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Berlin Tech Workers Coalition

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  1. Berlin Tech Workers Coalition@TechWorkersBER
    And that’s a wrap! First day of #TechWorkersConf was a huge success! On 14 October we have a panel on collective bargaining success and 4 parallel panels on @dwenteignen, climate change, gender pay gap, and union busting/bullying! Join us! Registration is still possible!
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    RT @project_gig: The latest Gig Economy Project newsletter is out! We report from Gdansk, where the ETUC annual 'Platforum' has been held just 2 months before the Platform Work Directive transposition deadline, which most governments appear intensely relaxed about missing
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    A famous VPN company offered TWC €10,000 to promote its products to our European audience. We refused. TWC can't be bought. But like @OpenVPN, a Betriebsrat doesn't let management sneak anything past it.
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    Berlin Tech Workers Coalition
    RT @omgsidewalks: Nobody talks about how the quickest cure for imposter syndrome is simply sitting in a meeting with very high-level corporate executives.
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    RT @KrippyItIs: Hallo lieber Cyberkrimineller, haben Sie schon einmal von der SCHUFA gehört?
    DER SPIEGEL @derspiegel
    Ein Cyberkrimineller hat anscheinend die gesamte Grundbuchdatenbank Rumäniens gelöscht. Für Immobilenkäufer und Notare hat der Angriff weitreichende Folgen.
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  8. DER SPIEGEL✓@derspiegel
    Ein Cyberkrimineller hat anscheinend die gesamte Grundbuchdatenbank Rumäniens gelöscht. Für Immobilenkäufer und Notare hat der Angriff weitreichende Folgen.
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    RT @DataChaz: Anthropic with every industry:
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    Claude @claudeai
    We're introducing Claude for Teachers: free access to premium Claude capabilities for verified K-12 educators in the US, with a library of teaching skills and a direct connection to evidence-based curricula, mapped to academic standards in all 50 states.
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    We're introducing Claude for Teachers: free access to premium Claude capabilities for verified K-12 educators in the US, with a library of teaching skills and a direct connection to evidence-based curricula, mapped to academic standards in all 50 states.
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    RT @web3privacy: Check Resistance and Political Organization in the Shadow of Big Tech, fireside chat of Yonatan Miller x @TechWorkersBER and Josephine Shen x Cables of Resistance from Neocypherpunk Summit. Drawing on their shared experience collaborating with Tech Workers Coalition and Cables of Resistance, the speakers consider key questions such as how are gentrification and decentralisation connected or what learnings and momentum can we take forward from Cables of Resistance, and into the streets, workplaces and digital forums? Watch it here at:
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    Berlin Tech Workers Coalition
    RT @kinocow: And if you're an immigrant wanting to get Permanent Residency or a German Citizenship, forget about getting one without a permanent contract.
    Frau B aus Do @FrauBausDo1
    Alle reden über Karenztage. Noch schlimmer finde ich die Tatsache, dass Arbeitsverträge künftig 4 Jahre (!) befristet werden können, bevor es die Möglichkeit eines Festvertrages gibt. 4 Jahre keine Planungssicherheit, keine Kredite, Probleme bei der Urlaubsplanung, Umzug usw!
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  13. Frau B aus Do@FrauBausDo1
    Alle reden über Karenztage. Noch schlimmer finde ich die Tatsache, dass Arbeitsverträge künftig 4 Jahre (!) befristet werden können, bevor es die Möglichkeit eines Festvertrages gibt. 4 Jahre keine Planungssicherheit, keine Kredite, Probleme bei der Urlaubsplanung, Umzug usw!
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    RT @techworkersco: Circuit Breakers, the conference for tech worker organizing, by and for fellow workers, is coming back to NYC on October 17-18, and submissions are still open. Whet your appetite and get hype with the plenary keynotes from last year.
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    🤡 Most high-skilled tech workers would beg to differ
    Gokul ⚡️ @gokulns
    As an employee in Germany who would be affected by this, I am so happy that this is happening and that my employer can fire me at-will. This feels like the start of a flywheel. 1. I do think €180,000 is too high a number as threshold. It should be €100,000. This will allow FAANG for eg: to hire more freely in Germany [which they don't today partly because it's super hard to fire people]. This in turn will rise all boats and increase competition for talent at the 100-160k levels. It'll also help startups. [I guess they will get here - 180k is just a starting point]. 2. I think this needs to be coupled with weakening the Betriebsrat (Works Council) and Collective Bargaining Agreements - they are IMO the bane of German industry. Will be a tougher sell given how entrenched they are, but hopefully to incentivize FAANG-type employers, we defang these [lol] 3. This should ideally be coupled with a merit-based immigration stance (eg: the Danish / Dutch type tax rebates etc.] so that exceptionally skilled people consider Europe a viable destination (given how awesome Blue Card is vis-a-vis the H1B nightmare) Merz absolutely lacks charisma but dude knows how economics works, lol.
