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![Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a rally at the Stifel Theater in downtown St.Louis, Missouri, on March 9, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/04/2022_0421-bernie-sanders-r-400x300.jpg)
Sanders Is Traveling to Rally With Amazon and Starbucks Workers This Weekend
Sanders is going to New York and Virginia to meet with the workers waging historic union campaigns.
![A sign with the logo of an Apple store is pictured on March 5, 2022, in Madrid, Spain.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/04/2022_0421-apple--400x300.jpg)
First Apple Store Files for Union With at Least 6 Other Campaigns Underway
About 70 percent of the workers at the Atlanta store signed union cards for their petition.
![A worker stands inside Starbucks in midtown on May 20, 2020, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/04/2022_0419-starbucks-w-400x300.jpg)
Data Reveals 63 Percent of Hourly Starbucks Workers Make Under $15 an Hour
Though Starbucks claims to be progressive, most of its workers make less than a living wage in most states.
![People hold signs while protesting in front of Starbucks on April 14, 2022, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/04/2022_0415-starbucks-strike-400x300.jpg)
Starbucks Workers Strike to Protest the Company’s Harsh Union Busting
Coast to coast, workers began protesting on Friday against the company’s recent anti-union moves.
![Christian Smalls, center, speaks before attendees at an Amazon Labor Union event in New York City on March 11, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/04/2022_0411-amazon-union-400x300.jpg)
Workers at Over 100 Facilities Have Contacted Amazon Union in Just 1 Week
If Amazon Labor Union’s count is accurate, that represents about 10 percent of the company’s facilities.
![A pro-union poster is seen on a lamp pole outside Starbucks' Broadway and Denny location in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood on March 23, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/04/2022_0411-starbucks-union-400x300.jpg)
Labor Officials Find Starbucks Illegally Fired 7 Union Organizers in Memphis
The “Memphis Seven,” terminated in February, consisted of nearly the entire organizing committee at their store.
![Picket signs are pictured at a rally in support of workers of two Seattle Starbucks locations that announced plans to unionize, during an evening rally at Cal Anderson Park in Seattle, Washington, on January 25, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/04/2022_0408-starbucks-union-400x300.jpg)
Starbucks Workers Have Filed to Unionize 200 Stores
Workers have doubled the number of successfully unionized stores from 6 to 13 over the past few weeks.
![Union organizer Christian Smalls (left) celebrates with Amazon workers following the April 1, 2022, vote for the unionization of the Amazon Staten Island warehouse in New York.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/04/2022_0407-amazon-union-400x300.jpg)
Amazon Is Relentless But It Isn’t Invincible: 5 Lessons From the Union Victory
The future of the labor movement may be in worker-led self-organization, as Amazon and Starbucks victories have shown.
![Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a rally in San Jose, California, on March 1, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/04/2022_0405-bernie-sanders-400x300.jpg)
Bernie Sanders Hails Growing Union Movement as an Antidote to Oligarchy
Recent union victories at Amazon and Starbucks signal hope for the future, Sanders said in a speech on the House floor.
![A view of the Seattle's Space Needle, in front of a Starbucks coffee sign, on September 30, 2006.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/03/2022_0323-starbucks-space-needle-400x300.jpg)
Starbucks Workers Unanimously Vote to Form Union in Seattle, Company’s Hometown
The Broadway and Denny store is located in incoming CEO Howard Schultz’s home district.