From 563f1b88544dac6ccc807e86b3f5a164423d5007 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Github Actions Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2021 19:23:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Airtable Update ***NO_CI*** --- README.md | 2 +- actions.csv | 18 +++++++++--------- actions.json | 18 +++++++++--------- actions/0011.json | 2 +- actions/0048.json | 2 +- actions/0099.json | 2 +- actions/0112.json | 2 +- actions/0128.json | 2 +- actions/0143.json | 2 +- actions/0210.json | 2 +- actions/0212.json | 2 +- actions/0328.json | 2 +- 12 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index cb92ec3a5..62021bfec 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ The goal of this archive is to provide data and insights on organizing in the te - + diff --git a/actions.csv b/actions.csv index 1232f66ff..76648db2a 100755 --- a/actions.csv +++ b/actions.csv @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ 8,386,1992-10-16,['https://www.csmonitor.com/1992/1124/24081.html'],"['strike', 'protest', 'union drive']","['pay and benefits', 'working conditions', 'discrimination']","['inhouse workers', 'blue collar workers']","Workers at Versatronex Corporation, a company in Silicon Valley that makes circuit boards, went on strike to protest low wages and a lack of health care and other benefits. Most of the strikers were Latina women and had contacted the United Electrical Workers Union - they struck after the company fired a worker who was vocal in supporting unionization.",None,['sunnyvale-california-usa'],['versatronex'],55,"['retaliation', 'antiracism']",['CM'],None,None 9,4,1994-01-24,"['https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/12/magazine/battle-of-the-clipper-chip.html', 'http://cpsr.org/prevsite/program/clipper/clipper.html/']",['open letter'],['ethics'],['white collar workers'],"Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) launches an online petition in opposition to the Clipper Chip, a cryptographic device intended to provide a standard for securing private voice communication. The group expresses concern about the possibility of surveillance through decryption keys held by government agencies. The petition obtains over 50,000 signatures. An earlier physical letter, sent directly to the President, received 40 signatures from cryptography and computing experts.",True,None,None,50000,None,['nataliyaned'],None,None 10,380,1995-04-17,"['https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/13/business/fighting-for-the-right-to-communicate.html', 'https://cyber.harvard.edu/msvh/hamidi/hrnote.html']",['legal action'],"['discrimination', 'unfair labor practices']",['white collar workers'],"Former Intel engineer Kourosh Kenneth (""Ken"") Hamidi alleged wrongful termination and discrimination after his claims for workers' compensation, following a car accident, were denied and he was fired in 1995. He formed a small (~10 member) online group called Former And Current Employees of Intel (FACE-Intel) to coordinate six mass emails over 21 months to Intel employees about company wrongdoing. Intel sued Hamidi and the FACE-Intel group for ""trespass to chattel"" and ""nuisance"" resulting in the California Supreme Court's ruling in Hamidi's favor in Intel Corporation v. Hamidi (2003). The case is considered a landmark ruling on electronic employee communications and concepts of trespass.",True,['sacramento-california-usa'],['intel'],10,['retaliation'],['CM'],"[(38.64577295, -121.16569779442514)]","['Intel Corporation, Natoma Station, Folsom, Sacramento County, California, United States']" -11,5,1998-11-23,['http://www.cnn.com/tech/computing/9811/23/mstemps.idg/'],['legal action'],"['unfair labor practices', 'pay and benefits']",['contract workers'],"A law firm representing 10 current and former contract workers at Microsoft Corp. filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court on Tuesday against the software giant, seeking damages and full-time employee benefits for its plaintiffs and thousands of other 'misclassified' temporary employees. The 10 plaintiffs seek class-action status because they want to include some 6,000 current full-time Microsoft employees who have been 'misclassified as nonemployees' under 'various erroneous labels' and denied company benefits.",None,['usa'],['microsoft'],10,None,['organizejs'],"[(35.139622349999996, -80.92306993327955)]","['Microsoft, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States']" +11,5,1998-11-23,['http://www.cnn.com/tech/computing/9811/23/mstemps.idg/'],['legal action'],"['unfair labor practices', 'pay and benefits']",['contract workers'],"A law firm representing 10 current and former contract workers at Microsoft Corp. filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court on Tuesday against the software giant, seeking damages and full-time employee benefits for its plaintiffs and thousands of other 'misclassified' temporary employees. The 10 plaintiffs seek class-action status because they want to include some 6,000 current full-time Microsoft employees who have been 'misclassified as nonemployees' under 'various erroneous labels' and denied company benefits.",None,['usa'],['microsoft'],10,None,['organizejs'],"[(35.139622349999996, -80.92306993327955)]","['Microsoft, Ayrsley, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States']" 12,379,1999-05-04,"['https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-sep-18-fi-11579-story.html', 'https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/04/business/ibm-to-change-pension-benefits.html', 'https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/behind-the-pension-tension-at-ibm/', 'https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB937779366171684213']","['protest', 'resources']","['pay and benefits', 'discrimination']",['white collar workers'],"Seeking to attract younger workers, IBM announced plans in May 1999 to switch from traditional pension plans to a cash balance model for all American employees. Older employees with longer tenures at the company, who would lose 30-40% of their pension checks as a result of the switch, protested this change with rallies, emails to the company, a new online website, and lobbying policymakers in DC. Employees also accused IBM of age discrimination. In September 1999, IBM backtracked on its pension policy change.",True,['usa'],['ibm'],None,None,['CM'],"[(30.40158845, -97.71557336079636)]","['IBM, Austin, Travis County, Texas, United States']" 13,6,1999-06-04,"['https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jun-04-fi-44011-story.html', 'https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1p2-32575557/the-seeds-of-a-high-tech-union-sprout-in-washington']",['union drive'],['pay and benefits'],"['white collar workers', 'contract workers']","A group of temporary workers at Microsoft that includes accountants and lawyers has organized into a bargaining unit and is asking for representation through a local union, the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers. The employees expressed frustration at their status as contract workers, citing a lack of benefits as a motivating factor for the unionization attempt.",None,['seattle-washington-usa'],['microsoft'],16,['washtech'],['nataliyaned'],"[(47.5388725, -122.2901728)]","['Microsoft Gathering Hall, 32nd Avenue South, Holly Park, Rainier Valley, Seattle, King County, Washington, 98118, United States']" 