February 6, 2024
Executives at Elon Musk’s SpaceX discriminated against women, joked about sexual harassment and fired workers for raising concerns, seven former employees allege in California civil rights complaints viewed by Bloomberg. The California-based workers, who were fired in 2022 after circulating …
January 30, 2024
Grocery chain Trader Joe’s is joining Elon Musk’s SpaceX in arguing that the US labor board, which is prosecuting cases against both companies, is unconstitutional. At a Jan. 16 National Labor Relations Board hearing in Connecticut, an attorney for Trader …
January 16, 2024
The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives on Friday voted to repeal a federal labor board rule set to take effect in February that would treat companies as the employers of many contract and franchise workers and require them to bargain …
January 5, 2024
Alphabet Inc’s Google violated U.S. labor law by refusing to bargain with a union representing contract workers for YouTube Music, a federal agency has ruled. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in a decision on Jan. 3 rejected claims by …
January 5, 2024
Rocket and satellite maker SpaceX on Thursday sued a U.S. labor board to block its case accusing the company of illegally firing employees who sent a letter to company executives calling CEO Elon Musk “a distraction and embarrassment.” SpaceX in …
January 4, 2024
Rocket and satellite maker SpaceX on Wednesday was accused by a U.S. labor agency of unlawfully firing eight employees for circulating a letter calling founder and CEO Elon Musk a “distraction and embarrassment.” A regional official with the National Labor …
December 11, 2023
Starbucks Corp. said it reached out to the union representing hundreds of its stores to try to end an impasse over contract talks, a conflict that has frayed the coffee giant’s relationship with some of its frontline employees. The chain …
December 1, 2023
A U.S. labor board has dismissed claims that Tesla Inc. illegally fired employees working on Autopilot software at a New York factory to put an end to union organizing. A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regional official on Friday tossed …
November 27, 2023
When Cher Scarlett began speaking up about labor issues at Apple Inc., she knew she was at risk of losing her software engineering job, but was confident she could find another. Yet two years after her departure from the iPhone …
November 13, 2023
Several major U.S. business groups sued a federal labor board on Nov. 9, seeking to strike down a rule treating many companies as employers of contract and franchise workers and requiring them to bargain with their unions. The groups led …