Amazon is facing growing calls by its workers for union representation after a second warehouse on New York’s Staten Island obtained enough signatures to hold a vote. The Trends Journal has identified the push to unionize as a “TOP TREND IN 2022,” and there may be no company more impacted by the movement than Amazon, which is...
Category: TRENDS EYE VIEW
Post
NY TIMES TECH WORKERS VOTE FOR UNIONIZATION, START OF ‘WAVE’ IN TECH INDUSTRY
Tech workers at The New York Times voted in favor of unionizing Thursday in a 404 to 88 vote, with one software engineer saying she believes the vote is the “start of a wave of organizing in the tech industry.” Nozlee Samadzadeh, a senior software engineer, told the Times that the union will be represented by the...
Post
UNION VS. OWNERS: MLB STRIKES OUT, OPENING DAY CANCELED
Major League Baseball players and owners have been unable to strike a deal for a new collective bargaining agreement and announced last week that resulted in the cancelation of opening day. Rob Manfred, the commissioner, announced that teams will miss their first two series. Opening day had been set for 31 March. He told The Associated...
Post
REI WORKERS AT NYC STORE VOTE TO UNIONIZE: 2022 TOP TREND ON THE RISE
Workers at the REI location in New York City’s SOHO neighborhood voted to unionize last Tuesday after employees complained about poor treatment, little pay, and the lack of career advancements. The company said in a statement after the vote that it believes the decision on whether or not to be represented by a union is...
Post
STARBUCKS UNIONIZATION: 2022 TOP TREND ON THE RISE
Workers in a Starbucks location in Mesa, Ariz., on Friday voted 25-to-3 in support of becoming a union—becoming the third location out of 9,000 in the U.S. to unionize. The Arizona store followed the lead by the two Starbucks locations in Buffalo that unionized. The New York Times reported that more than 100 Starbucks stores in...
Post
PRESSTITUTES AND POLITICIANS PLAY FOR THE SAME TEAM. WAKE UP KIDDIES.
How about this for a line of a bucket of bullshit: “CNN, The Most Trusted Name in News.” They are trusted Presstitutes. Media whores who get paid to put out by their corporate pimps and government whore masters. Need more proof? Chris Cuomo, another Daddy’s Boy, born on third base and thought he hit a...
Post
AMERICAN SATIRIST P.J. O’ROURKE CHECKS OUT TO GREENER PASTURES
This section notes the passing of P.J. O’Rourke on 15 February. A quintessentially American satirist who was known for irreverent and relatable observations, O’Rourke served as Editor-In-Chief of National Lampoon during its comic heyday in the 1970’s. He later authored numerous books of mostly political humor, including Parliament of Whores and All the Trouble in...
Post
CNN CLOWN SHOW EXPOSES MEDIA’S POLITICAL TIES
Put aside for a moment that CNN’s former anchor, Chris Cuomo, used to interview his brother, ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, on his primetime show at the height of the COVID-19 War. And forget how the media and Hollywood adored the former governor—who was forced to resign due to sexual harassment allegations—by awarding him an...
Post
AMAZON UNIONIZATION: 2022 TOP TREND ON THE RISE
Workers at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, New York—about 5,000 in all—will hold a vote at the end of next month on whether they should form a union. The Wall Street Journal reported that the workers pushing for the union at the JFK8 facility face an “uphill climb.” Firstly, no Amazon location has ever successfully...
Post
FDA & BIG PHARMA: REVOLVING DOOR KEEPS SPINNING
Dr. Robert Califf, the 70-year-old cardiologist, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate last week to lead the Food and Drug Administration despite bipartisan concerns about his close ties to drug companies. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., voiced his opposition to Califf’s nomination because he owns millions in pharmaceutical stock and is a senior advisor at Google...