14,7,1999-10-01,"['https://www.computerworld.com/article/3019552/ibm-union-calls-it-quits.html', 'https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/17/us/union-plans-drive-to-organize-ibm.html?rref=collection%2ftimestopic%2fcommunications%20workers%20of%20america', 'https://cwa-union.org/news/entry/ibm_employees_and_cwa_launch_allianceibm']",['union drive'],"['pay and benefits', 'working conditions']","['white collar workers', 'inhouse workers']","The Communications Workers of America have renewed their drive to organize IBM employees. CWA previously attempted to unionize IBM in 1985. This time around the union started a new organization, Alliance @IBM. It reports that roughly 100 thousand of the company's 140 thousand workers are eligible for unionization. Union supporters have started outreach and leafletting efforts at multiple locations, including the Research Triangle in North Carolina. The new organization will work with the existing IBM Employee Benefits Action Coalition. This effort continued for the next seventeen years, until it was ended 2016. At its peak, the Alliance had 400 dues-paying members.",None,['worldwide'],['ibm'],None,['cwa'],['nataliyaned'],None,None @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ 45,37,2014-04-03,"['https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10729575/mozilla-staff-call-for-new-ceo-to-stand-down-over-donation-to-anti-gay-marriage-campaign.html', 'https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2596405/mozilla-ceo-resigns-furor-gay-rights.html']",['protest'],['discrimination'],"['white collar workers', 'inhouse workers']","Mozilla employees used a number of means to call for the resignation of CEO Brendan Eich who donated $1,000 in 2008 to support California's Proposition 8, legislature that would have made gay marriage illegal in the state. Three of Mozilla Foundation's board members resigned in protest, and other employees took to social media and wrote blog posts. Other companies, most prominently dating site OKCupid, encouraged their users to stop using the Firefox browser. Eich did ultimately resign.",None,['mountain view-california-usa'],"['mozilla', 'okcupid']",None,['lgbtq'],['nataliyaned'],"[(37.38810755, -122.08285486344786)]","['Mozilla Foundation, Castro Street, Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California, 94039, United States']" 46,38,2014-04-19,"['https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/workers-tech-poaching-case-likely-get-average-4k-n113451', 'https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/four-us-tech-firms-face-3bn-payout-over-claims-they-conspired-on-pay-30199663.html']",['legal action'],['pay and benefits'],"['white collar workers', 'inhouse workers']","Tech workers from Google, Apple, Intel, and Adobe Systems brought a class action lawsuit against their respective companies, claiming that they conspired to keep salaries down by adhering to 'no-hire' agreements among themselves. The case ended in a $325 million settlement that paid out roughly $4,000 to 60,000 employees. ",None,['california-usa'],"['google', 'apple', 'intel', 'adobe']",60000,None,['nataliyaned'],"[(33.977092, -118.4092133), (34.1443979, -118.257051), (32.939795, -117.1026021), (37.33196605, -121.8954904847011)]","['Google, West Bluff Creek Drive, Playa Vista, Los Angeles, California, 90094, United States', 'Apple Store, 877, Americana Way, Glendale, California, 91210, United States', 'Intel, 12220, Scripps Summit Drive, San Diego, San Diego County, California, 92131, United States', 'Adobe, Little Italy, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, United States']" 47,39,2014-09-01,"['https://www.chronicle.com/article/intellectual-piecework/190039/', 'http://wiki.wearedynamo.org/index.php/guidelines_for_academic_requesters', 'https://medium.com/@niloufar_s/the-guidelines-for-ethical-research-on-amazon-mechanical-turk-researchers-care-about-fair-payment-427e816762ee']",['open letter'],"['pay and benefits', 'working conditions']",['gig workers'],"Over two hundred Mechanical Turk workers and academics, organized through Dynamo, have collaborated and signed a set of ethical guidelines for scholars requesting labor through the platform. The Wiki page includes information on fair payment, communication practices, and the basics of requesting.",True,None,"['amazon', 'mechanical_turk']",262,None,['nataliyaned'],None,None -48,40,2014-09-11,"['https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-30/microsoft-contract-workers-are-organizing', 'https://lionbridgeunion.blogspot.com/']",['union representation'],"['unfair labor practices', 'job security']",['contract workers'],"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.",None,['usa'],"['microsoft', 'lionbridge']",38,['temporary_workers_of_america'],['organizejs'],"[(35.139622349999996, -80.92306993327955), (47.578722799999994, -122.17154487755995)]","['Microsoft, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States', 'Lionbridge, 3525, Factoria Boulevard Southeast, Factoria, Bellevue, King County, Washington, 98006, United States']" +48,40,2014-09-11,"['https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-30/microsoft-contract-workers-are-organizing', 'https://lionbridgeunion.blogspot.com/']",['union representation'],"['unfair labor practices', 'job security']",['contract workers'],"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.",None,['usa'],"['microsoft', 'lionbridge']",38,['temporary_workers_of_america'],['organizejs'],"[(35.139622349999996, -80.92306993327955), (47.578722799999994, -122.17154487755995)]","['Microsoft, Ayrsley, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States', 'Lionbridge, 3525, Factoria Boulevard Southeast, Factoria, Bellevue, King County, Washington, 98006, United States']" 49,41,2014-09-19,['https://thinkprogress.org/silicon-valley-workers-protest-for-fair-wages-at-apple-stores-during-iphone-6-launch-860a32a25b98/'],['protest'],['pay and benefits'],"['contract workers', 'blue collar workers']","In front of Apple stores nationwide, tech companies employees gathered to protest alongside hundreds of eager customers waiting in line to buy the iPhone 6. The protesters weren't disgruntled Apple engineers or developers; they were security officers, maintenance and custodial staff demanding better wages from tech companies.",None,['usa'],['apple'],None,['seiu'],['organizejs'],"[(42.3489689, -71.0824143)]","['Apple Store, 815, Boylston Street, Block F, Back Bay, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 02116, United States']" 50,42,2014-11-04,['https://www.chenpe.com/news/24911.html'],['union representation'],"['job security', 'discrimination']","['white collar workers', 'inhouse workers']","Artesyn Technologies announced through their QQ blog that employees mainly from the hardware department were participating in a protest against Sony. They held their protest against what they called violent layoffs and discrimination and they appealed to Sony to disclose a list of those being discharged. They also demanded negotiations and a 'fair, transparent and open' process.",None,['beijing-china'],['sony'],None,None,['organizejs'],"[(39.9079196, 116.4058833)]","['Sony, 东长安街, 东华门街道, 东城区, 北京市, 100006, 中国']" 51,43,2014-11-19,['https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/facebooks-bus-drivers-vote-to-unionize'],['union representation'],"['pay and benefits', 'working conditions']",['contract workers'],"The shuttle bus drivers who