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August 16, 2023
News & Commentary

Jacqueline Rayfield

UAW moves for strike votes at three Detroit automakers, and Trader Joe’s workers protest retaliation against organizers.

August 1, 2023
News & Commentary

John Fry

Teamsters locals endorse the union's tentative agreement with UPS; Trader Joe's sues its workers' union for trademark infringement; a GOP probe into teachers unions flounders; and the DOL struggles to hire enough investigators.

May 25, 2023
News & Commentary

Michelle Berger

New York Times reporting covers the corporate anti-union campaigns; American Airlines pilots reach a preliminary agreement on a new contract; and the WGA strike continues.

April 20, 2023
News & Commentary

Maddie Chang

Amazon cannot compel arbitration for a privacy class action claim; more than 150,000 federal workers in Canada go on strike; and workers at Trader Joe’s stores in New York City and Oakland begin union votes.

March 23, 2023
News & Commentary

Maddie Chang

Trader Joe's workers in Oakland file a petition to form a union; a Kenyan court temporarily blocks Meta contractor’s mass layoff of content moderators; and Starbucks workers at more than 100 stores walkout ahead of shareholders’ meeting.

November 2, 2022
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

Target wins 9th Cir. appeal in overtime class action; yet another NLRB complaint against Starbucks; union voting in a Philadelphia Home Depot starts today; Trader Joe's to being negotiating CBA

August 14, 2022
News & Commentary

Swap Agrawal

In this weekend’s news and commentary, a Trader Joe’s in Minneapolis became the second unionized store location in the US, and a union ordered a walkout at an Amazon distribution center in Bar Hersfeld, Germany. On August 12, Trader Joe’s employees at a store in Minneapolis voted 55 to 5 to unionize with Trader Joe’s […]

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 […]

July 6, 2020
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

Employers that have prevented employees from wearing Black Lives Matter masks have been facing protest and criticism. Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Taco Bell, Starbucks, and others have faced boycotts for disciplining employees wearing the masks or other Black Lives Matter clothing or for enforcing dress code policies preventing such clothing. A Costco employee in Chicago […]

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