Federal bills aimed at NCAA reform just keep coming. This time, on Thursday morning, Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced the first legislation specifically related to the collective bargaining rights of college athletes. Read more…
Enlarge / Exterior view of a Googleplex building, the corporate headquarters of Google and parent company Alphabet, May 2018. (credit: Getty Images | zphotos) More than 225 workers at Google have formally launched a companywide union membership drive, following an increasing drive toward organization inside the company over the past several years. All 120,000 people […]
Expand / Sunset, from the Google empire. (charge: 400tmax | Getty Images) Google’s activities amid office organizing attempts, for instance, high profile firings of many workers, were prohibited offenses of the National Labor Relations Act, federal officials said this past week. The National Labor Relations Board filed a formal complaint (PDF) contrary to Google Wednesday, […]
Expand / Amazon.com Inc. signage is shown in front of a warehouse at Staten Island, New York, US, on Tuesday, March 31, 2020. (charge: Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images) Amazon on Thursday introduced high speed statistics on COVID-19 disease rates among its own warehouse and in-store employees, stating that nearly 20,000″front-line” workers contracted […]