U.S. employees at Bandcamp, an online audio distributor, have announced their formation of a union. Last year, the platform was acquired by Epic Games, the multi-billion dollar company behind games like Fortnite and the Unreal gaming engine. According to the union, known as Bandcamp United, a...
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Tesla fired more than 30 employees who work at its factory in Buffalo, New York in retaliation for union organizing, according to a complaint filed with the National Labor Relations Board. The firings and complaint were first reported by Bloomberg. Tesla Workers United, a group of Tesla employees...
At ZeniMax, a Microsoft-owned gaming studio, 300 quality assurance (QA) testers have voted to unionize. This marks Microsoft’s first official union in the U.S., as well as the biggest gaming union in the country. Union organizing has been on the rise in the video game industry, particularly...
The latest effort to unionize among Amazon warehouse workers fell short by a wide margin this morning. The National Labor Relations Board tallied results from last week’s vote, showing a significant win for the corporation’s anti-union push. Of the 949 eligible fulfillment center staff near...
Gaming giant Activision Blizzard unlawfully retaliated against workers at Raven Software who formed a union, the National Labor Relations Board found. The quality assurance (QA) department at subsidiary Raven Software, who mostly work on “Call of Duty,” announced that they would form a union...
Hey, all, greetings from Queens. I’m back home from Apple and happy to be back from the high double-digit heat (but it was a dry heat!). I got a strong response from last week’s newsletter, wherein we discussed questions around robotic delivery. Always nice to be reminded that people are, in...
There’s been a flurry of activity around the Amazon labor movement of late. Several marches have been held in recent weeks, including one this morning for STL8, just outside of St. Louis. Albany, New York’s ALB1 has been causing its own waves, as well. This morning, National Labor Relations...
As several Apple stores across the country fight to unionize, workers in Towson, Maryland became the first to win formal recognition. Out of 110 eligible employees, the union received 65 yes votes and 33 no votes. This historic victory comes after concentrated efforts from Apple to discourage its...
Ford said Thursday it will invest $3.7 billion and add more than 6,200 new union manufacturing jobs in Michigan, Ohio and Missouri as part of the automaker’s plan to sell 2 million EVs a year globally by the end of 2026. The new investment will be used to hire union workers at factories in...
Amazon workers at Alabama warehouse will vote by mail next month in redo of union election
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An Amazon fulfillment center in Washington state. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota)The National Labor Relations Board has set a “notice of second election” and date for a redo of the employee vote on whether to unionize an Amazon fulfillment warehouse in Bessemer, Ala. The NLRB said...
The National Labor Relations Board today issued an announcement detailing plans for a second vote among Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama warehouse employees. The planned follow-up would be conducted via USPS mail-in ballots, which will be mailed out February 4 and counted March 28. Late last year, the...
The National Labor Relations Board today issued an announcement detailing plans for a second vote among Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama warehouse employees. The planned follow-up would be conducted via USPS mail-in ballots, which will be mailed out February 4 and counted March 28. Late last year, the...
Labor settlement ends Amazon’s “15-minute rule,” letting workers stay on-site for union organizing
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An Amazon fulfillment center in Spokane, Wash. (GeekWire File Photo)A settlement between Amazon and the National Labor Relations Board will end a company policy that prevented workers from remaining in a non-working area of an Amazon facility for more than 15 minutes beyond their shifts. The...
Labor settlement ends Amazon’s “15-minute rule,” letting workers stay on-site for union organizing
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An Amazon fulfillment center in Spokane, Wash. (GeekWire File Photo)A settlement between Amazon and the National Labor Relations Board will end a company policy that prevented workers from remaining in a non-working area of an Amazon facility for more than 15 minutes beyond their shifts. The...
Labor settlement ends Amazon’s “15-minute rule,” letting workers stay on-site for union organizing
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An Amazon fulfillment center in Spokane, Wash. (GeekWire File Photo)A settlement between Amazon and the National Labor Relations Board will end a company policy that prevented workers from remaining in a non-working area of an Amazon facility for more than 15 minutes beyond their shifts. The...
Labor settlement ends Amazon’s “15-minute rule,” letting workers stay on-site for union organizing
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An Amazon fulfillment center in Spokane, Wash. (GeekWire File Photo)A settlement between Amazon and the National Labor Relations Board will end a company policy that prevented workers from remaining in a non-working area of an Amazon facility for more than 15 minutes beyond their shifts. The...
The view inside an Amazon fulfillment center. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota)The National Labor Relations Board is calling for a new union election at an Amazon fulfillment warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., eight months after employees there voted against joining the Retail, Wholesale and...
The director of the National Labor Relation Board’s 10th region has authorized a new union election for workers at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama fulfillment center. An NLRB representative has confirmed the decision with TechCrunch, which would see the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union...
The director of the National Labor Relation Board’s 10th region has authorized a new union election for workers at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama fulfillment center. An NLRB representative has confirmed the decision with TechCrunch, which would see the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union...
The director of the National Labor Relation Board’s 10th region has authorized a new union election for workers at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama fulfillment center. An NLRB representative has confirmed the decision with TechCrunch, which would see the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union...
In April, Medium CEO Ev Williams wrote a memo to his staff about the company’s shifting culture in the wake of a challenging year. “A healthy culture brings out the best in people,” he wrote. “They feel psychologically safe voicing their ideas and engaging in debate to find the best answer...
Protesters gathered in bright red t-shirts and matching masks bearing the Independent Drivers Guild logo. Placards bearing slogans like “Freeze Hiring, Reactive Workers Now!” and “Unlock Uber” were being handed out at a table toward the entrance. What the gathering lacked in sheer numbers,...
An Amazon fulfillment center. (GeekWire File Photo)Wait, didn’t Amazon win its battle with the union in Bessemer, Ala.? Yes, the vote came out in the company’s favor, but the story isn’t over yet. The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union is appealing the outcome to the National...
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week was good fun not only because we had the whole team together to record, but also because we are still basking in the endless glory of our winning a Webby...
Read Jeff Bezos’ shareholders letter: Amazon founder focuses on employee welfare, comments on union vote
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota)The news: Jeff Bezos penned his final shareholders letter as Amazon’s CEO and used the annual tradition to comment on the company’s treatment of employees. The letter: Amazon’s official 14 leadership principles start off with a call...
University of Washington professor Margaret O’Mara discusses the history of tech at the 2017 GeekWire Summit. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong)Amazon warehouse employees voted against unionization in Bessemer, Ala., in a victory for the company and a defeat for organized labor. But the process put a...
However the outcome of today’s vote count turned out, there was one thing we knew for certain: it wasn’t going to mark the end of the battle between Amazon and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. With voting having broken overwhelmingly in Amazon’s favor, the union was quick to...
(Amazon Photo)Amazon appears to have defeated an effort to unionize its warehouse employees in Bessemer, Ala. While the final vote tally isn’t yet confirmed, the retail and cloud-computing giant appeared to win by a margin better than a 2-1 of the votes cast. More than 3,200 fulfillment center...
Efforts to unionize Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama warehouse were defeated by a wide margin in the second day of vote counting. More than half of the 3,215 votes cast broke in in factor of the retailer. The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which would have served as the workers’...
It’s been a little over a week since union voting concluded for Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama. Things have been fairly quiet in the eye of the storm for most of it. That changed today, however, as vote counting began in earnest. Thus far, things are breaking pretty dramatically...