Workers at companies like Amazon — corporate behemoths long resistant to unions — have started to successfully organize. Workers at Starbucks have organized roughly 100 stores from coast to coast since last fall. Yet the labor movement is showing more muscle now than it has in years. On June 14, workers from the Amazon, REI and Starbucks unions will take part in a HuffPost panel discussion called “A New Labor Movement,” moderated by our labor reporter, Dave Jamieson. Speakers will include Chris Smalls, president of the Amazon Labor Union; Steve Buckley, REI worker and member of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union; and Reese Mercado, Starbucks worker and member of Starbucks Workers United.

Source: Huffington Post June 01, 2022 19:35 UTC