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Jan 04 2023
News
How Amazon keeps a close eye on employee activism to head off unions
Amazon warehouse workers have a long history of agitating for change. But the coronavirus crisis has generated new momentum for employees to speak candidly about workplace conditions.
Since March, employees have held protests to demand safer working conditions, created online petitions to draw attention to their concerns and formed new worker groups. The surge of employee activism has
CNBC
Jan 04 2023
News
Microsoft recognized its first labor union in the US after staff at $7.5 billion video game firm ZeniMax Studios voted to unionize
Microsoft recognized its first labor union in the US, after an overwhelming majority of video game testers at ZeniMax Studios voted to unionize, the Communications Workers of America union announced on Tuesday.
Around 300 software testers across four of ZeniMax's locations in Maryland and Texas voted to unionize, according to Reuters.
ZeniMax is a video game production company
Insider
Jan 14 2023
News
Michelle Wu promised ‘significant reform’ to police union contracts. Now comes the hard part. - The Boston Globe
But as Wu begins the second year of her first term, it’s becoming clear just how difficult that will be. The city’s largest police union is already trying to push contract talks off the bargaining table and into the hands of outside arbitrators, a move that has historically favored the unions. And police unions, no fans of Wu to begin with, are standing characteristically firm in their
The Boston Globe
Jan 14 2023
Opinion
Whisper it, but Europe is winning the energy war with Putin
Halfway through the first winter of Europe’s energy war with Russia, only one side is winning.
When Vladimir Putin warned in September that Europeans would “freeze” if the West stuck to its energy sanctions against Russia, Moscow’s fossil fuel blackmail appeared to be going exactly to plan.
European wholesale gas prices were north of €200 per megawatt hour, around 10 times higher
Politico
Jan 01 2023
News
This $1.39M Union Co. Home Has That 'WOW Factor'
UNION COUNTY, NJ — This four-bedroom, five-bathroom home is located in Westfield and includes a finished walk-up attic with a full bath for additional living space.
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Patch.com
Jan 12 2023
News
Nevada GOP governor orders review, freeze of new regulations
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada's new Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo signed executive orders Thursday indefinitely freezing implementation of new state regulations or occupational licensing requirements, with some exceptions in areas such as public health and safety. Lombardo also ordered all executive branch agencies, departments and others to review all existing regulations to recommend which should
Times Union
Jan 12 2023
News
Alert: Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen appoints one of his chief GOP benefactors, Pete Ricketts, to Senate seat vacated by Ben Sasse
Times Union
Dec 29 2022
News
Southwest didn’t heed calls to upgrade tech before meltdown, unions say
Southwest Airlines’ pilot and flight attendant unions warned for years that the company’s rickety computer systems left the airline vulnerable. The carrier stuck with outdated technology and never heeded those warnings, they say.
Southwest’s overwhelmed technology — a scenario fueled by a punishing winter storm — left it this week facing some of the most difficult days in its half-
Washington Post
Jan 18 2023
News
Justice Department investigating Memphis man's arrest, death
The U.S. Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into the arrest of Tyre Nichols, who died days after a confrontation with Memphis Police Department officers during a traffic stop, officials said Wednesday. The U.S. attorney’s office released a statement saying the FBI’s field office in Memphis and the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department are investigating the use
San Diego Union-Tribune
Jan 18 2023
News
New Oklahoma AG seeks to slow pace of lethal injections
Oklahoma’s current schedule of executing a death row inmate roughly every 30 days is placing too much of a burden on prison staff and should be slowed down, the state’s new attorney general wrote in a motion filed Wednesday with the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. Attorney General Gentner Drummond, who personally witnessed last week’s execution of Scott Eizember, asked the court to set the
San Diego Union-Tribune