Lauren Kaori Gurley

Lauren Kaori Gurley a senior staff writer for Motherboard. 

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Amazon Workers Who Commute Across the US-Mexico Border Every Day Are Organizing for Better Working Conditions

Workers say they have faced five-hour commutes to go just a couple miles—and have recently won shuttle bus service from the border through their organizing.
Lauren Kaori Gurley
7.8.22
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Shifting America to Solar Power Is a Grueling, Low-Paid Job

Over the past decade, a low-wage workforce that chases solar installation projects from state to state for meager wages has proliferated around the country.
Lauren Kaori Gurley
6.27.22
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'I'm Drowning:' Amazon Contractors Are Paying the Price for the Labor Shortage

Last year, Amazon rolled out a metric that allows it to punish or terminate delivery contractors if they fail to meet route targets.
Lauren Kaori Gurley
6.7.22
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Internal Documents Show Amazon’s Dystopian System for Tracking Workers Every Minute of Their Shifts

The documents provide new clarity about a much-talked-about but until now opaque process Amazon uses to punish associates it believes are wasting time.
Lauren Kaori Gurley
6.2.22
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Amazon Repeatedly Violated Union-Busting Labor Laws, ‘Historic’ NLRB Complaint Says

Managers threatened, cajoled, or promised additional benefits to workers if they voted against the union, according to the NLRB. The complaint challenges the practice of captive audience meetings, a longstanding union-busting tradition.
Aaron Gordon
Lauren Kaori Gurley
6.1.22
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Leaked Audio: Apple VP Gives Apple Store Workers Anti-Union Speech

In an internal video circulated among Apple’s 58,000 retail employees, Apple’s vice-president of retail suggested that a union would make it more difficult for Apple to improve working conditions.
Lauren Kaori Gurley
5.25.22
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Teachers At Blue Man Group-Founded School Are on Strike

The Blue School teaches kids about labor unions and activism. But it won’t recognize its own union.
Lauren Kaori Gurley
5.24.22
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Amazon Makes Union Organizer Pick Up Cigarette Butts Alone in Parking Lot

Another union organizer at the same warehouse in upstate New York was fired for not using a step stool to move totes full of merchandise.
Lauren Kaori Gurley
5.18.22
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Leaked Memo Reveals Apple’s Anti-Union Talking Points for Store Managers

Apple is instructing managers to tell retail workers that they could lose benefits and career opportunities if they unionize.
Lauren Kaori Gurley
5.12.22
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Amazon Warehouse Collapse Reveals ‘Wholly Inadequate Safety Culture,’ Warren and AOC Say

In letters between Amazon and Elizabeth Warren obtained by Motherboard, the Senator reprimanded Amazon for responses to questions about a deadly Amazon facility collapse.
Lauren Kaori Gurley
5.11.22
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People Are Using Job Listings to Sabotage Companies That Mistreat Their Workers

Online job listings have evolved into a powerful tool that labor activists are using to expose the efforts of anti-union companies. 
Lauren Kaori Gurley
5.11.22
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Amazon Just Fired 2 Union Organizers Who Helped Win Amazon’s First Union

“I believe it was retaliatory. Amazon knows that I’m making national headlines."
Lauren Kaori Gurley
5.9.22
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