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DESCRIPTION:LaborTech Conference   \n For registration: \n Go to LaborTech: 
 www.labortech.net for registration and information.\nOr you can send the 
 following information to LaborFest: laborfest@laborfest.net\n 1) name, 2) 
 e-mail address, 3) phone number, 4) your union or organization if any, 5) 
 US mail address\n\nRegistration Fee:\n Regular - $50\n Senior, unemployed - 
 $35\n Student - contact LaborFest laborfest@laborfest.net \n\nSchedule:\n 
 (Schedule and room location to be announced later)\n\nTopics:\n* The gig 
 economy - how is this changing the conditions of labor and our lives?\nMore 
 and more workers are being pushed into the gig economy - What does this 
 mean?\n\n*How workers and unions can stream our stories and struggles, and 
 build channels using the smart phone\n How can your union or labor group 
 get your stories out using smart phones and streaming technology?\n\n*How 
 is tech being used on the job and for workers struggles & 
 communication?\nWhat labor rights do you have on the job with new 
 technology, and how are workers using video and communication media to get 
 out their stories and issues.\n\n*Techsploitation: how immigrant workers 
 and senior tech workers face discrimination in the tech industry, and what 
 you can do about it.\n\nThe development of communication technology has led 
 to major changes in the production chain. Today through the Internet, 
 hundreds of millions of workers are now critically linked together and the 
 smart phone has become for the Chinese, the shouji, or “hand machine,” 
 that more and more workers are tied to. Tech workers and millions of other 
 workers are now tethered to the Internet 24 hours a day, and every 
 keystroke is now being watched by their employers on and off the job.\n 
 Apps are also being use to put workers in a temporary part-time economy, 
 and change their conditions of work, from taxi workers to call centers, as 
 well as healthcare workers and workers in every industry.\n\nLaborTech 2015 
 will look at how this new technology is being used on workers, and how 
 workers are using communication technology to organize from strikes, 
 creating solidarity and challenging the attack on democratic rights. It 
 will also provide instruction on how to build labor channels that can get 
 the stories out to workers and the public locally and internationally.\n 
 The introduction of technology into the workplace, and the labor and human 
 rights of workers including the large number of immigrant workers in the 
 tech industry, is a growing issue for not only these workers but all 
 people.\n\nLaborTech 2015 will look at these issues, and how labor can 
 confront these issues here and internationally.\n\nFor more information, 
 contact LaborFest: laborfest@laborfest.net\n or call: 415-642-8066 \nSee 
 also:\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2015/LaborTech.htm\nhttp://www.labortech.net/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/06/21/18773797.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: LaborTech Conference
LOCATION:Stanford University  - 450 Serra Mall, Stanford \n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/06/21/18773797.php
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