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With Apple Slack Ban, An Opportunity to Return to Purple Communications

Sep 2, 2021 Fran Swanson

On Tuesday, The Verge’s Zoë Schiffer reported that Apple blocked its employees from creating a Slack channel to discuss pay equity. Apple told employees that this was merely the application of its policy that “Slack channels for activities and hobbies not recognized as Apple Employee clubs or Diversity Network Associations (DNAs) aren’t permitted.” But, as […]

Privileging Property in the NLRB Email Case

Dec 19, 2019 Benjamin Sachs

As Ryan reported yesterday, the Board has overruled Purple Communications and held that employees—in most circumstances—may not use an employer’s email system to communicate about unionization or other section 7 activity. The effects of this decision (Rio All-Suites Hotel) are likely to be significant given the fact that, in many workplaces, the only way that employees […]

December 18, 2019
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

Tomorrow’s Democratic presidential primary debate, scheduled to take place at Loyola Marymount University, will go on as planned after university workers reached a deal with Sodexo. Unite Here Local 11, the union representing roughly 150 campus cooks, dishwashers, and cashiers at Loyola Marymount, announced yesterday that Sodexo had agreed to a tentative contract Monday night, […]

Google to NLRB: Shut Down Employee Email Access

Jan 30, 2019 Yana Calou and Michelle Miller

This past November, 20,000 Google employees staged global, rolling walkouts protesting gender and racial discrimination at the company. Employees had been organizing to address these issues for some time when a New York Times article, published in late October, described the lengths to which the company had gone to protect high-level executives who had been […]

January 25, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

This year Google employees have organized protests against the tech giant, taking aim at the company’s use of forced arbitration agreements and its work with the military. Unsurprisingly the demonstrations were planned primarily over company email. Though the company has publicly expressed support for its workers’ actions and has fulfilled demands such as dropping forced […]

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With Apple Slack Ban, An Opportunity to Return to Purple Communications

Privileging Property in the NLRB Email Case

December 18, 2019

Google to NLRB: Shut Down Employee Email Access

January 25, 2019