Workers at outsourcing firm Covalen to take strike action
Workers at outsourcing firm Covalen to take strike action
Workers strike at Meta contractor in Ireland
Workers at Covalen – which provides outsourcing services for Meta’s platforms including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp – are on strike today (10 December) in Ireland.
Workers at services firm Covalen to take strike action
Workers at services firm Covalen to take strike action
Workers set to strike at Meta contractor Covalen in dispute over pay and union recognition
About 60 staff will take part in action on Wednesday
Staff at Irish Meta client company to strike over claims firm is ‘misclassifying’ their roles
Staff are arguing that their roles are misclassified…
Communications union seeks meeting over proposed job losses at Meta contractor Covalen
CPL subsidiary seeking about 400 redundancies with area of content moderation likely affected
Staff at Irish Meta client firm told 400 jobs at risk just weeks ahead of Christmas
One employee whose job is now at risk told The Journal that the news has come as a complete shock.
Exclusive: Outsourcing firm Covalen offers concessions to Meta AI moderators in row over visas
Covalen, the CPL subsidiary that provides outsourced AI moderators to Meta, has made concessions to overseas staff after being accused of refusing to provide them with documentation required for visa extensions.
Exclusive: Meta AI moderators in row with Irish outsourcer Covalen over visas
Covalen, the CPL subsidiary that provides AI moderators to Facebook owner Meta, is facing a major backlash from overseas workers who are accusing the company of refusing to provide them documentation they need to obtain visa extensions.
TikTok Ireland slashes paternity leave, orders some staff back to office five days a week
TikTok has slashed paternity leave benefits for Irish-based workers, and ordered hundreds of staff back to the office five days a week, internal documents show.
TikTok accused of ‘quietly’ laying off Irish workers amid global job cuts
A union has said that TikTok is laying off workers gradually in numbers that don’t require public announcements.
Asked to think like a paedophile or act suicidal: Workers training Meta’s AI in Ireland speak out
One worker who spoke to The Journal Investigates said that writing suicide-related prompts for AI led to them self-harming for the first time in their life.
Exclusive: New Global Safety Standards Aim to Protect AI’s Most Traumatized Workers
A global trade union on Thursday urged the world’s major tech companies to adopt what it says is the first set of global safety protocols for content moderators.
Global content moderators alliance demands Mental Health Protocols in Tech supply chain
The Global Trade Union Alliance of Content Moderators is calling on tech companies…
The CWU stands up for Covalen Workers
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CWU Education Grant Scheme 2025
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Global agreement in action: Remote workers at Teleperformance Ireland gain bargaining rights
Teleperformance employees in Ireland, all working remotely, secured the right to union recognition and bargain collectively following the company’s signing of a local agreement with UNI Global Union’s Irish affiliate, CWU (Communication Workers Union).
EPOC Network convenes in Dublin to strengthen unions’ organising strategies
Trade union organisers gathered from at the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) headquarters in Dublin for a meeting of UNI Europa’s EPOC Network.
Irish jobs at Microsoft and LinkedIn at risk as tech giant announces cuts
US technology giant Microsoft is moving to cut as much as 3pc of its global workforce, with more than 100 jobs in Ireland understood to be at risk.
Microsoft to cut thousands of jobs world
Microsoft said it was laying off less than 3% of its workforce, or around 6,000 employees
Content moderation is what a 21st century hazardous job looks like
“There are surely some content moderators that haven’t suffered mental health problems connected to the job, but I haven’t met them,”
WRC – Salesforce ordered to pay €1,000 over delay in response to 550km office commute
A recruiter at Salesforce who moved to the west of Ireland with his family under a remote work arrangement – only to be ordered back to an office 275km away after less than a year
Communications Workers Union Cuts Ties With Elon Musk’s ‘Anti-Worker, Anti-Union And Anti-Democratic’ X
The Communications Workers’ Union (CWU) has announced its decision to formally close its account with X (formerly Twitter), effective immediately.
CWU accuses X of being anti-worker and anti-union
The Communications Workers’ Union (CWU) has announced its decision to formally close its account with X
Shopify CEO says staffers need to prove jobs can’t be done by AI before asking for more headcount
Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke is changing his company’s approach to hiring in the age of artificial intelligence.
‘They just want me to leave’ – TikTok Dublin office accused of giving staff ‘stark’ choice between onerous ‘performance review’ and quitting
TikTok has been accused of offering workers a “stark” choice between performance improvement plans or leaving their job.
Amazon launches dedicated Irish website
Amazon has today launched its new dedicated website for Ireland – Amazon.ie.
‘We knew it was on the horizon, but were not aware of the scale’ – TikTok workers reeling from news of job losses
The announcement they had been dreading for months was over, like a TikTok video, in a matter of seconds.
