A new report released by the Strategic Organizing Center (SOC) shows that Amazon, despite having announced publicly in October 2020 that it had identified nearly 20,000 COVID cases nationally among its employees, subsequently reported only 27 cases of “respiratory conditions” (the category in which COVID cases are reported) to OSHA for all of 2020. This…
Click here to read the letter in PDF format. Via USPS and Electronic Mail November 22, 2021 Holly Vedova, Acting Director Bureau of Competition Federal Trade Commission 600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC 20580 antitrust@ftc.gov Before 12,560 people as of November 19, 2021. Dear Director Vedova, We are writing to provide…
Click here to read the letter in PDF format Via USPS and Electronic Mail August 11, 2021 Holly Vedova, Acting Director Bureau of Competition Federal Trade Commission 600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC 20580 antitrust@ftc.gov Re: Proposed Merger of Amazon.com, Inc. and MGM Dear Director Vedova, The Strategic Organizing Center (SOC) is…
Amazon’s Epidemic of Workplace Injuries Workers at Amazon facilities sustained more than 24,000 serious injuries in 2020, resulting in a serious injury rate nearly two times the non-Amazon warehousing and storage industry, the report released by the Strategic Organizing Center (SOC) shows. The report, which analyzes new data submitted by Amazon to the U.S. Occupational…
The Sherman Act protects sellers of goods and services, including workers who sell their labor, from powerful purchasers. Gregory J. Werden, Monopsony and the Sherman Act: Consumer Welfare in a New Light, 74 Antitrust L.J. 707, 714 (2007). Senator Sherman himself stated that trusts and monopolies “regulate prices at their will, depress the price of…
The Service Employees International Union and Change to Win hereby submit an update of a petition we submitted almost exactly five years ago, requesting that the Commission investigate and address long-standing problems in the franchise industry. The Service Employees International Union unites two million diverse members working in healthcare, the public sector, and property services…
Plaintiffs, James Byrd, Jr. and Darrell Byrd (“Plaintiffs”), individually and on behalf of all other similarly situated individuals (collectively referred to as, “Class Members” or the “Class”), by and through undersigned counsel, hereby file this Class Action Complaint, based on Plaintiffs’ personal knowledge and upon information and belief as to the Class, against Defendants, McDonald’s…
CASE NO.: JURY TRIAL DEMANDED 1:20-cv-05132 Plaintiffs, Christine Crawford, Delores Crawford, Juneth N. Daniel, Yves Dominique, Van Jakes, Ralph King, Keith Manning, Kenneth Manning, Dawn Mussenden, Laetitia Johnson, Carrie Salone, Floyd Sims, Larry Brown, John Mason, Ronnie Thornton, Lisa Gunter, f/k/a Lisa McKenzie, Mitchell McGuire, Lois McGuire, Hayes Ferrell, Yvonne Knox, Arthur Scott, Errol Service,…
Our organizations, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the Communications Workers of America, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, and Change to Win, represent millions of working people across all industries and sectors of the economy. In February, we petitioned the Commission to use its power under Section 6(b) of the Federal Trade Commission…
How McDonald’s is Failing to Keep Its Workers Safe from COVID-19 Over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, hundreds of thousands of McDonald’s employees have continued coming to work, helping the country’s largest fast food chain to consistently operate amid the health crisis. While the company closed 25 percent of its global stores, 99 percent…
We conducted a nationwide online survey between April 29th and May 9th, 2020 of 4,348 workers across the Amazon system – including workers in all types of Amazon warehouses, Whole Foods grocery stores, and Amazon subcontracted companies, such as delivery service providers (DSP drivers). This memo highlights the key survey findings. Download Data Brief
McDonald’s Worker COVID-19 Survey Data Brief While over 90 percent of McDonald’s stores have transitioned to take-out, drive-thru and delivery- only operations, McDonald’s employees face serious health and safety risks as they continue to serve the public during the pandemic. Workers report a critical lack of protective equipment like gloves, masks and even hand soap,…