ferry Facebook employees to and from work voted on Wednesday to unionize, 43 to 28. The drivers, who are employees of Loop Transportation, a contractor for Facebook, voted to join Teamsters Local 853, with several of them saying their main concerns were inadequate pay and a stressful split shift schedule.",None,['menlo park-california-usa'],"['facebook', 'loop transportation']",None,"['teamster', 'drivers']",['organizejs'],"[(37.4810116, -122.15972847833908)]","['Facebook Building 21 Rooftop Park, Belle Haven, Menlo Park, San Mateo County, California, United States']" @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ 96,86,2018-06-04,['https://clb.org.hk/content/food-delivery-workers-china-strike-over-pay-cuts-and-unfair-work-practices'],['strike'],['pay and benefits'],['gig workers'],"There have been at least 15 strikes and protests by food delivery workers in China since 1 May as increased competition among delivery platforms has drastically reduced workers' take-home pay. Workers contracted to food delivery giant Meituan in the northern city of Taiyuan staged a work stoppage in protest at a wide range of issues including pay levels, delivery times, insurance and high accident rates.",None,['taiyuan-china'],['meituan'],None,None,['organizejs'],None,None 97,87,2018-06-04,['https://clb.org.hk/content/didi-drivers-china-protest-pay-cuts-and-restrictive-work-practices'],['strike'],['pay and benefits'],['gig workers'],"Hundreds of Didi drivers in the central city of Shaodong, Hunan, went on strike on 4 June in protest at a policy change that made it more difficult for them to claim their bonus payments. Videos posted online showed a long line of cars with drivers staging a protest on the side of the road. Drivers stayed on strike for six days, which coincided with the National College Entrance Examination. Drivers posted statements asking for support and understanding and apologizing for any inconvenience caused.",None,"['shaodong-china', 'hunan-china']",['didi'],100,None,['organizejs'],None,None 98,88,2018-06-08,['https://clb.org.hk/content/didi-drivers-china-protest-pay-cuts-and-restrictive-work-practices'],['strike'],['pay and benefits'],['gig workers'],"Nearly one hundred Didi drivers gathered in front of the company office in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, on 8 June protesting its new “guarantee scheme.” The scheme, rolled out in April, claimed to provide drivers with a stable income but required them to work at least ten hours a day. Didi then gradually reduced the orders for those drivers who refused to join the new scheme, sparking anger among drivers who wanted to maintain a more flexible work schedule. One driver said his income had fallen by 5,000 yuan as a result of the new system.",None,"['hangzhou-china', 'zhejiang-china']",['didi'],90,None,['organizejs'],None,None -99,89,2018-06-19,"['https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/technology/tech-companies-immigration-border.html', 'https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/21/17488328/microsoft-ice-employees-signatures-protest']",['open letter'],['ethics'],"['white collar workers', 'inhouse workers']","In an open letter posted to Microsoft's internal message board on Tuesday, hundreds of employees protested Microsoft's work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and demanding that the companies stop working with the agency.",True,['usa'],['microsoft'],300,['ice'],['organizejs'],"[(35.139622349999996, -80.92306993327955)]","['Microsoft, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States']" +99,89,2018-06-19,"['https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/technology/tech-companies-immigration-border.html', 'https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/21/17488328/microsoft-ice-employees-signatures-protest']",['open letter'],['ethics'],"['white collar workers', 'inhouse workers']","In an open letter posted to Microsoft's internal message board on Tuesday, hundreds of employees protested Microsoft's work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and demanding that the companies stop working with the agency.",True,['usa'],['microsoft'],300,['ice'],['organizejs'],"[(35.139622349999996, -80.92306993327955)]","['Microsoft, Ayrsley, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States']" 100,90,2018-06-21,"['https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/393583-amazon-employees-protest-sale-of-facial-recognition-tech-to-law', 'https://www.businessinsider.com/over-100-amazon-employees-sign-letter-jeff-bezos-stop-selling-facial-recognition-software-police-2018-6']",['open letter'],['ethics'],"['white collar workers', 'inhouse workers']","Workers at Amazon are circulating an internal letter to CEO Jeff Bezos, asking him to stop selling the companies's Rekognition facial recognition software to law enforcement and to boot the data-mining firm Palantir from its cloud services.",True,['usa'],"['amazon', 'palantir']",100,['law_enforcement'],['organizejs'],"[(46.320207, -112.1072224), (37.4440869, -122.16287540411753)]","['Amazon, Jefferson County, Montana, United States', 'Palantir, 156, University Avenue, Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, California, 94301, United States']" 101,91,2018-06-21,['https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-21/google-engineers-refused-to-build-security-tool-to-win-military-contracts'],['protest'],['ethics'],"['white collar workers', 'inhouse workers']","Earlier this year, a group of influential software engineers in Google’s cloud division, referred to as the 'Group of Nine', surprised their superiors by refusing to work on a cutting-edge security feature. Known as “air gap,” the technology would have helped Google win sensitive military contracts. The coders weren’t persuaded their employer should be using its technological might to help the government wage war, according to four current and former employees. After hearing the engineers’ objections, Urs Hölzle, Google’s top technical executive, said the air gap feature would be postponed, one of the people said. ",None,['usa'],['google'],9,['military_contracts'],['organizejs'],"[(33.977092, -118.4092133)]","['Google, West Bluff Creek Drive, Playa Vista, Los Angeles, California, 90094, United States']" 102,92,2018-06-25,['https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-25/salesforce-employees-ask-ceo-to-revisit-ties-with-border-agency'],['open letter'],['ethics'],"['white collar workers', 'inhouse workers']",Hundreds of Salesforce.com Inc. employees signed a letter to Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff criticizing the companies's contracts with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.,True,['usa'],['salesforce'],650,['cbp'],['organizejs'],"[(39.7737435, -86.1611436)]","['Salesforce, 433, North Capitol Avenue, Fayette Street Conservation Area, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, 46204, United States']" @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ 109,98,2018-08-23,"['https://teamster.org/news/2018/08/teamster-shuttle-drivers-high-tech-companies-hold-action-fair-contract', 'https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/teamsters-target-tech-buses-in-castro-district-13177065.php#photo-16057250']",['protest'],['pay and benefits'],['contract workers'],"Members of the union that represents the folks behind the wheels of corporate shuttles stood and sat in front of those buses