August 22: Temp workers at Microsoft supplier sign first contract amid layoffs
Nat Levy - Geekwire.com
August 20: Microsoft temps gain first contract
Matt Day - The Seattle Times
January 28: Silicon's Valley's poorest workers tell government: "we can't live like this".
Julia Carrie Wong - The Guardian and Business Insider
January 20: Are you a joint employer? and guidance about joint employment
David Weil - Blog of the Department of Labor
2016
December 5: The shared economy is further hurting workers rights
Steven Hill - Seattle Times
November 24: The tech elite ignores inequality at its peril
Mat McAlister The Guardian
November 15: A baby dies at day care and a mother asks why she had to leave him so soon
Amber Scorah - New York Times
November 11: Zillow announces expanded paid maternity and parental leave as new benefits for 2016
Molly Brown - Geekwire
November 5: The US deplorable parental leave policies are hurting our kid's future
Susan Douglas - In These Times
November 4: Stressed, tired, rushed: a portrait of the modern family
Claire Cain-Miller - The New York Times
November 2: Amazon increases paid leave for new parents
Rachel Lerman - Seattle Times
October 23: Microsoft declines union's invitation to the bargaining table
Matt Day - Seattle Times
October 21: Microsoft 2015 Citizenship report
Brad Smith - Microsoft Blog
October 19: Loss of middle income jobs seen as threat to region's competitiveness
Janet Tu - Seattle Times
October 19: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gets $18.3M in annual compensation
Todd Bishop - Geekwire.com
October 8: Why 16 week paid parental leave policies are revolutionary for US workers
Jane Waldfogel - Washington Post
October 6: The family leave plan for Washington DC: 16 weeks of paid leave
Laura Bliss - City Lab (Atlantic Magazine)
October 6: Tackling the resistance to paid leave
Hifra Broznick, Hillary Leone -Huffington Post
October 5: Who is responsible for managing work-life balance?
Jacob Demmitt - Geekwire
October 2: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announces 52 weeks paid parental leave
Steven Rice - LinkedIn
October 2: Worker's rights are civil rights
Wade Henderson - DOL Blog
September 30: Faith, Justice and Worker Voice
Sung Yeon Choimorrow - DOL Blog
September 25: Marco Rubio proposes tax break to employers who give paid family leave (at least 4 weeks)
AP - The Guardian
September 20: Are the bosses too cushioned to care?
Froma Harrop - Seattle Times
September 20: Toxic Work World
Anne-Marie Slaughter - New York Times
September 6: Year old tech union workers yet to win contract
Matt Day - Seattle Times
August 29: Low pay, long pricey commute often go hand in hand
Janet I Tu - Seattle Times
August 27: Labor Board ruling eases way for fast food union efforts
Noam Scheiber -Stephanie Strom - New York Times
August 21: Parental leave isn't just about parents
Melinda Gates - The Huffington Post
August 13: Microsoft tries to reassure contractors about rule changes
Matt Day - Seattle Times
August 13: Microsoft policy changes for US suppliers: a letter from the CPO
Chief Procurement Officer, Mike Simms - Microsoft Blog
August 6: Why parental leave remains a privilege
Vahauni Vara - The New Yorker
August 5: The employee experience at Microsoft: aligning benefits to our culture
Kathleen Hogan - Microsoft Official blog
July 27: Sick and tired: new BLS data highlights the need for paid leave
DOL Secretary Tom Perez - DOL Blog
July 20: Army of Microsoft contract workers start having paid time off
Jacob Demmitt - Geekwire.com
July 18: Here is what 6 businesses have to say about paid leave
Kavita Raval - DOL blog
July 18: Tech staffing start-up thinks it's time for temporary workers to know the score
Matt Day - Seattle Times
July 18: Contractors numbers a bit fuzzy
Matt Day - Seattle Times
July 11: Paid leave shows how compassionate my company is toward working parents like me
U-Care employee Shereka Campbell - DOL Blog
June 25: Who's speaking up for the American worker?
