0048.json

{
    "id": 40,
    "date": "2014/09/11",
    "sources": [
        "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-30/microsoft-contract-workers-are-organizing",
        "https://lionbridgeunion.blogspot.com/"
    ],
    "actions": [
        "union representation",
        "union contract"
    ],
    "struggles": [
        "unfair labor practices",
        "job security"
    ],
    "employment_types": [
        "contract workers"
    ],
    "description": "A group of temporary workers at Microsoft has signed its first union contract with their employer, a rare feat in a technology industry typically unfriendly to organized labor. 38 bug testers who review Microsoft apps voted to create a union, the Temporary Workers of America. They work full time in Microsoft's offices but are employed by cloud services contractor Lionbridge.",
    "online": null,
    "locations": [
        "usa"
    ],
    "companies": [
        "microsoft",
        "lionbridge"
    ],
    "workers": 38,
    "tags": [
        "temporary_workers_of_america"
    ],
    "author": [
        "organizejs"
    ],
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    ],
    "addresses": [
        "Tellme Networks;Microsoft, Central Expressway, Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California, 94043, United States",
        "Lionbridge, 3525, Factoria Boulevard Southeast, Factoria, Bellevue, King County, Washington, 98006, United States"
    ]
}