Articles about unions

Unions finally get a foot in the door at Microsoft … for an AI summit, and possibly more

Organized labor has arrived at Microsoft headquarters. A two-day AI Labor Summit between AFL-CIO leaders and Microsoft executives this week… Read More

Analysis: New jobs numbers show where Amazon has been adding and shedding U.S. workers

New jobs numbers posted to Amazon’s corporate website show the changing footprint of its U.S. workforce for the first time… Read More

Podcast

Microsoft’s union pledge, and the new era of organized labor in tech

Marcus Courtney was a Microsoft software tester who led a multi-year effort to unionize his fellow contract workers starting in… Read More

Podcast

What Amazon’s plan to improve worker safety reveals about the company’s true nature

Addressing the issue of warehouse worker safety in response to a shareholder question this week, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy described… Read More

In unusually close votes, Amazon shareholders send messages on exec pay, labor, and environment

New numbers reveal an undercurrent of Amazon shareholder opposition to the company’s board and management on issues including executive pay,… Read More

Amazon facing increasing unionization pressure at two New York warehouse facilities

Another Amazon warehouse in New York could be gearing up for a unionization vote. A week after the National Labor… Read More

Segment on union busting from John Oliver rips Amazon and tactics other companies use

Amazon is in the crosshairs again during a new segment on union busting from “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.”… Read More

California legislation to aid Amazon warehouse workers won’t replace ongoing unionization efforts

Stuart Applebaum has heard the argument before. That, perversely, a union organizer should quietly root against non-union higher wages or… Read More

Amazon employees, bots or trolls? New Twitter bios emerge to speak out mostly against union effort

Amazon is getting some help in its efforts to beat back a unionization movement at one of its fulfillment centers… Read More

Republican Senator Marco Rubio unleashes blistering attack on Amazon, says he stands with union effort and criticizes company’s ‘woke’ culture

It wasn’t a huge surprise when President Joe Biden earlier this month voiced support for Amazon warehouse workers’ unionization efforts… Read More

Podcast

Inside Amazon’s ‘Labor Awakening’: Journalist Erika Hayasaki on her New York Times Magazine story

What happens when Amazon becomes an integral part of the economy and culture of a community? And what does the… Read More

Amazon has avoided unions for 25 years — here’s why labor leaders think that could soon change

Amazon landed in hot water this week when job posts revealed apparent details about the company’s strategies for identifying potential… Read More

Labor unions ask FTC to look into Amazon for ‘anti-competitive practices’

A coalition of labor unions — including truck drivers, food workers, and service employees — is pressuring the Federal Trade… Read More

Why everyone is talking again about the Amazon ‘ambassadors’ who talk up warehouse conditions

For more than a year, Amazon has been marshaling an army of ambassadors to defend conditions inside its warehouses, but… Read More

Amazon Prime Day ignites protests over working conditions, as company accuses unions of ‘conjuring misinformation’

Last year, Amazon Prime Day became the biggest shopping event in the company’s history. Fresh off that success, Amazon decided… Read More

Tesla workers consider unionizing as employee cites low pay and injuries at California plant

Workers at Tesla’s plant in Fremont, Calif., are considering unionizing and have reached out to United Auto Workers (UAW), according… Read More

Microsoft supplier Lionbridge laying off all its unionized workers

Microsoft supplier Lionbridge Technologies is laying off all union employees, about two months after completing its first contract with a group of… Read More

Can technology fuel the next labor movement? Union leaders pursue new innovations to empower workers

Technology as an industry has been largely anti-union. But could technology at last become a powerful tool of the labor movement?… Read More

National board finds T-Mobile guilty of violating labor laws

An administrative law judge from the U.S. National Labor Relations Board ruled today that T-Mobile has to change some of… Read More