2. How do problems of Digita Labor (DL) compare to
those of non-DL, unorganized labour?
How do we understand the current strategies and tools
being used to improve conditions for DL?
Can we imagine and implement more opportunities and
tools for self-organizing?
How can we add action based organizing to current
predominantly reputation based organizing?
3. SAYS-US.NET
Frank Kashner
From GE IUE factory to software engineering to social
work & SEIU
From South Bay Mental Health to jobvent.com to says-us.
net and digital solutions
Says-us.net
Online platform to enable working people to voice &
hear complaints about work (+)
To find each other, to organize, and to take action
4. Digital Labor is Labor
Jeff Bezos / Amazon = Innovator, Employer,
Aggregator, Boss, Enabler, Exploiter
Requesters and Turkers = bosses and workers
DL faces small employers, lawless, abusive, low
wages, divisions, isolation
5. There are multiple rating & review systems
ratemyemployer.ca, jobvent.com, jobitorial.com, glassdoor.com,
fixmyjob.com, coworker.org, contratados.org, Dynamo, Turkopticon,
hylo.org, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter
Turkopticon ratings:
Communicativity, generosity, fairness, pr
omptness
Wages & working conditions
Reddit and other forums – community,
discussion, learning, action
6. Dynamo – what is to be done?
Turkopticon, contratados,
RateMyEmployer: using reputation to gain
power has limits – Soutbay Mental Health
Petitions require signatures : anonymous
vs. attributed conundrum
7. Can we / how do we
Identify “features” that will enable all labor?
Add organizational to reputational power?
Capability for anonymous communication
Ability to take action – petition, flash mob,
demonstration, legal,?
8. Can we / how do we
Give users control over movement from
anonymous to attributed?
Enable users to reach out to outside, helpful
organizations?
Solve challenges of large data, security, capability,
capacity?
9. GNUnion
Örsan Şenalp
Unionist, immigrant-flex, knowledge worker
Social Network Unionism, WikiStrike, NetwOrganizing,
Networked Labour
Global Networked Labour Union (GNUnion) as a
distributed organized and networked labour union
design: Inspired by GNU/Linux, IWW, and Global
Labour Charter project, Occupy, 15M,…
10. Digital vent and uprising
Digital and grounded transnational organising
Wisconsin, North Africa, 15M, Occupy, and Gezi
uprisings
Expression | anger-vent | self-organisation-hope |
action | pattern went global
Oakland and West-Coast Shut Dow, MayFirst global
and 14N European transnational general strikes
11. The missing link
‘The communities', the people
Says-Us as an interface? Between the unemployed,
disempowered, and precarious workers and
empowered communities
An easy access p2p-platform to social networking
tools, skills, resources
A bottom up built solution focusing on moving from
transnational self-expression, organizing and action
12. Status of our collaboration
Learning from what exists
Building online collaboration spaces
Our web host, MayFirst / People Link
WIN radio -"the complaint of the day”
Agaric, a worker owned cooperative
Collecting "20 questions”
Unions, activists, whistle blowing groups
13. Help us!
Concept development and prototyping for Says-us
as an functioning online portal
Designers, developers, coders, security
Activists, organizers, communities
Creating domain specific “20 questions”
Translation
Legal advice
Raise money: CoopFunding.org
14. THANK YOU!
Frank Kashner
Says-Us.Net
info@says-us.net
facebook: says-us
@says_us
Örsan Şenalp (networg.nl)
Global Networked Labour Union
gnunion.wordpress.com
gnunion@networg.nl
@OneBigMeshwork