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Michael Sainato
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Michael Sainato
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Labor Reporter @GuardianUS
An Amazon warehouse worker's 'thank you' bag for working Prime Big Deal Days earlier this month
- A Kellogg's worker on strike last night holding down the picket line through torrential rain in Omaha, Nebraska via @Kelloggstrike Facebook page
- Some Kellogg's workers are asking the public to stop buying Kellogg's products as workers have been on strike for two months and the company is working to replace them rather than negotiate a fair contract. This is a beautiful post from a workers' wife on the strike
- Likely the biggest union battle in the country right now, 41,000 union members fighting Disney's poverty wages as Disney withholds their bonuses and its barely getting covered in the media
- Seven major labor unions, the UAW, AFA, SEIU, NEA, APWU, UE, and IUPAT have called on the Biden Administration to halt all military aid to Israel
- Amazon workers at DEN4 in Colorado say an elderly worker died on the job on 12/28 after returning from a medical leave and instead of shutting down the area, Amazon managers stacked boxes around the body until a coroner could arrive so they could keep workers working through it
- Whole Foods, Amazon, Target, and Instacart workers are striking on May 1st
- Whole Foods is giving workers a new work uniform shirt with "hero" on the front and "hardcore" on the back as hundreds of workers have gotten sick and at least 2 have died from coronavirus for just a $2 an hr wage increase
- Starbucks is closing down a store in Ithaca, NY with a one week notice after the workers voted to unionize
- Dogs love picket lines. John Deere workers on strike in Moline, IL
- A Walmart worker on how they're being treated during the pandemic. "We aren't heroes. We're hostages."
- Amazon is using the historically infamous Pinkerton security to union bust and surveill workers teenvogue.com/story/who-were…