in the Castro district, demanding a secure pension for high-tech shuttle drivers. About 40 Teamsters blocked tech buses in a surprise protest. The drivers were from WeDriveU and Loop/Hallcon and transport employees for high-tech companies including Apple, Tesla, Amazon, Twitter, LinkedIn, Salesforce, Electronic Arts, Lam and Facebook.",None,['san francisco-california-usa'],None,40,"['teamster', 'drivers']",['organizejs'],"[(37.7790262, -122.419906)]","['San Francisco, San Francisco City and County, San Francisco, California, United States']" 110,99,2018-10-04,['https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45734662'],['strike'],['pay and benefits'],['gig workers'],"UberEats riders and a small number of workers from JD Wetherspoon, McDonald's and TGI Fridays have been staging walkouts in a pay dispute. Protests were being held in several UK cities, along with a rally in London.",None,['uk'],['uber'],50,None,['organizejs'],"[(51.5148804, -0.0718856)]","['Uber, 2, Leman Street, Spitalfields, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London, Islington, Greater London, England, E1 8FA, United Kingdom']" 111,100,2018-10-09,"['https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/09/uber-uk-strike-users-urged-not-to-cross-digital-picket-line', 'https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45796409']",['strike'],"['pay and benefits', 'working conditions']",['gig workers'],"Hundreds of Uber drivers are expected to switch off their apps from 1pm, making themselves unavailable for work, union organisers said. Protests are also being held outside the ride-hailing app's offices in London, Nottingham and Birmingham.",None,"['london-uk', 'nottingham-uk', 'birmingham-uk']",['uber'],100,None,['organizejs'],"[(51.5148804, -0.0718856), (52.4746766, -1.91586332385543)]","['Uber, 2, Leman Street, Spitalfields, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London, Islington, Greater London, England, E1 8FA, United Kingdom', 'UBER, 100, Broad Street, Ladywood, Park Central, Birmingham, West Midlands Combined Authority, West Midlands, England, B15 1AE, United Kingdom']" -112,101,2018-10-12,['https://medium.com/s/story/an-open-letter-to-microsoft-dont-bid-on-the-us-military-s-project-jedi-7279338b7132'],['open letter'],['ethics'],"['white collar workers', 'inhouse workers']",An open letter signed by 'employees of Microsoft' asks the cloud giant to abstain from bidding on the military's massive JEDI cloud computing contract for ethical reasons involving the application of artificial intelligence.,True,['usa'],['microsoft'],None,None,['organizejs'],"[(35.139622349999996, -80.92306993327955)]","['Microsoft, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States']" +112,101,2018-10-12,['https://medium.com/s/story/an-open-letter-to-microsoft-dont-bid-on-the-us-military-s-project-jedi-7279338b7132'],['open letter'],['ethics'],"['white collar workers', 'inhouse workers']",An open letter signed by 'employees of Microsoft' asks the cloud giant to abstain from bidding on the military's massive JEDI cloud computing contract for ethical reasons involving the application of artificial intelligence.,True,['usa'],['microsoft'],None,None,['organizejs'],"[(35.139622349999996, -80.92306993327955)]","['Microsoft, Ayrsley, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States']" 113,102,2018-10-24,['https://clb.org.hk/content/taxi-drivers-out-strike-again-china-competition-threatens-livelihoods'],['strike'],['pay and benefits'],['gig workers'],"Hundreds of regular Didi drivers in Xiamen went on strike in protest against the company's advantageous policy towards drivers who have not yet formally registered. Drivers said their daily incomes had fallen to around 200-300 yuan per day, about the same as regular taxi drivers in the city, and that they were now struggling just to get by. After police arrived at the site of the protest and dispersed the crowd, the workers elected their own representatives to hold talks with the company, and vowed to continue with their protests until the situation improved.",None,"['xiamen-china', 'fujian-china']",['didi'],100,None,['organizejs'],None,None 114,103,2018-11-01,"['https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/technology/google-walkout-sexual-harassment.html', 'https://www.recode.net/2018/11/21/18105719/google-walkout-real-change-organizers-protest-discrimination-kara-swisher-recode-decode-podcast']",['strike'],['discrimination'],"['white collar workers', 'contract workers', 'inhouse workers']","Google employees and contractors walked out of the companies's offices around the world, one week after the New York Times reported that Google had protected three executives accused of sexual misconduct.",None,"['usa', 'worldwide']",['google'],20000,['sexism'],['organizejs'],"[(33.977092, -118.4092133)]","['Google, West Bluff Creek Drive, Playa Vista, Los Angeles, California, 90094, United States']" 115,104,2018-11-20,['https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/blue-apron-lawsuit-unpaid-wages'],['legal action'],"['pay and benefits', 'working conditions']",['blue collar workers'],"Blue Apron employees have filed a class-action lawsuit against the companies, alleging that they weren't paid overtime, or for meal breaks, among other labor law violations. They are seeking back pay for missed wages and a trial by jury. Blue Apron employs thousands of low-wage workers in food processing plants in New Jersey, Texas, and California, where this suit was filed. An employee alleges that Blue Apron routinely forced hourly employees to clock out before their meal break, effectively cheating them out of thirty minutes of pay per shift, a practice known in the world of labor law as “time shaving.”",None,['california-usa'],['blue apron'],100,None,['organizejs'],"[(33.9446707, -117.026448)]","['Apron Lane, Beaumont, Riverside County, California, 92223, United States']" @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ 125,114,2019-01-18,['https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/18/oracle-women-workers-lawsuit-salaries-pay'],['legal action'],['discrimination'],['na'],"Attorneys seek to represent more than 4,200 women in a lawsuit against Oracle that alleged that female employees were paid on average $13,000 less per year than men doing similar work. An analysis of payroll data found disparities with an 'extraordinarily high degree of statistical significance', the complaint said. Women made 3.8% less in base salaries on average than men in the same job categories, 13.2% less in bonuses, and 33.1% less in stock value, it alleges.",None,['redwood shores-california-usa'],['oracle'],4200,['sexism'],['organizejs'],None,None 126,115,2019-02-01,['https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/deliveroo-riders-strike-nottingham-city-2498758'],['protest'],"['working conditions', 'pay and benefits']",['gig workers'],"Deliveroo riders took to Nottingham's Speakers' Corner to strike in a pay dispute. Riders were striking over the fees paid for long and short distance deliveries in the Nottingham area. Riders receive no pension, holiday or sickness pay, and must cover their own equipment costs and expenses and pay national insurance and tax on their earnings.",None,['nottingham-uk'],['deliveroo'],30,None,['organizejs'],None,None 127,116,2019-02-18,['https://clb.org.hk/content/food-delivery-drivers-strike-protest-post-new-year-pay-cuts'],['strike'],['pay and benefits'],['gig workers'],"Food delivery workers in at least five cities across China have staged a series of strikes protesting arbitrary reductions in pay rates introduced after the Lunar New Year Holiday. Workers for both major food delivery platforms, Meituan and Ele.me, stopped taking orders starting in February.",None,"['linyi-china', 'dongguan-china', 'jinan-china', 'pinghu-china', 'qingdao-china']","['meituan', 'ele.me']",None,None,['organizejs'],None,None -128,117,2019-02-22,"['https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/microsoft-workers-protest-hololens-pentagon-contract.html', 'https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/microsoft-hololens-army']",['open letter'],['ethics'],"['white collar workers', 'inhouse workers']","Microsoft employees circulated a letter among the companies' over 130,000-person staff demanding that executives cancel a $479 million contract with the US Army, IVAS, that will provide weapons technology to the U.S. Military to 'increase lethality' to army soldiers. 