{"id":5993,"date":"2022-06-14T07:36:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T05:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/14\/why-is-starbucks-union-drive-speeding-ahead-while-amazons-founders\/"},"modified":"2022-06-14T07:36:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T05:36:01","slug":"why-is-starbucks-union-drive-speeding-ahead-while-amazons-founders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/14\/why-is-starbucks-union-drive-speeding-ahead-while-amazons-founders\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Starbucks\u2019 union drive speeding ahead while Amazon\u2019s founders?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 of the coffee shop\u2019s locations have unionized, while just one Amazon warehouse has managed it<\/p>\n<p>In a historic win in December, baristas in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/dec\/10\/this-victory-of-starbucks-employees-in-buffalo-will-reverberate-across-america\">Buffalo voted<\/a> to make their Starbucks the first of more than 9,000 corporate-operated Starbucks in the US to unionize. Since then, 143 other Starbucks have unionized and workers at 120 other locations have petitioned for union elections.<\/p>\n<p>In another historic victory, a vote count on 1 April showed that workers at an 8,300-employee Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/apr\/01\/amazon-union-groups-see-hope-workers-vote-alabama-new-york\">had voted<\/a> to make theirs the first unionized Amazon facility in the country. Since then, however, no other Amazon warehouse has even petitioned for a union election (although workers at a 1,500-employee Amazon facility in Staten Island later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/may\/02\/amazon-union-vote-count-new-york-warehouse\">voted to reject<\/a> unionization).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/jun\/14\/starbucks-amazon-union-drives\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6a18ca6c14319613379f3a8c77af39358742cb6b\/0_168_2500_1500\/master\/2500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ee50f3d8a56b1c64862f89637b133f9f\" title=\"Why is Starbucks\u2019 union drive speeding ahead while Amazon\u2019s founders?\" \/>More than 100 of the coffee shop\u2019s locations have unionized, while just one Amazon warehouse has managed it<br \/>\nIn a historic win in December, baristas in Buffalo voted to make their Starbucks the first of more than 9,000 corporate-operated Starbucks in the US to unionize. Since then, 143 other Starbucks have unionized and workers at 120 other locations have petitioned for union elections.<br \/>\nIn another historic victory, a vote count on 1 April showed that workers at an 8,300-employee Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York, had voted to make theirs the first unionized Amazon facility in the country. Since then, however, no other Amazon warehouse has even petitioned for a union election (although workers at a 1,500-employee Amazon facility in Staten Island later voted to reject unionization). Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 of the coffee shop\u2019s locations have unionized, while just one Amazon warehouse has managed it In a historic win in December, baristas in Buffalo voted to make their Starbucks the first of more than 9,000 corporate-operated Starbucks in the US to unionize. Since then, 143 other Starbucks have unionized and workers at &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/14\/why-is-starbucks-union-drive-speeding-ahead-while-amazons-founders\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why is Starbucks\u2019 union drive speeding ahead while Amazon\u2019s founders?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5993"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}