Inside Amazon Air’s Quest to Seize the Skies
[ad_1] Two former air employees recall items flying from Seattle to the Cincinnati hub, then back west to Portland—a two-and-a-half hour drive from its northern neighbor. While Amazon says it…
Apple Won’t Let Staff Work Remotely to Escape Texas Abortion Limits
[ad_1] Rebecca was getting ready to start her work day at Apple this June when she heard that the US Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade. The decision would trigger laws…
Would You Sell Your Vacation Days for Cash?
[ad_1] PTO Genius, another startup launched in 2020, nudges employees that its algorithm guesses are at risk for burnout—based on factors like long hours and behavior changes—to take vacation. The…
Amazon Workers Lose Another Union Vote as Management Digs In
[ad_1] The Amazon Labor Union, which made history in April by unionizing the first Amazon warehouse in the US, lost its latest campaign today, at a facility in Schodack, New…
One Solution to the Food Waste Problem: Eat Your Garbage
[ad_1] The villains of climate change tend be what we put out: carbon-spewing cars, soot-emitting power plants, farting cows. So it follows that we might make a dent in the…
A US Rail Strike Was Averted—but the Crisis Is Far From Over
[ad_1] In the early hours of Thursday morning, major US freight railroad companies reached a tentative agreement with unions, narrowly averting a nationwide rail shutdown less than 24 hours before…
Google and Amazon Workers Protest Military Cloud Contracts
[ad_1] Chandravongsri’s parents were born in Laos, where he still has extended family. He has seen first-hand how CIA-led bombing campaigns during the 1960s and 1970s have left a deadly…
Behind Google Worker Protests of an Israeli Government Cloud Deal
[ad_1] Ariel Koren, a Google employee who became a face of worker protests against the company’s contract with the Israeli government, announced her resignation yesterday. The Jewish marketing manager says…
A US Freight Rail Crisis Threatens More Supply-Chain Chaos
[ad_1] Unions have also disputed how railroads have used new congressionally-mandated automated emergency braking systems to justify plans to remove conductors from trains, which would leave the engineer the sole…
Beware the Contract Clause Loading US Workers With Debt
[ad_1] The bite of a TRAP can be particularly painful when a worker has been led to believe that it won’t be used. Scally could not afford to pay her…
The Fallout From Apple’s Bizarre, Dogged Union-Busting Campaign
[ad_1] At a roundtable that Bowles attended in May, a meeting leader said they were going to answer “questions from the team,” despite the fact that he was unaware of…