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More than 380 Starbucks locations and 9,000 employees across the country have unionized since a store in Buffalo became the coffee giant’s first branch to join Starbucks Workers United in December …
The spacious second-floor conference room at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, was an unlikely place for labor and management to face off, but there they were: eight Trader Joe’s workers at one row of tables, a Trader Joe’s official and two lawyers for the company at another. On the walls hung student paintings of brilliant, swirling flowers. They did little to cheer the atmosphere.Three months earlier, in July 2022, employees at a Trader Joe’s in Hadley, four miles from Smith, had vo
American empire pushes freedom down a corrosive path—but that path is not the only one.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that 199,000 jobs were added in November, but the jobs report signals troubling trends for women.