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Amazon’s Approach to Robotics Is Seriously Injuring Warehouse Workers

May 5, 2022 Nicholas Anway

Candace Dixon could barely climb the stairs. After lifting nearly 100,000 items in two months of working with robots at an Amazon fulfillment center, her back was severely damaged by bulging discs, inflammation, and chronic pain. Her doctor attributed her injuries “100 percent” to her workplace — and did not expect them to improve. As […]

Don’t Let Amazon Eat the Film Industry – It’s Just a Side Dish

Nov 29, 2021 Mike Klain

American University Communications Professor Patricia Aufderheide recently warned in the New York Times about the potential harms that might emerge from Amazon’s efforts to expand its presence in the film industry. Aufderheide’s column focused most intently on the threat posed by Amazon’s vertical integration in the industry, which ranges from upstream back-end internet services integral […]

The FTC went after Amazon for withholding gig drivers’ tips. Can consumer harm approaches be stretched even further to protect gig workers?

Mar 18, 2021 Zachary Sorenson

For years, Amazon promised its Fresh and Prime Now gig delivery drivers they would receive all customer tips. Instead, Amazon diverted these tips to cover base wages, according to a complaint against Amazon by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last month. The FTC’s settlement with Amazon is a win for the drivers who will now […]

Amazon’s Last-Mile Drivers Can Escape the FAA, But Who Else?

Mar 11, 2021 Michael Migiel-Schwartz

More than half of nonunion private-sector employees are subject to forced arbitration clauses. These clauses, many of which also include class action waivers, require that employees bring legal complaints through private arbitration—a setting that favors employers. Because the Supreme Court’s Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) jurisprudence has been so unkind to workers—in 2001 determining that only […]

October 25, 2023
News & Commentary

Linh Tang

Worker strikes in South Korea and Iceland; new study reveals more widespread injuries in Amazon warehouses than previously known; new book on the illusion of the American dream.

October 13, 2022
News & Commentary

Anita Alem

Amazon workers stage walk-out; NLRB judge: Starbucks violated labor law (again); Home Depot workers to vote in union election; NLRB judge lays groundwork for potential Joy Silk revival

July 24, 2022
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

After winning an election in Cleveland, Ohio on Friday—the state’s third unionized location—Starbucks workers have officially won 200 recognition elections with the NLRB, despite the company’s fervent union-busting campaign and anti-union hostility, in an extraordinary movement that has swept across more than 30 states in little more than six months. In total, workers at 316 […]

July 22, 2022
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Hannah Finnie

The U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced yesterday that the U.S. asked Mexico to review whether workers at a facility in Mexico were denied the rights of free association and collective bargaining. The U.S. made this request under the Rapid Response Labor Mechanism (RRM) of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. This is the third time this […]

Mexico Labor Law Reform & the USMCA — An American Explainer

Jun 3, 2022 Maxwell Ulin

Last month, U.S. trade authorities filed a complaint with Mexican officials to address labor violations at a major Panasonic auto plant in Mexico. The petition marks the third U.S. labor rights complaint against Mexico under the new US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which established new measures to ensure that Mexico follows through on promised union law reforms. […]

How Surveillance Capitalism Disempowers the Working Class

Jan 10, 2022 Tiran Bajgiran

Nurses have their footsteps tracked electronically. Cashiers are monitored by point-of-sale devices that measure their efficiency by the minute. Warehouse workers wear “haptic” wristbands evaluating their performance – and vibrating when they slack off. Delivery personnel contend with near-constant behavioral analysis by their phone, which tracks their location, speed, braking or how long they touch […]

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Amazon’s Approach to Robotics Is Seriously Injuring Warehouse Workers

Don’t Let Amazon Eat the Film Industry – It’s Just a Side Dish

The FTC went after Amazon for withholding gig drivers’ tips. Can consumer harm approaches be stretched even further to protect gig workers?

Amazon’s Last-Mile Drivers Can Escape the FAA, But Who Else?

October 25, 2023

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July 22, 2022

Mexico Labor Law Reform & the USMCA — An American Explainer

How Surveillance Capitalism Disempowers the Working Class