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Congrats on surviving this wild first week of 2021. Outside all-things political, a few labor developments happened that are worth noting. Also, shortly before the mob of Trump supporters wreaked havoc on the U.S. Capitol, I caught up with Dr. Timnit Gebru, the prominent AI ethics researcher who said she was fired from Google last […]

In a recent  New York Times op-ed, two Google employees who recently formed the Alphabet Worker’s Union outlined their reasons for doing so and their issues with the tech giant. New York Times op-ed titled “We Built Google. This Is Not the Company We Want to Work For,” Google employees Parul Koul and Chewy Shaw explain why they joined the recently formed Alphabet Workers Union and the issues they’ve faced with the company in recent years. Breitbart News recently reported that more...

Source: Android Central Everyone who works for or at an Alphabet-owned property now has a union they can join. Dubbed the Alphabet Workers Union, its open to full-time staff, part-time and seasonal staff, and contractors like the folks who provide security or work in the cafeteria. Its not a union in the traditional sense — there wont be a committee that bargains for vacation hours or benefit packages, but is instead a group that has a singular goal in mind: make sure every single worker at G...

New Jerseys influential teachers union, the New Jersey Education Association, overwhelmingly powered Gov. Phil Murphys nonprofit that blasts out his policy wins and goals. The NJEA provided $6 million of the $6.5 million the social welfare nonprofit raised during the end of 2019 and all of 2020. New Direction New Jersey, a group run by former aides to the governor that can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money, reported that it also collected $175,000, from the union Greater PA Carpente...

Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Arizona State University workers go union, found United Campus Workers chapter December 22, 2020 1:56 PM CDT By Josh Bacopulos A cyclist crosses an intersection on the campus of Arizona State University on Sept. 1, 2020, in Tempe, Ariz. Workers at the college have decided to uni...

A deal has been reached between Royal Mail and the workers union following a two-year dispute over job security, pay, and hours. The settlement includes a two-year pay deal backdated to April, worth 3.7%, and a one-hour reduction in the working week, according to the Communication Workers Union. The CWU said there will be no compulsory redundancies and that the businesss objective would instead be one of job creation. It means Royal Mail can move ahead more easily with planned changes, includin...

For The Inter-Mountain CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Public Service Commission could approve Frontier Communication’s bankruptcy reorganization plan next month, though Frontier plans to use its winning bid of federal rural broadband dollars to sweeten the deal, raising concerns. Last Friday, the PSC made available the joint stipulation and settlement agreement between Frontier, PSC staff, and PSC Consumer Advocate Division, and the Communication Workers of America union. If approved by the...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) provided guidance on the propriety of mail or manual ballot elections. Aspirus Keweenaw, 370 NLRB No. 45 (Nov. 9, 2020). In this case, the NLRB set forth the considerations regional directors should weigh in determining whether an election should be conducted by mail ballot, as opposed to an in-person manual ballot, because of the COVID-19-related conditions. The NLRB’s longstanding policy ...

Tuesday, December 22, 2020 1. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) provided guidance on the propriety of mail or manual ballot elections.  Aspirus Keweenaw, 370 NLRB No. 45 (Nov. 9, 2020). In this case, the NLRB set forth the considerations regional directors should weigh in determining whether an election should be conducted by mail ballot, as opposed to an in-person manual ballot, because of the COVID-19-related conditions. The NLRB’s longstanding policy strongly favors manu...

Staff writer CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Public Service Commission could approve Frontier Communication’s bankruptcy reorganization plan next month, though Frontier plans to use its winning bid of federal rural broadband dollars to sweeten the deal, raising concerns. Last Friday, the PSC made available the joint stipulation and settlement agreement between Frontier, PSC staff, and PSC Consumer Advocate Division, and the Communication Workers of America union. If approved by the full comm...