The everything store wants its workers to vote on unionization in person, in the middle of a pandemic.
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Managing Up: How to Deal With a Bad Boss During Quarantine
The medium can be just as important as the message.
Health Care Unions Find a Voice in the Pandemic
Faced with the urgent need to protect nurses and other frontline workers, labor organizations are pushing hospitals to do more.
The New Yorker’s fact checkers walk off the job for a day.
The New Yorker’s union employees did not go to work on Thursday.
My Co-Worker Is a Scammer and She Gets on My Last Nerve
Advice for three people trying to navigate racial politics at work, and one person dealing with the emotional baggage from a previous job.
How to Keep Internet Trolls Out of Remote Workplaces
When companies move all employee communications online, they face the same problems as the rest of the internet. But they don’t have to let bad behavior seep in.
In the Oval Office for the first time as president, Biden begins to roll back Trump’s legacy.
President Biden is no stranger to the Oval Office, but he walked into the White House’s most famous room for the first time as president on Wednesday, with new paintings hanging from the walls and a stack of executive orders sitting on his desk. Then, he got to work.
Who’s Radical Now? The Case of Minimum Wages
Evidence has a well-known liberal bias.
Gig Workers Are Employees. Start Treating Them That Way.
The Biden administration has an opportunity to restore basic labor protections to the people who deliver our groceries and drive for Uber and Lyft.
Cash, Breakfasts and Firings: An All-Out Push to Vaccinate Wary Medical Workers
Some staff in hospitals and long-term care facilities don’t want to take the Covid-19 vaccine. Their employers are trying to change their minds.
Slouch or Slack Off, This ‘Smart’ Office Chair Cushion Will Record It
A Chinese tech company designed a way to track employees’ health, but sensors were also monitoring when they were away from their desks, setting off a debate about privacy and surveillance.
It Could Be a Great Year, if Your Business Survives Winter
Tough sacrifices may still be required, but many see a post-pandemic resurgence in the year ahead.