unions
What Would Happen If We All Just... Went on Strike?
With more train strikes looming, it feels like the whole country is headed that way anyway.
Casual Workers Say They’re Scrambling to Pay Rent As COVID Payments Are Axed
To swathes of the Australian population, $750 is a lot of money.
The MLB All-Star Game Might Not Have Concession Workers. Here’s Why.
Dodger Stadium workers demanding a new contract and higher wages voted overwhelmingly to strike.
Planned Parenthood Staffers Are Unionizing to Prepare for Life After Roe
Massachusetts workers nearly unanimously formed a union Wednesday, and more from the Midwest may join them soon.
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.