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August 5, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Ongoing revelations surrounding New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s serial sexual misconduct while in office have lost the governor the support of organized labor. Since Tuesday, a host of labor groups—including the Hotel Trades Council, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 32BJ, New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the Retail, Warehouse, and Department Store Union (RWDSU), […]

May 23, 2021
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Nikita Rumsey

A draft bill set to be introduced in the New York state legislature this week would create a tripartite process for delivery and ride-share workers at companies like Uber and Instacart to “unionize” without being classified as employees. The bill, reportedly backed by the New York State AFL-CIO and supported by the Machinists’ Independent Drivers’ […]

November 20, 2020
News & Commentary

Randon Herrera

The pandemic is causing healthcare workers to leave the profession, the New York Times reports. According to the NYT report, many doctors and nurses are retiring early or seeking other work because of conditions created by the pandemic. Some are concerned for their own health, while others are emotionally drained from administering care during the […]

July 8, 2020
News & Commentary

Leigh Thomas

The Partnership for Working Families and the National Employment Law Project released a report yesterday outlining the harms posed by Proposition 22, the California ballot initiative backed by $110 million from Uber, Lyft, Postmates, Instacart, and Doordash. If passed, the ballot initiative would exempt app-based transportation and delivery companies from AB 5, a California law […]

SNAP for Strikers

May 6, 2020 Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Since the COVID-19 crisis began, essential workers across the country have gone on strike for key workplace safety protections. These strikes have secured meaningful changes; for instance, striking Dominos workers in Los Angeles won protective personal equipment, a deep cleaning of their workplace, and sick pay; striking bus drivers in Detroit secured masks for passengers […]

The Instacart Strike and Worker Power Amid the Pandemic

Mar 31, 2020 Courtney Brunson and Jon Levitan

As more people shelter in place to avoid the widening impact of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, workers at Instacart, a popular grocery delivery service that employs over 150,000 workers, went on strike yesterday. On March 27th, the workers, in collaboration with the Gig Workers Collective, announced an indefinite strike. The Instacart workers […]

November 10, 2019
News & Commentary

Deanna Krokos

The “shoppers” who complete Instacart grocery delivery orders went on strike this week, alleging significant problems with the app’s structure that are familiar throughout the gig economy. As independent contractors, the shoppers are subject to unpredictable pay and have no traditional workplace protections. Now, they say the app’s designers are making it actively harder for […]

September 22, 2019
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

More than 1,200 students at 17 universities have signed a pledge not to take jobs with Palantir, a big data analytics company, until it drops its software development contracts with ICE. Under the name #NoTechForICE, the campaign is modeled on similar efforts from the 1960s, when students targeted recruiters for Dow Chemical to protest the […]

April 21, 2019
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

The New York Times reported that workers at a Boeing manufacturing plant in South Carolina have complained of defective manufacturing and retaliation for reporting violations—in the wake of systemic safety concerns about two of Boeing’s flagship planes, the 737 Max and the 787 Dreamliner. In addition to ignoring issues raised by employees, company leadership also urged […]

February 7, 2019
News & Commentary

Ryan Wheeler

The grocery-delivery service Instacart caved to public outrage over its tipping policy and will now pass along the full value of a customer’s tip to the delivery worker. Beginning in November, Instacart had in some cases reduced the rate the company paid to workers who received tips — essentially, using tips to subsidize its labor […]

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