Beth Macy - New York Times
June 23: This tech CEO and his employees only work 4 days a week
Richard Feloni - Business Insider (+ Wash Post and Atlantic)
July 11: Paid parental leave shows how compassionate my company is toward working parents like me
U-Care employee - DOL Blog
June 22: New momentum on paid leave in business and politics
Claire Cain Miller - New York Times
June 16: Shared security, shared growth
Nick Hanauer & David Rolf in Democracy #32 Summer 2015
June 15: What do paid leave and a box of kittens have in common
Tom Perez DOL Secretary - DOL Blog
June 15: How Josh Levs got CNN to give paid time off to new dads
Brigid Schulte - Inspired Life blog (for the Washington Post)
June 13: Nadella's interview
Matt Day - Seattle Times (see the last question)
June 10: Virgin's paid leave policy for 0.2% of employees
Danielle Paquette - Washington Post
June 10: Virgin's new paternity leave
Brad Tuttle - Time.com
June 8: Lack of paid leave compounds challenges for low wage workers (DOL Blog)
June 5: Paid leave, from progressive pipe dream to political reality
Lauren Sandler - New Republic (June issue)
June 1: Save our vacation (Who killed our summer vacation?)
Jack Dickey - Time Magazine
May 17: Image says it all for Microsoft temps (Seattle Times)
May 13: Facebook has a new answer to income inequality
Lydia DePillis - Wonkblog - Washington Post
May 12: FaceBook's COO announces improved benefits for contractor's employees
May 10: Last week tonight with John Oliver: Paid Family Leave (for Mother's Day)
May 7: Lionbridge reports first quarter results with record revenue
May 7: New generous paid parental leaves, in Jena McGregor Washington Post's blog
May 5: Millenials want work-life balance. Their bosses don't get why
Brigid Schulte - Washington Post
May 1st: Microsoft's contract workers are organizing, in Businessweek
April 27: King County Council: 12 weeks of paid parental and family leave
April 16: Satya Nadella at the White House as Champion of Change
April 14: Seattle Tech CEO is increasing pay for every employee to a minimum of $70.000, GeekWire.com
April 14: Anne O'Leary puts paid leave on Hillary Clinton's agenda, The New Republic
April 11: Brad Smith on GeekWireRadio
April 1st: DOL's #LeadOnLeave tour starts in Seattle (DOL Blog)
March 27: In the Washington Post an article by Brigid Schulte that was also published in their paper edition on sunday March 29, on the front page of the business section: From the ranks of Microsoft's permatemps
March 26: Seattle Times: Microsoft tells vendors to give contract workers basic benefits, by Matt Day
In the New York Times an article by Claire Cain Miller: From Microsoft, a novel way to mandate paid leave
In The Guardian, Jana Kasperkevic: Microsoft to require suppliers to provide paid leave to workers
March 26: Brad Smith's post in the official Microsoft's blog On The Issues: Paid time off matters: ensuring minimum standards for the people at our suppliers
March 24: For Lionbridge CEO, 2014 compensation is good... but flat, by Craig Douglas, Boston Business Journal
March 20: Naomi Klein reviews The Age of Aquiescence by Steve Fraser(NYT)
March 18: Can capital be just, Paul Tudor Jones at TedX
March 16: Richer and poorer, accounting for inequality, Jill Lepore (New Yorker)
March 11: Microsoft pays another $2.5 billion in dividends (Seattle Times)
March 9: L'autre moitié de Microsoft available on Kindle
March 5: Syndicats dans la silicon valley, blog de Jérôme Marin
February 27: Service Workers Rising Up in Silicon Valley, SEIU website
February 23: 4 weeks paid parental leave for Seattle city workers (Seattle Times)
February 21: Facebook's bus drivers get a union contract (USA Today)
February 19: The cost of a decline in unions, Nicholas Kristof (NYT)
February 6: The return of fair pay? (The New Yorker)
February 5: Lionbridge 2014 financial results
February 5: Share the scraps economy, Robert Reich
February 2nd: About Antiwork (Fast Company and Brian Dean)
January 30: The economic benefits of paid parental leave (NYT)
January 29: WA voters support paid sick days
January 28: WA State ranks high in income disparity gains, Seattle Times
January 22: America's family leave disgrace, in The New Yorker
January 20: Gael Tarleton introduces mandatory paid vacation bill (HB 1163)
January 15: Business Week article about maternity leave
January 15: Seattle Times article, by Matt Day, Labor issues at Microsoft prompt talk of policy changes
January 13: Boston Globe article by Katie Johnston, "Microsoft campus labmates bargain for benefits"
January 14: Why we think paid leave is a worker's right, not a privilege, by Valerie Jarrett, Senior adviser to President Obama, on LinkedIn
December 19: The new robber barons, Steve Fraser with Bill Moyers
October 13: Why inequality matters by Bill Gates
October 11: The Other Microsoft on Amazon-Kindle
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