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When Deutsche Telekom was hailing the benefits of a planned merger between its T-Mobile US subsidiary and Sprint, the German operator made a striking pledge on jobs. "The overall plan is for the larger company to employ more staff than the two previous companies put together," it wrote in a statement on its website published in April 2018. "For the employees of this company, nothing is worsening," said CEO Timotheus Höttges in a supporting video. "The opposite is the case." At the end of 2018...

Medium workers short on votes to have union recognized by management FacebookTwitterEmail CEO Ev Williams at the headquarters of Medium in San Francisco.Eric Risberg / Associated Press 2018 Employees at the San Francisco-based digital publishing site Medium have voted down a proposal on unionization by a one-vote margin that would have required company management to recognize the group. On Friday the group lobbying for union representation failed to reach the threshold for voluntary recognition...

In 2019, Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red — and, particularly, co-founder Marcin Iwiński — made the grand promise that its employees would not be forced to “crunch.” Crunch is a ubiquitous term in the video game industry, a stand-in word describing the weeks, months, or years when developers work for long, grueling hours to complete a game. Iwiński said at the time, in an interview with Kotaku, that he wanted the company to “be known for treating developers with respect.”...

March 01, 2021 NEW ANALYSIS: The Ultra-Millionaire Tax would bring in at least $3 trillion in revenue over 10 years – without raising taxes on the 99.95% of American households that have net worth below $50 million Letters on Constitutionality here and here (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-07), a member of the House Budget Committee, and Representative Brendan Boyle (D-PA-0...

President Biden sent Jennifer Ann Abruzzo’s nomination for General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to the Senate. Ms. Abruzzo is no stranger to the NLRB, having spent almost twenty-three years working for the NLRB in various capacities. Her positions included Field Attorney, Supervisory Field Attorney, and Deputy Regional Attorney in the Miami, Florida office. In addition, she served as Deputy Assistant General Counsel in the Division of Operations-Management in Washingt...

From scrappy startup to success, Meow Wolf art collective looks to future Teya Vitu, Santa Fe New Mexican Peek inside Meow Wolfs The House of Eternal Return Replay Video UP NEXT SANTA FE – Meow Wolf has been percolating for 13 years, though the rest of the world has really only known about the immersive, experiential artist collective since the House of Eternal Return opened in Santa Fe in March 2016. The five years since have seen the company jump onto a superhighway of gro...

Labor lawyer Lucas Middlebrook recently joined Wrestling Inc. Managing Editor Nick Hausman on The Wrestling Inc. Daily to discuss unionizing in the professional fighting world. Middlebrook has worked with numerous leagues to help their talent unionize, specifically referees in the NBA and MLS. “I serve as counsel to the National Basketball Referees Association, which is the union that represents the NBA referees,” Middlebrook said. “My firm has been representing them for a little over te...

Taking on the tech giants: the lawyer fighting the power of algorithmic systems Whether it’s the CIA or Facebook, lawyer and activist Cori Crider is never one to shy away from a fight ‘It’s not as if I haven’t spent time with graphic material’: Cori Crider. Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The Observer ‘It’s not as if I haven’t spent time with graphic material’: Cori Crider. Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The Observer EdSiddons Sun 28 Feb 2021 05.00 EST Last modified on Tue 2 Mar 2021 10.23 E...

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