'We did not sign up to develop weapons, and we demand a say in how our work is used.",True,"['online', 'usa']",['microsoft'],290,['military_contracts'],['organizejs'],"[(35.139622349999996, -80.92306993327955)]","['Microsoft, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States']" +128,117,2019-02-22,"['https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/microsoft-workers-protest-hololens-pentagon-contract.html', 'https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/microsoft-hololens-army']",['open letter'],['ethics'],"['white collar workers', 'inhouse workers']","Microsoft employees circulated a letter among the companies' over 130,000-person staff demanding that executives cancel a $479 million contract with the US Army, IVAS, that will provide weapons technology to the U.S. Military to 'increase lethality' to army soldiers. 'We did not sign up to develop weapons, and we demand a say in how our work is used.",True,"['online', 'usa']",['microsoft'],290,['military_contracts'],['organizejs'],"[(35.139622349999996, -80.92306993327955)]","['Microsoft, Ayrsley, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States']" 129,118,2019-02-27,['https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/student-groups-protest-salesforce-palantir-ice-campus'],['protest'],['ethics'],['na'],"Ten Stanford students with a group called Students for the Liberation of All People (SLAP) protested a guest lecture by Salesforce executive Richard Socher. The students, who held signs — 'Salesforcing families apart,' 'Richard are you getting rich from deportation?' and 'Salesfart' — oppose the company’s contract with Customs and Borders Protection (CBP).",None,['stanford-california-usa'],"['palantir', 'salesforce']",10,['students'],['organizejs'],None,None 130,119,2019-03-04,['https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-04/holdout-jeff-bezos-confronted-by-amazon-moms-demanding-daycare'],['protest'],['pay and benefits'],"['white collar workers', 'inhouse workers']",A group of employees at Amazon have called for the company to provide a backup daycare benefit. The group collected accounts of employees who have been negatively impacted by a lack of daycare to present to senior managers. They have also called for management to collect more data on child care among employees.,None,['seattle-washington-usa'],['amazon'],1800,"['sexism', 'child_care']",['nataliyaned'],"[(47.6226943, -122.33938923913493)]","['Amazon, Belltown, Seattle, King County, Washington, United States']" 131,120,2019-03-06,"['https://onezero.medium.com/uber-delivery-workers-in-mexico-track-thieves-through-a-secret-whatsapp-network-d5795a0e3b41', 'https://sira-apps-sindicato.jimdosite.com/', 'https://www.facebook.com/pg/sirapps/about/?ref=page_internal']",['union drive'],"['working conditions', 'pay and benefits']","['contract workers', 'gig workers']","At least 16 Mexican app delivery drivers met to form the Sindicato Independiente de Repartidores en Aplicaciones (SIRA APPS, rough translation: Independent Union of App Deliverypeople). The union seeks legal recognition, and demands worker accident insurance, worker-led onboarding for new delivery drivers, and assistance with social benefits registration.",None,['merida-mexico'],None,16,None,['moates'],"[(20.9670759, -89.6237402)]","['Mérida, Yucatán, México']" @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ 140,129,2019-04-10,"['https://www.recode.net/2019/4/10/18304877/amazon-climate-change-employees-tech-activism', 'https://www.vox.com/business-and-finance/2019/4/11/18306389/amazon-employees-climate-change-plan']",['open letter'],['ethics'],"['white collar workers', 'inhouse workers']",The company's corporate employees signed their names to a letter published on Wednesday that urged Jeff Bezos to create a comprehensive climate-change plan for the company.,True,['usa'],['amazon'],7000,['climate_change'],['organizejs'],"[(46.320207, -112.1072224)]","['Amazon, Jefferson County, Montana, United States']" 141,130,2019-04-17,['https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/04/instagram-memers-are-unionizing/587308/?fbclid=iwar0enfo9hotaka_ukh0snpjn5pypplmygz1wkelyul-42lue4p-_foalbq0'],['union drive'],"['working conditions', 'pay and benefits']",['gig workers'],"Instagram memers have had enough. They generate the engagement that helps keep Instagram growing—but, they argue, the multibillion-dollar platform doesn't pay them for their work, or give them any control. So they're fighting back. And before you write off IG Meme Union Local 69-420 as a joke, the organizers of the collective would like you to know that they are very serious.",True,['usa'],"['instagram', 'facebook']",None,None,['organizejs'],"[(41.14127715, -77.46294984398486), (30.2691649, -97.7455041)]","['Instagram-Ferris_Joshua / Marycate.minnigh, Campus Drive, Sunset Pines, Lock Haven, Clinton County, Pennsylvania, 17745, United States', 'Facebook, West 6th Street, Downtown, Austin, Travis County, Texas, 78701, United States']" 142,131,2019-04-19,['https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/deliveroo-riders-take-nottingham-city-2754676'],['protest'],"['working conditions', 'pay and benefits']",['gig workers'],Deliveroo riders took to Nottingham city centre again to protest for improved working and pay conditions. Protesters are growing frustrated with a 'lack of communication' and an 'unwillingness to have their demands listened to' by the food delivery company.,None,['nottingham-uk'],['deliveroo'],10,None,['organizejs'],None,None -143,132,2019-04-22,"['https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-22/microsoft-workers-criticize-block-of-github-protest-in-china', 'https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/microsoft-petition-996-icu-workweek-china', 'https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-and-github-workers-take-a-stand-against-gruel-1834210579', 'https://github.com/MSWorkers/support.996.ICU/blob/master/README.md']",['open letter'],"['working conditions', 'unfair labor practices']","['white collar workers', 'inhouse workers']","Microsoft and GitHub workers have published an open letter of solidarity with the 996 movement on GitHub at https://github.com/MSWorkers/support.996.ICU, and have called on Microsoft to resist all pressure from the Chinese government to block or censor the 996 repo.",True,"['worldwide', 'usa']","['microsoft', 'github']",450,"['international_solidarity', 