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Sweden sides with Tesla, says transport agency must deliver plates or pay up
Tesla won a small battle against Swedish union workers fighting for collective bargaining rights, but the war will continue. A Swedish court ruled Monday that the country’s transport authority has…
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Apple retail still has a diversity problem, union says
The higher you climb up the corporate ladder at Apple, the whiter it gets. That’s according to data analyzed by the Communications Workers of America (CWA), the union that’s helping retail workers at Apple stores organize. As some Apple retail workers fight for union recognition and a seat at the bargaining table, the CWA is…
YouTube Music contractors win historic union vote
YouTube Music contractors have officially unionized with the Alphabet Workers Union-CWA after winning a historic vote through the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Forty-one workers voted yes out of a…
A group of 144 workers are forming a union at SEGA’s American headquarters in Irvine, California. SEGA follows in the footsteps of workers at other gaming companies like Microsoft-owned ZeniMax…
U.S. employees at Bandcamp, an online audio distributor, have announced their formation of a union. Last year, the platform was acquired by Epic Games, the multibillion-dollar company behind games like…
Tesla fires dozens of workers one day after launching union campaign
Update: This article has been updated with Tesla’s response to allegations that it fired workers in retaliation for unionizing. Tesla fired more than 30 employees who work at its factory…
At ZeniMax, a Microsoft-owned gaming studio, 300 quality assurance (QA) testers have voted to unionize. This marks Microsoft’s first official union in the U.S., as well as the biggest gaming…
The latest effort to unionize among Amazon warehouse workers fell short by a wide margin this morning. The National Labor Relations Board tallied results from last week’s vote, showing a…
Activision Blizzard illegally withheld raises from unionizing workers, labor board finds
Gaming giant Activision Blizzard unlawfully retaliated against workers at Raven Software who formed a union, the National Labor Relations Board found. The quality assurance (QA) department at subsidiary Raven Software,…
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Labor pains
Hey, all, greetings from Queens. I’m back home from Apple and happy to be back from the high double-digit heat (but it was a dry heat!). I got a strong response from last week’s newsletter, wherein we discussed questions around robotic delivery. Always nice to be reminded that people are, in fact, reading this thing…
Albany Amazon warehouse will hold a vote to unionize next month
There’s been a flurry of activity around the Amazon labor movement of late. Several marches have been held in recent weeks, including one this morning for STL8, just outside of…
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US Labor Secretary Marty Walsh on automation and unionization
It’s easy to fall prey to panic around automation. It’s also just just as easy to dismiss it outright. As ever, the truth almost certainly lies somewhere between these two extremes — though precisely where has yet to be determined. Both companies and regulatory bodies will play an important role in determining automation’s impact on…
Rights groups tell Meta to stop efforts to gag whistleblower
Rights groups are calling on Meta to halt attempts to silence Daniel Motaung, a South African content moderator and whistleblower who is suing it alongside Sama, its main subcontractor for…
An Apple store in Maryland makes history by forming the company’s first recognized union
As several Apple stores across the country fight to unionize, workers in Towson, Maryland became the first to win formal recognition. Out of 110 eligible employees, the union received 65…
Ford to invest $3.7B in US factories, add 6,200 union jobs in push to build more EVs
Ford said Thursday it will invest $3.7 billion and add more than 6,200 union manufacturing jobs in Michigan, Ohio and Missouri as part of the automaker’s plan to sell 2…
A second Apple Store files to hold a union election
Apple store employees in Towson, Maryland have organized a union and petitioned to hold an official union election. This marks the third Apple retail location in recent weeks that has…
Amazon workers reject bid to unionize a second Staten Island warehouse
Weeks after a historic victory for Amazon union organizers in Staten Island, a second location in the borough has soundly defeated plans to follow suit. The “no” vote scored a…
A second Staten Island Amazon warehouse is holding a union vote on Monday
Emboldened by the recent results of the nearby JFK8 fulfillment center, workers at Staten Island’s LDJ5 sort center are set to hold their own vote this coming Monday, April 25th.…
Union.ai, a startup emerging from stealth with a commercial version of the open source AI orchestration platform Flyte, today announced that it raised $10 million in a round contributed by…
Dueling objections voiced following polarized Amazon union votes
Update: Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel offered TechCrunch the following statement about the current state of the Bessemer election, “We’ve said from the beginning that we want our employees’ voices to…
Staten Island Amazon workers vote to unionize
Update: Amazon says it’s “disappointed” and “evaluating [its] options” following today’s vote. Full comment: “We’re disappointed with the outcome of the election in Staten Island because we believe having a…
As counting wraps for the day, mixed results emerge in Amazon union votes
As of the close of today’s counting in the Bessemer, Alabama Amazon Union election, “no” votes are ahead 993 to 875. It’s a positive outcome thus far for Amazon, which…
Counting for Amazon’s Alabama and Staten Island union votes begins next week
It’s been a predictably wild ride for unionization efforts at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama fulfillment center. After a hard-fought battle, the retail giant emerged victorious last April. While workers had received…
Elon Musk challenges UAW to hold a union vote at Tesla’s California factory
Elon Musk says Tesla will do nothing to stop United Auto Workers (UAW) from holding a union vote at the company’s Fremont, California factory.
Staten Island Amazon workers’ union election planned for next month
Late next month, workers at Amazon’s Staten Island fulfillment center will hold a long-awaited union vote, if all goes according to plan. The in-person election is tentatively set for March…
Second Amazon warehouse union vote planned for next month via mail-in ballot
The National Labor Relations Board today issued an announcement detailing plans for a second vote among Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama warehouse employees. The planned follow-up would be conducted via USPS mail-in…
Labor board authorizes new Amazon union vote
The director of the National Labor Relation Board’s 10th region has authorized a new union election for workers at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama fulfillment center. An NLRB representative has confirmed the…
California governor signs bill aimed at unsafe warehouse quotas
California Governor Gavin Newsom this week signed a bill aimed at protecting warehouse workers from unsafe quotas. The bill, which cites issues around bathroom breaks, rest periods and other safety…
Pittsburgh Google contractors ratify deal with HCL
Nearly two years ago, contractors for Google’s Pittsburgh operations voted to join the United Steelworkers union in a bid to secure more labor rights representation. It was an early example…
Deliveroo defeats another workers’ rights challenge in UK courts
Deliveroo has had another win in the U.K. courts, beating back an appeal by the IWGB union which has sought for years to challenge the gig platform over couriers’ rights…
