Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize, Culminating Years of Activism
From today’s New York Times: More than 400 Google engineers and other workers have formed a union, the group revealed on Monday, capping years of growing activism at one of…
GoDaddy Emails Employees, Says They’ll Get $650 Holiday Bonus: It Turns Out To Be A Lump Of Coal
From today’s Forbes Magazine: You’d like to believe that corporate executives could be compassionate and empathetic during a pandemic. The holiday season, a reasonable worker would think, is the perfect…
Unfair ratings cost some Instacart shoppers hundreds a week
From today’s New York Times: Bags of groceries don’t just vanish into thin air. But in case the laws of physics ceased to exist, Loreen Zahara does her due diligence.…
Google Illegally Fired And Spied On Workers Trying To Organize, NLRB finds
From today’s NPR News Online: Google illegally fired two employees involved in labor organizing last year, the National Labor Relations Board alleged in a complaint on Wednesday. The tech giant…
J-1 Visa Recipients Stuck in US during Pandemic Are Demanding Their Rights
From today’s The Nation Magazine Online: By mid-March, Mars was starting to worry. The 27-year-old was living and working in Little Rock, Ark., where the mayor had just imposed a…
Coronavirus: Retail workers ‘scared’ as cases surge during U.S. holidays
From BBC News Online: They are calling for hazard pay, paid sick leave and better communication about outbreaks, among other things. The campaign comes as workers across the US have…
What Prop. 22’s defeat would mean for Uber and Lyft — and drivers
From today’s Los Angeles Times: One way or another, the business of summoning a ride from your phone is likely to look different in California after Nov. 3. The future…
Will rideshare drivers get paid less than minimum wage under Proposition 22
From today’s Sacramento Bee: Proposition 22 proposes that gig drivers for companies such as Uber, Lyft and Doordash will get paid 120% of the area’s minimum wage for the time…
Mark Zuckerberg Wants To Silence Facebook’s Employees
From today’s Vice News: Mark Zuckerberg loves free speech, just not when it comes to his own employees. The Facebook CEO has repeatedly cited free speech as the reason he…
I got COVID-19 working at Ralphs. We need a voice in workplace safety
From today’s Los Angeles Times: After spending seven weeks isolated in my bedroom sick with COVID-19, I stood in front of the Ralphs grocery store where I work, bracing to…