An Amazon warehouse in a Birmingham, AL suburb has become the center of a battle between the American labor movement and corporate management. 6,000 employees, many of them part-time, will decide whether the Bessemer warehouse will be come Amazon’s first labor union in the United States. The National Labors Relations Board has decided that ballots…
The popular grocery chain, Trader Joe’s, is giving its workers an incentive to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Based in California, which has become one of the COVID hotspots, the company is giving workers two hours pay to get vaccinated. The company joins other public-facing companies, like Instacart and Dollar General, in providing pay for employees…
Dollar General made headlines as the first retail chain to pay employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine. It will compensate workers with four hours of pay. The grocery delivery service, Instacart, has become the second major company to do so. It will pay workers $25 to get the vaccine. The program begins February 1st for…
Dollar General is retail’s first to pay workers to get the COVID-19 vaccine. And it’s paying them four hours worth of wages to do so. “We do not want our employees to have to choose between receiving a vaccine or coming to work, so we are working to remove barriers (e.g., travel time, mileage, child…
Whole Foods, which is owned by the $1.5 trillion dollar Amazon, apparently has no patience for fifteen minute employee breaks. The company has reduced the breaks by a third to ten minutes. The chain’s group of employees known as the Whole Worker Union tweeted, “Whole Foods just reduced their paid break time from 15 minutes…
Republicans have joined Democrats in impeaching the president a second time. The New York Times reports: “The House on Wednesday impeached President Trump for inciting a violent insurrection against the United States government, as 10 members of the president’s party joined Democrats to charge him with high crimes and misdemeanors for an unprecedented second time.…
Rick Snyder, who is infamous for signing Michigan’s “right to work” bill into law, is reportedly looking at charges for his involvement in the Flint water scandal. The Associated Press broke the news via a one-sentence story, stating: “The AP has learned ex-Michigan Gov. Snyder and others have been told they’re being charged in Flint…
Kroger, the world’s largest grocery chain, won’t require its workers to get the COVID-19 vaccine. With 2,800 stores, Kroger workers interact with 11 million customers daily. Regardless, according to senior vice president, Tim Massa, the company is only “encouraging shoppers and associates to get vaccinated.” The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that “The union representing Kroger’s associates,…
The president issued a warning – or threat? – to those working to impeach him. NBC News reports: “In his comments before departing for Texas on Tuesday, [President Donald] Trump again used the type of language that critics say fueled the mob, calling the planned impeachment by the Democratic-led House ‘really a continuation of the…
We at Labor 411 have spent years working to raise awareness so that consumers can spend their shopping dollars wisely. Whether it’s with American-made products, union-made goods, and/or companies that treat their workers fairly, we strive empower to shoppers to vote with their wallets at the cash register. So we are excited to learn that…
