{"id":62,"date":"2019-06-01T01:25:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T01:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=62"},"modified":"2019-06-10T10:20:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T17:20:25","slug":"the-gig-economy-ai-robotics-workers-and-dystopia-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/event\/the-gig-economy-ai-robotics-workers-and-dystopia-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gig Economy, AI, Robotics, Workers and Dystopia San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco is now a world center of tech, yet the workers, whether UBER-Lyft drivers or a growing number of gig workers, are under extreme stress and face nightmare conditions with no worker or union rights. The growing number of suicides is a reaction to this dire state.<br \/>\nWhile San Francisco has more billionaires per person than any city in the world, there are thousands of homeless, escalating evictions of tenants, and a massive gridlock with growing environmental issues. Has capitalism gone wild and is this the permanent dystopian world or can working people and our unions transform this city and society?<br \/>\nThese are some of the questions that will be addressed in this event.<\/p>\n<p>Initial Speakers:<br \/>\n<em><strong>Steven Hill<\/strong><\/em>, writer and journalist on the Gig Economy.<br \/>\nAuthor of Raw Deal: How the \u201cUber Economy\u201d and Runaway Capitalism are Screwing American Workers.<br \/>\n<em><strong>Edward Escobar,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>founder of the Alliance for Independent Workers &#8211; #DriversUnite International Movement. UBER\/LYFT\/Black Car Driver<br \/>\n<em><strong>Mehmet Bayram<\/strong><\/em> is a tech worker and is with the International Labor MediaNetwork.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by LaborNet and WorkWeek Radio<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-204\" src=\"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/7-10-GigxBW.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/7-10-GigxBW.jpg 900w, https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/7-10-GigxBW-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/7-10-GigxBW-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/7-10-GigxBW-700x467.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco is now a world center of tech, yet the workers are under extreme stress and face nightmare conditions with no worker or union rights.  Has capitalism gone wild and is this the permanent dystopian world or can working people and our unions transform this city and society? These are some of the questions that will be addressed in this event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[16,4],"class_list":["post-62","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-07-10-2019","tribe_events_cat-forum-reading","cat_07-10-2019","cat_forum-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}