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Chinese tech giants are recruiting skilled professionals as specialized AI trainers to build high-quality data sets. Facing economic downturns and layoffs, professionals take these challenging annotation gigs as supplementary income. …
Now it’s China’s experts who are gig workers training AI Read More
Employers in certain sectors will have been concerned to read reports from the UK government that the costs of promised reforms to “zero hours contracts” under the Employment Rights Act …
Zero‑hours contracts are about to change in the UK ‑ how managers respond will be crucial Read More
Six weeks before the US launched its brazen mission to capture Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, a spy plane called the Rivet Joint was detected flying figure-of-eight loops above the Atlantic …
Gig workers in Africa have been helping the US military. They had no idea Read More
On 25 December, the Indian Federation of App-Based Transport Workers (IFAT) mobilized a nationwide flash strike, with nearly 40,000 delivery workers from platforms like Swiggy, Zomato, and Amazon participating across …
India’s Gig Workers Strike for Dignity and Protection Read More
On a smog-choked late November morning in Delhi, a crowd of workers, union leaders and political allies gathered under a haze of winter pollution to send a message to one …
New laws in the Indian states of Rajasthan, Karnataka and Telangana advance app workers’ rights. Read More
Natalie had just dropped off a customer at the Ritz Hotel in central London when her phone started aggressively bleeping at her with offers of new fares. “I couldn’t concentrate. …
Taken for a Ride: Inside Uber’s New Race to the Bottom Read More
Just this month, northern Vietnam has been hit by super typhoon Yagi, the strongest in decades. Earlier this year, Ho Chi Minh City residents experienced the longest heat wave in three decades. …
Extreme weather is making life harder for Vietnam’s delivery riders Read More
Labor advocates on Thursday decried a ruling by the California Supreme Court upholding a lower court’s affirmation of a state ballot measure allowing app-based ride and delivery companies to classify …
‘Tragic Outcome’ for Gig Workers as California Supreme Court Hands Win to Uber, DoorDash Read More
In Jakarta, gig riders for the super-app Gojek are part of peer-support groups, known as communities. These closely knit groups — created based on region, gender, and shared interests — …
How Gojek keeps its gig riders close — and away from unions Read More
While on the campaign trail in 2022, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made it clear he wanted to take on gig work platforms. “We’re not against someone working …
Brazil’s politicians, unions, and workers can’t agree on how to protect gig labor Read More