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CEO Ev Williams at the headquarters of Medium in San Francisco.Eric Risberg / Associated Press 2018
Employees at the San Francisco-based digital publishing site Medium have voted down a proposal on unionization by a one-vote margin that would have required company management to recognize the group.
On Friday the group lobbying for union representation failed to reach the threshold for voluntary recognition agreed on with management, winning 52% of votes but not enough to allow it to bargain with the company, according to a statement from the union.
“In a recent anonymous online election conducted by a neutral third party, the Communications Workers of America did not achieve the agreed-upon majority needed for a union to be recognized at Medium,” a Medium spokesperson said in an email.
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Feb. 21, 2021
Noam Bardin, the outgoing CEO of Waze, sparked massive debate over the weekend about corporate culture in Silicon Valley after publishing a post ripping into Google and what he termed the stifling and entitled culture at the company.
Google perks, including free meals, stock-based compensation and liberal leave policies crept into Waze and eroded its “startup magic,” he lamented. I was invited to speak on many different Google panels and events and very quickly, I began racking up my HR complaints. I used a four letter word, my analogy was not PC, my language was not PG,” he writes.
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The events of this week perfectly encapsulate the variety of worker and workplace-related struggles happening in the tech industry. Google settled some discrimination allegations with the Department of Labor, Amazon agreed to settle a complaint with the FTC over stolen tips from Flex workers and the Alphabet Workers Union filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board. It was quite the week so let’s get to it.