Logistics AI, Robo Taxi World, Land Lines & Check Outs

At: ILWU Local 6 –  99 Hegenberger Rd. Oakland

The massive investment and speculation around AI and robotics is already having a major effect for workers in California. Following the UPS contract, over 20,000 workers were terminated without compensation, and the company plans to eliminate 100,000 UPS Teamsters. In San Francisco, Governor Newsom and the legislature have allowed the unregulated introduction of Google Waymo autonomous vehicles that will replace all taxi and UBER Lyft drivers and delivery workers.
Workers in the entire logistics chain including ILWU & ILA longshore, teamsters, railroad workers are also faced with the elimination of large number of jobs and increasing stress and pressure on those workers remaining on the job.
Big data and algorithms are now at the center of this drive for greater profits by the massive elimination of millions of workers.

Speakers:
John Palmer – IBT Teamster Vice President At Large
Adrienne Williams – Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), Former Amazonia Organizer San Leandro
Peter Racioppo – UCLA UAW 4811 Member & AI
Mark Gruber – San Francisco Taxi Workers Alliance