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The Alphabet Workers Union said YouTube’s response to the insurrection was “lackluster” and inadequate. In a statement, the group said Google was not enforcing its own policies, while the platform was being used to “spread hatred and extremism.”

The union's formation comes after years of rising employee tensions at Google over the company's practices, including its work with the defense sector, plans for a censored search engine in China, and handling of sexual misconduct claims.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and some of his organization’s largest affiliate unions are getting behind Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. But others are pushing Michigan Rep. Andy Levin, a former Service Employees International Union organizer.

Unions are uncommon in the ad industry. But the disappearance of thousands of agency jobs in the pandemic and agencies’ growing use of AI to perform tasks like media planning and buying, and market research, could make unionization more appealing,

The victory of the workers at Lovestruck marks the first successful game worker strike in the video game industry’s history.

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.

A new campaign launched Tuesday by one of the nation’s largest labor unions, Communication Workers of America, and spearheaded by one of the leading video game industry activists in Southern California has been launched.

Big companies drove the 2017 Tax and Jobs Act, but did not commit to any specific wage hikes, the Center for Public Integrity found.

In documents given to managers and employees the US’s largest wireless provider encourages its own staff to use anti-union rhetoric and disparages previous unionization efforts within the company.

The 700,000 member Communications Workers of America has endorsed Secretary Hillary Clinton. They had formerly endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders. They wrote, We know that elections are about choices. the contrast between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, couldn't be greater."