Unions targeting Big Business: Disney, Mercedes-Benz, CVS face organizing campaigns

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The U.S. worker unionization rate hit a new low in 2023, but public support for unions is near a six-decade high.

to organize the 1,700 live performers at Disneyland after more than two-thirds signed union authorization cards.The new unionization efforts follow similar campaigns at a slew of other major employers that had previously not been unionized,The UAW is in the final throes of a vote to organize the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which would become the first non-Detroit Three automotive assembly plant in the U.S. to be unionized.

Kay Ivey — along with the governors of Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas — issued aThe effort is "driven by misinformation and scare tactics," and "we do not need to pay a third party to tell us who can pick up a box or flip a switch," Ivey said."There's currently over 350 unionized Starbucks, and they have exactly zero contracts," said Art Wheaton, director of labor studies at Cornell University. "There is nothing in the U.S.

 

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