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View ArticleJess Kutch
Jess spends her days (and nights) thinking about how people can improve their jobs and workplaces through technology, social media and smart campaigning tactics. Before launching Coworker.org, Jess...
View ArticleTim Newman
Tim deploys his ninja-like campaign skills in service of worker-led petitions. Before joining Coworker.org, Tim served as a Deputy Campaign Director at Change.org where he supported site users to run...
View ArticleMichelle Miller
Michelle Miller directs our strategic and operational planning, organizational partnerships, fundraising, business development and legal strategy. She is a former fellow at Georgetown University’s...
View ArticleHOW TO CITIZEN: Making Work Work for Everyone (Podcast)
“Michelle Miller of CoWorker.org reimagines how we can be agents of our economy instead of objects in the economy.” The post HOW TO CITIZEN: Making Work Work for Everyone (Podcast) appeared first on...
View ArticleNPR: Power Of The Petition: Nonprofit Helps Front-Line Workers Fight For...
“‘It’s incredibly important for people to experience wins, to experience their own power,’ Kutch said. She says even small victories can be empowering, and they give workers the experience they need to...
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Data Shows Shipt’s “Black-Box” Algorithm Reduces Pay of 40% of Workers
BACK TO BLOG Data Shows Shipt’s “Black-Box” Algorithm Reduces Pay of 40% of Workers OCTOBER 15, 2020 | COWORKER.ORG Through collective pay transparency, workers are exposing pay disparities and...
View ArticleGIZMODO: Shipt’s ‘Effort-Based’ Model Is Cutting Pay for 40% of Workers,...
“Drew Ambrogi, a senior campaigns strategist at Coworker who worked on the new study, said that pay cuts—even if they’re only impacting fewer than half of all workers—are unacceptable.” The post...
View ArticleTHE HILL: Shipt workers organize most targeted protest yet over new pay model
“‘The reason why we chose to organize is we believe that it’s time for them to see the actual visual effects of shoppers that are hurting because of the pay structure change,’ Willy Solis, an organizer...
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What private equity and bankruptcy means for workers
BACK TO BLOG What private equity and bankruptcy means for workers NOVEMBER 10, 2020 | COWORKER.ORG Is your employer backed by private equity or facing bankruptcy? From potential job losses to lower...
View ArticleBUSINESS INSIDER: Starbucks reveals plans for $15 minimum wage across...
“Starbucks workers have been pushing for a $15 minimum wage, with nearly 10,000 people signing a CoWorker.org petition on the topic.” The post BUSINESS INSIDER: Starbucks reveals plans for $15 minimum...
View ArticleQUARTZ: Digital tools are helping employees mobilize the workforce
The post QUARTZ: Digital tools are helping employees mobilize the workforce appeared first on Coworker.
View ArticleUSA TODAY: Starbucks pauses ‘Happy Hour’ promotions due to crowd concerns...
“More than 5,400 Starbucks employees signed a petition on Coworker.org asking Starbucks to stop the Happy Hour events and cancel them for the remainder of 2020.” The post USA TODAY: Starbucks pauses...
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Working While Black: The Past, Present and Future of Black Labor
BACK TO BLOG Working While Black: The Past, Present and Future of Black Labor MARCH 9, 2021 | COWORKER.ORG The challenges Black people face in the workplace today are not new, they are rooted in a...
View ArticleTHE GUARDIAN: ‘In tears before I even logged in’: Cigna call center workers...
“Several months ago, workers started an online petition demanding Cigna improve working conditions, including lifting a pay raise freeze, stopping constant harassment of workers to meet production...
View ArticleNYT: In a ‘Workers Economy,’ Who Really Holds the Cards?
“Workers are fed up and restaurants are desperate. We’re scarce, we have higher standards and that gives us more power than we’ve had before.” The post NYT: In a ‘Workers Economy,’ Who Really Holds the...
View ArticleSHAREABLE: The Solidarity Fund is helping labor organizers take on Big Tech
“Going up against the likes of Lyft, Amazon, Google, and Apple is, at times, an uphill battle. But, one stipend, one voice, and one protest at a time, the Solidarity Fund is helping workers win the...
View ArticleCOMPUTER WORLD: Rise in employee monitoring prompts calls for new rules to...
“The growing range of tools and techniques used for monitoring prompted Coworker.org, a non-profit worker rights group in the US, to [create a] database of the hundreds of products used to manage and...
View ArticleRESTAURANT DIVE: Report: 54% of Topgolf employees report being sexually harassed
“Survivors Know has created a petition on coworker.org calling for an end to what it calls Topgolf’s ‘abuses against workers/associates.’ Among some of its demands include resources to change the...
View ArticleCAPITAL & MAIN: Inside the Secretive World of Union Busting: How Employers...
“Coworker.org, a labor research nonprofit, recently compiled a database of over 550 of these commercially available products, which it dubs ‘little tech,’ and published a study outlining potential...
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