More Starbucks stores have been unionizing, and this has led the company to hire a new strategy chief, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday (April 8). Six New York state cafes voted last week to join Starbucks Workers United, which was formed to help the...
Amazon must like the supermarket business. Three years after it paid $13.4 billion for Whole Foods, the online retail giant is planning to open its second automated-checkout grocery store in Seattle’s Eastside neighborhood and is hiring managers for a third store in the city’s Capitol...
In today’s top news, Walmart is working on a new paid subscription program to compete with Amazon Prime, and Great Hill Partners acquired the digital insurance payments solutions vendor One Inc. Also, PayPal warned of a 1 percent drop in its first-quarter 2020 revenue. Walmart...
European Union antitrust chief and Silicon Valley critic Margrethe Vestager said gig economy workers should join forces for better pay, the Financial Times reported on Thursday (Oct. 24). She further pledged that EU rules can’t prevent gig economy workers from forming unions. “Platform workers should be...
October 26, 2023
Swedish payments firm Klarna is facing a possible strike by employees in its home country. The Unionen and Swedish Engineering unions announced Thursday (Oct. 26) that the strike will commence on Nov. 7 if a collective bargaining accord is not reached. Negotiations have been underway since March, with both sides accusing each other of acting in bad faith. The […]
April 10, 2022
More Starbucks stores have been unionizing, and this has led the company to hire a new strategy chief, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday (April 8). Six New York state...
July 05, 2020
Amazon must like the supermarket business. Three years after it paid $13.4 billion for Whole Foods, the online retail giant is planning to open its second automated-checkout grocery store in...
October 24, 2019
European Union antitrust chief and Silicon Valley critic Margrethe Vestager said gig economy workers should join forces for better pay, the Financial Times reported on Thursday (Oct. 24). She further pledged...
