Good things are happening! Whole Foods workers start a revolution in aisle five, corporate criminals are put on notice, anesthesia monopolists get put to bed, and Big Pharma settles big time.
A Whole Union For Whole Foods
Workers at a Whole Foods Market in Philadelphia voted on Monday to become the first unionized store in the Amazon-owned grocery chain. The labor victory is part of a growing effort to organize workers at multibillionaire Jeff Bezos’s e-commerce conglomerate to fight for better conditions at Amazon workplaces.
Employees at the Whole Foods store voted in favor of organizing with the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) in order to negotiate higher wages and better benefits. Longtime employees said benefit cuts and staffing reductions since Amazon’s $13.7 billion acquisition of the grocery chain in 2017 have led to growing discontent.
Amid organizing efforts this fall, workers accused their employer of engaging in an intimidation campaign involving monitoring employees and ramping up antiunion messaging in the store. UFCW filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board earlier this month accusing Whole Foods of firing an employee in retaliation for supporting the union drive and excluding workers at the location from raises given at nearby stores.
