Weekly Labor Updates

LABOR UPDATES

• 500 employees are organizing with the UFCW in Seattle for better
  compensation, flexibility, transparency, and Opportunity at Card Kingdom
• NEWS: A worker says Nintendo of America violated their right to organize and has filed a National Labor Relations Board complaint against them and a hiring firm Nintendo had largely avoided the industry’s labor scandals, but an investigation will follow
• BREAKING: The first Apple store in the United States has filed for a union election with the Communications Workers of America. The Atlanta store could be the first of Apple’s 272 brick-and-mortar stores to unionize.
• Strippers are currently out on strike dressed in OSHA violations.
• NEW: 14 pharmacists at Walgreens stores across the SF bay area have voted 9-4 in favor of joining the UFCW
• 35 non-profit workers at a homeless shelter in Ann Arbor are unionizing with the IWW as the Delonis Workers United. Their management has declined voluntary recognition.
• 210 bus drivers and other transportation workers in Riverside CA are unionizing with the ATU
• 13 front of house workers at Crux Fermentation Project, a brew-pub in Bend, OR are unionizing with what appears to be an independent union named “Crux Front of the House Employees Union.”
• Corporate campaigns continue against Sysco, Republic, Amazon, HCA,
  Starbucks, Ryder and more. Our research team has found many more.