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Unions are uncommon in the ad industry. But the disappearance of thousands of agency jobs in the pandemic and agencies’ growing use of AI to perform tasks like media planning and buying, and market research, could make unionization more appealing,

Amazon uses such tools as navigation software, item scanners, wristbands, thermal cameras, security cameras and recorded footage to surveil its workforce in warehouses and stores.

The victory of the workers at Lovestruck marks the first successful game worker strike in the video game industry’s history.

Some labor historians say this new militancy resembles the 1930s, when a huge strike wave helped lead to landmark pro-labor legislation and one of the biggest bursts of unionization in American history.

Similar efforts were successful at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and at The Shed in New York City.

In a country where migrant workers fear deportation, and in an industry where employers often physically abuse workers, the process of union-building is a slow task that requires building relationships of trust amongst fishers.

After months of upheaval, Instacart employees voted to form the Silicon Valley app's first union in the United States.

In a new report, the progressive think tank Economic Policy Institute (EPI) found evidence that employers are increasingly brazen in seeking to obstruct workers' attempts to unionize.

Hearst is pushing back against its employees’ union drive, but it would be advantageous for them to support it.

If Kickstarter became a union company, it would be the first of the major tech companies to do so. The company has a chance to show which side it’s really on.