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Don’t Blame Inflation on Stimulus Checks. Blame It on Corporate Greed.
Pundits blame stimmies and wage growth for inflation, and say pain for average people is the remedy. It's not true.
Shifting America to Solar Power Is a Grueling, Low-Paid Job
Over the past decade, a low-wage workforce that chases solar installation projects from state to state for meager wages has proliferated around the country.
Delivery Startup Enjoy Tells Workers It Has ‘Hope’ It Can Pay Them
Workers at the startup, founded by a former Apple executive, are panicked and worried, according to internal Slack chats obtained by Motherboard.
New Documents Detail Harrowing Crisis in Which Workers Were Trapped in Chocolate Sludge
One man in a Pennsylvania M&M Mars factory “did not have work boots on and was able to slip out of his shoes before the chocolate liquor hardened.”
Internal Documents Show Amazon’s Dystopian System for Tracking Workers Every Minute of Their Shifts
The documents provide new clarity about a much-talked-about but until now opaque process Amazon uses to punish associates it believes are wasting time.
Leaked Audio: Apple VP Gives Apple Store Workers Anti-Union Speech
In an internal video circulated among Apple’s 58,000 retail employees, Apple’s vice-president of retail suggested that a union would make it more difficult for Apple to improve working conditions.
Biggest Indie Manga Publisher in US Hopes to Become Industry’s First to Unionize
Seven Seas Entertainment workers announced that in response to being underpaid and overworked, they’ve formed a union.
Teachers At Blue Man Group-Founded School Are on Strike
The Blue School teaches kids about labor unions and activism. But it won’t recognize its own union.
Grubhub’s Disastrous ‘Free Lunch’ Promotion Shows Why the Gig Economy Is Broken
We’ve spent years entertaining the delusion that food delivery companies can work. Why are we still pretending?
Amazon Warehouse Collapse Reveals ‘Wholly Inadequate Safety Culture,’ Warren and AOC Say
In letters between Amazon and Elizabeth Warren obtained by Motherboard, the Senator reprimanded Amazon for responses to questions about a deadly Amazon facility collapse.
People Are Using Job Listings to Sabotage Companies That Mistreat Their Workers
Online job listings have evolved into a powerful tool that labor activists are using to expose the efforts of anti-union companies.
Fired by Starbucks, Union Organizer Now Wears His Fursuit to Rallies
“It gave me more confidence than I've ever had in my entire life,” said former Overland Park Starbucks employee Michael Vestigo.