The ability to give workers the sack without the slightest sympathy or remorse is a basic requirement for managers AI is giving them the means to exercise their power on a grand scale META is making it known to workers that thousands of them will be laid-off. Standard chartered Bank is eliminating 8000 j and the incomes at go to the incomes that go with them by means of using AI. The Bank’s big bossman called those who previously did the jobs as “lower value human capital” followed by the standard gestural apology. In the past a less abrupt culling of jobs was called “natural wastage,” defined as “You are shit. Ti be excreted” in the wealthofnegations TERMS AND CONDITIONS Welfare Edition.
Members of the Gig & Platform Service Workers Union of India called on all drivers and delivery partners associated with platforms such as Uber, Ola, Rapido, Swiggy, Zomato, and Blinkit to suspend services from 12 pm to 5 pm on May 16. The union said the increase in petrol and diesel prices announced by oil marketing companies (OMCs) had sharply raised operating costs for gig workers, even as incentive structures and per-kilometre payouts remain largely unchanged while workers are out on the road 10-14 hours a day in extreme temperatures. Among the key demands raised by the workers are a revision in fare structures, fuel-linked compensation support, and improved earnings for drivers and delivery personnel.
In South Korea The largest union at Samsung Electronics has suspended a planned strike after reaching a last-minute tentative pay agreement with Samsung the world’s largest memory chipmaker by sales and a major supplier of chips used in AI data centres, smartphones and laptops. Government intervention was required
It t has temporarily eased fears of disruption at the world’s largest memory chipmaker . The conflict breaks new ground on how to distribute profits generated by soaring demand for AI memory chips. But assumes a divide-and-rule strategy which has already prompted intra-Union conflict over distribution of bonuses between staff in memory chip divisions and those in other units. Samsung had planned to pay generous bonuses to 27,000 staff making memory chips – at least six times more than its workers making other chips, and electronics. The majority union has rightly said that 23,000 workers who were making less advanced chips for companies like Tesla and Nvidia should not be left behind. Samsung is the world’s largest memory chipmaker by sales and a major supplier of chips used in AI data centres, smartphones and laptops.
Textile workers at the CODEVI industrial park in Haiti are continuing strike action after rejecting a government wage increase they say is insufficient to cover basic living costs. The recent adjustment raised the minimum daily wage to roughly HTG1,006 (approx. USD7.70), but workers are demanding HTG3,000 (approx. USD23), citing years without meaningful pay rises amid persistent inflation and currency depreciation.
Workers producing garments for export to the USA argue that rising fuel, transport and food costs have sharply eroded purchasing power, making current wages unsustainable. Union leaders also report dismissals of organisers, which they say are intended to weaken the strike movement.