those lies to one another for years, with no heed to the consequences.http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html …
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Tech Workers Coalition Retweeted
Steeped in history, we learn from and support other worker's rights movements of past and present, regardless of sector.
#GoogleWalkouthttps://www.wired.com/story/why-hotel-workers-strike-reverberated-through-tech/ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
"“When tech workers see that people who get paid way, way, way, way less than they do strike for months, it makes them realize, ‘What the fuck are we doing when we walk out for half an hour?’” says a former Google employee of the Marriott workers."

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We haven't seen Google's response yet, of course, but we have a strange intuition that some nebulous "error" will be blamed, and that no greater accountability will be offered. Can't imagine what history gave us that impression.
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[Content warning for antisemitic slurs in image] Here's a neat mental exercise: every time you see something utterly atrocious from a tech company handwaved and blamed on The Algorithm, remember that the US military (and others) desperately want to use those algorithms to kill.https://twitter.com/justkelly_ok/status/1076666201521180672 …
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Tech Workers Coalition Retweeted
We stand on the shoulders of giants — this is only the continuation of a long running movement centering worker solidarity and power.
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The Pentagon expects international workforces to automatically support increasing the lethality of the US military, after decades of watching it destabilize large regions of the world, as we watch the US government issue orders to tear gas children.

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-pentagons-plan-to-win-over-silicon-valleys-ai-experts/ …pic.twitter.com/c4loWfTDcj
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Chipotle workers join Uber drivers in mass filings for arbitration, and once again the company balks at getting just what it asked for. This goes to show that forced arbitration isn't about privacy or anything else other than silencing workers.https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chipotle-mandatory-arbitration-agreements_us_5c1bda0de4b0407e90787abd …
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Tech Workers Coalition Retweeted
@stjv_fr has released a statement on the recent firings at Eugen Systems after their employees took them to court over salaries lower than the minimum wage. This is the kind of malpractice and pettiness we must fight against in solidarity!

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We're glad to see Filter Digital take back their indefensible threat of firing these research assistants right before the holidays, but that isn't enough. Meeting these demands is the right thing to do. It's as simple as that. "When one of us succeeds, we all do."
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Wage increases that are more than reasonable, especially considering the value their labor provides to Facebook, a company that made $5 billion in profits last quarter. This is a drop in the bucket for Facebook, but for these workers, it could change their lives.pic.twitter.com/uOCu9m2PXo
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5 days of sick leave, which helps both the workers and the company by giving workers less incentive to come in sick, and ensuring they have time to recover so they can produce good work. Facebook and Filter can surely afford 1 hour of sick leave for every 40 hours of work.pic.twitter.com/565f95WUhV
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A paid holiday schedule matching Facebook's, so they don't have to take PTO days when they physically cannot do their jobs due to Facebook being closed. Filter backed down once the pressure was on, but before this story came out, they were willing to fire 20 employees over this.pic.twitter.com/wQqJr4loDq
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Free ORCA cards for commuting on public transit, a benefit that is already provided to both full-time Facebook employees and other contract workers such as cafeteria workers. Is this really a demand so ridiculous as to threaten termination over the holidays?pic.twitter.com/FDUCoaYiEd
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Great thread elaborating on the
#ContractWorkerStories at Facebook/Filter, including detailing the coercion and ultimatums they tried to cover up and backpedal from once they started getting heat. These workers have won a very real victory, but their fight isn't over yet.https://twitter.com/juliacarriew/status/1076169930171572224 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Tech Workers Coalition Retweeted
URGENT: Mass sackings of
@Deliveroo couriers across the country for spurious reasons – DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS. Hundreds affected. Action planned. RT, shame and signal boost please.#deliverscrooge https://iww.org.uk/news/no-ho-ho-deliveroo-fire-hundreds-of-couriers-days-before-christmas/ …pic.twitter.com/C6opvAGRmC
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Tech Workers Coalition Retweeted
Uber and Lyft drivers in Connecticut are on strike today.https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/connecticut-uber-and-lyft-drivers-on-strike/1670156601 …
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Tech Workers Coalition Retweeted
It seems strange to write an article about a massive tech company opening an office in Oakland while barely mentioning gentrification, homelessness and the ways unhoused people are treated in Oakland, and potential tax incentives. Watch this space.https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Square-leases-Oakland-s-Uptown-Station-in-one-13482170.php …
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Tech Workers Coalition Retweeted
So often these "contractors" are really full-time employees that employers are purposefully miscategorizing as contractors to avoid paying benefits, divide the workforce, and save a quick buck. Oh and by "save a quick buck" we mean conduct wage theft.
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