this gives me a good idea: i'll try to keep a running thread of things that are union-busting that you might not know are union-busting.
ERGs are one to start.
another one: employee satisfaction surveys! corporations use them to see where agitation is that could potentially lead to a union
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Amazon also prevents its workers from calling 911 when someone is having a medical emergency on the job--and workers tell us it's costing people's lives. Sign our petition to demand accountability: bit.ly/amazon911
Close-up of a strike sign that reads: "ProPublica workers: Not shutting up."
@propublica.org management: This is your sign to give us a fair contract now. We’re not shutting up.
Tell Amazon: Let your workers call 911! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
New indie union just dropped! Congrats to the workers at Attaboy! jacobin.com/2026/04/atta...
And donate to the strike fund if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/support-pr...
We think it did hurt, lol. Big congrats to Amazon Labor Union-IBT 1 on this legal victory. #peopleoverpackages #organizeamazon
BIG NEWS! Amazon ordered by NLRB to bargain with Amazon Labor Union: www.nlrbedge.com/p/04022026-n...
No prize on earth could make us forget that drivers are peeing in bottles. How bout you? Read the article here: bit.ly/4thwkj8
We stand with Dolores. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
This just in: Recently gutted newspaper owned by the world's 4th richest man encourages eliminating the program that took senior poverty levels from 50% to 10%. 🤢 🤢 🤢
Join Amazon Labor Union-IBT for a Solidarity Session: Black Worker Leadership and the Fight For Racial Justice at Amazon. Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Tell Amazon to meet Durham workers' demands for an open town hall about unionization. Workers deserve the truth: thelaborforce.org/news/tell-am...
Amazon Web Services provides the computing power that allows DHS and ICE to collect, analyze, & store the huge amounts of data needed to do their dirty work. Without the power of AWS, ICE would not be able to target people at its current scale. Tell Amazon to end its contracts w/ ICE: bit.ly/AMZICE
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
This Tuesday, join us for an evening with the leaders of Amazon Labor Union-IBT 1. Get the behind-the-scenes scoop on what it’s like to work and organize at Amazon, and how you can support their union. RSVP here:
Tell Ford's CEO to end the suspension of TJ Sabula, the Ford worker who was not afraid to call out Trump as a "pedophile protector": actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Sources:
www.businessinsider.com/starbucks-says-over-1-billion-is-sitting-on-cards-2022-5
www.thetakeout.com/1913082/starbucks-unspent-gift-card-amount/
www.tastingtable.com/1907921/starbucks-gift-cards-unspent-amount/ 🧵 8/8
Stand with Starbucks workers on strike:
Don’t cross the picket line
Don’t buy Starbucks
Don’t buy Starbucks gift cards
DO come add your pledge to our collective impact counter! solidaritywithbaristas.org 🧵 7/8
–that’s enough to buy everyone in the U.S. a fancy latte–and Starbucks is holding this money interest-free. Additionally, about 10% of gift card dollars are never spent, but still count as revenue for the company. 🧵 6/8
According to Business Insider, Sbux gift cards are bigger than the entire gift card industry. At any given time, Sbux has over 1 billion dollars sitting unspent on gift cards. The company’s Q4 2024 report stated that Sbux had 1.78 billion in stored gift card funds at the end of the fiscal year–🧵5/8
The act of skipping Starbucks gift cards this year is more impactful than you may realize, because for Starbucks, the gift cards are a profit-machine. Or, as one journalist put it, “Starbucks doesn't just profit off selling you coffee, it also profits from selling you the idea of coffee.” 🧵 4/8