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May 6 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
NEW STUDY: Amazon, Starbucks, and 20 other major corporations made a $1.5 trillion fortune during the pandemic. Only 2% of it went to workers. Image
Only 1 of the 22 corporations - Costco - has a minimum wage today that is close to a living wage, per researchers @MollyKinder, @StatelerLaura, and @kathrynsbach.

Most of the companies' pandemic gains went to already wealthy households. Image
Workers are fighting back by building collective power and unionizing. New union petitions have spiked 57% in recent months.

This worker pressure has forced corporations like Starbucks & Amazon to raise wages even as they combat the unions.
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May 6
BREAKING: The NLRB has just hit Starbucks with a massive, unprecedented lawsuit covering nine months of union-busting in Buffalo.

Corporate surveillance, threats, captive audience meetings, and illegal firings are all covered.

The NLRB is demanding fired workers get rehired.
The NLRB calls out Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz.

The Board demands that he or executive Rossann Williams must read a notice explaining workers' rights to unionize freely at a meeting of all Starbucks employees.
Angel Krempa, one of the workers who was named in this complaint, was wrongly fired on April 1st.

Reacting to the lawsuit, she tells us: "April fools, you thought you could illegally fire me, but the truth will always prevail!”
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May 6
Starbucks sent an angry letter admonishing President Biden for meeting with a union leader without inviting corporate.

The letter claims Starbucks has an “unwavering commitment to do the right thing” for workers.

The NLRB has proved they don't: 🧵
On Wednesday, the NLRB filed a major nationwide lawsuit against Starbucks for using an employee handbook that violates workers’ right to organize.

The agency listed 19 different violations, on everything from dress code and social media policy to free speech and safety issues.
The NLRB has gotten to know Starbucks’ rule book very well — there have been 112 charges of union-busting against the company over the past few months.

The number has soared under CEO Howard Schultz, who considers union workers “adversaries” that are “assaulting” Starbucks.
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May 5
NEW: Wendy’s workers in North Carolina walked off the job and launched a 7-day strike last week to demand the end of rampant sexual harassment from their general manager.

The workers describe a shocking culture of abuse at @Wendys.
@Wendys workers say their manager choked someone at work & called at least 1 worker a “c***” multiple times. Many workers say he threw food & inappropriately touched multiple employees. When restaurant manager Charity Bradley spoke out, Wendy’s tried to move her to another store.
This is Wendy’s worker Jamey Gunter describing being physically assaulted by her general manager at work.

(TW: sexual assault)
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May 5
NEW: Congress could close one of Amazon’s favorite loopholes.

Amazon dodges billions in taxes every year on cheap products it ships into the U.S.

A key provision in the COMPETES Act could close that egregious giveaway. perfectunion.us/congress-could…
Imported goods under $800 are not subject to taxes under current law.

The $800 threshold is 4x the previous threshold of $200 set in the 90s – and is currently the highest such threshold in the world.

It’s been a boon for e-retailers like Wayfair, Amazon & Alibaba.
Amazon pioneered a model that takes advantage of this threshold. Amazon ships products from China to sit in warehouses just outside the U.S., waits until a customer in the U.S. orders a specific product, then imports that product directly to that individual consumer, tariff-free.
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May 4
Rep. Jim Clyburn — the number three Democrat in the House — is getting out the vote tonight for the most staunchly anti-abortion Democrat Henry Cuellar.

Why? We looked at their corporate donations and found some startling info...
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Cuellar is locked in a tense primary fight with progressive @JcisnerosTX.

Cuellar was the only Democrat to vote against a bill to protect the constitutional right to abortion.

He was also the only Democrat to vote in favor of the discriminatory Hyde amendment in Congress.
Cuellar has a decades-long history of proudly opposing the right to choose.

He voted to defund Planned Parenthood, co-sponsored anti-choice legislation with Republicans, and supported restrictions proposed under President Donald Trump on abortion and reproductive healthcare.
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May 3
UPDATE: Chevron hired local police to intimidate its refinery workers who have been on strike for nearly 2 months, per @KQED.

Chevron is paying the police almost $200/hour while refusing to give workers even a cost of living raise. kqed.org/news/11912101/…
Chevron made $6.3 billion in the first 3 months of this year, but refuses to negotiate a fair contract with its workers.

"'Why are we deploying our police officers to support a corporation like Chevron?' said Richmond City Councilmember Claudia Jimenez, a critic of the company."
Today in Los Angeles, workers with @steelworkers Local 675 & other unions gathered outside of a conference where Chevron VP Mark Nelson was speaking about the "future of global energy."

The demonstrators demanded Chevron return to the bargaining table and talk to its workers.
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