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SHAREABLE: The Solidarity Fund is helping labor organizers take on Big Tech

November 3, 2021
“Going up against the likes of Lyft, Amazon, Google, and Apple is, at times, an uphill battle. But, one stipend, one voice, and one protest at a time, the Solidarity Fund is helping workers win the fight against tech companies.” Read More

NYT: In a ‘Workers Economy,’ Who Really Holds the Cards?

November 3, 2021

“Workers are fed up and restaurants are desperate. We’re scarce, we have higher standards and that gives us more power than we’ve had before.”

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THE GUARDIAN: ‘In tears before I even logged in’: Cigna call center workers challenge working conditions

August 3, 2021

“Several months ago, workers started an online petition demanding Cigna improve working conditions, including lifting a pay raise freeze, stopping constant harassment of workers to meet production metrics and providing a way for workers to report abusive callers.”

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PROTOCOL: Gig work can be a dangerous job. That’s why workers are petitioning the DOL for death benefits.

May 17, 2021

“Being at the mercy of our employers who very clearly already don’t value our lives and are not willing to pay into systems that provide a real social safety net, it’s not a process that inspires a lot of confidence in workers.”

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SFGATE: Trader Joe’s increased ‘thank you’ pay to $4 in February. Now it wants to cut that by half.

May 5, 2021

“’After only three months, the company announced that on May 1st they will take away our additional two dollars, and we fear the rest of the ‘Thank You Pay’ is soon to follow,’ the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee wrote on coworker.org. ”

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