Tag: Society&Culture
YouTube Music workers strike at Google’s Austin offices
YouTube Music workers in the Austin, TX area who voted to unionize are striking. The Alphabet Works Union-CWA (AWU-CWA), which represents the contractors, says this is the first time a […]
US labor regulator says Apple violated employee rights with restrictive work rules
The National Labor Relation Board (NLRB) has determined that Apple’s rules around leaks violate workers’ rights, Bloomberg has reported. Apple’s actions and statements from executives “tend to interfere with, restrain […]
Hitting the Books: High school students have spent a decade fighting Baltimore’s toxic legacy
There was a time in the last century when we, quite foolishly, believed incineration to be a superior means of waste disposal than landfills. And, for decades, many of America’s […]
Federal prosecutors ask court to bar Sam Bankman-Fried from using Signal
US prosecutors have asked a federal court to tighten Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail conditions to prevent the disgraced entrepreneur from contacting his former colleagues. According to court documents seen by The […]
CWA files unfair labor practice charge against eBay’s trading card subsidiary
The Communications Workers of America (CWA) has filed an unfair labor practice charge against eBay-owned TCGplayer on behalf of workers at the trading card marketplace. The organization says TCGplayer supervisors […]
Dutch hacker arrested for trying to sell the personal information of nearly every Austrian citizen
Dutch authorities arrested a hacker for obtaining and trying to sell the personal information of nearly every Austrian citizen in May 2020, according to Reuters. It includes almost nine million […]
DOJ says it disrupted a major global ransomware group
The US Department of Justice has spent months infiltrating and disrupting the Hive ransomware group, the agency announced on Thursday. The DOJ says Hive has targeted over 1,500 victims in […]
Workers at eBay-owned trading card marketplace TCGplayer are trying to unionize
More than 280 workers at TCGplayer, a marketplace for trading card games like Magic: The Gathering and Pokémon, are trying to unionize. A supermajority of the workers have filed for […]
Amazon workers strike in UK for the first time
Amazon union workers in the UK are striking for the first time over wages and what they call “severe” working conditions. They’ve rejected what they say is a “derisory” £0.50 […]
Blizzard support studio workers drop union bid
One Activision Blizzard studio won’t form a union, at least not in the near future. The Communication Workers of America (CWA) says it’s withdrawing its petition for a union vote […]