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US retail and food service industry complains of lack of workers The US retail and food service industry is dealing with a severe labor shortage. According to Landed, a restaurant hiring app, the industry faces a deficit of 3.4 million jobs, a number which is expected to grow. One poll found more than 31 percent of restaurant company leaders have been forced to close stores because of a lack of workers. An additional 44 percent of respondents stated they were still considering whether to close. Retail CEOs and Republican politicians have argued that the $300 weekly federal unemployment benefi...

Left Voice on the RWDSU debacle at Amazon: A lawyers’ brief for union executives After a lengthy campaign, backed by President Biden and substantial sections of the political establishment and corporate media, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) received only 738 votes in favor, or less than 13 percent of the 5,800 workers at the Bessemer, Alabama, Amazon warehouse. The humiliating rejection of the RWDSU by Amazon workers has produced a wave of rationalizations and apologetics from the pseudo-left attorneys for the RWDSU executives. The infamous tent on the last day of ...

© Getty Images Perhaps nothing better demonstrates left wing activists and politicians’ growing disconnect with working Americans than their paternalistic view that employees want and need unions to represent them in the workplace. This perspective was undermined once again last week by Amazon warehouse employees in Alabama who overwhelmingly voted against organizing under the Retail Workers and Department Store Union. The more than 5,800 workers there were subject to a barrage of pro-union messages from politicians, including President Biden, the media, and celebrities, who billed the eff...

Print this article It wasn’t even close. The final count was 1,798 against and 738 for, 71% to 29%. The election in question was held over whether the employees at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, wanted to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union — not, as the Washington Post (owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos) put it, a contest of “Big Tech vs. its workers.” The workers weren’t one of the adversaries. They were the judges. And the overwhelming majority of them, despite biased media coverage and blatant nudges from President Joe Biden, chose again...

Shopworkers should be given the same protection as other frontline workers as part of the newly-unveiled Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, the