eBay is buying the trading card marketplace TCGplayer for $295 million Amrita Khalid @askhalid eBay is placing a big bet on the booming trading card industry. The company is set to buy TCGplayer — an online marketplace for trading card games — in a deal valued up to $295 million, it announced today. Launched … Continue reading Workers at trading card marketplace TCGplayer form eBay’s first union
By Emily Guy Birken March 11, 2023 Self-employment has a lot to recommend it. You get to set your own hours. There’s a direct correlation between your hustle and your paycheck. And, of course, you enjoy a warm relationship with your boss. Then, of course, there’s the big fat downside: quarterly estimated taxes. … Continue reading Tax tips for gig workers
By Jennifer Alsever March 06, 2023 The stigma of getting laid off from a job is lessening, but a good chunk of people still don’t tell the world—or prospective employers—about getting a pink slip. Only 20% of people who lost their jobs shared the information with their future employer, according to a new … Continue reading Layoff stigma stings: Why Gen Z workers are less likely to share that they lost a job
Google is laying off 12,000 employees Steve Dent @stevetdent Google parent Alphabet is cutting around 12,000 jobs, or around six percent of its global workforce, it wrote in a company-wide email sent to employees. CEO Sundar Pichai said that he was “deeply sorry” to workers that will be let go and that it was … Continue reading Google workers in Japan have joined a labor union in response to planned layoffs
By Kim Kelly February 26, 2023 On February 16, the longest-running strike in the country came to an unexpected end when the United Mine Workers of America sent a letter to the CEO of Alabama-based Warrior Met Coal offering to send its members back to work. Nearly two years ago, on April 1, 2021, … Continue reading The longest strike in the U.S. just ended: This is the workers’ story
By Kristin Toussaint February 17, 2023 Across the country, some 8 million undocumented or unauthorized immigrants are working in the labor force—and experts say they’re among the most vulnerable to exploitation, workplace violence, and dangerous working conditions. “One of the things that perpetuates unsafe conditions in the workplace is that workers are … Continue reading How the Biden administration is helping protect the most vulnerable and exploited workers
By Michael Grothaus February 14, 2023 Elon Musk’s Valentine’s Day gift this year from Tesla workers in New York is a unionization effort. The effort is led by Autopilot analysts at the company’s Buffalo plant. The analysts make up about 800 employees who work in non-engineering roles and label data from the company’s Autopilot … Continue reading Tesla workers in New York want to unionize: ‘People are tired of being treated like robots’
By Aytekin Tank January 26, 2023 With layoffs looming because of the current economic climate, many employees are concerned with losing their jobs—and they have a right to worry. There have been significant layoffs, especially in the tech industry. According to The Economic Times, these dismissals are giving workers sleepless nights. The macroeconomic uncertainty … Continue reading 4 ways automation can help your team succeed—rather than replace workers
By Bryce Covert January 22, 2023 In the depths of the Great Recession, sociology graduate students Kristen Harknett and Daniel Schneider were interviewing families as part of a longitudinal study. They weren’t surprised to learn that those who had experienced job loss or foreclosure were suffering. What did surprise them was that even families … Continue reading Why schedule sanity is workers’ new Fight for $15
By Harvey Deutschendorf January 22, 2023 Talk to any leader of an organization and they will tell you one of the things that bothers them the most is losing good people. There is a saying that has become very common: “People don’t leave bad jobs, they leave bad bosses.” While many people do leave … Continue reading 7 mistakes organizations make that cause good workers to quit
