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UNION ORGANIZING CAMPAIGNS AT 3 STARBUCKS IN BUFFALO clearly has the top execs waking up & smelling the coffee. Here’s why unionization is brewing: https://prospect.org/labor/starbucks-purveyor-of-fresh-coffee-and-stale-union-busting/?utm_source=Economic+Policy+Institute&utm_campaign=cad3737b68-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_11_17_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e7c5826c50-cad3737b68-60410201&mc_cid=cad3737b68&mc_eid=315e237ba5

THINK PRICES ARE TOO HIGH? MAYBE YOUR WAGES ARE TOO LOW. Wages sink as wealth floats to the top. Read more on Facebook

AMZN’S MATH ERROR? Looks like the Everything Store vastly under-counted almost every employee who has contracted Covid at work. By 734-fold. “Grossly incomplete information” say

THE GROUP SOCIAL SECURITY WORKS IS TAKING ITS BILLBOARD TRUCK ACROSS WEST VIRGINIA TO GET VOTERS TO CALL SENATOR JOE MANCHIN TO SUPPORT BUILD BACK

SICK OF NEWS ORG’S PICKING YOUR BLACK FRIDAY “BEST DEALS?” NY TIMES WIRECUTTER TO WIRED MAGAZINE—THEY ALL USE “AFFILIATED LINKS,” excluding small biz. The news

EMPLOYERS WHO ENTICE JOB APPLICANTS WITH “NO VAX REQUIRED” are taking a “considerable — potentially deadly — gamble… a higher risk of Covid-19 outbreaks &

ON THE EVENING OF NOV. 20th A MAN WAS SHOT IN A PHOENIX, AZ HOME DEPOT PARKING LOT. The man was in critical condition according

A NATIVE AMERICAN WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN THE PARKING LOT OF A TULSA, OK WALMART. The most dangerous place in America to shop. Man

“TARGET PAYS $15/HR. Costco pays $17. Even Amazon is paying workers $18. Not Walmart. WMT still refuses to raise wages for most workers above $12.

YAHOO/LIFE GOT PAID BY WALMART TO CREATE THIS “ARTICLE” FOR WMT PRODUCTS. Yahoo also gets a commission when you buy a product from their link.

NLRB TELLS AMZN LABOR UNION TO WITHDRAW ITS UNION PETITION because less than 30% of workers have signed. “We will resubmit as soon as we

USA TODAY USES ITS “REVIEWED” COLUMN TO EARN KICKBACKS FROM HOME DEPOT. “Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission.” Unfair to

OVER HALF OF WALMART’S DIRECT GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS come from refrigeration leaks of climate super pollutant HFCs. Walmart has agreed to use “low-impact” refrigerants by

AMZN & STARBUCKS CO-LOCATE: the order ahead comfort of a Starbucks café & lounge/workspace, plus Amazon Go’s Just Walk Out Shopping. Frictionless lunch—with only 2

CVS is closing 900 stores Read more on Facebook

OVER NEXT 5 YEARS, BUILD BACK BETTER ACT WILL SUPPORT AN AVE. PER YEAR OF 230,000 jobs in elder LTC, 27,000 jobs in dental, vision

WHO REALLY WANTS TO WORK RETAIL? “A reluctance for workers to return to stressful retail jobs with low pay & unreliable hours has led to

“23% OF FRONTLINE WORKERS FEEL THEY ARE RARELY OR NEVER LISTENED TO BY MANAGEMENT… 42% say that management sometimes hears their concerns.” That means 35%

“THIS WEEK OF THANKSGIVING WE WILL BE BRINGING AWARENESS TO SHOPPERS of the exploitative and hazardous conditions that AMZN & Whole Foods employees undergo.” Amazon

CONGRESS SHOULD TRANSFER $98 M FROM AN OBSOLETE NUCLEAR BOMB DEVICE & transfer the funds into worldwide distribution of covid vaccine. Shots Not Bombs. Divest

CBS “ESSENTIALS,”LIKE MOST BIG MEDIA, PROMOTES BIG RETAIL PRODUCTS—FOR A KICKBACK. We used to call this “payola.” WMT deals get plugged, CBS gets “commissions,” small

KEN LANGONE, ONE OF THE ORIGINAL HOME DEPOT INVESTORS, says he’s “going to have one of the biggest fundraisers I’ve ever had” for Senator Joe

JEFF BEZOS FLEW A PRIVATE JET TO COP26 “to make an announcement about a $1 B donation to plant trees — while across the Atlantic,

“AMZN’S CARBON FOOTPRINT is now larger than 2/3 of all countries in the world. In 2020 alone, Amazon’s emissions grew by 19% to total >

THE TECH MEDIA LAUDS WMT for building “automated fulfillment centers” that they don’t want to call a 1.5 M sf warehouse. Just huge sprawl to

NAT. RETAIL FED. SUES OSHA OVER ITS ORDER requiring companies with 100 or > workers to “implement a COVID vax policy by Jan.4. NRF calls

GOOGLE LOSES APPEAL OF $2.8 B FINE by EUROPEAN UNION for “giving preferential treatment to its own price-comparison shopping service over rival services.” But Google

AMZN’S “BREAKNECK EXPANSION… is opening new warehouses in the U.S. at the rate of one per day—the company is dragging down wages for warehouse workers

AMZN AIRS HOLIDAY AD ON “KINDNESS,” but unfortunately it’s not about how the company treats its workers. Not even a real story of kindness. Read

NY TIMES USES ITS “WIRECUTTER”COLUMN TO PROMOTE BLACK FRIDAY DEALS AT BIG RETAILERS LIKE WMT, AMZN, TARGET. NY TIMES GETS COMMISSIONS, small retailers get ignored.