The workers recently staged a walkout over understaffing and safety concerns.
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“Everybody’s better off” with a union, the president said.
The win comes as Amazon and Starbucks workers push for unions — and the companies are fighting back.
Administrators are still using COVID to justify the neoliberal gutting of higher education. Let’s resist together.
Labor organizer Pasquale “Uncle Pat” Cioffi was fired days before a hearing Amazon wanted blocked from public viewing.
The union already has the support of over half of the employees at the store, one union organizer said.
Workers say Starbucks management is retaliating against union efforts by moving to shut down a shop in Ithaca, New York.
The campaign’s remarkable victory in Greenville, South Carolina, might just be a harbinger of things to come.
Residents are demanding better working conditions, wages and benefits.
Towns that rely on a system that criminalizes and cages human beings need to rethink how their economies are organized.