If you’re a Booking worker, and you think layoffs suck, come join tomorrow for the second and *final* info session organized by the Tech Workers Coalition for Booking workers on how to resist layoffs 
Friday 25 April, 13:00-14:00 CEST
Get the session link: https://techwerkers.nl/en/events/2025-04-25/
And you know what’s fun? (Read: not!)
If Booking CEO Glenn D. Fogel were to get fired for no reason, they’d get $111,026,960
And as a regular worker? What do you get??
At the same time as it’s making billions in profits, Booking is planning to lay off masses of workers at its Amsterdam offices.
Why?
Supposedly because … “organizational agility” 
Do you know how much money Booking*com made in 2024? No??
$5.88 billion.
Yes, that’s **BILLION**.
Pitiful. Absolutely pitiful, even as the wapo subhead contains: "...a sign that the human touch is not dead..." Beyond pitiful.
"#Techworkers are leaving notes in #robottaxis seeking workers and lovers" -The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/12/waymo-handwritten-notes-jobs-ads/ #Sociology #USSociety
"As tech workers, we have a moral responsibility to resist complicity and the militarization of our work before it’s too late."
Emma Jackson, who's been at Google for over 20 years, on the sickening realization that Google has turned into a genocide supporting arms contractor
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/google-employee-speaks-out-war-contracting/
A must-read piece from a tech worker at Google, arguing for a worker-led “AI arms embargo”: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/google-employee-speaks-out-war-contracting/
What sort of workplace action can you do without getting fired? (Or, well before getting fired?)
A guide from @techwerkers on legal protections for workplace action 
within Dutch law, prepared by an actual official Dutch labour lawyer 
Includes:
Can I refuse to perform certain tasks with an appeal to conscientious objection?
Can I strike when I don’t agree with the activities of my employer because of conscientious objection?
Can I denounce my employer publicly or with other colleagues because of immoral activities based on conscientious objection?
Tech Workers Coalition is where tech workers come together to build collective power at work!
Do you want to learn more? Get involved? Join the onboarding call 
Tuesday 15 April at 5:00 pm (today!)
Register to get the link: https://bit.ly/twc101-apr2025A
By the way if you're interested in getting started with workplace organizing in tech, the tech workers coalition has a basic guide to get you going: https://techwerkers.nl/en/resources/organize/
Soooo what can you do once you've decided that you're going to do all you can to stop genocide in Palestine? Ibraheem suggests:
1) Organize
"You must join the other workers who are raising their voices against their employer for their support of this genocide."
This is where my clear tech workers bias shows. This shit has been prevalent in transportation, retail, chain restaurants, factory work, anywhere they have high turnover or hire and fire large groups of people regularly. I had Neighbor’s kids answer weird personality questions with the camera on to judge their fit for a role. That was for an analyst role at a large financial institution before this recent AI takeover!
2024
https://www.engadget.com/gaming/zenimax-online-studios-workers-form-their-own-union-190055555.html
2024
https://www.engadget.com/world-of-warcraft-workers-unlock-form-a-union-achievement-220148151.html
2023
https://www.engadget.com/sega-of-america-workers-are-forming-a-union-184043887.html
#labormovement #organize #solidarity #techworkers #videogames
#zenimax #sega #Blizzard
The industry-wide union for video game workers in the US and Canada: United Videogame Workers-CWA (UVW-CWA) has a mission to bring together "artists, writers, designers, QA testers, programmers, freelancers and beyond to build worker power irrespective of studio and current job status."
https://www.aol.com/one-10-video-game-developers-170000293.html?
Gulotta 
