Amazon Drivers Take 45 Days to Earn What the Company’s Union Buster Earned in 1
Union-busting consultants thrive on secrecy, but they can’t hide their obscene pay rates for long.
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Union busters have often earned 20 times more than the workers they seek to “persuade” not to unioniz…
Union-busting consultants thrive on secrecy, but they can’t hide their obscene pay rates for long.
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Union busters have often earned 20 times more than the workers they seek to “persuade” not to unioniz…
An interview with JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine — and a free copy of their new book Against Tech Oligarchy
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Eric Blanc: What is the overall state of tech worker organizing u…
Neoliberal ideas, such as those of Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman, have often argued that unemployment is an inevitable and desirable outcome of a market that functions best without government intervention. But in practice, societies that prioritize full employment and equality have been shown to enj…
“The ‘Zentrum’ slate has once again run in this year’s works council elections at Daimler in Untertürkheim. The group behind it, ‘Zentrum Automobil e.V.,’ is a neo-fascist workplace organization. According to its bylaws, its goal is to establish workplace groups in the automotive industry, starting…
The decision by the General Confederation of Peruvian Workers (CGTP) to endorse Javier González-Olaechea’s candidacy for the Director-General of the International Labor Organization requires more than just a reaction of outrage or a simple adjective. The Peruvian labor movement is a complex actor t…
9–11 began for me with the phone ringing off the hook. I stumbled to the phone and listened to my voicemail. It was my mother calling. “Joey, something terrible has happened. Turn on the TV.” My mother lived in our hometown of Stoughton, Massachusetts and was watching the morning news programs when…
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The arrest in Bolivia of Argentine political consultant Fernando Cerimedo—suspected of ordering the attack on his ex-partner Nadia Beller—might have been reduced to nothing more than a sensational criminal case. But the raids, judicial investigations, and revelations that have unfolded since mid-Au…
NTRODUCTION
Sven Lindqvist’s book *Gräv där du står* (Dig Where You Stand), written in Sweden in 1978, was published in Turkish nearly half a century later. It had also taken 45 years for the English translation, *Dig Where You Stand*, to be published. Lindqvist offers a practical handbook for wor…
Three years ago the United Auto Workers, glowing with confidence after a successful strike at the Big 3 and pledging ambitious new organizing drives, put out a call for a national strike on May 1, 2028.
UAW President Shawn Fain called for unions to align their contracts with the Big 3 to build lev…
More than 20 trade union leaders have called on the government to take urgent action to support Ukrainian workers imprisoned at a nuclear plant occupied by Russian forces.
An estimated 1,000 workers have been subjected to abuse and torture at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, with only 3,000 o…
"The Hong Kong police arrested at least 14 union leaders, lawmakers, activists, and a media tycoon today, Saturday, on charges of participating in illegal protests last year. Among those arrested were 81-year-old activist, former lawmaker, and prominent lawyer Martin Lee, as well as Albert Ho, Lee …
“I’m taking this risk because I know we have to fight hard to make changes that we need, to make changes that we deserve,” said Eustaquio Orozco Verdusco, a Minnesota labor organizer who was abducted by ICE on January 9 during Operation Metro Surge. He was giving testimony at the Minnesota Truth Co…
Don't Be Evil x Against Tech Oligarchy | Author Talk with Claire Stapleton, Clarissa Redwine, and JS Tan
12:30 · Pacific Time (PT) · Online
Join Siena Chiang, Claire Stapleton, Clarissa Redwine, and JS Tan to discuss two upcoming books that provide complementary perspectives on a singularly important topic: the tech industry’s role in shaping our society, and what the people who work in it can do to ensure things head in the right direction.
The industry that once marketed itself on idealism has become something harder to recognize. The values that drew many people to tech feel increasingly distant from the decisions being made at the top.
Less than a decade ago, people were asserting those values in effective ways. For a stretch, it seemed like the people building the products shaping our world could influence how they were built, and for whom. In this accelerating and destabilizing period of AI development and concentrated wealth and power, we'll explore this recent past to see what we can learn.
Claire Stapleton co-organized the 2018 Google Walkout and spent twelve years at the company watching its ideals and its reality slowly diverge. Clarissa Redwine helped organize the Kickstarter union and has since built Circuit Breakers, the annual conference dedicated to tech organizing. JS Tan has spent years thinking and writing about power inside the industry, and how a genuine movement rose — and what happened when it did.
This is a conversation for anyone who works in or around tech, and is trying to figure out how to feel—and what might be possible—given the moment we're in. No particular stance required. Just an appetite for candid conversation.
There is no cost to register and events are open to the public. Attendees will receive a complimentary copy of both books.
Working language: English
Public Services Under Attack: Trade Union Strategies Against Authoritarian Right-Wing Policies
05:00 · Pacific Time (PT) · Online
Universal public services, funded through fair taxation and available to everyone, are key to building more equal societies. At the same time, population aging is increasing demand for public services, putting further pressure on already stretched systems and making workers’ health and future even more critical. However, around the world, right-wing governments are putting these services under growing pressure through austerity, privatization, wage cuts, and changes to the public workforce.
Working language: English
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