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Microsoft Plans to Lay Off 9,000 Employees Amid Restructuring and AI Focus
02 Jul 2025 22:38 GMT
… another major workforce reduction, tech giant Microsoft is reportedly preparing … for Affected Employees
Microsoft has assured that affected employees will receive … opportunities. Despite this, employee unions and workplace analysts have expressed concerns …
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Opinion: Big Beautiful Bill’s AI regulation moratorium would imperil Minnesota workers and consumers
30 Jun 2025 21:50 GMT
… . Amazon workers are far from alone. Microsoft is already … undermine workplace organizing. Amazon employed AI to monitor workers’ social … identify and fire workers seeking better working conditions. Such … worker power at a time when public support for unions …
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Cosatu, BBC slam Elon Musk's R2 billion investment plan to avoid BEE
03 Jul 2025 19:58 GMT
… Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has expressed … creating jobs, upgrading worker skills, or investing in … like IBM and Microsoft that have utilised … federation advocates for worker empowerment through Employee Shareholder Ownership Programmes …
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UN rapporteur accuses Israel of ‘one of cruelest genocides’ in modern history; urges arms embargo, global disengagement
03 Jul 2025 16:08 GMT
… in the report are Amazon, Microsoft, BNP Paribas, Booking, and Korean … law.”
She emphasized that her work went “beyond what has been … to play its part, saying: “Trade unions, lawyers, civil society groups, and …
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Futures Coiled At Record High Ahead Of Closely Watched Jobs Report
03 Jul 2025 12:42 GMT
… +0.6%, Amazon +0.2%, Microsoft -0.03%, Alphabet -0.03% … poses to European security.
Japan Trade Union Rengo says final data shows …
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90 Years After Its Passage, the National Labor Relations Act Is Under Siege
02 Jul 2025 17:30 GMT
… employers to interfere in and defeat efforts by their workers to organize unions … penalties against employers who fired workers for organizing, … years ago, however, “Microsoft agreed not to oppose … Blizzard,” which employs 10,000 workers.
This organizing …
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Control, Crisis, & Compliance: Endgame Logic Of Late Capitalism
02 Jul 2025 05:11 GMT
… neoliberalism has already weakened trade unions, suppressed wages and increased … of precarious, low-paid employment or remain unemployed, … bargaining power of workers and trade unions both in India … in April 2021 with Microsoft, allowing its local partner …
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No, you aren’t hallucinating, the corporate plan for AI is dangerous
01 Jul 2025 12:26 GMT
… companies–Google (Gemini), Musk (Grok), Microsoft (Copilot), and Meta (Llama)–fall … applicants. In fact, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission estimates that 99% … to encourage and support workers and their unions as they oppose corporate …
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BRICS+ Series: Reforming South Africa’s Education System
03 Jul 2025 12:03 GMT
… outcome is unlikely.
The Workforce Equation: Skills, Unemployment … progress is being made. Microsoft's R5.4 … , including corporates, investors, unions, civil society, and international … better positioned to boost employment, drive innovation, and …
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Live: Wall Street rises on US-Vietnam trade deal, while ASX miners up on oil surge
02 Jul 2025 22:15 GMT
… -taking institutions like credit unions and building societies rolling … cull of Australian university workers, according to a leaked … lay off about 4pc of workforce
Microsoft, which most people know … had about 228,000 employees worldwide as of June 2024 …