After years of pretending that Big Tech was good for "consumers," we've not only woken up to how destructive these companies are, but we're also all increasingly in accord about what to do about it. Hot damn!
Recent union contract gains against a backdrop of decades of union decline, worsening wealth inequality and broken labor laws.
Increased militancy after pandemic sacrifices and tighter labor market contributed to impressive contract deals in the last year.
In his new special taking on Amazon, prankster Oobah Butler gets a job at a fulfillment center, films the brutal working conditions, and sells a drink made of Amazon drivers’ pee on the company’s platform. Amazon isn’t happy with his work.
Big Tech is on the spot
America is in the midst of the biggest surge in labor activity in a quarter-century. Auto workers, writers, actors, Starbucks workers, Amazon workers, UPS drivers, flight attendants – labor isn’t a ‘special interest’. It’s all of us.
"Breaking up Amazon is key to repairing the online market and opening the way for competition," said one expert.
WIRED interviewed AMCARE staff at 12 different Amazon facilities. They found that management pushed on-site medical representatives (OMRs) to keep Amazon workers on the job and away from doctors.
The unions raised the need for antitrust enforcement, and the Biden administration’s top antitrust cops paid attention. The one-two punch of simultaneous WGA and SAG strikes, for the first time in 60 years, has stalled out virtually all productions.
The summer of the flying lawsuits, and more dystopian drama
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