unions
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The Year Workers Stood Up To Big Tech
2018 has been an excruciating exercise is achieving, and then discovering new definitions of, rock bottom. Public confidence in the tools of democracy eroded, replaced for most Americans with trust in tech monopolies — many of which spent the year showing us our lives. It was also the year rank-and-file workers, rich and poor, made…
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Dozens Of Samsung Execs Charged With Union Sabotage: Report
Despite having a domestic workforce of around 200,000 employees, fewer than 300 Samsung employees are part of a union, which seems a little curious. So South Korean regulators decided to dig a little deeper, and after a five-month investigation spurred by officials from South Korea’s Justice party, prosecutors have reportedly slapped Lee Sang-hoon, the chairman…
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Amazon Warehouse Strike In Spain Reportedly Results In Police Clashes, Arrests
The second day of a three-day strike by Amazon warehouse workers near Madrid coinciding with the e-commerce giant’s Prime Day promotion escalated significantly on Tuesday, with trade unions telling Spanish newspaper Público that police in riot gear had charged the strikers multiple times on supposed grounds they were blocking traffic. Police arrested at least two…
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What We Know About Unionisation Efforts At Tesla’s Fremont Plant
Last Thursday, a Tesla production associate named Jose Moran came forward to publicly decry working conditions at the company’s plant in Fremont, California, including what he describes as gruelling hours, low wages and frequent, preventable injuries — issues he felt could be fixed by joining the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America…