by Alex Baumhardt | May 29, 2026 | Amazon, labor, News, Oregon, Safeway, SNAP, walmart
Oregonians who received federal aid to pay for their groceries last year frequently reported working for the nation’s largest grocery and retail corporations, according to a Capital Chronicle analysis of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program data from the Oregon Department of Human Services. The data, taken from SNAP income verification forms, shows that tens of thousands of employees of…
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by Derek Seidman | Dec 9, 2025 | Buffalo, Chevron, Economy and Labor, labor, News, Starbucks, Strikes, Unions, walmart
Thousands of Starbucks workers across a hundred cities are nearly one month into an expanding, nationwide unfair labor practice strike in protest of the coffee giant’s “historic union busting and failure to finalize a fair union contract,” according to Starbucks Workers United, the barista union that has spread to over 650 stores since its birth in Buffalo four years ago.
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