May 09, 2024 The future of hundreds of California farmworkers’ right to unionize hangs in the balance as their employer claims the move is fraudulent The employer, Wonderful Nurseries, claims workers didn’t understand their signatures constituted a vote to unionize. BY Associated Press In a meeting room at a hotel in California’s crop-rich Central Valley, a … Continue reading Hundreds of California farmworkers unionize with UFW but their employer claims the move is fraudulent
March 29, 2024 ‘We can’t pay our bills with a mission statement’: Inside Planned Parenthood workers’ push to unionize Rushed care and poor working conditions have led to demands for representation. BY Capital & Main This piece was originally published by Capital & Main, which reports from California on economic, political, and social issues. When Grace … Continue reading ‘We can’t pay our bills with a mission statement’: Inside Planned Parenthood workers’ push to unionize
Devindra Hardawar @devindra Early on in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, our hero Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) and his daughter Cassie (Kathryn Newton) are warped into a quantum-level universe. It’s filled with alien biology and vistas that wouldn’t be out of place on distant planets. But while that sounds like the perfect setup for … Continue reading Marvel’s visual effects workers vote to unionize
By Michael Grothaus February 14, 2023 Elon Musk’s Valentine’s Day gift this year from Tesla workers in New York is a unionization effort. The effort is led by Autopilot analysts at the company’s Buffalo plant. The analysts make up about 800 employees who work in non-engineering roles and label data from the company’s Autopilot … Continue reading Tesla workers in New York want to unionize: ‘People are tired of being treated like robots’
Blizzard intends to buy ‘Spellbreak’ studio Proletariat to speed up ‘WoW’ development Kris Holt @krisholt It’s a busy spell for Blizzard, with Diablo Immortal, Overwatch 2 and mobile game Warcraft Arclight Rumble all arriving this year. The studio has another major release lined up in the form of World of Warcraft expansion Dragonflight, which … Continue reading Workers at Blizzard support studio Proletariat aim to unionize
Apple Store employees in the US are quietly trying to unionize Workers claim the pay isn’t keeping up with the cost of living. J. Fingas @jonfingas REUTERS/Brendan McDermid It’s not just Amazon and Google workers hoping to organize. Sources speaking to The Washington Post claim workers at six or more US Apple Store locations … Continue reading Apple Store workers in Oklahoma City vote to unionize
By Clint Rainey August 18, 2022 Trader Joe’s only New York City wine store, a spot known for its hour-long holiday lines, abruptly closed on August 11, leaving a swirl of rumors about why. Had rent gone up? Did the company need a bigger space? Was there an asbestos problem? Workers now say … Continue reading Trader Joe’s workers say it closed its sole NYC wine shop because they wanted to unionize it
Apple Store employees in Maryland vote to unionize Towson Town Center will be the first unionized Apple retail location in the US. I. Bonifacic @igorbonifacic June 19, 2022 International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Apple Store employees at the company’s Towson Town Center location in Maryland have voted to unionize. According to the … Continue reading Apple Store employees in Maryland vote to unionize
Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse will hold a union election in March The in-person election will take place over six days. K. Holt @krisholt February 16th, 2022 An Amazon truck exits the company’s JFK8 distribution center in Staten Island, New York, U.S. November 25, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid. Brendan McDermid / reuters Amazon workers at … Continue reading Amazon warehouse workers vote to unionize in Staten Island
Angela Hausman, PhD April 8, 2021 Unions certainly have their place in our society. We have unions to thank for such as the five-day workweek, overtime pay, safe working conditions, and many other rights we take for granted as workers today. Unions were needed because employers abused their workers by creating unsafe working conditions and … Continue reading Fair Treatment of Employees: Efforts to Unionize Amazon Warehouses
