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YouTube laid off 43 unionized workers as they were testifying over higher pay

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Employees unionized as part of the larger fight for better pay and benefits and petitioned Google to come to the table for negotiations, but the software company had refused.
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Bloomberg

Starbucks Workers Fight to Unionize

Higher Ed
Michelle Eisen, leading organizer of Starbucks Workers United, has successfully unionized a Starbucks store in Buffalo, New York. But she says her journey is just beginning.
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Amazon Workers In New York City Vote To Unionize

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This marks the first successful organizing effort in Amazon's history. Meanwhile, workers in Bessemer, Alabama, voted 993 to 875 against unionizing.
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Bloomberg

Union Busting: What Employers Can and Cannot Legally Do

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High profile unionization efforts at companies like Amazon and Starbucks have drawn renewed interest in labor laws. In this video, we look at what's legal and what isn't when a company's employees want to unionize. (Produced by Macarena...
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Bloomberg

U.S. Labor Laws Need 'Desperate' Reforms: Fmr. NLRB Chair

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Mar.30 -- Wilma Liebman, former chairwoman of the National Labor Relations Board under President Barack Obama, discusses the prospects of the count of union ballots from Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama. It is seen as one of the most...
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Should Schools Consider Their Grad Students Workers?

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Grad students teach classes, grade papers, conduct research and create syllabi, but they're not always guaranteed the same pay or benefits as workers.
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Bloomberg

Apple Executives Violated Worker Rights, US Labor Officials Say

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US labor officials say comments by Apple Inc. executives and policies imposed on employees have been deemed illegal. The US National Labor Relations Board, or NLRB, says its general counsel's office has determined that "various work...
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Bloomberg

Will GOP Bend on Obama's Supreme Court Nomination?

Higher Ed
March 16 -- Former Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and Bloomberg's David Westin discuss President Barack Obama nominating Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court and how the choice may impact Republicans' vow to obstruct any nomination to...