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Labor

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Graduate Student Strikes Are Spreading in California

February 27, 2020 admin California, higher ed, Labor, santa barbara, strike, ucsb

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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Striking UC Santa Cruz Workers Are Spending Almost All Their Money on Rent

February 25, 2020 admin Labor, Silicon Valley, stem, strike, uc santa cruz

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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Target Warehouse Faces Its First Public Union Drive

February 20, 2020 admin Amazon, Labor, target, unions

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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Kickstarter Hired a Law Firm That Advertises ‘Maintaining a Union-Free Workplace’

February 12, 2020 admin Brooklyn, duane morris, google, kickstarter, Labor, law, unions

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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Salt Bae’s Meat Empire Is Rife With Labor Problems

February 3, 2020 admin food news, Labor, lawsuits, nusret gokče, salt bae, sex discrimination

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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News Vice 

Gig Workers Have Nowhere to Pee

January 31, 2020 admin bathrooms, doordash, gig economy, grubhub, Labor, Lyft, postmates, Uber, UberEats

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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Leaked Memos Show Instacart is Running a Union-Busting Campaign

January 27, 2020 admin Chicago, Food delivery, instacart, Labor, mariano's, ufcw, unions

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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Amazon Employees Just Staged the Biggest Act of Tech Defiance So Far

January 27, 2020 admin Amazon, Climate, climate change, Labor, protest

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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Technology Has Made Labor Laws Obsolete, Experts Say

January 27, 2020 admin digital rights, Labor

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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News Vice 

Video Game Layoffs Are So Common, This Person Built a Website to Track Them

January 15, 2020 admin games news, Labor, layoffs

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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