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 …
Nashville in the News
January 2, 2021 Pearl River In the before times, way back in 2019, I had a gig in Nashville talking organizing, hawking books, and the like. I hadn’t been there in a minute, and was impressed at how the city had grown. I had the same reaction visiting Charlotte around the same time. Both city …