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November 15, 2022
News & Commentary

Iman Masmoudi

The inner-workings of the Apple retail unionizing campaign are laid out in a recent report and the Eleventh circuit revives a class action lawsuit against Burger King for antitrust violations.

November 3, 2022
News & Commentary

Miriam Shestack

DOL finds OSHA COVID-19 enforcement lacking; Apple denies benefits to union store workers; reform movement in the UFCW; workers advocate for a just transition at COP27

October 16, 2022
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

Apple retail employees in OKC unionize; Amazon union vote near Albany underway; WaPo profiles NLRB GC Abruzzo

October 13, 2022
News & Commentary

Anita Alem

Amazon workers stage walk-out; NLRB judge: Starbucks violated labor law (again); Home Depot workers to vote in union election; NLRB judge lays groundwork for potential Joy Silk revival

October 5, 2022
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

In today’s news and commentary, Amazon suspends dozens of ALU members, the NLRB brings complaints against Apple and Exxon, and the Missouri supreme court upholds a statute intended to undermine public sector unions. The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) revealed this morning that at least fifty of its members at the organized Amazon facility in Staten Island have been suspended […]

June 19, 2022
News & Commentary

Swap Agrawal

In this weekend’s news and commentary, Apple workers in Maryland became the first retail employees at the tech company to unionize; the Mexican Workers’ League submitted a USMCA Rapid Response petition against VU manufacturing due to the company’s unlawful efforts to impose a company-friendly union; and thousands of labor unionists and activists gathered in Chicago […]

June 6, 2022
News & Commentary

Nicholas Anway

In today’s news & commentary, labor market gains remain uneven across sectors and subgroups, and Apple Store employees in Maryland organize ahead of a June 15th union election. On June 6, Axios reported that the pandemic has significantly changed the composition of the U.S. labor market. Although “roughly 96% of jobs lost during the pandemic […]

May 29, 2022
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

A Sunday New York Times article details the ongoing efforts to unionize Apple store locations throughout the country and the increasingly drastic– but unfortunately predictable – tactics the company has adopted to forestall the fledgling nationwide campaigns. “Two decades after redefining retail with sleek architecture and concierge tech support,” the Times writes, “Apple is being […]

May 15, 2022
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

On Saturday, workers at a Trader Joe’s in Hadley, Massachusetts – a small rural town in the western region of the state – joined the growing legion of service workers organizing in highly visible retailers and industries by announcing their intent to form a union in an open letter to Dan Bane, the CEO of […]

May 13, 2022
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

In today’s news and commentary, an anti-union Apple memo leak; union election filings at a Target store in Virginia; a piece by Steven Greenhouse calling on national labor unions to poor resources into supporting self-organized union efforts; and the UC Berkeley Labor Center’s Low-Wage Work in California Data Explorer. An anti-union memo from Apple was […]

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