Workers at fast-food restaurant chains in 15 cities around the US went on strike on Tuesday demanding a raise in their minimum wage to $15 an hour. The workers at McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s, joined by home care and nursing home […]
Wilfred Arceneaux is a server at the Atlanta Airport and an LGBTQ advocate. He canvassed in Atlanta as part of UNITE HERE’s Take Back the Senate campaign to elect labor-endorsed candidates to the US Senate. About the experience […]
The Protecting the Right to Organize Act, introduced on February 4, will free Americans to build better lives and curtail the scorched-earth campaigns that employers wage to keep unions out at any cost. The PRO Act, backed by President […]
The head of the Center for Independent Employees is paid $3,200 per day to thwart what could become Amazon’s first unionized facility in the US. The Seattle-based conglomerate recently retained a consultant named Russell Brown to […]
A group of more than 70 Amazon investors is telling the company to stop interfering with a unionization vote in Alabama, according to a report from The Financial Times. Nearly 6,000 workers at an Alabama warehouse are voting […]
Amazon on Friday lost its push to postpone a closely watched union vote at a sprawling Alabama warehouse, allowing 6,000 workers to decide the first major unionization effort within the company since 2014. The decision by the National Labor […]
“Workers at an Amazon warehouse in the Deep South are hoping to make history by establishing the company’s first unionized workplace in the United States,” writes Luis Feliz Leon in The American Prospect. “Amazon can easily […]
“Online gaming culture had a track record of toxic culture,” writes Sarah Jaffee in News Opener, “particularly the right-wing ‘Gamergate’ movement, and that kind of culture rubbed off on the workplace. Games companies, in the wake of […]
More than 225 Google engineers and other workers have formed a union, the group revealed on Monday, capping years of growing activism at one of the world’s largest companies and presenting a rare beachhead for labor organizers in […]
Google illegally fired two employees involved in labor organizing last year, the National Labor Relations Board alleged in a complaint on Wednesday. The tech giant also violated federal labor law, the agency said, by surveilling employees who […]
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