When Graham Brooks received his ballot in early February, asking whether he wanted to form a union at the Amazon warehouse in Alabama where he…
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Unemployment Is High. Why Are Businesses Struggling to Hire?
By contrast, “right now what seems to be happening is that job creation is outpacing the search effort that workers are putting forth,” said Professor…
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Amazon Workers Defeat Union Effort in Alabama
The vote could lead to a rethinking of strategy inside the labor movement. For years, union organizers have tried to leverage growing concerns about low-wage…
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Amazon’s Clashes With Labor: Days of Conflict and Control
In recent weeks, a heated discussion about whether Amazon’s workers must urinate in bottles because they have no time to go to the bathroom —…
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Meet the New Cuomo. Same as the Old Cuomo.
He has often made the dichotomy between social and economic policy plain. In a 2017 State of the State address that he started by bragging…
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Jeff Bezos Is Taunting Politicians. Will They Take the Bait?
At first, it seemed like a bonkers strategy, and I immediately got numerous texts from high level and tough public relations folks in tech, all…
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Jeff Bezos Is Taunting Politicians. Will They Take the Bait?
At first, it seemed like a bonkers strategy, and I immediately got numerous texts from high level and tough public relations folks in tech, all…
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Supreme Court Arguments May Be Turning Point for N.C.A.A.
“It would be easy for schools to label such internships ‘related to education,’ even if a star athlete was given, say, a six-month ‘internship’ at…
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How to Protect Massage Workers
The shootings of Asian massage workers in Georgia this month have been framed as part of a surge of anti-Asian violence during the Covid-19 pandemic.…
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Freelancers Shouldn’t Have ‘Horror Stories’
JoBeth McDaniel, a California resident with the group Freelancers Against AB5, told me in an email that the law hurt a wide swath of independent…
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