January 5, 2021 New Orleans The double-barreled Senate runoff in Georgia has been something to watch, and even more interesting on the ground, as our team found doing our part to assure voter access and participation in this election. No one can accurately predict the results. Polling has become so …
Month: January 2021
Google and Majority Unionism
January 4, 2021 New Orleans A well-orchestrated rollout welcomed workers back from the holidays with the news that around 225 people of the 260,000 employees of Google and its parent company, Alphabet, have formed the Alphabet Workers Union (AWU). This is news in tech-world where unionization is unheard of …
Gig Companies Co-opting Unions
January 3, 2021 Pearl River This may seem like ancient history, but it’s not that hard to remember in the before times when gig companies were a bit more fledgling and there were nascent efforts to unionize them after a fashion. In the US, this was particularly true in New York City and on …