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Amazon Fights Against Mail-In Voting in Union Decision to Preserve 'Vote Fidelity'

01-23-2021 • https://www.breitbart.com, LUCAS NOLAN

E-commerce giant Amazon is reportedly seeking to postpone a unionization vote at a warehouse in Alabama and is fighting back against federal labor authorities' decision to allow mail-in voting.

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Sequoia To Pay Interested Employees In Bitcoin

01-22-2021 • https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden

With increasingly more institutions converting some (or in the case of MicroStrategy, most) of their cash equivalents into bitcoin, one key spoke of an all-bitcoin corporate ecosystem remained elusive: actual payment to employees in bitcoin.

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Millions Of Workers Are Still Calling Out Sick Or Taking Leaves Of Absence Due To COVID

01-16-2021 • https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden

One of the biggest hits to supply chains across the country hasn't just been business shut downs, but rather the residual effect of employees calling out sick.

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Google employees announce creation of union

01-04-2021 • https://thehill.com, By Chris Mills Rodrigo

More than 200 Google employees on Monday announced the creation of a union, a historic first at a major technology company.

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Black Google Researcher Claims She Was Fired Because She Discovered AI Is Racist

12-05-2020 • https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden

A well-known artificial intelligence researcher at Google tweeted Wednesday that she was fired over an email expressing dismay with management over the censorship of new research.

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Uber, Lyft drivers aren't employees after all, California voters say

11-04-2020 • https://www.theverge.com, By Andrew J. Hawkins

Prop 22 was the most expensive ballot measure in California history

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Visualizing The Top Struggles Of Remote Workers

10-31-2020 • https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden

Unplugging from work can be challenging at the best of times. But, as Visual Capitalist's Carmen Ang notes, when your living room doubles as your office, it can be even harder–at least that's the case for 22% of remote workers.

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My Resignation From The Intercept

10-30-2020 • https://greenwald.substack.com, Greenwald

The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles.

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Wells Fargo Reverses Course On Ending 401(k) Match After "Swift Backlash"--

10-25-2020 • https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden

-- From Affected Employees

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Department of Labor Acknowledges Unemployment Checks Are Bouncing

10-04-2020 • https://www.zerohedge.com, By VI Consortium

US Virgin Island residents earlier this week were reporting to the Consortium that unemployment insurance checks provided to them by the Dept. of Labor were worthless.