Organizing Theory
“This is bigger than Amazon.” An amazing look at the community organizing that led to Amazon’s pulling out of Queens—as well as what that means for similar campaigns in Nashville and Northern Virginia. Congrats to all my friends who have been in this fight!
Is this what work-to-rule looks like in lawyer? 12,501 Uber drivers have filed for arbitration since August 2018.
SEIU’s Justice for Janitors campaign is fighting a case at the NLRB that claims that janitors picketing the property that they work in (while being employed by a subcontractor) is a secondary boycott.
Sharing, Solidarity & Sustainability
Finland’s basic income experiment (which only funded people who were unemployed) has succeeded in making those people happier—but hasn’t changed whether they got jobs (do we all need jobs, to be happy?).
Controversial take: capitalism can ruin anything, even solar panels on your roof.
Facing South takes a look at how the Green New Deal can help the South close its energy-efficiency gap.
Geeking Out
Your job-killing robot of the week—this one installs drywall.
Reputation, reputation, reputation
Still not creeped out by Amazon’s facial recognition technology? What if it’s being used to track you at work?
What’s Going on in the Workforce
Freelancers who bill by the hour are more likely to be stressed over feeling like they’ve got to be “always on.”
2 million workers (most of them women) had to quit their jobs in 2016, because they couldn’t find adequate, affordable child- or elder-care. We need an holistic solution.
Shocking possibly no one who knows me in real life, I too have been fired for not smiling enough. Now, fast food workers in New York are taking on their bosses’ ability to fire at will.