[auvrw]

enabling communication (e.g. ops for Mastodon communities) for labor unions strikes me as a better means of addressing the basic issue --- i.e. "the man" taking advantage of the little guy, intentional or not.

if time-tracking somehow solves the bare moneys/hour problem, other, perhaps worse, conditions could surface (thinking of what it's like to work in an online shop warehouse here, in particular, where time-tracking is .. not a complete "solution.")

traditionally, afaik, unionization is the way out of situations where a great number of workers are disadvantaged by some policy set by a few people in the industry.

this is a social [(science)?] problem, not a technological one.