Though 2,300 people in the US died from heat-related illness in 2023, workers await robust protection laws.
Academics decry algorithmic monitoring of workers and call for stronger standards – but U.S. unions have been slow to act.
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The walkout involves bargaining units representing nearly 48,000 teaching assistants, researchers and other employees across the University of California’s 10 campuses.
Millions of office employees started working at home in 2020, now many don't want to return to the workplace. Companies are struggling to figure out how to convince them to return.
Authors from the Swedish syndicalist union SAC caution against the “romanticization” of strikes and argue workers must re-learn how to build pressure within the workplace.
A deep dive into why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments—and why we can't see it.
From solidarity strikes to slowdowns and sit-ins, workplace revolt is a key strategy in opposing the new administration.
We should not to romanticise the work of the past, indulge in ‘smokestack nostalgia’, but equally we need to acknowledge a world we may be losing. While the ‘job for life’ may have been a fleeting experience for a few, the social patterns that that stability engendered were profound for generations of workers and can still be seen working their way through the contemporary workplace
As Facebook and Twitter become as central to workplace conversation as the company cafeteria, federal regulators are ordering employers to scale back policies that limit what workers can say online.
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