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☆ US labor officials say Apple violated the law by allegedly interrogating employees and holding mandatory meetings about unionization
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

An Atlanta NLRB director found merit to allegations that Apple violated labor law. Apple, which did not respond to Insider's request for comment, has previously denied wrongdoing in a complaint with similar allegations concerning a New York Apple Store. We commend the NLRB for recognizing captive audience meetings for exactly what they are: a direct violation of labor rights." The Atlanta Apple Store in Cumberland Mall became the first Apple retail location to file for a union election in April. The employees in Atlanta eventually withdrew their call for a union vote days before the election, alleging intimidation from Apple.

☆ Microsoft could soon have its first union
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The workers are organizing with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union and have until the end of December to vote on it. Microsoft has agreed to recognize the union if a majority of the workers vote in favor of it, according to the CWA. The union bid at the Microsoft subsidiary, however, stands out from some of the others because Microsoft has previously vowed to recognize the rights of workers to organize. Slack said Microsoft has been “very accommodating” throughout the process, ever since organizers first approached the company about the union. “They understand that it’s a right and they wanted to leave it up to the workers,” Slack said.

☆ In the midst of Amazon's record layoffs, corporate employees of the company float a forbidden word: Union
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Katherine Long | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A small group of corporate Amazon staff is discussing unionizing, according to messages seen by Insider. There, a small group of corporate employees have been openly discussing the pros and cons of labor activism, including organizing into a union. Though only one warehouse has successfully voted to unionize, organizing efforts are active in at least seven Amazon locations. And now, with about 10,000 corporate jobs on the line, union activism is picking up here, too. Members of the Discord group have brought up the Alphabet Workers Union, a minority union representing roughly 1,000 Alphabet employees and affiliated with the Communications Workers of America, as a possible model.

☆ Hundreds of Gannett Staffers Stage Daylong Strike to Improve Wages
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Alexandra Bruell | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Gannett, the parent of USA Today and local newspapers, this week posted another $54 million quarterly loss. More than 200 Gannett Co. staffers are staging a one-day strike Friday to push for better wages and benefits and protest layoffs and furloughs, among other cost-cutting measures at the news publisher. The striking staffers, from 14 of the company’s newsrooms, won’t work Friday, said a spokeswoman for the NewsGuild, a division of the Communications Workers of America union that represents members across Gannett publications. They include staff from publications in New Jersey, New York, Arizona and California, as well as members from Gannett’s Atlantic Digital Optimization Team, she said.

☆ Royal Mail workers' union withdraws November strike plan in UK
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Oct 30 (Reuters) - The Royal Mail's largest labour union, the Communications Workers Union (CWU), has withdrawn its planned strike action in Britain in the next two weeks, the company said on Sunday. The company and the union have talks planned through the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) on Monday. The union last month called for 19 days of strikes spread across October and November against Royal Mail. Royal Mail has been in a tussle with the CWU over pay for months and has said it is losing 1 million pounds ($1.11 million) a day due to strike action. The company said this month said it could cut up to 10,000 jobs and warned of more layoffs if planned strikes go ahead.

☆ Workers at Apple stores in Australia went on strike for an hour and are refusing to repair AirPods or handle deliveries in a dispute over pay and conditions
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Dozens of Apple workers in Australia went on strike on Tuesday in a dispute over pay and conditions. The workers are now refusing to repair AirPods, fix screens, or handle deliveries. "Apple workers represented by RAFFWU have stepped up where no other retail workers in Australian history have gone. Apple workers were not permitted to speak to media but made comments that could be heard by reporters, per The Herald. In June, an Apple store in Towson, Maryland became the first to officially unionize.

☆ Apple workers vote to unionize second U.S. store
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Doyinsola Oladipo | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

NEW YORK, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Apple Inc retail workers voted to form a union at an Oklahoma location, the U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) said on Friday, making it the tech giant's second U.S. store to organize. Employees at the Apple Penn Square store in Oklahoma City voted 56 to 32 in support of joining the Communications Workers of America Union (CWA), securing the needed majority, according to a tally by the NLRB. Apple workers near Baltimore, Maryland, voted in June to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. The CWA in May withdrew an election petition on behalf of Apple workers in Atlanta, Georgia, claiming that Apple had repeatedly violated federal labor law and the rising number of COVID infections among store employees made a fair election impossible, according to the CWA. Some current and former Apple workers last year began criticizing the company's working conditions online, using the hashtag #AppleToo.

