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  • SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 12: Pedestrians walk by a closed Whole Foods store on April 12, 2023 in San Francisco, California. Whole Foods has temporarily closed one of its San Francisco locations due to rampant shoplifting and continued threats to workers and customers. The store opened one year ago and has struggled with deteriorating street conditions including open drug use and other crimes near the store. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Retail

    Whole Foods argues it can ban BLM masks because the Supreme Court let a Christian business owner refuse same-sex couples

    By Josh Eidelson and Bloomberg
  • NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JUNE 14: George Arison speaks onstage during Tribeca X in partnership with Tubi, Brand Storytelling and OKX at Spring Studios on June 14, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for 2023 Tribeca Festival)Success

    Grindr retaliated against employees for trying to unionize by forcing them back to the office, labor complaint alleges

    By Josh Eidelson and Bloomberg
  • MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 02: A sign is posted in front of an office at Google headquarters on February 02, 2023 in Mountain View, California. Google parent company Alphabet reported lower-than-expected fourth quarter revenue with net income $13.62 billion, or $1.05 per share, compared to $20.64 billion, or $1.53 per share, one year ago. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Tech

    ‘Incredibly suspicious’: A union is accusing Google of violating labor law by retaliating against workers for organizing

    By Davey Alba, Josh Eidelson, and others
  • CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – JUNE 24: People picket in front of a Starbucks store in the Greektown neighborhood on June 24, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. The event, organized by the Starbucks union, was one of many pickets held nationwide after the coffee giant and the union clashed over claims that the company was not allowing Pride month decorations in Starbucks coffee shops. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)Retail

    Starbucks says it will issue ‘clearer’ decoration guidelines for in-store Pride displays amid union clash

    By Daniela Sirtori-Cortina, Josh Eidelson, and others
  • Tech

    USC student athletes can now frown after the school’s order to ‘smile’ during media interviews was ruled illegal

    By Josh Eidelson and Bloomberg
  • Charles ScharfSuccess

    Internal Wells Fargo document reveals management angst over union ‘resurgence’ and ‘new generation of employees with activist experience’

    By Josh Eidelson and Bloomberg
  • CEO of Alphabet and Google Sundar Pichai in Warsaw, Poland on March 29, 2022 (Photo by Mateusz Wlodarczyk/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Tech

    Labor board ruling that Google is legally employer of YouTube contract workers has implications beyond tech industry

    By Josh Eidelson and Bloomberg
  • NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 02: (EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE) Former chairman and CEO of Starbucks, and United States 2020 presidential candidate Howard Schultz visits Fox & Friends at Fox News Channel Studios on April 2, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Steven Ferdman/Getty Images)Success

    Starbucks is dealing with a white collar rebellion as corporate workers sound off over the return-to-office mandate and allegations of union busting

    By Josh Eidelson and Bloomberg
  • Tesla CEO Elon Musk talks to media as he arrives to visit the construction site of the future US electric car giant Tesla, on September 03, 2020 in Gruenheide near Berlin. – Tesla builds a compound at the site in Gruenheide in Brandenburg for its first European “Gigafactory” near Berlin. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP) (Photo by ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images)Tech

    Twitter workers laid off by Elon Musk 2 months ago still haven’t received their severance pay and are now demanding answers

    By Kurt Wagner, Josh Eidelson, and others
  • BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES – 2022/12/17: The Starbucks logo is seen on the exterior of one of its restaurants near Bloomsburg. Starbucks Workers United announced that more than 1,000 baristas at about 100 locations would strike for three days starting on December 16. Workers at the location in Bloomsburg did not participate in the strike. (Photo by Paul Weaver/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Finance

    Starbucks suffers setback as U.S. officials conclude it illegally forced out union leader Jaz Brisack

    By Josh Eidelson and Bloomberg
  • RJ Scaringe, chairman and chief executive officer of Rivian Automotive Inc., during an interview following an Amazon.com Inc. + Rivian reveal event in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Thursday, July 21, 2022. Amazon is starting delivery of packages to US customers using the first of as many as 100,000 electric vans built by Rivian Automotive Inc., which aims to hand over thousands of the vehicles this year. Photographer: Jamie Kelter Davis/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Rivian safety violations ignored by electric-vehicle maker, say Illinois factory workers in complaint: ‘Many near misses’

    By Josh Eidelson, Edward Ludlow, and others
  • NEW YORK, NEW YORK – OCTOBER 31: Elon Musk attends Heidi Klum’s 2022 Hallowe’en Party at Sake No Hana at Moxy LES on October 31, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)Tech

    Elon Musk broke the law by suddenly eliminating 3,700 jobs at Twitter without required notice, lawsuit claims

    By Josh Eidelson and Bloomberg
  • Photo of a rally outside of a Starbucks store.Retail

    Starbucks illegally fired a Michigan employee for her union activism, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled

    By Josh Eidelson and Bloomberg
  • FREMONT, CA – JULY 26: Paul Jacob works on the general assembly of the Tesla Model 3 at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California, on Thursday, July 26, 2018. (Photo by Mason Trinca for The Washington Post via Getty Images)Leadership

    Tesla’s ban on employees wearing pro-union shirts was illegal, labor board rules

    By Josh Eidelson and Bloomberg
  • Activision BlizzardTech

    Activision Blizzard illegally threatened staff, U.S. labor officials find

    By Josh Eidelson and Bloomberg