Google parent company Alphabet and Accenture are facing allegations of violating labor laws, after about 80 Google Help subcontractors who recently voted to unionize were laid off. The workers have filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that claims the layoffs were in retaliation for the union vote.
Starbucks interim CEO Howard Schultz reportedly told pro-union Starbucks workers to “go somewhere else” during Schultz’s stop at a California store on Friday.
A senior aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Thursday that congressional staffers who choose to unionize would have her “full support.”
Early vote counts at the Amazon warehouse facilities in Bessemer, Alabama, show workers voting overwhelmingly against forming a union.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has rejected Amazon’s motion asking the federal agency to install a camera that would monitor ballot boxes containing union votes submitted by employees at its Alabama facility. The NLRB said: “Though the mail ballot election in this matter is large, it is not, as the Employer asserts, of a ‘special nature.’”
Following the recent announcement of a new Google labor union, employees at the company have reacted to the news with a celebration on social media. One software engineer wrote that “It’s time for tech workers to stand together & say we won’t prop up a world made for the wealthy, the privileged, the white, the male, the heteronormative.”
Amazon hid information of a coronavirus outbreak from employees at one of its distribution centers in New York City, said Chris Smalls, who was fired by Amazon after he blew the whistle on the outbreak at his warehouse and helped organize a walkout to protest the unsafe working conditions there.
UNION CITY, New Jersey – Most people who pass through Union City don’t realize it. It is the home of the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel to Manhattan, the last bit of New Jersey you see before the big city erases your memory of it, if you flew into Newark Airport.
Bernie 2020 will be the first presidential campaign in history to have a unionized workforce, the campaign announced Friday.
A 45-minute long internal video created by Amazon instructs “team leaders” on how to spot and intimidate those with sympathy for unionization.
Extreme Maoist labor activists in China are increasingly facing government repression for demanding that the Communist Party allow workers to unionize and assert their rights, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported Tuesday.
“Planned Parenthood is spending $50k to beat a pro-choice woman after she supported Planned Parenthood workers trying to unionize,” followed Ryan Grim, D.C. bureau chief at The Intercept. “For a state legislative seat,” he added.