☆ Apple Workers Vote for Union at Oklahoma Store in Second Organizing Win
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Aaron Tilley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Apple store in Oklahoma City has a total of about 100 employees eligible for union membership. Apple retail workers in Oklahoma City voted to unionize, becoming the second group of employees at one of the iPhone maker’s U.S. stores to organize officially. The group, which calls itself the Penn Square Labor Alliance, plans to join the Communications Workers of America. The Apple store located at Oklahoma City’s Penn Square Mall has a total of about 100 employees eligible for union membership.

☆ Apple workers in Oklahoma vote for company's second U.S. union store
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A shopper looks at a wall fully occupied with iPhone case covers at the American multinational technology company Apple store in Hong Kong. Employees at an Apple store in Oklahoma City voted on Friday to join a union, marking the second unionized Apple store in the U.S. The vote is a defeat for Apple, which has opposed unionization efforts around the country. It's a win for Communications Workers of America, which now represents the workers at an Apple store after separate unionization efforts at stores in Georgia and New York City stalled. Apple's first unionized U.S. store, represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers in Maryland, is preparing to begin formal negotiations with Apple.

☆ Russia excludes some IT professionals, bankers and journalists from mobilisation
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

A Russian service member stands next to a mobile recruitment center for military service under contract in Rostov-on-Don, Russia September 17, 2022. REUTERS/Sergey PivovarovSept 23 (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday it was exempting some bankers, IT workers and journalists from being drafted into the army to serve in Ukraine under President Vladimir Putin's mobilisation. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday that Russia would seek to call up 300,000 additional troops for Russia's war in Ukraine in what the Kremlin calls a "partial mobilisation". The exceptions apply to some IT workers, telecommunications workers, finance professionals, as well as some employees at "systemically-important" mass media outlets and interdependent suppliers including registered media and broadcasters. Russia's central bank welcomed the move to exclude some financial professionals from being called up and said some of its staff met the relevant criteria.

☆ Airline unions urge carriers not to resume buybacks when bailout ban ends this fall
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-18 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

A United Airlines flight crew walks through the terminal at San Francisco International Airport on April 12, 2020 in San Francisco, California. Labor unions don't want them to spend it on stock buybacks. A condition of the $54 billion in federal aid that airlines received to pay workers during the Covid pandemic prohibited carriers from share buybacks. Many of the workers represented by the unions advocating against a resumption of buybacks are in contract negotiations with their carriers. She estimated that the earliest that airlines would resume would be mid-2023, with Alaska Airlines and Southwest the most likely candidates among U.S. carriers.

☆ U.S. tech execs hone approach to counter unions amid growing worker interest
▼ + stars: | 2021-11-24 | by ( Julia Love | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Mapbox's response offers a window into how tech companies are pushing back as unions seek to bring workers into the fold. The CWA also formed the Alphabet Workers Union, a so-called minority union that does not have collective bargaining rights. For many tech workers, the promise of a generous payday is no longer enough. They also want sound working conditions and assurances that the products they are building will not harm society, tech employees and organizers say. On their website, members of the Mapbox Workers Union wrote that they banded together "to build a lasting, accountable, inclusive Mapbox."

☆ Angajaţii Google lansează primul sindicat din istoria companiei
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-04 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Angajaţii din cadrul Google şi cei ai companiei-mamă Alphabet au anunţat luni crearea unui sindicat, în ceea ce reprezintă până acum apogeul a câţiva ani de tensiuni între muncitori şi conducere, potrivit Bloomberg, citat de ZF. Sindicatul Muncitorilor Alphabet a declarat că va fi deschis pentru toţi angajaţii şi contractorii, indiferent de încadrarea şi rolul pe care îl deţin în firmă, urmând să fie ales în scurt timp un board de directori. „Vom angaja organizatori abili care să-i asigure pe angajaţi că Google ştie că vor lucra doar dacă le vor fi reflectate valorile”, spune Dylan Baker, inginer de software al Google. În ultimii ani, Google a intrat într-un conflict cu mai mulţi angajaţi în urma semnării unor acorduri cu armata SUA. În 2018, un protest al muncitorilor a dus la pierderea unui contract prin intermediul căruia Google ar fi putut dezvolta sisteme cu inteligenţă artificială pentru Pentagon.

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