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Union Loss May Bring New Phase of Campaign Against Amazon After an election defeat in Alabama, many in labor are shifting strategies, wary of the challenges and expense of winning votes site by site. Union canvassers outside of the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., last month.Credit...Bob Miller for The New York Times April 9, 2021 The lopsided vote against a union at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., was a major disappointment to organized labor, which regards the fight with Amazon as ...

Does America Want to Invest in Broadband? Submitted on April 9, 2021 Friday, April 9, 2021 Does America Want to Invest in Broadband?  You’re reading the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society’s Weekly Digest, a recap of the biggest (or most overlooked) broadband stories of the week. The digest is delivered via e-mail each Friday. Round-Up for the Week of April 5-9, 2021 Taglang On March 31, President Joe Biden traveled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to unveil his American Jobs Plan, and w...

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Gimlet and Ringer unions detail their first historic contracts with Spotify Share this story Gimlet Media and The Ringer agreed on a three-year union employment contract with Spotify, marking a historic moment for both the tech giant and the podcasting industry. The contracts cover diversity at the company, salary bases, annual raises, and titles. It’s a big step — not just for unionization in podcasting, but also for the tech industry overall, which has been slow to take up unionization a...

Rutgers contract avoids lay-offs; calls for furloughs, pay freezes (updated) April 7, 2021 10:42 am A new contract between Rutgers University and some of its largest faculty and staff unions means that thousands of workers will avoid lay-offs until at least Jan. 1 next year in exchange for a series of other cuts. The agreement dated March 24 calls for full-time employees in the union to take 10 furlough days by July 31, or eight days for part-time employees. Members of the AAUP-AFT chapter �...

Executive Deputy and Deputy Chair; Director, Office of Telecommunications, New York State Public Service Commission The New York State Public Service Commission is the state oversight body whose mission is to ensure that utilities in New York are operating according to the letter of law and adhere to technical and safety standards. While John Howard serves as the PSC’s interim chair, Tom Congdon is responsible for overseeing the state department’s broader policy priorities, and Debra LaBell...

Hold that call centre, please COMMUNICATIONS Workers Union general secretary Clyde Elder fretted on Thursday about TSTT switching call-centre providers. Mr Elder believes that TSTT should have brought these services back in house. But its likely that the current scale of incoming calls, handled until recently by DirecOne – which employs 200 workers — is impractical for the company now. That doesn’t mean TSTT’s new approach is necessarily the right one. Mr Elder and TSTT may not be kee...

Photo by Liz Copan / Studio Copan The Keystone Ski Patrol voted 42-36 against unionization, according to the updated vote tally. Ski patrollers at Keystone Resort filed a petition seeking an election for union representation with the National Labor Relations Board in February, an effort following the unionization of ski patrollers at other ski areas in recent years like Park City Mountain Resort, Steamboat Resort and Telluride Ski Resort. Jonathan Cernanec, a Keystone ski patroller and one of t...

Andrew Cuomos uncertain future adds fuel to a generational upheaval in New York CNN 14 hrs ago © State of New York The last time New York Gov. Andrew Cuomos name was on a primary ballot, in September 2018, more than 65% of Democratic voters backed him for a third term. In a defiant news conference the day after the vote, Cuomo brushed back suggestions that a progressive wave was sweeping the state. "Not even a ripple," he said. But as the results came in on election night, they arrived wi...

All of my favourite engineers have either abandoned the profession or are dedicating their lives to changing it for the better. The most heroic engineer I know never built a bridge or patented a gizmo. He completed a stint in consulting, moved on to Engineers Without Borders, then founded an organization dedicated to promoting technological stewardship in the engineering community. What all these engineers have in common, besides collaborating with me on a nationwide grant proposal to transform...