Facebook is facing a class-action lawsuit in the UK that could make its parent company Meta pay $3.1 billion to its UK users because it used their data without consent. The lawsuit claims 44 million British users should get money from Facebook because it took all of their personal and private information from 2015 …
New documents have shown that Google ran a campaign to discourage employees from unionizing. The campaign was called Project Vivian, and it ran at Google from late 2018 to early 2020, according to court documents. It was meant to fight employee activism and union organizing at the company. In a January 7 ruling, …
Unions don’t work: Google had a secret project to make employees think this. Read More »
According to a new settlement with the National Labor Regulations Board, Amazon workers in the United States, who number 750,000, will now be able to organize freely without risking any retaliation from Amazon. Jennifer Abruzzo, the general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, said in a statement: “Whether a company has 10 …
Under a deal with the US Labor Board, Amazon’s unionization efforts receive a boost. Read More »
As of Monday, Beyond Meat’s plant-based chicken will be available at all KFC restaurants across USA. It will be available for a limited time only. This comes after years of work by Yum Brands and Beyond Meat to make a meat substitute that tastes and looks like real chicken. Ethan Brown, CEO of Beyond …
KFC teaming up with Beyond Meat to make plant-based fried chicken. Read More »
An agreement has been signed with Iberdrola, a company that is operating the Bodangora windfarm in New South Wales, that gives the port large-scale generation certificates linked to the windfarm. Craig Carmody, the Port of Newcastle’s CEO, said the having the title of the world’s largest coal port “isn’t as wonderful as it …
The world’s largest coal port will run entirely on renewable energy. Read More »
Jeff Green, a billionaire who is thought to be the wealthiest person in Utah has resigned from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In a letter to the church’s president, Jeff Green said that the church has slowed global progress in women’s rights, civil rights, and racial equality, and LGBTQ+ rights. Good …
A farmer from North Dakota with dealings in Ukraine is now being accused of plotting to assassinate the Ukrainian minister of agriculture. Last week the Ukraine Ministry of Interior Affairs said that law enforcement stopped Kurt Groszhans and a Ukrainian woman from trying to kill Leshchenko. They claim that Groszhan had hired Leshchenko …
A North Dakota farmer accused in a plot to assassinate Ukraine’s agriculture minister. Read More »
Some people thought that when generous unemployment benefits ran out, people would rush back to work. This isn’t true. There has been no rush to get back to work after Republican states cut the $300-a-week Federal benefit and other benefits that were paid by the federal government. Not nearly three-quarters of tech workers and …
Employees don’t want to go back to the office, give it up Read More »
