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[Link] US man gets $450,000 after unwanted work birthday party triggered panic attack
Read: 18/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
A Kentucky man was awarded $450,000 in a lawsuit against his former employer, after the company disregarded his wish not to be given a birthday party.
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[Link] Starbucks CEO Announces NFTs to Workers Amid Union Drive
Read: 5/4/2022 www.vice.com
In a town hall meeting on Monday aimed at Starbucks workers amid a massive union drive, failed presidential candidate and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz revealed a development that he hoped would excite workers: crypto.
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[Link] Guy Whose Companies Keep Getting Sued For Discrimination Threatens to 'Improve' Twitter
Read: 5/4/2022 www.vice.com
Elon Musk has joined the board at Twitter, saying he plans to make several improvements to the platform.
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[Link] Elon Musk Dares UAW to Organize Tesla Factory, Says He Would “Do Nothing to Stop Them”
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
Last night, like many other nights, Elon Musk was tweeting. In this case, he was tweeting to Gene Simmons of Kiss about the size and workforce of Tesla’s California plant.
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[Link] Warren, Sanders Demand Investigation into Amazon’s Attendance Policy
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
Senators Cory Booker and Richard Blumenthal and Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cori Bush also wrote the letter.
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[Link] 'No One’s Life is Worth a Package': Amazon Workers Are Organizing for Cell Phone Access
Read: 20/12/2021 www.vice.com
The Amazon workers are also demanding that Amazon pay workers for shifts cancelled due to inclement weather. And during school closures, they want Amazon to excuse all absences caused by severe weather and to be paid 80 percent of their salary.
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[Link] Gopuff Delivery Workers Plan National Strike Ahead of Thanksgiving
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
Some participating workers plan to not work their scheduled shifts as part of the strike, and others will refuse to fill in for them, organizers say. They hope this will have a “significant impact” on a company that promises delivery of food and goods in just half an hour.
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[Link] World’s Worst People Keep Assaulting and Harassing Flight Attendants
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
The passenger started drinking their own alcohol, which is against federal law, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. When a flight attendant told the passenger to stop, that passenger sexually assaulted the attendant.
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[Link] Video: Howard Schultz Compares Selflessness of Starbucks to That of Holocaust Prisoners
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Schultz visited Starbucks workers in Buffalo days before a historic union election that could have reverberating effects across the fast food and retail industries.
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[Link] To-go orders are ruining restaurant workers' lives
Read: 8/11/2021 www.businessinsider.com
The COVID-19 pandemic closed dining rooms and led to a boom in to-go orders across the restaurant industry — but they're making things unbearable for workers.
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[Link] Starbucks Tells Unionizing Workers 'We Want You To Vote No'
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
On Monday evening, Starbucks sent a blatantly anti-union email to workers eligible to vote in union elections at three stores that begins on November 10.
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[Link] Netflix hit with unfair labor charge from suspended and fired employees
Read: 31/10/2021 www.avclub.com
After weeks of controversy surrounding its release of—and then vocal high-level support for—the transphobic material in Dave Chappelle’s comedy special The Closer, streaming giant Netflix now faces an unfair labor charge from two of its current/former employees.
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[Link] 'She was my friend': Alec Baldwin breaks silence on death of Halyna Hutchins for first time on camera
Read: 31/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Actor Alec Baldwin has spoken publicly for the first time on camera about the accidental shooting on the set of a film that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, in a video released by TMZ.
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[Link] Activision Blizzard ends forced arbitration as CEO takes a massive pay cut
Read: 31/10/2021 www.theverge.com
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick sent a letter updating employees on the further steps he and the company will take to change its image in the wake of multiple sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuits.
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[Link] Sure Looks Like Democrats Are Killing Paid Family Leave to Please Joe Manchin
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Democrats have been toiling to push through their own New Deal—a massive social spending bill covering climate, health, and child care—and secure President Joe Biden’s legacy.
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[Link] Amazon ‘Delivery Partners’ Hit Amazon With $150 Million Lawsuit
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Two Amazon delivery companies in the Portland area sued Amazon Monday, claiming that the e-commerce giant controls nearly every aspect of their business and penalizes them for circumstances beyond their control. The companies are seeking $15 million in damages.
