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![Pat Cioffi and Christian Smalls speak in front of the Amazon the LDJ-5 warehouse on Staten Island in New York on April 24, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/2022_0610-amazon-union-400x300.jpg)
Amazon Labor Union Organizer Fired From Warehouse Amid Union-Busting Campaign
Labor organizer Pasquale “Uncle Pat” Cioffi was fired days before a hearing Amazon wanted blocked from public viewing.
![President Donald Trump speaks to supporters from The Ellipse near the White House on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/2022_0608-trader-joes-400x300.jpg)
Trader Joe’s Workers in Massachusetts File to Form Union as Company Fights Back
The union already has the support of over half of the employees at the store, one union organizer said.
![A Starbucks logo hangs in the window of one of the chain's coffee shops in the Loop on January 4, 2022, in Chicago, Illinois.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/2022_0608-starbucks-400x300.jpg)
Ithaca Starbucks Workers Call for Local Boycott After Company Closes Union Store
The company announced last week that it will soon be closing a unionized store in Ithaca, New York.
![Picket signs are left for people to grab during the 'Fight Starbucks' Union Busting' rally and march in Seattle, Washington, on April 23, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/2022_0606-starbucks-signs-400x300.jpg)
Workers Fight Back as Starbucks Moves to Close Unionized Shop
Workers say Starbucks management is retaliating against union efforts by moving to shut down a shop in Ithaca, New York.
![A woman walks by a starbucks location](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/05/2022_0531-starbucks-400x300.jpg)
Starbucks Union Scores First Unanimous Win in the South
The store was the first in the South to vote unanimously in favor of unionizing, according to Starbucks Workers United.
![A Starbucks store in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, on February 10, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/05/GettyImages-1238390145-400x300.jpg)
Starbucks Workers Have Now Unionized 100 Stores
Starbucks Workers United “has won an astounding 88 [percent] of elections decided so far,” the collective tweeted.
![An outside view of a Starbucks in New York City on March 8, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/05/GettyImages-1383242437-400x300.jpg)
Starbucks Workers United Wins in US’s Most Anti-Union City
The campaign’s remarkable victory in Greenville, South Carolina, might just be a harbinger of things to come.
![Members of the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West hold a picket line on day one of a weeklong planned strike at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, on May 9, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/05/2022_0527-health-care-workers-400x300.jpg)
Burned Out by COVID and 80-Hour Workweeks, Resident Physicians Are Unionizing
Residents are demanding better working conditions, wages and benefits.
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Graduate Student Workers Across the Country Are Helping Each Other Unionize
The interconnectedness of the movement across far-flung campuses is fueling a cascade of wins in unionization campaigns.
![Amazon and union workers attend rally outside the company building on April 24, 2022, in the Staten Island borough of New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/05/2022_0520-amazon-unions-400x300.jpg)
Labor Officials Find Amazon Threatened Pro-Union Workers With Wage Cuts
NLRB officials found the company threatened workers in captive audience meetings that they would have their wages cut.