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Facebook Workplace Gaffe

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Jun 25, 2020 | Industry, Tech - Media

Facebook has deployed a new tool called Facebook Workplace. It essentially serves as a way for companies to share content with their employees through a medium similar to the newsfeed feature on the original Facebook site. There...

NLRB Officials Approve Mail-In Ballot Elections; Hearst Election Still On

Posted by Phillip Wilson | May 28, 2020 | Industry, Legal, NLRB, Tech - Media, Unions

NLRB officials are approving mail-in ballot elections as a way to keep organizing efforts alive during the pandemic. Examples of this include Instacart workers in Chicago voting to join UFCW, Johnson Control workers in San...

Kickstarter Joins Union; Heart Executives Meet With Organizers

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Feb 27, 2020 | Industry, Tech - Media, Union Organizing

The staff at crowdfunding platform Kickstarter voted to join the Office and Professional Employees Union this month, making it one of the first tech companies to opt into a representative labor relationship. Meanwhile,...

NLRB Decisons Reverse Obama-era Actions; Joint Employer Rule

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Jan 23, 2020 | Industry, Legal, NLRB, Politics, Tech - Media

Several NLRB decisions at the end of the year reversed several Obama-era Board actions, returning issues to previous long-standing interpretations of the National Labor Relations Act. Among them were: Apogee Retail addressed...

AI Impacts White-Collar Jobs

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Jan 23, 2020 | Industry, Tech - Media

AI and automation (robotics) are typically lumped into a single category of “technology,” especially in terms of impact on jobs. Though unions rail against both as a cause of blue-collar job reductions, it is becoming...