Marianne Friedenthal Milkman, a former resident of Woods Hole, died August 28 in Washington, DC, her home since 2007. Ms. Milkman, 91, had Alzheimer’s disease.
After decades of declining union membership, unionization efforts are underway among workers at such companies as Apple, Google and Starbucks, as well as the nation's second-largest employer, Amazon - and the business world is stunned by their success.
Platform workers are well networked, with strengthening sinews of solidarity that transcend individual companies. It is also important to note that platform labour protest tends to emerge from the bottom up, particularly in the global South, where such protests are overwhelmingly led by informal groups of workers.