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  16. Gokul ⚡️✓@gokulns
    As an employee in Germany who would be affected by this, I am so happy that this is happening and that my employer can fire me at-will. This feels like the start of a flywheel. 1. I do think €180,000 is too high a number as threshold. It should be €100,000. This will allow FAANG for eg: to hire more freely in Germany [which they don't today partly because it's super hard to fire people]. This in turn will rise all boats and increase competition for talent at the 100-160k levels. It'll also help startups. [I guess they will get here - 180k is just a starting point]. 2. I think this needs to be coupled with weakening the Betriebsrat (Works Council) and Collective Bargaining Agreements - they are IMO the bane of German industry. Will be a tougher sell given how entrenched they are, but hopefully to incentivize FAANG-type employers, we defang these [lol] 3. This should ideally be coupled with a merit-based immigration stance (eg: the Danish / Dutch type tax rebates etc.] so that exceptionally skilled people consider Europe a viable destination (given how awesome Blue Card is vis-a-vis the H1B nightmare) Merz absolutely lacks charisma but dude knows how economics works, lol.
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    Berlin Tech Workers Coalition
    RT @techworkersco: ⚡️ Sunday July 12th (11am PT / 2pm ET) - If Chips Could Kill: Understanding Exploitation in the Semiconductor Industry. We’ll explore the ethics behind hardware - from Congo, to Palestine, to our own backyards
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    Berlin Tech Workers Coalition
    RT @web3privacy: 70 organisations are coming to Neo-Cypherpunk Summit in Berlin. United in Freedom. Solidarity in practice 🔥 Tech Solidarity Movements @TechWorkersBER, @breadcoop, @opencollect Human Rights Advocates @HRF, @amnesty Research with a human face @Info_Activism, @DarkMatter_Labs, @sovright_, @BlockchainGov, @argotorg, @fsf Europe, @INCAmsterdam, @foresightinst, @otherinternet__, @metagov_project Hacktivism @DyneOrg, @dod_berlin, @CommunityPriv, @BordelWTF, @Poetic_Tech Freedom Stack Protocols & networks @Logos_network, @DarkFiSquad, @ethereum, @nym, @torproject Operational Systems: @GrapheneOS Browsers: @torproject, @brave, Freedom Browser Messegers: Air by @BitchatMe_ by @callebtc Wallets: Kohaku by @ethereumfndn VPNs: @snowstormnet, @nym Storages: @ethswarm, @IPFS Socials: @masknetwork Docs @fileverse Crypto: @Zcash Portfolio @rotkiapp Collaboration @radicle Policymakers @EuEthInstitute R&D: @argotorg, open hardware by Genomics: @dark_dot_bio Together
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  20. Berlin Tech Workers Coalition@TechWorkersBER
    Grab your free ticket and here from @TechWorkersBER among other digital rights groups ✊
    Web3Privacy Now @web3privacy
    We have a dream that multidisciplinary people from different fields will come together via the Neo-Cypherpunk Summit in Berlin 🇩🇪 1 day of incredible 70 thinkers from @torproject to @ethereumfndn 📢 1000 individuals curious about anti-Big Tech, democracy, open-source software, privacy, and freedom ✊ Diverse subjects from encrypted messengers to politics of Gen AI, across solidarity movements & decentralised socials. We have a dream, and we are making it real:
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  21. Web3Privacy Now✓@web3privacy
    We have a dream that multidisciplinary people from different fields will come together via the Neo-Cypherpunk Summit in Berlin 🇩🇪 1 day of incredible 70 thinkers from @torproject to @ethereumfndn 📢 1000 individuals curious about anti-Big Tech, democracy, open-source software, privacy, and freedom ✊ Diverse subjects from encrypted messengers to politics of Gen AI, across solidarity movements & decentralised socials. We have a dream, and we are making it real:
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    Posts @TechWorkersBER
    *hear. We refuse to pay @X for the edit feature so excuse our typos 🙈
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    Berlin Tech Workers Coalition
    RT @GergelyOrosz: What I’m hearing: Instagram’s Trust and Safery org absolutely gutted the last few weeks. ~60% of the org gone - between layoffs and forced reassignments to data labelling. All while “AI maxxing” pushed a bunch of bugs to prod. And hence why today’s massive Insta account takeover happening.
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    RT @project_gig: The Gig Economy Project newsletter is out! A new documentary on food delivery in Germany exposes what we all know: the industry is a mafia-style operation, where criminality is endemic & migrants are exploited because they have nowhere else to turn.
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    Berlin Tech Workers Coalition
    RT @uniglobalunion: 🇮🇪 Solidarity with Meta content moderators at Covalen in Ireland as the outsourcing company plans to lay off 700 workers. “What is happening in Dublin today is also happening in every corner of the globe. Tech companies are treating the workers whose labour and data helped build AI as disposable. To fight back, it’s absolutely critical that workers organize and demand notice about the introduction of AI, training linked to employment and a plan for their futures. Workers should also have the right to refuse to train their AI replacements,” said UNI Global Union General Secretary, Christy Hoffman. “It’s time the likes of Meta and TikTok took responsibility for the workers who made their platforms possible, not discard them without a second thought – and they should think carefully about what is lost when experience and human judgement are thrown out the door.” Digital and Techworkers Alliance (DATA), which is part of UNI’s Irish affiliate, the Communications Workers’ Union, represents several hundred workers at the outsourcing company.
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