Tag: Amazon Labor Union

Why Union Efforts at Starbucks Have Spread Further Than at Amazon

Roughly six weeks after successful union votes at two Buffalo-area Starbucks stores in December, workers had filed paperwork…

NLRB Finds Merit in Union Accusations Against Amazon and Starbucks

In a sign that federal labor officials are closely scrutinizing management behavior during union campaigns, the National Labor…

Amazon Fires Senior Managers Tied to Unionized Staten Island Warehouse

After Amazon employees at a massive warehouse on Staten Island scored an upset union victory last month, it…

Amazon Union Loses Vote at Second Staten Island Warehouse

The growing labor organizing efforts at Amazon were dealt a blow on Monday when workers voted by a…

Amazon Union Success May Point to a New Labor Playbook

The critics typically acknowledge that the campaigns helped galvanize support for higher wages even if they fell short…

How Christian Smalls and Derrick Palmer Beat Amazon

In the first dark days of the pandemic, as an Amazon worker named Christian Smalls planned a small,…

Amazon Workers on Staten Island Vote to Unionize

It was a union organizing campaign that few expected to have a chance. A handful of employees at…

Union Election Is Set at Amazon’s Staten Island Warehouse

Amazon and a fledgling union of workers at its Staten Island warehouse agreed to terms of an election…