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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.

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Tech 2021: Workers Fight to Unionize
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    More Tech Companies Face Unionization Calls from Workers

    Tech Workers Organizing Is Nothing New ... But Them Actually Forming Unions Is
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    Tech Workers Organizing Is Nothing New ... But Them Actually Forming Unions Is

    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 …

    Amazon warehouse workers get to re-do their union vote in Alabama
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    Amazon warehouse workers get to re-do their union vote in Alabama

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    NPR - Alina Selyukh

    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, …

    Instacart Will Lay Off All of Its Unionized Workers
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    Instacart Will Lay Off All of Its Unionized Workers

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    VICE - Lauren Kaori Gurley

    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 …

    Code for America employees are unionizing
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    Code for America employees are unionizing

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    The Verge - Zoë Schiffer

    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, …

    Further Reading on Tech's Unionizing Efforts

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