'industry_solidarity']",['bentarnoff'],"[(35.139622349999996, -80.92306993327955), (37.7821769, -122.3912458)]","['Microsoft, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States', 'GitHub, 88, Colin P. Kelly Junior Street, Port of San Francisco, San Francisco, San Francisco City and County, San Francisco, California, 94107, United States']" +143,132,2019-04-22,"['https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-22/microsoft-workers-criticize-block-of-github-protest-in-china', 'https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/microsoft-petition-996-icu-workweek-china', 'https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-and-github-workers-take-a-stand-against-gruel-1834210579', 'https://github.com/MSWorkers/support.996.ICU/blob/master/README.md']",['open letter'],"['working conditions', 'unfair labor practices']","['white collar workers', 'inhouse workers']","Microsoft and GitHub workers have published an open letter of solidarity with the 996 movement on GitHub at https://github.com/MSWorkers/support.996.ICU, and have called on Microsoft to resist all pressure from the Chinese government to block or censor the 996 repo.",True,"['worldwide', 'usa']","['microsoft', 'github']",450,"['international_solidarity', 'industry_solidarity']",['bentarnoff'],"[(35.139622349999996, -80.92306993327955), (37.7821769, -122.3912458)]","['Microsoft, Ayrsley, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States', 'GitHub, 88, Colin P. Kelly Junior Street, Port of San Francisco, San Francisco, San Francisco City and County, San Francisco, California, 94107, United States']" 144,133,2019-04-25,"['https://technode.com/2019/04/25/996-protesters-organize-performance-art-prank-against-jack-ma/', 'https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/technology/china-996-jack-ma.html']",['protest'],"['working conditions', 'unfair labor practices']","['white collar workers', 'inhouse workers']","A GitHub user called on those who condemn 996 to respond to Jack Ma's endorsement of the widely criticized work schedule by sending an official copy of China's labor law on May 4 to the Alibaba headquarters. Ma, founder of Alibaba and the richest man in China, dismissed outcry on social media over the grueling working hours in China's tech industry in a blog post on April 12. 'To be able to work 996 is a huge blessing,' he said. The GitHub post estimates 1,000 participants will participate.",None,['china'],['alibaba'],1000,None,['organizejs'],"[(31.2969721, 121.1624993)]","['Alibaba, 昌吉路, 安亭镇, 嘉定区, 上海市, 215332, 中国']" 145,134,2019-04-26,"['https://www.wired.com/story/dispute-googles-alleged-retaliation-intensifies/', 'https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-26/google-staffers-share-350-stories-of-systemic-retaliation']",['protest'],['working conditions'],"['white collar workers', 'inhouse workers']","Meredith Whittaker and Claire Stapleton held a town hall for Google workers to discuss the retaliation they have faced from management for engaging in organizing, and to share more than a dozen other stories of retaliation they have gathered. The meeting was held in New York but live-streamed to Google offices elsewhere. This action involved hundreds of workers.",None,['new york city-new york-usa'],['google'],200,['retaliation'],['bentarnoff'],"[(40.7417176, -74.0041592)]","['Google, 111, 8th Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan, New York County, New York, 10011, United States']" 146,260,2019-05-01,"['https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/gy4qew/foodora-couriers-want-to-be-among-first-gig-economy-workers-to-unionize-in-canada', 'https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/04/27/2022709/0/en/foodora-Canada-announces-plans-to-close-business-while-assuring-support-for-employees.html', 'https://www.thestar.com/business/2020/04/29/foodora-declares-bankruptcy-in-canada-leaving-47-million-in-debt.html']",['union drive'],"['pay and benefits', 'working conditions']",['gig workers'],"Foodora couriers announced their intention to join a union of Canadian post workers and held a union drive. If successful, this would make Foodora workers the first app-based employees to unionize in Canada. In April 2020 the company announced its intention to leave the Canadian market and initiated bankruptcy proceedings, making the future of the business and the unionizing effort uncertain. ",None,['toronto-ontario-canada'],['foodora'],1000,['delivery_workers'],['nataliyaned'],None,None @@ -210,9 +210,9 @@ protested the company's involvement with ICE by deleting open source projects us 207,193,2019-10-02,['https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9ken8v/kickstarter-workers-just-asked-for-union-recognition-despite-pushback-from-ceo'],['union drive'],['working conditions'],['white collar workers'],"Kickstarter workers have sent a letter to management asking them to voluntarily recognize their union. If management refuses to recognize the union, workers have the option to go to the NLRB to authorize a union election.",None,['brooklyn-new york city-new york-usa'],['kickstarter'],None,None,['nataliyaned'],"[(40.7321996, -73.9598257)]","['Kickstarter HQ, West Street, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, 11222, United States']" 208,194,2019-10-02,['http://thetartan.org/2019/10/7/news/palantir-protest'],['protest'],['ethics'],['na'],"A coalition of students protested Palantir & other ICE-friendly recruitment on the Carnegie Mellon University campus. They disrupted a Palantir recruitment event, held 500 in-person conversations with passing colleagues, & collected 150 promises from fellow students to not work or engage with Palantir.",None,['pittsburgh-pennsylvania-usa'],"['carnegie mellon university', 'palantir']",30,"['students', 'mijente', 'academics']",['moates'],"[(40.4441619, -79.942728259225)]","['Carnegie Mellon University, Warwick Terrace, Squirrel Hill North, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 15213, United States']" 209,195,2019-10-03,['https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa7qny/60-amazon-workers-walked-out-over-warehouse-working-conditions?f'],['strike'],"['pay and benefits', 'working conditions']",['blue collar workers'],"Approximately 60 Amazon workers walked out of a delivery center in Eagan, Minnesota to demand increased wages, weight restrictions on boxes, and abolishing a cap on 30 hour workweeks. The strike lasted two and half hours until a manager promised to address concerns the following morning.",None,['eagan-minnesota-usa'],['amazon'],60,None,['nataliyaned'],None,None -210,196,2019-10-03,"['https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/09/employees-ask-github-cancel-ice-contract-we-cannot-offset-human-lives-with-money/', 'https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/letter-from-github-employees-to-ceo-about-the-company-s-ice-contract/fb280de9-2bc3-40d5-b1a5-e3b954bf0d25/', 'https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/10/9/20906605/github-ice-contract-immigration-ice-dan-friedman']",['open letter'],['ethics'],['white collar workers'],"After GitHub CEO Nat Friedman wrote in an internal letter on Tuesday that the company plans to renew a contract worth $200,000 with ICE to license its GitHub Enterprise Server, GitHub's employees began publicly pressuring their company's leadership to stop working with the immigration agency over human rights concerns.",True,['usa'],"['github', 