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[Link] Hundreds of HelloFresh Workers Are Unionizing in New Jersey
Read: 21/10/2021 www.vice.com
On Wednesday, the union filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board for a union election at the HelloFresh distribution center in Newark. HelloFresh is the largest meal-kit provider in the United States. Its factory workers are also unionizing at a nearby facility in Totowa, New Jersey.
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[Link] Amazon Abandons Warehouse Plan Because San Diego Is Considering Worker Protection Law
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
Amazon backed out of a last-mile distribution center project near San Diego, California, because of a proposed law that would require it to pay workers more and offer them stronger protections, Motherboard has confirmed.
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[Link] Activision sued by another federal agency, settles lawsuit for $18 million
Read: 10/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com
Earlier today the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against Activision Blizzard after a three year investigation into alleged workplace discrimination.
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[Link] NYC Delivery Workers Gain Right to Use Restaurant Bathrooms
Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com
In the past, Motherboard has reported that gig workers and delivery drivers around the country have nowhere to pee on the job, have been banned by restaurants from using their restaurants, and under time constraints, often relieve themselves in bushes, bottles, and bags.
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[Link] ‘We’re Tired of Getting Treated Like Trash’: Nabisco Workers Are Striking for Normal Hours
Read: 18/8/2021 www.vice.com
A strike that began at a Nabisco factory in Portland, Oregon last week has now spread across the country to Nabisco facilities in Aurora, Colorado, and Richmond, Virginia, where Oreos, Ritz crackers, Chips Ahoy, and other popular cookies and crackers are baked and packaged.
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[Link] Activision Blizzard’s QA Department Seems Like A Hellhole
Read: 15/8/2021 kotaku.com
Long hours. Low pay. Tremendous instability. Working in quality assurance (QA) for a video game studio is notoriously difficult and painstaking enough as it is without factors like these complicating matters.
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[Link] Elon Musk's Brother Wants to Build Utopian Learning Gardens, Without Unions
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Big Green's anti-union stance coincides with a series of outwardly progressive institutions and companies, including art museums, universities, public interest law firms, and green energy companies, taking measures to ensure their employees don't unionize.
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[Link] How to Check if the Business That Won’t Pay You a Fair Wage Got a PPP Loan
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Summer’s ugliest trend is bosses pinning the blame for business interruptions on “lazy” workers.
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[Link] Uber, Lyft Introduce Prop 22 Clone to Undermine Labor Law In Massachusetts
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
It’s nearly been a year since Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, and Postmates wrote Proposition 22—a ballot measure that exempted them from following California labor laws—and spent $220 million on a deceptive campaign to pass it.
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[Link] Activision Blizzard Faces Second Lawsuit Over First Lawsuit
Read: 4/8/2021 kotaku.com
A class action lawsuit filed today in the U.S. District Court of Central California on behalf of investors alleges that Activision Blizzard’s intentional failure to disclose its ongoing problems with sexual harassment and discrimination artificially inflated the company’s stock value.
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[Link] $15 Minimum Wage Isn't Enough for Workers to Afford Rent in Any U.S. State
Read: 30/7/2021 www.teenvogue.com
This story is published as part of Teen Vogue’s 2021 Economic Security Project fellowship. In Florida, someone working full-time would need to make $24.82 an hour to afford a two-bedroom rental. In Colorado, you’d need to make $27.50 an hour. In Washington state you’d need to make $29.
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[Link] Over 1,000 Activision Blizzard Employees Sign Letter Condemning Company's Response To Allegations
Read: 27/7/2021 kotaku.com
“Following the announcement from Activision Blizzard, and in light of the internal memo circulated by Frances Townsend, a group of over 800 employees from across all of Activision-Blizzard-King and its subsidiaries came together to take action,” a representative of the group told Kotaku.
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[Link] Blizzard Boss Accused Of Failing To Address Sexual Harassment Calls New Allegations ‘Troubling’
Read: 24/7/2021 www.kotaku.com.au
In the email, first reported by ’s Jason Schreier, a copy of which was also viewed by Kotaku, Blizzard president J. Allen Brack wrote, “I personally have a lot of emotions coming out of yesterday, and I know you do, too.
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[Link] “Bad mergers” and noncompete clauses targeted in Biden executive order
Read: 14/7/2021 arstechnica.com
President Joe Biden announced his anticipated executive order today, and it’s a sweeping document that seeks to counter rising corporate consolidation and foster greater competition in everything from labor markets to mergers, banking, healthcare, device repairs, transportation, broadband, and mor
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