Wage theft costs U.S. workers billions each year. Know your rights: overtime pay is 1.5× your regular rate no exceptions. Every stolen hour is stolen dignity. Houston workers are organizing to end wage theft and demand accountability.

Our new release, "The Hidden Heist," is a massive research project exposing how corporations have pushed state bans that block the things our communities need to thrive. We traced their tactics across states, industries and decades—here's what we found👇 www.powerswitchaction.org/resources/th...

The Hidden Heist

How Corporations Push State Bans to Keep Us Broke and Hijack Our Democracy

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This Monday, UNE member Debra spoke at the Colorado stop of the @fobaction.bsky.social  Who Pays? Bus Tour. Together, the speakers shared their stories. Debra said it best: “When billionaires rig our tax systems for their profit, they’re not just threatening Medicaid. They’re threatening lives.”

"By comparing themselves to golf courses, tech giants obscure a vital distinction: they are draining the drinkable, treated water supply of the communities hosting them." 👏 ...the data center industry also VASTLY overestimates how much people like golf courses. www.forbes.com/sites/kensil...

The Digital Dust Bowl: The Brutal Physical Reality Of The AI Boom

AI runs on land, water, and power—not the cloud. Here is the brutal physical footprint of the data center boom, and the hidden cost communities are paying.

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Shout out to the Eighth graduating class of WILL Empower Apprentices!!!! This year's class repped orgs like @powerswitchaction.org, Community Labor United, @unitehere.org and more! 💥 Check out more information on our website🖱️🌐 www.willempower.org/2026/06/23/8...

Communities across the country are holding vigils to mourn Lorenzo and Johan. who were gunned down by ICE. Stand with their family and coworkers, tell the truth about what happened, and demand accountability. Join or host a vigil on Mobilize here: www.mobilize.us/disappearedi...

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo had lived in this country for 35 years when he was killed by ICE on his way to work. Join the call on 7/15 as we organize a nationwide response to honor Lorenzo's life, support his family, and demand immediate accountability. www.mobilize.us/disappearedi...

Justice for Lorenzo: Day of Action & Accountability Movement Call · Disappeared in America

On Tuesday, July 7, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Houston, Texas. Lorenzo was not under investigation. He was not a suspect. He was a dad driving a work van with his cr...

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We have one more week to win Green, Healthy Schools in the NYC budget! Let’s fight for a green, healthy future — solar panels on the rooftops, energy efficient buildings, clean air and ventilation, and fully electric renewable energy upgrades.

More data center resistance in the heartland! Residents in Hobart IN are demonstrating to let Gov. Braun know that data centers are a bad deal for Hoosiers. The state has already given Amazon $8 billion in subsidies for data center buildouts.

No Soccer Without Workers! ✊️ The World Cup games have kicked off in Seattle, and we’ve got the backs of the workers who keep our neighborhood running. We’re putting stickers up all over town. If you see one out there, take a pic and pass it our way! ⚽️

LOVE seeing a data center moratorium in Jeff Bezos's backyard. If it can happen in Seattle, it can happen anywhere!

Guy Oron@guyoron.net · 2mo ago

BREAKING: The Seattle City Council has unanimously passed a 1-year moratorium on data center construction within city limits. The legislation makes Seattle the largest U.S. city to pass such a ban amid the Generative AI boom.

🎉ALIGN is turning 15!🥳 As we celebrate our 15th anniversary and reflect on our history, we remain committed to the fight — a New York with clean air, green jobs, and dignity and justice for all workers. Thanks for being in the fight with us!

Movements don't build themselves. We're hiring a Part-Time Organizer in Philadelphia to help develop leaders, organize communities, and win real change for working people. Learn more: powerinterfaith.org/join/open-po...

While much of the discussion around AI has focused on future possibilities, these technologies are already a reality for many workers in the gig economy. That’s why it’s important that governments step up now to regulate AI in the workplace.

AI Runs the Global Gig Economy. Governments Must Respond. - FPIF

At the International Labour Organization, governments must find a way to codify protections for gig workers -- and regulate their AI bosses.

