Some 5 million Americans today work in information technology, based on the latest U.S. Census Bureau count. That marks a growth of more than 35% over …
Tech 2021: Workers Fight to Unionize
Employees at some of tech's biggest companies spent the year trying to enact collective bargaining efforts in an effort to improve working conditions. While unionization efforts by Amazon workers at an Alabama-area warehouse received most of the attention with lawmakers and others chiming in, Google, Instacart, HelloFresh, and Activision-Blizzard all made headlines in 2021 dealing with organized labor.
More Tech Companies Face Unionization Calls from Workers
In a survey of tech industry workers, about 50% of respondents said they are very or somewhat interested in joining a union in their workplace, and …
Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama are getting a new vote on whether to form the company's first unionized warehouse in the United States. A U.S. labor board official is ordering a revote after an agency review found Amazon improperly pressured warehouse staff to vote against joining a union, …
The termination of the only unionized Instacart workers in the United States is part of larger layoffs at the company. Instacart is firing 10 employees who voted to form the first and only union on the grocery delivery platform at a Mariano's grocery store in Skokie, Illinois, and inspired other …
The creation of the union, a rarity in Silicon Valley, follows years of increasing outspokenness by Google workers. Executives have struggled to handle the change. OAKLAND, Calif. — More than 400 Google engineers and other workers have formed a union, the group revealed on Monday, capping years of …
Members of ABetterABK are trying to form an official union. Gaming is a $175.8 billion industry, but working conditions for developers at many …
Organizers representing more than 2,000 workers filed the petition to the National Labor Relations Board office in Brooklyn. Amazon workers at a cluster of warehouses in Staten Island filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board’s regional office in Brooklyn on Monday requesting an …
More than 75 percent of eligible employees have indicated their support for the effort Employees at Code for America (CFA) announced today they are unionizing with the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Local 1010. Organizers say 62 people have signed authorization cards, …
Late last year, Erni Poché took a temporary job with the petition website Change.org. The gig involved scouring the Internet for grassroots campaigns with the best chances of going viral then tapping the company's resources to boost their reach. "During the pandemic, I was just grateful to have a …
Line workers at the meal kit giant say conditions inside its facilities are dire and dangerous, and that they regularly are injured. Hundreds of HelloFresh workers at two distribution plants in New Jersey are unionizing with the Brotherhood of Amalgamated Trades, Motherboard has learned. On …