unions
Inside the Rural Psychiatric Hospital Staff Call a ‘21st Century Asylum’
“A lot of our patients walk out of there even more traumatized than before they got in there.”
Uber Drivers Will Get Landmark Workplace Protections in Australia
“For too long, the balancing of flexibility and the enforcement of strong workplace rights and protections has been seen as a zero-sum game.”
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.
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.
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.
Activision Blizzard Is Acting Like a Company That’s Scared of a Union
Raven Software’s QA team has formed a union, a small step that may tell us a lot about the future of the video game industry.
Raven Software QA Votes to Become First Major Video Game Union in the United States
A huge event in the crunch-prone video game industry, which has long resisted organized labor.
Amazon Makes Union Organizer Pick Up Cigarette Butts Alone in Parking Lot
Another union organizer at the same warehouse in upstate New York was fired for not using a step stool to move totes full of merchandise.
Famously Cheerful Trader Joe’s Workers Are Actually Unhappy and Want a Union
The grocery workers are the latest to join the revitalized labor movement, along with workers at Amazon, Starbucks, and Target.
Leaked Memo Reveals Apple’s Anti-Union Talking Points for Store Managers
Apple is instructing managers to tell retail workers that they could lose benefits and career opportunities if they unionize.
Deliveroo’s New Union Deal Dubbed a ‘Cynical PR Move’
The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) called the agreement – announced days before Deliveroo’s AGM – a "backdoor deal."
Amazon Just Fired 2 Union Organizers Who Helped Win Amazon’s First Union
“I believe it was retaliatory. Amazon knows that I’m making national headlines."