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Surveillance, Stress, and No Bathrooms: Life as an Amazon Driver

Leave a Comment / gig economy, Independant Contractors / By max cyril

Part 2 of a series on Amazon’s delivery drivers. Part 1, “Building Its Own Delivery Network, Amazon Puts the Squeeze On Drivers,” is here. The Amazonification of logistics has created a new group of highly exploited workers: delivery drivers. Amazon itself increasingly relies on an expanding network of subcontracted drivers and independent contractors to deliver packages …

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New Survey From Broad Coalition Shows Overlapping Challenges of Racial, Gender, and Economic Injustice Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Leave a Comment / labor, Pandemic / By max cyril

Today, Color Of Change, National Employment Law Project, the TIME’S UP Foundation Impact Lab, and the Worker Institute at Cornell ILR released results from new survey research showing deep racial, gender, and economic disparities in the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The data point to immediate worker needs and long-standing structural inequities that policymakers and …

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The pandemic is replacing people with tech — threatening the jobs rebound

Leave a Comment / Pandemic, unemployment / By max cyril

The mass disruption of the workplace because of the pandemic is accelerating employers’ move toward job-displacing automation, and neither the government nor the American labor force is prepared for the sweeping fallout. The hemorrhaging of jobs is refueling a national debate over how to give workers the skills to survive the brutal market and fill …

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COVID-19 highlights the racism of the tipped minimum wage, this week in the war on workers

Leave a Comment / MinimumWage, Pandemic / By max cyril

Black workers have been hit so hard during the coronavirus pandemic, and a full accounting of the hits is not yet complete. We know that Black people have been disproportionately likely to get sick, to be hospitalized, and to die from COVID-19. That they’ve been more likely to face job loss during the pandemic (when they aren’t …

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Enormous VA Union Contract Moves Towards Uncertain Conclusion Under New Biden Administration

Leave a Comment / President Biden, unions / By max cyril

Unionized workers at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs have spent the past four years in a grinding workplace battle with a Trump administration existentially hostile towards unions representing federal government workers. Now, as negotiations draw to a close on their new contract?—?one of the biggest union contracts in America?—?the union says that the damaging hangover of the Trump years …

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Card-carrying union member Walsh, Biden’s Labor nominee, wins businesses’ respect

Leave a Comment / President Biden, Union Membership / By max cyril

When Marty Walsh leaped straight from the top of a trade union federation to Boston City Hall in 2014, local businesses braced for the impact of a labor leader and his progressive policies. They had little to fear from the new mayor. The following year saw “arguably the biggest building boom in the history of …

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Ohio Auto Parts Workers Strike to Unionize

Leave a Comment / Strike, unions / By max cyril

Update, February 1: The workers ended their strike January 30, without having won union recognition. They plan to petition for a union authorization election with the National Labor Relations Board. —Editors Workers at an auto parts factory in Norwalk, Ohio, are reviving a classic tactic—they’re eight days into a walkout to demand that their employer …

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Whines about raising the minimum wage don’t hold up, full stop

Leave a Comment / MinimumWage, Pandemic / By max cyril

More than a decade after the federal minimum wage last went up, an increase may be included in the COVID-19 relief package under consideration in Congress. That bill is planned to be passed through reconciliation—in other words, through a simple majority vote—in the Senate, which makes it a great place for the minimum wage, since Republicans would certainly …

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In the Shadow of Covid, ACLU Joins Non-Profit Unionization Surge

Leave a Comment / Pandemic, unions / By max cyril

The Covid-19 pandemic has posed many serious and dangerous challenges for workers everywhere?—?not just for workers on the job, but for workers trying to exercise their right to organize. But there have also been unexpected bright spots on this front over the past year, including a boom in union drives at nonprofits around the United States. One …

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Amazon to pay huge settlement in wage theft case

Leave a Comment / FTC, gig economy / By max cyril

This week in “Amazon is scum” news, on Tuesday the company reached a $61.7 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over a longstanding practice of stealing tips from delivery drivers. Drivers for Amazon Flex were recruited with the promise of $18 to $25 an hour plus customer tips, and that’s how it worked in 2015 and 2016. But then …

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