Tech firms’ Kenyan contractors lobby Biden for labor protections – msn/WaPost
“For years, Kenyan labor activists have complained that big tech companies such as Meta outsource vital functions such as content moderation to third-party contracting firms that inflict dire working conditions, at cheap wages with little job security, on local workers…
“Outsourcing firms gives workers little job stability, often only offering short-term contracts or sometimes abruptly canceling the work altogether, according to advocates. Workers are also paid less than other workers with similar jobs elsewhere in the world, activists charge. ‘There’s a rise of anxiety within these workers, and this is important because when you look at [Kenyan] households, over 60 percent of our households are run by single moms,’ Wako said. ‘It makes it really hard to depend on this sort of work.'”