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A second successful unionization vote would confirm the importance of the Amazon Labor Union's organizing model.

During the fight to form a union, a Starbucks shift manager reveals what happened at one store in central New Jersey when baristas were pulled in for individual meetings to "review benefits." By Sara Mughal Labor Notes The last time I wrote in Labor Notes, I described the captive-audience

So far, over 200 Starbucks stores across the country have filed for union elections, with 25 of the 27 that have voted so far choosing to join Starbucks Workers United. That includes the union going five for five yesterday in elections at stores in Richmond, Virginia. Starbucks has responded to the organizing campaign by firing a growing number of union supporters over

In one of the most remarkable labor organizing victories in decades, the Amazon workers in Staten Island voted to unionize with the independent Amazon Labor Union (ALU). This is the first organizing victory for any union at any of Amazon’s 110 warehouses across the USA, the nation’s second largest employer with over a million employees.

Nobody predicted this—we sure didn’t. What Amazon workers in New York pulled off was supposed to be impossible. An independent union relying almost entirely on volunteer organizers beat one of the world’s biggest and most fiercely anti-union companies. They did it with an eclectic mix of classic methods and throwing out the rulebook. Instead of organizing an underground

Spring has sprung, the birds have sung, let’s recap what this week has brung. (Please call me an ambulance.) Amazon Labor Union organizers meet with Teamsters: In a crossover episode that resulted in the photo of the week, Christian Smalls and Derrick Palmer from Amazon Labor Union met with Sean O’Brien, the new Teamsters General President, to discuss how Amazon workers can win their first contracts from the company. These two kings seem to have...

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A new law setting a minimum wage for drivers received support from unions and the big rideshare companies alike.

An inclusive cast and powerful real-life parallels take center stage in "7 Minutes," produced by Waterwell, the company co-founded by "Succession" star Arian Moayed.