Vaughn Cockayne

Starbucks to start contract negotiations with union

Coffee giant Starbucks will finally begin formal contract negotiations with Starbucks Workers United, over two years after the union won its first election.

February 28, 2024

Meta’s Threads continues to beat X in daily downloads on iOS, Google

Meta's Threads remains one of the most downloaded social media apps on Apple and Google's app stores and is consistently beating its main competitor X in downloads.

February 27, 2024

Sony to cut 900 employees from gaming division, 8% of global staff

Japanese tech giant Sony announced it will lay off about 900 employees from its PlayStation division, in another devastating blow to the gaming industry.

February 27, 2024

Majority of workers at largest U.S. Mercedes plant sign with UAW

Most employees at an Alabama Mercedes plant have signed union cards with the United Auto Workers, the union announced Tuesday.

February 27, 2024

Wendy’s to initiate dynamic pricing based on demand in 2025

Popular fast-food restaurant Wendy's announced it will introduce Uber-style price surging to its menu based on daily demand.

February 27, 2024

GM’s Cruise to restart operations in Texas after being banished from California

General Motors' self-driving taxi company Cruise says it will restart operations in Texas, just months after the company was kicked out of California over safety concerns.

February 23, 2024

Vice Media shutters website, lays off hundreds

Vice Media has ceased publishing content on its website and has fired much of its news staff, effectively ending over a decade of info operations.

February 23, 2024

Elon Musk order to open files ignored by Twitter staff worried about federal fines

Twitter employees disregarded orders from Elon Musk to fully share data with journalists looking into anti-conservative bias soon after the billionaire acquired the site in late 2022 -- a move that might have saved the company an expensive Federal Trade Commission fine.

February 22, 2024

X complies with Indian order to suppress accounts, posts

X announced Wednesday it's withholding certain accounts and posts after the Indian government ordered it to do so.

February 22, 2024

NLRB: Home Depot broke law by firing employee over BLM support

The National Labor Relations Board ruled Wednesday that popular retailer Home Depot violated the law by firing an employee for wearing a work apron with Black Lives Matter messaging.

February 22, 2024

Labor Department finds 2 dozen children working in slaughterhouses

The Labor Department is accusing a Tennessee-based janitorial company of hiring children as young as 13 to clean dangerous equipment in slaughterhouses.

February 22, 2024

California regulators suspend Waymo application for expansion as controversy mounts

California regulators on Wednesday suspended auto-taxi service Waymo's application to expand its service into more parts of San Francisco and into Los Angeles.

February 21, 2024

Swedish union to stop servicing Tesla charging stations next month

Tesla may have to outsource the installation and maintenance of its charging stations in Sweden.

February 21, 2024

Kentucky UAW members reach tentative agreement with Ford

The United Auto Workers have reached a deal with Ford over a local contract at its Louisville, Kentucky, truck plant, the union announced Wednesday.

February 21, 2024

Teamsters prepare to strike at Anheuser-Busch as Molson Coors walkout continues

As hundreds of Teamsters members hit the picket lines in Texas, thousands more plan to strike at the country's biggest brewer, Anheuser-Busch.

February 21, 2024

Ford UAW workers to strike Friday if contract demands not met

Ford and the United Auto Workers in Kentucky have until the end of the workweek to agree on a contract before thousands of employees could walk off the job.

February 20, 2024

21 Starbucks locations file to unionize

Starbucks workers from 21 coffee shops around the U.S. announced they will file petitions to unionize with the National Labor Relations Board, marking Starbucks Workers United's most aggressive expansion since its inception.

February 20, 2024

X suspends, reinstates account of Navalny widow after Putin criticisms

Elon Musk's X has restored the account of Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, after a short and unexplained suspension.

February 20, 2024

Musk: Neuralink patient moving computer mouse by thinking

The first human test subject at Elon Musk's Neuralink has made a full recovery and is moving a computer cursor just by thinking, the billionaire announced this week.

February 20, 2024

Amazon calls National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional in official filing

Retail giant Amazon is challenging the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board in a new filing this week, joining a chorus of other businesses in legal trouble with the board.

February 16, 2024