Senate Democrats Are Taking Companies to Task Over Invasive Workplace Surveillance
Ignatiev/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Whether you call it “tattleware,” “bossware,” or “surveillance capitalism,” Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) has had enough of exploitative workplace monitoring technologies. Late last week, Casey and a handful of other Senate Democrats introduced the Stop Spying Bosses Act, which would…
Amazon Loses Bid: The NLRB Just Upheld the Historic Staten Island Union Win
Union organizer Derrick Palmer speaks at a rally outside an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island in April 2022. Seth Wenig/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.More than eight months after workers at Amazon’s JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island voted to unionize, the National Labor…
Most Workers Who Were Fired This Year Lost Their Jobs for No Good Reason—Again
Protester holds a placard saying, ”All power to the workers” during the rally.Photo by Karla Cot Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. A new report, published on Friday, finds that “more than two out of three workers who have been discharged received no reason…
Workers at an EV Battery Plant Just Unionized
Sean Rayford/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Workers at an electric vehicle battery manufacturing plant in Ohio voted Friday to join the United Automobile Workers union, a milestone in the auto industry’s transition from producing gas to electric cars. The vote at Ultium Cells—a joint…
Joe Biden Is Moving to Stop a Rail Strike. Workers Are Upset.
Natalie Behring/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Joe Biden, the Amtrak-obsessed president who has prided himself on being “pro-labor,” is urging Congress to step in and halt a looming railroad strike. This move is a massive change of course for a president known to…
Illinois Is Poised to Pass a Huge Win For Workers
Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Illinois workers are on the verge of a historic win: a labor rights amendment to the state constitution that—among other things—would make the state the first to ban so-called “right-to-work laws” throughout its territory. The amendment, on the…