Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2023 04:19:39 +0000
The project will generate clean, renewable, affordable energy for over 400,000 homes and businesses across Massachusetts while reducing carbon emissions by over 1.6 million tons per year.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2022 20:05:46 +0000
The move toward economically and socially sustainable renewable energy is being smoothed by the recent participation of trade unions. How are unions in the US managing the complex transition away from fossil capitalism?
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 04:47:32 +0000
The quick news of the past week with regard to US President Joe Biden and global EV leader Tesla is that Biden has stated that Tesla is “our nation’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer” — just as he did a month ago in a separate speech about US manufacturing. Why is this a big deal? By […]
Credit to Author: Lauren Kaori Gurley| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 23:07:46 +0000
More than 100 workers at a Tom Steyer-founded bank have won collective bargaining rights in an industry with the lowest unionization rates in the country.
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Credit to Author: Zaid Noorsumar| Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 21:00:00 +0000
It’s the first instance of app-based workers winning the right to join a union in Canada, and it could be a game changer for all gig economy workers.
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Credit to Author: Lauren Kaori Gurley| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 18:23:35 +0000
The decision is a historic first step in enforcing a new California law, which could force tech companies to provide gig workers with basic labor rights.
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Credit to Author: Lauren Kaori Gurley| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 02:07:06 +0000
‘They treat us like robots and we feel like prisoners.’
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Credit to Author: Lauren Kaori Gurley| Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 19:59:49 +0000
In the midst of a union drive, Kickstarter is working with a law firm that has previously helped clients avoid unionization, but the company says ‘union avoidance’ has never been its goal.
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Credit to Author: Hannah Smothers| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 00:22:57 +0000
In a huge step toward diminishing workplace harassment, new guidelines around intimacy coordinators—essentially, coaches for adult scenes—are making sets safer for actors.
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Credit to Author: Lauren Kaori Gurley| Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 23:04:48 +0000
Fed up with life under the algorithm, Instacart employees in Chicago are leading the grocery delivery app’s first union drive.
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