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We are proud to have Executive Director @mooreprogress.bsky.social appointed to @mayor.nyc.gov's Commission on Government Efficiency! This commission will ensure NYC will deliver on housing, childcare, public infrastructure, and key services with the speed and urgency New Yorkers deserve!

More hopecore on the data center front: Pulaski County Arkansas just passed a one-year moratorium on data centers this week! The industry wants these projects to seem inevitable, but they👏 are👏 not!👏 www.kark.com/news/local-n...

Pulaski County approves data center moratorium after tense, hours-long debate

After hours of emotional debate Tuesday night, the Pulaski County Quorum Court approved a one-year moratorium on future large-scale data center development in unincorporated areas of the county, wh…

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📣 We are hiring! We're looking for a seasoned attorney to join our national team in a newly created General Counsel role, serving as the primary legal advisor for our organization. Remote, full-time (open to part-time), $135k-$150k Learn more & apply here: www.powerswitchaction.org/jobs/psa-gen...

General Counsel

Local Organizing Sparking National Transformation

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More of this, please!! Just imagine how many public services we could fund if more governments actually enforced the law and fined Amazon for its terrible behavior. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

Mamdani Administration Recovers More Than $9 Million in Unpaid Amazon Idling Fines

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Our friends at @notechforapartheid.bsky.social and @amzn4climate.bsky.social are leading this wave of tech worker organizing 💪💪💪

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3mo ago

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Across the tech industry, the people who understand A.I. most intimately — the ones who write its code, train its models and watch its capabilities expand in real time — are increasingly alarmed by what they are building and for whom,” Kate Andrias writes.

🔥We’re turning up the heat for Green Healthy Schools! We cannot afford another budget without investments that fix our deteriorating school buildings. We need @mayor.nyc.gov and the City Council to invest in clean air, safe work, and healthy learning!

Additionally, we are building a Resource Library from partners who have been thinking about these issues for a long time, including from friends at @datasociety.bsky.social, the UC Berkeley Labor Center, and @powerswitchaction.org. labor.dair-institute.org/resources

From these case studies, we learned about the diversity of tactics available to workers in the fight against AI at work and how these struggles are fundamentally tied to the broader fight for worker power, agency and dignity.

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

Chicago has a message for Amazon: Pay what you owe our communities! This morning, Chicagoans disrupted business as usual at Amazon’s Bridgeport warehouse, calling out the corporation for fueling the fascists instead of funding our futures.

Our kids deserve a learning environment that is healthy, not harmful But too many public school buildings are plagued with mold, leaks, asbestos, and poor ventilation. JOIN US to rally for #GreenHealthySchools for clean and healthy future: tinyurl.com/ghs526

Green Healthy Schools Rally

NYC public schools are in disrepair. Crumbling infrastructure is affecting students and workers' health and safety, as schools suffer from Poor air and water quality Mold, asbestos, and lead ...

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The corporate media is bravely asking, “won’t anyone think of the billionaires?”

MYTH: Data centers with “closed-loop” systems return water to the ground and won’t deplete the water supply. REALITY: They still lose water to evaporation, and what's left is pumped back into the ground hot and full of pollutants.

People 100% see through the claims that data centers will bring prosperity to their towns. That's exactly why so many developers use NDAs to get their projects approved with as little public input as possible. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

7 in 10 Americans oppose data centers being built in their communities

The survey found that Republicans and Democrats are uncomfortable living near a data center, but opposition is especially intense among Democrats.

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Another great takedown of people who dismiss data center opposition as NIMBYism. "Datacenters provide a ... focal point where people can show up and directly confront out-of-control and otherwise impossible-to-reach tech billionaires." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The fight against AI data centers isn’t just about tech – it’s about democracy | Astra Taylor and Saul Levin

Claims of nimbyism are a misunderstanding: the movement is about whether regular people have a say in fundamental decisions

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Want to fight the power of tech oligarchs? Athena is hiring a communications director! Details here: forms.gle/8qvUM31qmuw5...