By Noam Scheiber Source: The New York Times Following a recent trend of service workers organizing at companies like Starbucks, Apple and Amazon, employees at a Trader Joe’s in Hadley, Mass., voted to unionize on Thursday. It is the only one of the company’s more than 500 stores with a [...]
By Dave Jamieson Source: HuffPost President Joe Biden acknowledged the historic labor victory at Amazon during a speech to union members and leaders on Wednesday, making what appeared to be a call to continue organizing the world’s largest online retailer. Biden was speaking to a conference of North America’s Building [...]
By Sharon Zhang Source: Truthout.org For the first time in Starbucks workers’ union campaign, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has found that the company has taken illegal moves in its fight against the union, including retaliation against workers for organizing in Phoenix, Arizona. In response to a petition filed [...]
By Lauren Rosenblatt Source: The Seattle Times The push to unionize Amazon has come to Seattle — but it won’t play out in the same way as other union drives. Instead of warehouse workers, it’s focused on those Amazon employees serving lunches and stocking grocery shelves. Instead of an organizing [...]