Amazon employees organize virtual walkout over firings, warehouse conditions Current and former Amazon employees are encouraging tech workers at the company to participate in a “virtual walkout” next week… Read More
Amazon starts temperature screening amid outcry over warehouse worker exposure to COVID-19 Amazon will begin screening employee temperatures at warehouses in New York and Seattle this week amid growing unrest about workers’… Read More
Tableau employees hold rally in Seattle, ask leadership to sever ties with ICE and CBP Tableau employees are adding their voices to the chorus of tech workers demanding their employers cancel contracts with the federal… Read More
Play Episode Podcast Tech workers unite for the climate, pushing Amazon and other big companies to take action Play The climate crisis surged to the top of the tech industry’s agenda this week, encouraged by a groundswell of activity… Read More
More than 900 Amazon employees plan climate change walkout in solidarity with youth activists Hundreds of Amazon employees are planning a walkout on Sept. 20 as part of the Global Climate Strike. The youth-driven… Read More
Amazon Prime Day ignites protests over working conditions, as company accuses unions of ‘conjuring misinformation’ Last year, Amazon Prime Day became the biggest shopping event in the company’s history. Fresh off that success, Amazon decided… Read More
Amazon takes heat over climate change as employee activist group swells to more than 3,500 For months, Amazon employees have been agitating for a comprehensive environmental plan at the company and on Wednesday they reached… Read More
Geek of the Week: ‘Vanishing Seattle’ creator Cynthia Brothers on why the city’s loss of ‘soul’ is about more than nostalgia In celebrating the unique places that give Seattle its soul, Cynthia Brothers has taken on the painful task of documenting disappearing… Read More
Meet Cascadia Underground: A new media collective with digital tools to rally people around issues like net neutrality A new media collective is launching in Seattle, born out of a war between progressive activists and white supremacists over… Read More
‘The oceans are rising and so are we.’ Photos, tweets, and more from Seattle’s March for Science It’s a soggy Seattle Saturday but that didn’t deter thousands of activists from marching for climate research and sound science policy… Read More
Seattle entrepreneur launches VR startup with an unusual spin after selling her startup to UW (Updated Thursday with details about UW’s acquisition of Zealyst). After selling her enterprise collaboration startup Zealyst to the University of Washington,… Read More
Seattle business leader wants to build an LGBTQ co-working innovation center In 2008, Seattle’s LGBTQ Community Center shuttered its doors, an early sign of the Capitol Hill neighborhood’s evolution from gay haven… Read More
Microsoft, Apple and other tech titans get top marks in survey of LGBT inclusion policies Major players in the tech industry earned top marks from the Human Rights Campaign for workplace policies relating to lesbian,… Read More