'microsoft']",150,['ice'],['organizejs'],"[(37.7821769, -122.3912458), (35.139622349999996, -80.92306993327955)]","['GitHub, 88, Colin P. Kelly Junior Street, Port of San Francisco, San Francisco, San Francisco City and County, San Francisco, California, 94107, United States', 'Microsoft, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States']" +210,196,2019-10-03,"['https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/09/employees-ask-github-cancel-ice-contract-we-cannot-offset-human-lives-with-money/', 'https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/letter-from-github-employees-to-ceo-about-the-company-s-ice-contract/fb280de9-2bc3-40d5-b1a5-e3b954bf0d25/', 'https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/10/9/20906605/github-ice-contract-immigration-ice-dan-friedman']",['open letter'],['ethics'],['white collar workers'],"After GitHub CEO Nat Friedman wrote in an internal letter on Tuesday that the company plans to renew a contract worth $200,000 with ICE to license its GitHub Enterprise Server, GitHub's employees began publicly pressuring their company's leadership to stop working with the immigration agency over human rights concerns.",True,['usa'],"['github', 'microsoft']",150,['ice'],['organizejs'],"[(37.7821769, -122.3912458), (35.139622349999996, -80.92306993327955)]","['GitHub, 88, Colin P. Kelly Junior Street, Port of San Francisco, San Francisco, San Francisco City and County, San Francisco, California, 94107, United States', 'Microsoft, Ayrsley, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States']" 211,197,2019-10-03,"['https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2019/10/d2198529f08b-update1-uber-eats-delivery-staff-in-japan-form-labor-union.html', 'https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/10/03/business/corporate-business/uber-eats-delivery-staff-japan-form-labor-union/#.xaurdohkihs']",['union representation'],['working conditions'],['gig workers'],"Staff in Japan of ride-hailing company Uber's food delivery service formed a labor union Thursday to negotiate contract terms and seek improved working conditions. The union, formed by 17 platformers, also plans to request the Japanese unit of the U.S. company to ensure fair treatment among delivery riders and review how distance-based wages are set.",None,['tokyo-japan'],['uber'],17,None,['organizejs'],None,None -212,198,2019-10-04,"['https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-10/microsoft-employees-call-to-end-github-ice-contract', 'https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-github-ice-contracts-solidarity-2019-10']",['open letter'],['ethics'],['white collar workers'],"Microsoft employees are circulating a letter supporting an effort to get its GitHub subsidiary to cancel a contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, the latest effort among tech-company staff to influence corporate policy on government work. The letter reflects concerns that Microsoft’s sales to the agency implicate the software maker in the government’s detention of immigrants. ",True,['usa'],['microsoft'],200,"['ice', 'industry_solidarity']",['organizejs'],"[(35.139622349999996, -80.92306993327955)]","['Microsoft, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States']" +212,198,2019-10-04,"['https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-10/microsoft-employees-call-to-end-github-ice-contract', 'https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-github-ice-contracts-solidarity-2019-10']",['open letter'],['ethics'],['white collar workers'],"Microsoft employees are circulating a letter supporting an effort to get its GitHub subsidiary to cancel a contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, the latest effort among tech-company staff to influence corporate policy on government work. The letter reflects concerns that Microsoft’s sales to the agency implicate the software maker in the government’s detention of immigrants. ",True,['usa'],['microsoft'],200,"['ice', 'industry_solidarity']",['organizejs'],"[(35.139622349999996, -80.92306993327955)]","['Microsoft, Ayrsley, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States']" 213,199,2019-10-21,"['https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2019-10-21/swiss-google-employees-defy-managers-stage-labor-event?__twitter_impression=true', 'https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/10/21/20924697/google-unionization-switzerland-zurich-syndicom-zooglers']",['union drive'],"['working conditions', 'job security']",['white collar workers'],"Approximately 40 Google employees in Zurich held a meeting at the office to discuss unions and labor rights with representatives from Syndicom, a Swiss labor union. Employees had invited Syndicom to speak earlier in June but the event was cancelled at the request of management. Management later announced they would be holding a series of talk on labor rights and would allow Syndicom to join.",None,['zurich-switzerland'],['google'],40,None,['nataliyaned'],"[(47.3793085, 8.5307904)]","['Google, 1, Gustav-Gull-Platz, Langstrasse, Aussersihl, Zürich, Bezirk Zürich, Zürich, 8004, Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera/Svizra']" 214,200,2019-10-28,"['https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/technology/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-political-ads.html', 'https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/technology/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-letter.html?action=click&module=relatedlinks&pgtype=article']",['open letter'],['ethics'],['na'],"More than 250 Facebook employees signed a letter to management protesting the company's decision to keep political ads, including those making false claims, on the social network during the 2020 US Presidential election. The letter was posted on Facebook Workplace, an internal communication service within the company.",True,['usa'],['facebook'],251,None,['nataliyaned'],"[(30.2691649, -97.7455041)]","['Facebook, West 6th Street, Downtown, Austin, Travis County, Texas, 78701, United States']" 215,201,2019-10-29,"['https://www.geekwire.com/2019/tableau-employees-hold-rally-seattle-ask-leadership-sever-ties-ice-cbp/', 'https://medium.com/@tableauempethicsalliance/drawing-a-line-77606d6dafff']","['protest', 'open letter']",['ethics'],['na'],Over 200 employees of the data visualization company Tableau protested their company's contracts with the federal government. They called on their company to drop these contracts in oppositio to the actions of ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) throughout the US and at the US-Mexico border. An open letter was also published on Medium.,None,['seattle-washington-usa'],['tableau'],201,"['ice', 'immigration']",['nataliyaned'],"[(47.6490619, -122.3479148)]","['Tableau Software, 837, North 34th Street, Fremont, Seattle, King County, Washington, 98103, United States']" @@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ protested the company's involvement with ICE by deleting open source projects us 325,317,2020-08-22,['https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/bvbmlUIPatMX4xzDvwU8FQ'],"['protest', 'open letter', 'strike']",['pay and benefits'],['gig workers'],"Didi rideshare workers have started holding strikes in a number of Chinese cities including Suzhou, Nanjing, Nantong, and Zunyi City to protest high commission fees on the platform. Drivers in Zunyi City also issued a letter with 5 demands to their local government and transportation department. ",None,"['suzhou-china', 'nanjing-china', 'nantong-china', 'zunyi-china']",['didi'],None,None,['nataliyaned'],None,None 326,319,2020-08-26,['https://rabble.ca/news/2020/08/former-foodora-workers-receive-closure-346-million-settlement'],['legal action'],['unfair labor practices'],['gig workers'],Foodora workers in Canada received a $3.5 million settlement after suing their employer for union busting. Foodora chose to leave Canada in April 2020 after the Ontario Labor Board voted to recognize the couriers as company employees. