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January 24, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Messner

Last Friday, workers at a Manhattan REI store joined the nascent retail unionization wave by filing an election petition with the National Labor Relations Board. The workers, who seek representation by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), are proposing a bargaining unit of roughly 115 store employees. If successful, the Manhattan store would […]

January 23, 2022
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

On Friday, the NLRB’s Brooklyn-based regional office announced that it planned to formally accuse Amazon of illegally firing a union organizer in its Staten Island warehouse in November. The NLRB regional director found merit in the claims of the Amazon Labor Union, an independent union founded by current and former Amazon employees, which has filed […]

January 17, 2022
News & Commentary

Fran Swanson

The continued shortage of rapid antigen tests and PCR test appointments is hitting people who cannot work remotely especially hard, NPR-affiliate KQED reports. Many are put in an impossible situation: find a test or give up a paycheck you can’t afford to miss. And, like every other aspect of this pandemic, the racial and economic […]

January 12, 2022
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

Region 10 of the NLRB set a date for the rerun union election it ordered at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. The election, which will be conducted entirely by mail, is scheduled to begin on February 4, and votes will be tallied on March 28. In the wake of the announcement, the union expressed […]

How Surveillance Capitalism Disempowers the Working Class

Jan 10, 2022 Tiran Bajgiran

Nurses have their footsteps tracked electronically. Cashiers are monitored by point-of-sale devices that measure their efficiency by the minute. Warehouse workers wear “haptic” wristbands evaluating their performance – and vibrating when they slack off. Delivery personnel contend with near-constant behavioral analysis by their phone, which tracks their location, speed, braking or how long they touch […]

January 9, 2022
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

The impasse between the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago authorities came no closer to resolution this weekend, as Mayor Lori Lightfoot rejected a proposal by the union to return to in-person instruction on January 18. “The best, safest place for kids to be is in school,” she said in a joint statement released with Pedro […]

When Algorithms Fire Humans

Jan 5, 2022 Tiran Bajgiran

Poor selfies, rainy days, and locked gates – all are reported triggers for the auto-firing of delivery personnel by Amazon’s Flex app, and all follow events beyond the workers’ control. Meanwhile, no appeal to humans is available on the platform, nor any negotiation with the opaque algorithm calculating whether gig drivers have outlived their usefulness […]

December 22, 2021
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

Yesterday, the Kellogg strike ended after striking workers ratified a new contract broadening the scope of the company’s cost-of-living wage adjustments to cover all employees. The eleven-week strike started in early October, spanning four of Kellogg’s breakfast cereal plants. The agreement concludes a monthslong contentious negotiation, during which Kellogg controversially threatened to permanently replace striking […]

November 30, 2021
News & Commentary

Jon Levitan

Yesterday, the NLRB officially ordered a rerun election at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU) lost an initial election last spring but filed election objections with the Board; after a multi-day hearing, an NLRB hearing officer found merit to the union’s objections and recommended a second election. […]

November 21, 2021
News & Commentary

Nikita Rumsey

On Friday, the House narrowly passed the Build Back Better Act, approving $2.2 trillion in spending over the next ten years to tackle climate change, improve access to healthcare and bolster the nation’s social safety net. The bill passed by a margin of 220-213, with unanimous opposition from Republicans. Although the bill has already been […]

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