TikTok plans to cut up to 300 jobs at Dublin base, government told
The social media giant is seeking to shed up to 10pc of its workforce in Dublin as it fights for survival in the US against a ban by Donald Trump
Meta set to lay off 5% of its workforce as government gauges potential Irish impact
Meta had approximately 72,400 employees as of September, roughly 2,000 of whom are based in Ireland.
Meta, Amazon scale back diversity programmes ahead of Trump inauguration
Facebook owner Meta Platforms and Amazon.com are winding down diversity programmes..
Apple pushes back on call to end diversity programme
Apple’s board has asked its investors to vote against a proposal to end its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programmes.
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Microsoft to lay off hundreds at Azure cloud unit – report
The Microsoft layoffs will impact teams including Azure for Operators and Mission Engineering, reports suggest
EU creates ‘AI Office’ to regulate tech under tough new law
The European Union has announced the creation of an “AI Office” of tech experts, lawyers and economists to regulate artificial intelligence under a sweeping new law.
Google somewhat two-faced on workplace politics
Tech giant firing staff for political protest is among the biggest lobbyists of government and not averse to very ‘political’ business.
Tech giants base their European operations in Ireland because they don’t have to recognise unions, conference told
Collective-bargaining laws urgently needed, CWU conference in Galway hears
New collective bargaining laws to radically transform Ireland’s industrial landscape
As companies across Ireland’s tech, food, pharmaceutical and consulting sectors announced widespread lay-offs, trade unions have had an exceptionally busy year.
The union boss targeting Ireland’s tech sector
‘It’s particularly hard work when Amazon won’t respond to a phone call’
Gender pay gaps at many tech firms narrowing, reports find
The gender pay gap at a number of tech firms has narrowed over the last year, according to recently filed reports.
Workers accuse Accenture of making ‘mockery’ of severance talks
Employees at Dublin-based consultancy giant said management was treating month-long negotiations as a ‘tick box exercise’
Tech workers ‘increasingly concerned about stability of sector’ after Accenture cuts
Trade unions complain to Simon Coveney about conduct of tech companies after layoffs across the sector in recent months
Unions say ‘do the right thing’ after Accenture’s announcement of 890 layoffs in Ireland
The unions have also demanded to know why there are still jobs in Ireland being advertised on Accenture’s website.
IDA pledges to help Accenture workers who get laid off
Communications Workers’ Union calls on company to engage in redundancy negotiations
The reality of Big Tech’s ‘fake work’ problem
Company, which employs 5,500 people in Ireland, posts revenues of $69m
Meta employee morale is low. Mark Zuckerberg is touting AI to fix that.
The Facebook parent company is betting that more job security and innovations in artificial intelligence will boost the internal mood as well as the company’s bottom line
Facebook work filtering posts ‘cost me my humanity’
Behind the scenes on Facebook, thousands of moderators protect users from graphic content by filtering out posts that break its rules.
Google’s parent Alphabet beats market expectations
Company, which employs 5,500 people in Ireland, posts revenues of $69m
Google CEO Sundar Pichai made $226 million last year
Google’s top executive took home quite a bit of money last year.
Google workers in London stage walkout over job cuts
Hundreds of Google employees staged a walkout at the company’s London offices on Tuesday, following a dispute over layoffs.
Google Korea workers form a union
Google Korea workers have formed a union this week with the Korea Finance & Service Workers Union (KFSWU). The union held its first general meeting on 11 April, where it elected its leadership.
Accenture to axe 400 jobs in Irish workforce
Consulting firm to slash 19,000 jobs and cut office space in the next 18 months
UNI sends solidarity to Google Zurich workers walking out against unnecessary layoffs
Rallying around the slogan “we walk out for those who can’t walk back in,” roughly 400 – 500 Google employees in Zurich left their workplace in protest at 11 am Wednesday.
BREAKING: YouTube Workers On Strike #YouTubeMusicStrike
On Friday, February 3, 2023, over 40 YouTube Music workers with Cognizant, a subcontractor of Alphabet, will begin a historic ULP strike.
Amazon strike: Hundreds of workers in Coventry walk out in pay dispute
Hundreds of Amazon workers in Coventry have begun a three-day strike in a dispute over pay.
CWA, Microsoft Announce Labor Neutrality Agreement
Ground-breaking agreement will enable a new approach to corporate-union engagement after Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard closes
Twilio laying off a further 17pc of its global workforce
Five months since its last job cuts announcement, Twilio is also restructuring its business to split the communications and software segments.
Indeed to lay off 2,200 workers worldwide
CEO Chris Hyams said the cuts will come from “nearly every team, function, level and region” at the company.
Twitter to make 140 of its Irish staff redundant as part of global job cuts
Troubled social media platform owned by Elon Musk informs Government of lay-offs
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