labor relations
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Elon Musk’s Battle with Swedish Unions Is Now Impacting Tesla’s Charging Stations
For the past several months, Tesla has been locked in a battle of wills with the labor unions of Sweden. The company’s refusal to ratify a collective bargaining agreement with a small number of workers associated with the Swedish union IF Metall has led to boycotts by other regional unions, turning what should have been…
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Amazon’s New York Union Drive Might Be Coming at Just the Right Time
Workers looking to mobilize at Amazon’s Staten Island warehouse and elsewhere are in good company. That’s according to a new Morning Consult/Politico poll which found 77% of registered voters said they support employee rights to collective bargaining. That support, unlike just about everything else nowadays, transcended political affiliation. 89% of Democrats and 59% of Republicans…
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Amazon Says It Will Stop Interfering With Workers Organising On-Site
Amazon warehouse workers scored a victory against the abusive e-commerce giant this week, in the form of a settlement between the company and the National Labour Relations Board (NLRB). That agreement, first obtained by the New York Times via a public records request, puts an end to a longstanding company policy that, in contradiction to…
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A U.S. Congressman Just Introduced Legislation for a Four-Day Workweek
It turns out some Members of U.S. Congress despise the five-day workweek as much as the rest of us. This week, U.S. Rep. Mark Takano of California introduced groundbreaking legislation meant to make four-day workweeks the norm in the U.S., instead of the Monday-through-Friday grind full-time workers have learned to accept as inevitable.