Sep 22, 2026 · 1 hr 33 min · 14 segments
We've got headlines this week from Amazon, Samsung, Howard House Manufacturing, the entire French economy, Bradford White, CharterCARE, NYC traffic enforcement, and Allina Health. For our first main…
Yeah, so jumping into our headlines this week, we'll start off with a follow-up.
We had recently covered the historic contract victory by Amazon workers at a warehouse in British Columbia, and we're already seeing benefits to workers across Canada, whether they're in a union or not.
Unifor, which is, of course, the union that's been behind the organizing process, push there reported this week that Amazon hastily announced wage increases for workers at facilities all across Canada in an attempt to stave off an explosion of unionization.
While, of course, you know, the company continues to roll out that classic union buster line during drives and all the captive audience meetings and other sorts of forced communication that they always roll out there that workers will supposedly benefit from a direct relationship with management.
That direct relationship somehow never resulted in the types of raises that have magically appeared once a union got a successful victory, right? It's weird how that happens.
I'm sure one of these days that direct relationship is gonna result in something good.
It just hasn't happened yet.
But Unifor Western Regional Director Gavin McGarigal said, quote, "'Pay raises are just one part of the equation.
"'A union means a voice for workers, "'not only on their pay and benefits, "'but in fixing health and safety "'and the notoriously dangerous speed-ups "'that Amazon is known for the world over.'" Only by working together with the power of a union can we fix the systemic abuses at Amazon, end quote.
And, I mean, I think at this point, like, it's got to be pretty obvious to folks when they're, you know, Amazon's like, no, no, see, you don't need a union.
Look, we gave you a raise.
Like, I mean, like, we people aren't idiots.
Like.
The people that work at Canadian Amazon warehouses are well aware.
They're like, hey, that warehouse in BC just unionized and suddenly now they're showing up with the raises.
Like, sure, the raise is nice to get, but like...
Well, if they'll do this because one warehouse unionized, what did they do if a bunch of us unionized? I mean,
that's what they saw at Starbucks.
I mean, there was definitely some more organizing in the beginning before some of those wins, but some of those wins were also kind of early and really bolstered the numbers.
Yeah, exactly.
So like, that's the thing.
It's like, you know, do we necessarily think there's going to be, you know, a hundred union warehouses in the next year? Probably not.
You know, Canada's got, still got a lot of the same structural challenges to unionizing that we do here in the United States.
But getting that foothold with that successful contract win in BC is like really huge.
And so I think that it's really exciting to see like Unifor, like really kind of putting the pedal down to be like, hey, Let's not just be like, isn't it great we won this? But be like, hey, what else could we get? And really, what else do we deserve that we don't have? Let's go out and fight for it.
Yeah, so jumping into our headlines this week, we'll start off with a follow-up.
We had recently covered the historic contract victory by Amazon workers at a warehouse in British Columbia, and we're already seeing benefits to workers across Canada, whether they're in a union or not.
Unifor, which is, of course, the union that's been behind the organizing process, push there reported this week that Amazon hastily announced wage increases for workers at facilities all across Canada in an attempt to stave off an explosion of unionization.
While, of course, you know, the company continues to roll out that classic union buster line during drives and all the captive audience meetings and other sorts of forced communication that they always roll out there that workers will supposedly benefit from a direct relationship with management.
That direct relationship somehow never resulted in the types of raises that have magically appeared once a union got a successful victory, right? It's weird how that happens.
I'm sure one of these days that direct relationship is gonna result in something good.
It just hasn't happened yet.
But Unifor Western Regional Director Gavin McGarigal said, quote, "'Pay raises are just one part of the equation.
"'A union means a voice for workers, "'not only on their pay and benefits, "'but in fixing health and safety "'and the notoriously dangerous speed-ups "'that Amazon is known for the world over.'" Only by working together with the power of a union can we fix the systemic abuses at Amazon, end quote.
And, I mean, I think at this point, like, it's got to be pretty obvious to folks when they're, you know, Amazon's like, no, no, see, you don't need a union.
Look, we gave you a raise.
Like, I mean, like, we people aren't idiots.
Like.
The people that work at Canadian Amazon warehouses are well aware.
They're like, hey, that warehouse in BC just unionized and suddenly now they're showing up with the raises.
Like, sure, the raise is nice to get, but like...
Well, if they'll do this because one warehouse unionized, what did they do if a bunch of us unionized? I mean,
that's what they saw at Starbucks.
I mean, there was definitely some more organizing in the beginning before some of those wins, but some of those wins were also kind of early and really bolstered the numbers.
Yeah, exactly.
So like, that's the thing.
It's like, you know, do we necessarily think there's going to be, you know, a hundred union warehouses in the next year? Probably not.
You know, Canada's got, still got a lot of the same structural challenges to unionizing that we do here in the United States.
But getting that foothold with that successful contract win in BC is like really huge.
And so I think that it's really exciting to see like Unifor, like really kind of putting the pedal down to be like, hey, Let's not just be like, isn't it great we won this? But be like, hey, what else could we get? And really, what else do we deserve that we don't have? Let's go out and fight for it.
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