by dankeelan | Jun 8, 2021 | Europe, Featured, Gig Workers, Unions
Workers face significant challenges in building collective power in an industry that depends on their atomization. How do you bargain for more when your boss is an app, you’re paid by an algorithm, and you haven’t met your coworkers? How do you beat companies that can...
by dankeelan | May 25, 2021 | Featured, Gig Workers, Legal, Unions
New York delivery and ride-share workers at companies such as Uber Technologies Inc. and Instacart Inc. would have a straightforward ability to unionize and collectively bargain en masse—without being classified as employees—under the terms of a...
by dankeelan | May 18, 2021 | Featured, Unions
The presidents of the nation’s two major teachers unions called separately for a full return to in-person learning in the fall, with the leader of the American Federation of Teachers declaring Thursday that her organization was “all-in.” In an address on social...
by dankeelan | May 11, 2021 | U.S. Economy, Unions
Union leaders told the Senate Democrats’ campaign arm in a private call Wednesday not to expect them to back lawmakers in upcoming elections unless they coalesce behind the pro-labor Protecting the Right to Organize Act, three sources told POLITICO. One...
by dankeelan | May 4, 2021 | Featured, Journallism, Unions
Thirty years ago, The New York Times did not have a website. Now, the company employs more than 700 tech workers, almost half its number of journalists. On Tuesday, those tech workers announced they want to form a union. Almost half the Times is already...
by dankeelan | Apr 13, 2021 | Featured, Future of Work, Gig Workers, U.S. Economy, Unions
Amazon prevailed Friday in its fight against labor organizing at its Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse, with workers rejecting the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union by a ratio of 2-to-1. The union’s definitive loss could be the end of the road...
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