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Googlers crawling back to campus this week may not find bidets in the bathroom. Instead, the company is offering them free electric scooters from Unagi, The Verge reported Monday. Unagi founder and CEO David Hyman told The Verge that Google is offering the 20 mph scooters to most of its U.S. employees to help with the commute to work, which most haven’t had to undertake regularly in the last two years. The $990 scooters are available on a subscription basis, and Google will reportedly… Source link

A labor drive at an Amazon (AMZN) warehouse on Staten Island narrowly won a historic union election on Friday, establishing the first U.S. union in the company’s 28-year history and intensifying a nationwide surge of organizing across major companies like Starbucks (SBUX) and Disney (DIS). As of early Friday afternoon, the union was poised for victory with a margin of nearly 500 votes. The National Labor Relations board said on Friday that the union and Amazon had challenged 66 ballots,… Source link

Urian B., Tech Times 29 March 2022, 09:03 am A Russian multi-billion dollar company, Yandex, laid off about two dozen US-based workers. The company reportedly had a small autonomous vehicle fleet in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It said that the state suspended their vehicle licenses, but Michigan denied… Source link

Yandex, the multi-billion dollar Russian tech company that’s been operating a small fleet of autonomous vehicles in Ann Arbor, Michigan, laid off over two dozen US-based workers earlier this month, claiming that its vehicle licenses were suspended by Michigan’s state regulators, The Verge has learned. But Michigan says this just isn’t true. In the days following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Yandex paused its AV testing in Ann Arbor, as well as its tests with six-wheeled delivery… Source link

Google workers press execs about pay after “Googlegeist” survey results | Fortune … Source link

Disney workers are taking a stand amid the company’s response to Florida’s controversial Parental Rights in Education Act, which critics have infamously dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. On Tuesday, employees staged several walkouts in protest of CEO Bob Chapek’s handling of the bill, which passed through the state’s legislature and is now awaiting signature from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. If signed, the bill would prohibit classroom discussions regarding sexual orientation and gender… Source link

Google settles over firing of workers protesting immigration cloud deal | WTVB | 1590 AM · 95.5 FM | The Voice of Branch County … Source link

(AP) – A former Google employee sued the tech giant for racial discrimination, saying it engages in a “pattern and practice” of unfair treatment for its Black workers. The suit claims the company steered them into lower-level and lower-paid jobs and subjected them to a hostile work environment if they speak out. April Curley was hired in 2014 to recruit Black candidates for the company. Her lawsuit, filed on Friday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San… Source link

March 21 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google has settled with six current and former employees who had alleged the company unfairly stifled worker organizing, an abrupt ending to a trial that had been paused for several months, legal filings show. The U.S. National Labor Relations Board had pursued the case on behalf of the workers and brought Google before an administrative law judge last year. Weeks of hearings were then stopped pending resolution of a dispute over whether the NLRB… Source link

A highly educated workforce and low cost of labor made Ukraine an attractive outsourcing tech hub for Fortune 500 firms, churning out more than 200,000 IT workers. But these days, Andrew Pavliv, the founder and CEO of N-iX, one of Ukraine’s largest tech companies, is more consumed with managing the flow of employees within his own country. Since the Russian invasion began last month, Pavliv’s firm has evacuated nearly 200 employees from hard hit cities in eastern Ukraine, including… Source link