🇮🇪 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.

We join our fellow global union federations in calling for an immediate cease fire and a stop to escalation in Iran, the Middle East and beyond. ⬇️Full statement uniglobalunion.org/news/glob…