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"We just started a movement," says Starbucks employee Casey Moore after workers at a Starbucks shop in Buffalo, New York, voted to establish the first union at one of the coffee chain's company-owned shops in the United States. "This is the most incredible feeling in the whole entire world, to go through what we've done and then be victorious," Moore says. SOUNDBITE
On Friday, Joe Biden said he strongly considered Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont to be his labor secretary. However, after Democrats regained control of the senate, both men decided against the move. "I did give serious consideration on nominating my friend Bernie Sanders." Biden said. "I'm confident he could have done a fantastic job." Biden chose Boston Mayor Marty Walsh as his pick for labor Secretary.
Since the 19th century, the infamous Pinkerton spy agency has a history of union-busting and involving itself in businesses. Now, Business Insider reports Amazon has turned to Pinkerton to monitor European workers' labor union organizing efforts. Leaked documents from Amazon's Global Security Operations Center revealed analysts have been tracking workers' union organizing activities. A report from Motherboard also disclosed that Amazon data analysts use social media to monitor social justice and environmental activist groups' activities. It's the latest in a string of evidence that highlights Amazon's robust efforts to monitor and crack down on its workers unionizing. Earlier this year, Amazon listed, but quickly removed, a job opening for an analyst that would monitor employee's efforts to organize.
San Salvador, May 1 (EFE) .- At least a hundred union members from El Salvador broke on Friday the mandatory quarantine to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in order to demonstrate from their vehicles on International Labor Day. (Camera: VLADIMIR CHICAS)FOOTAGE SHOWS DEMONSTRATIONS DURING LABOR IN DAY IN SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR.
'Snowden' director and producer Oliver Stone gave an interview in New York on Friday, speaking about his upcoming new movie about renowned US whistleblowers Edward Snowden. Stone shared his thoughts on the whistleblower as well as the recent Democratic National Committee (DNC) email leak implicating DNC collusion against presidential hopefule Bernie Sanders and on the threat of cyberwarfare attacks.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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