Robert ReichMar 2, 2023

Starbucks fired 150 pro-union baristas and closed a dozen unionized shops.

Chipotle shuttered a store in Maine when workers petitioned for a union.

Amazon spent millions to beat back union organizing campaigns at its warehouses.

Common theme: they're terrified of worker power.

Show threadRobert ReichMar 2, 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/26/amazon-trader-joes-starbucks-anti-union-measures
‘Old-school union busting’: how US corporations are quashing the new wave of organizing

Victories at several companies energized organizers, but hostile corporations – and an impotent labor board – stymie negotiations

The Guardian
Show threadsukima 
@rbreich Here's a crazy idea: corporations could treat people like humans instead of disposable toilet bricks, then no one would need to unionize. They did it to themselves!
Mar 2, 2023 at 11:35pmWeb
Show threadDanMar 3, 2023

@sukima @rbreich but think of the shareholders

(for the avoidance of doubt, this is sarcasm/facetiousness)

Show threadMoffin'toshMar 3, 2023
@sukima @rbreich They can't in the long run.
See the falling rate of profit