Amazon Workers Who Commute Across the US-Mexico Border Every Day Are Organizing for Better Working Conditions
Workers say they have faced five-hour commutes to go just a couple miles—and have recently won shuttle bus service from the border through their organizing.
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.
'I'm Drowning:' Amazon Contractors Are Paying the Price for the Labor Shortage
Last year, Amazon rolled out a metric that allows it to punish or terminate delivery contractors if they fail to meet route targets.
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.
Amazon Repeatedly Violated Union-Busting Labor Laws, ‘Historic’ NLRB Complaint Says
Managers threatened, cajoled, or promised additional benefits to workers if they voted against the union, according to the NLRB. The complaint challenges the practice of captive audience meetings, a longstanding union-busting tradition.
Leaked Audio: Apple VP Gives Apple Store Workers Anti-Union Speech
In an internal video circulated among Apple’s 58,000 retail employees, Apple’s vice-president of retail suggested that a union would make it more difficult for Apple to improve working conditions.
Teachers At Blue Man Group-Founded School Are on Strike
The Blue School teaches kids about labor unions and activism. But it won’t recognize its own union.
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.
Leaked Memo Reveals Apple’s Anti-Union Talking Points for Store Managers
Apple is instructing managers to tell retail workers that they could lose benefits and career opportunities if they unionize.
Amazon Warehouse Collapse Reveals ‘Wholly Inadequate Safety Culture,’ Warren and AOC Say
In letters between Amazon and Elizabeth Warren obtained by Motherboard, the Senator reprimanded Amazon for responses to questions about a deadly Amazon facility collapse.
People Are Using Job Listings to Sabotage Companies That Mistreat Their Workers
Online job listings have evolved into a powerful tool that labor activists are using to expose the efforts of anti-union companies.
Amazon Just Fired 2 Union Organizers Who Helped Win Amazon’s First Union
“I believe it was retaliatory. Amazon knows that I’m making national headlines."