This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. Here is a collection of past columns. Many of the delivery businesses that have sprung up in the last few years make no financial sense and may be turning us into monsters. I’m talking about app-based companies including Uber, DoorDash, Gopuff […]
Category: Labor and Jobs
What Will It Take for Electric Vehicles to Create Jobs, Not Cut Them?
When President Biden announced his multitrillion-dollar jobs plan in March, it included nearly $175 billion in spending to encourage Americans to buy electric vehicles. The money would help ensure “that these vehicles are affordable for all families and manufactured by workers with good jobs,” the White House wrote at the […]
Tim Cook Faces Surprising Employee Unrest at Apple
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple, known among its Silicon Valley peers for a secretive corporate culture in which workers are expected to be in lock step with management, is suddenly facing an issue that would have been unthinkable a few years ago: employee unrest. On Friday, Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, […]
Can a Green-Economy Boom Town Be Built to Last?
The race to make electric vehicles is turning some places into winners. Normal, Ill., is one of them. But it has seen good times go sour in the past. Source
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Google Could Be Violating Labor Laws With Pay for Temp Workers
The company realized months ago that it could be running afoul of pay laws in a number of countries but has been slow to fix the problem, according to internal documents. Source
California Bill Could Alter Amazon Labor Practices
Among the pandemic’s biggest economic winners is Amazon, which nearly doubled its annual profit last year to $21 billion and is on pace to far exceed that total this year. The profits flowed from the millions of Americans who value the convenience of quick home delivery, but critics complain that […]
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Why You Might Not Be Returning to the Office Until Next Year
After the Delta variant disrupted plans to reopen after Labor Day, many businesses pushed their targets further out or left them open-ended. Source
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How Facebook Relies on Accenture to Scrub Toxic Content
The social network has constructed a vast infrastructure to keep toxic material off its platform. At the center of it is Accenture, the blue-chip consulting firm. Source
Gig companies want Massachusetts voters to exempt workers from employee status.
The ballot proposal mirrors an initiative that the companies proposed last year in California. They ultimately prevailed in exempting their workers from a law that would have effectively classified them as employees. Source
Amazon Faces Wider Fight Over Labor Practices
Perhaps the most prominent voice in this discussion is the more than one-million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which approved a resolution at its convention in June committing the union to “supply all resources necessary” to organize workers at the company and help them win a union contract. The Teamsters argue […]