Last month, workers at a Whole Foods Market in Philadelphia filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board, the first such filing since Amazon took over the grocery chain in 2017. We spoke with some of the workers about the union
Workers at Whole Foods in Philadelphia have been organizing for over a year. They've teamed up with UFCW and filed papers to unionize with the NLRB.
One in five mothers say they have experienced pregnancy discrimination in the workplace.
A once-in-a-generation convergence of technology and pressure to operate more efficiently has corporations saying many lost jobs may never return.
The memo discovery comes just a month after a report drew attention to two Amazon job listings posted in August seeking “intelligence analysts” to research “labor organizing threats against the company.”
Over a dozen workers at Whole Foods stores in four states claim in a class-action lawsuit that the company retaliated against them for wearing the movement’s apparel.
Workers at companies that offer poor pay and unsafe working conditions now know they are essential. And many expect to be treated that way.
Some Instacart and Amazon warehouse workers have walked off the job to demand greater safeguards against the coronavirus, even as both companies are speed-hiring hundreds of thousands of new workers to handle a surge in delivery orders.
With Amazon's purchase of Whole Foods, everything about the company is changing. But there remains one constant: Whole Foods still intends to be “100 percent union-free”. The hostility to worker rights that the two companies share is the future they envision for the entire hospitality industry.
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