Workers at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant may need to wear plastic raincoats as the coronavirus outbreak threatens production of protective suits in China, the operator warned on Tuesday.
Feb 18, 2020
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Business
A Bay Area federal judge has mocked and slammed gig-economy meal-delivery firm DoorDash, after thousands of its workers joined together to weaponize a controversial labor-control tactic used by the company and many Silicon ...
Feb 17, 2020
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Automotive
General Motors is spending $2.2 billion to refurbish an underused Detroit factory so it can build a series of electric and self-driving vehicles, eventually employing 2,200 people.
Jan 27, 2020
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Workplace surveillance sounds like the stuff of nightmares, but we are having to get used to it. In a sign of the times, the European Court of Human Rights has just ruled that a supermarket in Barcelona was entitled to fire ...
Jan 24, 2020
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Does Amazon have to pay its warehouse workers for the time they spend going though security checks after their shifts?
Jan 2, 2020
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Automotive
Unionized workers at Fiat Chrysler have voted overwhelmingly to approve a new four-year contract with the company.
Dec 12, 2019
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Some problems are best solved with new tech or a flashy app. But sometimes adapting existing technology works best of all.
Dec 10, 2019
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Four workers fired from Google last week are planning to file a federal labor complaint against the company, claiming it unfairly retaliated against them for organizing workers around social causes.
Dec 3, 2019
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Business
In 2017, as cities and states including Philadelphia and Delaware built out lavish incentive packages and sales pitches in hopes of luring Amazon's second headquarters, a resistance emerged.
Nov 28, 2019
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Injury rates reported for workers at Amazon warehouses across the United States are more than double the national average, according to a news investigation into workplace conditions at the electronic commerce giant.
Nov 26, 2019
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