Trader Joe's and other US firms suppress unionization efforts during pandemic
Source: Guardian
US corporations are cracking down on unionization efforts as workers try to organize under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic.
Companies, including grocery chains Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods, airport concession operators, local authorities and even a furniture company owned by the billionaire Warren Buffett have moved to control efforts to unionize as workers become increasingly concerned about workplace safety during the emergency.
The Trader Joe’s chairman and CEO, Dan Bane, sent a letter to all employees on 31 March opposing labor unions, and calling attempts to recruit staff “a distraction”, the latest in a series of memos and actions taken by the company to suppress union organizing efforts calling for hazard pay and adequate protections for grocery store workers during the pandemic.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/23/labor-unions-trader-joes-workers-coronavirus-us
Good reasons to unionize - hazard pay & PPE.
Yet, my two local Trader Joes have done well with PPE for the staff and the stores wipe everything down a lot, including the carts before you go in.
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A half step up from WalKrap. "Let's all wear Hawaiian shirts." Typical corporate assholes. 
