Credit to Author: Lauren Kaori Gurley| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 18:59:59 +0000
Inspired by UC Santa Cruz, grad students at UC Santa Barbara are the latest to go on a ‘wildcat’ strike, in a wave of labor unrest sweeping California’s public universities.
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Credit to Author: Lauren Kaori Gurley| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 00:23:41 +0000
“I am risking de-facto expulsion and having to leave the country.”
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Credit to Author: Lauren Kaori Gurley| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 02:07:06 +0000
‘They treat us like robots and we feel like prisoners.’
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Credit to Author: Lauren Kaori Gurley| Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 19:59:49 +0000
In the midst of a union drive, Kickstarter is working with a law firm that has previously helped clients avoid unionization, but the company says ‘union avoidance’ has never been its goal.
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Credit to Author: Laura Wagner| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 21:59:39 +0000
The viral chef is faced with lawsuits over sex discrimination and wage theft, NLRB complaints, and a giant inflatable rat.
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Credit to Author: Edward Ongweso Jr| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 18:21:30 +0000
“We’re spending more money at restaurants than a customer would spend on the same order, and many of us would just like to wash our hands when we pick up food.”
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Credit to Author: Lauren Kaori Gurley| Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 23:04:48 +0000
Fed up with life under the algorithm, Instacart employees in Chicago are leading the grocery delivery app’s first union drive.
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Credit to Author: Lauren Kaori Gurley| Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 20:04:37 +0000
In a video released Monday, dozens of Amazon employees violate company policy by publicly criticizing a new communication policy that clamps down on employee activism.
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Credit to Author: Lauren Kaori Gurley| Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:19:55 +0000
More than 70 scholars, activists and leaders urge lawmakers to expand workers digital rights to rebuild the union movement.
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Credit to Author: Patrick Klepek| Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 20:31:17 +0000
A depressing way to better understand the broken foundations of the video game industry.
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