by Justin | Jan 5, 2021 | Google, Organizing
Leaked files from IRI Consultants, a top union avoidance firm hired by Google, show how it collects data on workers’ personality, motivations, and work ethic to bust unions. Read the article here.
by Justin | Dec 29, 2020 | Museum Workers, NLRB, Organizing, UAW Local 2110
The result of a unionization vote this month by 23 Portland Museum of Art employees remains unknown pending a museum management appeal to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The mail-in election was held to decide whether the employees should join Technical,...
by Justin | Dec 28, 2020 | General Motors, Labor History, Organizing, UAW History
84 years ago today, the 1936-37 Flint sit down-strike began at General Motors. It was a defining moment for the UAW that would end up improving the lives of millions of workers across the country. Jeremy Brecher’s account of the great sit-down strike in the...
by Justin | Dec 26, 2020 | Labor History, Organizing, UE
For unions in America, a fundamental problem is apathy. Members do not want to get involved, and a component of this is that there is not a sense of what the union stands for and what being in a union means. It may not be a coincidence that the book is published by...
by Justin | Dec 24, 2020 | Collective Bargaining, Organizing, Queens Public Defenders, UAW Local 2322
A Kew Gardens-based public defender agency has declined to voluntarily recognize a new staff union, setting the stage for a potentially drawn out legal process overseen by the National Labor Relations Board. A majority of eligible attorneys and social workers at the...
by Justin | Dec 17, 2020 | Legal Workers, Organizing, UAW Local 2325
Attorneys and social workers at a Queens-based public defender agency announced their plan to unionize Wednesday, becoming the latest New York City indigent defense group to organize under the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys. Roughly 70 staffers from the Queens...
