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LOS ANGELES (AP) — California has fined Amazon a total of $5.9 million, alleging the e-commerce giant worked warehouse employees so hard that it put their safety at risk, officials said Tuesday.
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An unfair labor practice (ULP) in United States labor law refers to certain actions taken by employers or unions that violate the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (49 Stat. 449) 29 U.S.C. § 151–169 (also known as the NLRA and the Wagner Act after NY Senator Robert F. Wagner [1]) and other legislation.
The action was precipitated by a strike when workers' demands (including improvements to safety and working conditions at the local copper mines, an end to discrimination against labor organizations and unequal treatment of foreign and minority workers, and the institution of a fair wage system) went unmet. The "deportation" was organized by ...
Dozens of people who apparently were smuggled into the United States were found working and living in “horrible” conditions at an illegal marijuana plant in California's Central Valley ...
The settlement offer was criticized by the Campaign to Organize Digital Employees, a project of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), calling the $18 million "mere pennies" compared to the estimated $72 billion net worth of Activision-Blizzard, and "a slap in the face to workers [who have] dealt with toxic working conditions for [years]."
California AB5 was passed in 2019, intended to make app-based workers — such as those for Uber, Lyft and Postmates — full employees with a minimum wage, workplace protections and other benefits.
University of California academic workers participating in the strike were organized in four bargaining units represented by three different United Auto Workers unions: Student Researchers United-UAW represents graduate student researchers, UAW Local 2865 represents graduate and undergraduate tutors, teaching assistants and readers, and UAW Local 5810 represents postdoctoral and academic ...