Hacker News with Generative AI: Labor Relations

Elephants remember: companies using "block lists" to not rehire some employees (businessinsider.com)
Workers across industries report being unknowingly blacklisted by past employers, sometimes for years. Experts say block lists are legal but raise ethical concerns, as employees often have no way to appeal the decision. For companies, block lists help reduce risk of suboptimal rehires amid turnover in management ranks.

Employment, Labor Relations, Ethics, Business

7 points by supernova87a 9 days ago | 6 comments

Amazon accused of using algorithms to push warehouse workers to breaking point (theregister.com)
Amazon has used tricks, algorithms, and surveillance to discourage warehouse employees from unionizing, according to a paper published in the journal Socius.

Amazon, Labor Relations, Algorithms, Surveillance, Unions

10 points by LinuxBender 14 days ago | 1 comments

Musk Email Reaches Italian Workers. It Did Not Go Well (nytimes.com)
Italian employees at the Aviano Air Base in northern Italy paused from flipping burgers, unloading trucks and restocking shelves recently to open an email from their bosses demanding that they list five key accomplishments from last week.

Elon Musk, Labor Relations, Italy, Military Bases

11 points by reaperducer 20 days ago | 2 comments

'A blatant violation of the law': Judge blasts Trump's firing of NLRB member (nbcnews.com)
A federal judge Thursday ordered the reinstatement of a National Labor Relations Board member and had harsh words for President Donald Trump in the process.

Law, Politics, Labor Relations, Trump Administration

19 points by ceejayoz 26 days ago | 1 comments

PASS on Firing of Probationary Employees at FAA (passnational.org)
We are troubled and disappointed by the administration’s decision to fire FAA probationary employees PASS represents without cause nor based on performance or conduct.

Labor Relations, Government

87 points by ronbenton 44 days ago | 57 comments

Ask HN: Industry Wide Strike for Worker Protection? (ycombinator.com)
In light of Zuckerberg proclaiming that AI will take the place of mid level engineers, how feasible would it be to organize a software industry wide strike for protections against AI?

Software Development, Artificial Intelligence, Labor Relations, Technology

40 points by hart_russell 78 days ago | 43 comments

Volkswagen CEO's Speech to Workers Drowned Out by Boos (latintimes.com)
Volkswagen's CEO was met by a litany of boos from workers when he said the company isn't "operating in a fantasy world" this week as the German automaker threatens to shutter plants and slash thousands of jobs as part of cost-cutting measures, according to a report.

Automotive Industry, Labor Relations, Germany, Business, Cost-Cutting

15 points by ivewonyoung 113 days ago | 6 comments

Boeing busted by employee over plans to surveil workers, quickly reverses course (theregister.com)
Boeing has paused its efforts to install and use employee-monitoring sensors, including at its office in Everett, Washington, after media inquiries followed an employee's leak of the plans.

Employee Monitoring, Surveillance, Boeing, Labor Relations, Privacy

6 points by rntn 116 days ago | 0 comments

Uber's Dark Descent: How Abandoning Innovation Hurt Drivers and Gouges Riders (viewfromthewing.com)
Uber drivers frequently protest their declining pay and it strikes me that there was an uproar over how Uber treated its drivers and that was part of pushing out their founder CEO, but things have actually gotten worse for drivers since then.

Business, Transportation, Technology, Labor Relations

26 points by kermatt 121 days ago | 20 comments

Apple threatened workers over their talk about pay and remote work, feds charge (mercurynews.com)
A manager in a phone call told a worker Apple did not want employees talking about wages or pay equity, the complaint alleged.

Labor Relations, Apple, Remote Work, Legal Issues

247 points by achristmascarl 142 days ago | 111 comments

Grindr Illegally Used RTO to Thwart Union, Forced Out 1/2 of Staff, NLRB Alleges (bloomberg.com)
Grindr Inc. illegally imposed a return-to-office policy last year that forced out half its staff in an attempt to thwart a unionization push, the US labor board alleged in a new complaint.

Labor Relations, Unionization, Workplace Issues, Technology, Legal Action

93 points by toomuchtodo 148 days ago | 34 comments

Tesla union calls out a 'culture of fear' at a plant (qz.com)

Tesla, Unions, Labor Relations, Work Culture

7 points by jerrygenser 184 days ago | 1 comments

Backlash over Amazon's return to office comes as workers demand higher wages (arstechnica.com)
Amazon currently faces disgruntled workers in every direction.

Amazon, Labor Relations, Work Culture, Remote Work, Wages

74 points by rntn 195 days ago | 107 comments

Tech firms were fighting a war for talent. Now they are waging war on talent (rosspettit.com)

Tech Industry, Employment, Labor Relations

63 points by ingve 211 days ago | 19 comments

Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking (hani.co.kr)