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers sued on behalf of the workers and declared that the settlement would be distributed between all Canadian Foodora employees.,None,['canada'],['foodora'],2000,['delivery_workers'],['nataliyaned'],None,None 327,318,2020-08-28,['https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/protesters-set-up-a-guillotine-outside-jeff-bezos-mansion-and-demanded-higher-wages-for-amazon-workers-after-the-ceos-net-worth-surpassed-200-billion/amp_articleshow/77794471.cms'],['protest'],['pay and benefits'],"['blue collar workers', 'inhouse workers']","More than 100 protesters, led by former Amazon worker Christian Smalls, placed a guillotine outside of Jeff Bezos' D.C. home to call on the company to raise minimum wages from $15 to $30/hour. ",None,['washington_dc-usa'],['amazon'],101,['coronavirus'],['nataliyaned'],None,None -328,316,2020-08-31,['https://onezero.medium.com/leaked-salary-spreadsheet-reveals-microsoft-employee-earnings-for-a-second-year-d1466132d309'],"['protest', 'resources']","['pay and benefits', 'discrimination']","['white collar workers', 'inhouse workers']","More than 300 Microsoft employees shared salary and pay bonus data in spreadsheet. A similar action took place last year. This year's survey asked whether employees identified as people of color or experienced discrimination because of their gender identity. Notably, 194 of 310 participants identified as people of color and 69 had experienced discrimination on the basis of gender identity.",True,['usa'],['microsoft'],310,"['antiracism', 'salary sharing']",['nataliyaned'],"[(35.139622349999996, -80.92306993327955)]","['Microsoft, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States']" +328,316,2020-08-31,['https://onezero.medium.com/leaked-salary-spreadsheet-reveals-microsoft-employee-earnings-for-a-second-year-d1466132d309'],"['protest', 'resources']","['pay and benefits', 'discrimination']","['white collar workers', 'inhouse workers']","More than 300 Microsoft employees shared salary and pay bonus data in spreadsheet. A similar action took place last year. This year's survey asked whether employees identified as people of color or experienced discrimination because of their gender identity. Notably, 194 of 310 participants identified as people of color and 69 had experienced discrimination on the basis of gender identity.",True,['usa'],['microsoft'],310,"['antiracism', 'salary sharing']",['nataliyaned'],"[(35.139622349999996, -80.92306993327955)]","['Microsoft, Ayrsley, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States']" 329,328,2020-08-31,"['https://guardian.ng/news/uber-bolt-drivers-begin-one-week-strike-in-lagos/', 'https://guardian.ng/news/e-hailing-drivers-reject-reviewed-lagos-ride-hailing-regulation/']",['strike'],['pay and benefits'],['gig workers'],"Rideshare drivers in Lagos, Nigeria went on a one-week strike to protest new state regulations that added a fixed service tax to all trips. The agreement was reached between the companies, the Lagos state government, and the Professional E-hailing Drivers and Private Owners Association but did not include the National Union of Professional App-Based Workers, which union representatives claim was sidelined during negotiations due to its initial rejection of the proposal. ",None,['lagos-nigeria'],"['uber', 'bolt']",None,['drivers'],['nataliyaned'],"[(6.45269435, 3.4498998)]","['Uber Nigeria HQ, 2, Onikoyi Road, Ikoyi, Okepa, Eti Osa, Lagos, 20050, Nigeria']" 330,326,2020-09-08,['https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5p9nb/employees-of-social-change-nonprofit-stage-walkout-to-protest-racial-abuse'],"['protest', 'strike', 'open letter']",['discrimination'],"['white collar workers', 'inhouse workers']","24 employees of tech non-profit Do Something walked off the job, calling for the resignation of current CEO Aria Finger. They have also sent two direct letters to the CEO and Board of Directors that have been shared on Twitter. Former employees shared experiences of racial discrimination and harassment via social media earlier this year. The letter states that Finger reacted to these posts by calling them untrue or ""standard-issued American forms of microaggression and racism"". Finger returned in August after a legal investigation did not find evidence of discrimination under her tenure. ",True,None,['do something'],24,"['antiracism', 'blm']",['nataliyaned'],None,None 331,327,2020-09-15,['https://www.sunnewsonline.com/uber-bolt-drivers-protest-static-fares-in-abuja/'],['protest'],['pay and benefits'],['gig workers'],"Rideshare drivers protested in Abuja, Nigeria, calling for greater government oversight on pricing for apps like Uber and Bolt. Drivers threatened to go on strike within a week's time if the government did not respond to their demands. Drivers noted the disparity in prices between Abuja and other major cities in Nigeria and surrounding countries. Rising gas prices have also led to decreased profits for many drivers. Several organizations were involved: Abuja City Pilot Forum (ACPF), City Online Drivers Association (CODA) and the Online Hackney Practitioners Association of Nigeria (OHPAN).",None,['abuja-nigeria'],"['uber', 'bolt']",None,['drivers'],['nataliyaned'],None,None diff --git a/actions.json b/actions.json index 325d2349e..73114f7f8 100644 --- a/actions.json +++ b/actions.json @@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ ] ], "addresses": [ - "Microsoft, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States" + "Microsoft, Ayrsley, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States" ] }, { @@ -1924,7 +1924,7 @@ ] ], "addresses": [ - "Microsoft, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States", + "Microsoft, Ayrsley, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States", "Lionbridge, 3525, Factoria Boulevard Southeast, Factoria, Bellevue, King County, Washington, 98006, United States" ] }, @@ -3937,7 +3937,7 @@ ] ], "addresses": [ - "Microsoft, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States" + "Microsoft, Ayrsley, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States" ] }, { @@ -4454,7 +4454,7 @@ ] ], "addresses": [ - "Microsoft, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States" + "Microsoft, Ayrsley, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States" ] }, { @@ -5094,7 +5094,7 @@ ] ], "addresses": [ - "Microsoft, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States" + "Microsoft, Ayrsley, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States" ] }, { @@ -5693,7 +5693,7 @@ ] ], "addresses": [ - "Microsoft, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States", + "Microsoft, Ayrsley, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States", "GitHub, 88, Colin P. 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