“With Hispanic migrants, although it is hard, although it is heavy, they endure,” said Vicente. Between the church and the plant, he said, he gets three hours of sleep a night.
Brenda Ray, who has lived in the Fremont area for 40 years, said she noted the change in the city’s population and voted for the ordinance back in 2010. She said she doesn’t “have a problem” with the Central American arrivals “if they are legal and they come in to speak American English.”
She wishes the rule, known as Ordinance 5165, “accomplished more,” but still supports it.
“It’s something that we have in our toolbox,” she said. “If we have a big problem we can fall back on it.”
In short, “I saw a lot of brown people move in, and I didn’t like it. I wish we were able to me more cruel to them, but there’s hope for that in the future.” What an absolute ghoul.
If the companies know that a strike will only last for a day/short time it’s kind of doomed from the start to achieve little to nothing. If workers are looking for concessions, that requires prolonged effort and solidarity fundraising/organizing 99 times out of 100.
Gig economy companies know this, which is why they structure their product experience both for consumers and workers to be as alienated and atomized as possible. They also run specials all the time such as “complete 10 drives in the next 48 hours for a $50 bonus” which can be a pretty effective picket line-crossing incentive for those who need the money. People from this group will likely be much harder to reach because of their financial situation demanding so much of their attention. It’s so easy for the companies to just turn up the compensation dial temporarily, and if they know it’s coming they can just weather the 24 hours with generous offers to potential scabs and then go back to business as usual when it’s over.
Organizing despite the difficulties is the only way, but it’s definitely a stacked deck.
As someone who works as SOC for one of these companies, you’re 100% right. While I don’t make or affect any of the decisions you’re talking about, I’ve certainly been in the room when they’ve been made. I tell people to not sign up for these jobs whenever I can. Its not worth it.
I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of the decisions are couched in language such as streamlined, direct, integrated, and highly manageable user experience solutions or task workflows tailored to flexibly maximize dynamic engagement metric requirements to euphemise the fact that the goal to deliberately sandbox and disempower users. Could also be the case that the pretense is dropped altogether in some contexts, like when unionization is actively being discussed as a threat model to the bottom line.
At any rate I’m glad to hear from someone “on the inside” that I’ve got an accurate assessment of the situation. Depressing how the situation is, but thanks for weighing in.
They kinda fucked themselves with proposition 22 😅 to be fair there was a huge propaganda campaign from the gig app companies to push it down their throats to vote yes on it.
They said the same thing about video games, TV, heavy metal, comic books and rock music. Crazy people exist, crazy people have always existed, and crazy people will always exist. Society has always been able to cope.
Sure, but none of those things have ever been demonstrated to actually exasperate mental health issues.
Can we really say the same thing about the internet when we can see how quickly YouTube radicalized people? When we see the consequences of covid conspiracies and disinformation?
We’ll cope, but the internet is a new kind of beast that we’re continually coping without a solid plan.
Good… Within a span of 10s, he claimed he had no idea who E Jean carroll was, and then the next sentence said there was “instant attraction” publicly when defaming her, and then giving a story of them meeting. Plus, there were literally photos of them together lol
Anyone who knows him, who is still defending him, is CLEARLY guilty (and is being blackmailed by trump to defend them getting paid a lot, or needs him to rise to presidency again so they can be pardoned)
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