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Starbucks/Amazon combo workers file for union election, this week in the war on workers [1]
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Date: 2022-10-29
● At the third Trader Joe’s store to vote on unionizing, the workers voted no, with 94 opposed and 66 in favor.
● Major fast food companies have formed a front group called "Save Local Restaurants" and are gathering signatures to try to overturn California’s new law that increases the fast food minimum wage and gives workers a role in setting industry standards.
● Jeff Schuhrke reports on Why Starbucks cares so much about a little pin. It’s a suicide awareness pin, by the way.
● "Work-life balance is at the center of this dispute": Alabama Westrock paper mill workers fight on, Jacob Morrison reports.
● Dining hall workers at Pomona College planned a two-day strike as the college refuses to increase their wages to a livable level.
● Victory on overtime for New York farmworkers, the Economic Policy Institute writes, with workers in line for an additional $34 to $95 per week.
● Starbucks is still refusing to bargain with its workers:
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