Amazon changes coronavirus plan, tells Seattle area employees to work from home until March 31 –
Amazon is now asking all of its Seattle-area employees who can do their jobs from home to do so until the end of March amid an ongoing coronavirus outbreak in the region. The Seattle-based tech giant sent an email to employees late Wednesday evening with the adjusted plan.
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Museum Unions Seek More than Improved Pay, Union Organizers Insist
What do newly unionized art workers want? Better wages, benefits, and working conditions for sure, but also a more democratic workplace.
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Ontario government makes concessions to end strike
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Teamsters Join Push For FTC Antitrust Probe Of Amazon
A coalition of some of the largest labor unions, including the International Brotherhood of Teamsters — has officially petitioned…
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Is Union Organizing Among Tech Workers Ready To Breakout? | Jackson Lewis P.C. – JDSupra
White-collar, high-tech workers at Kickstarter in Brooklyn have voted 47-36 for union representation by the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) in an election…
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Students rally for cost of living adjustment, reopened bargaining
Fifty protesters gathered on Sproul Plaza and delivered demands to campus in support of a cost of living adjustment and bargaining with UC administration.
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Issues obscured by competing statistics and spin in Ontario’s education wars
As the turmoil increases at Ontario schools so does the confusion.
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News Journal newsroom seeks to unionize
The newroom of The News Journal is attempting to form a union under the NewsGuild-Communication Workers of America, according to a March 2 press release.
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UC Santa Cruz Fires Graduate Students Taking Part in Strike
The university sent dismissal letters to 54 teaching assistants who have been engaged in a months-long dispute over pay.
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Hospitals and unions: 6 recent conflicts, agreements
Becker’s Hospital Review has reported the following hospital-union events since Feb. 11.
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