The Cottonwood Heights Starbucks location – reported to be the first Starbucks to open in Utah – also became the first Starbucks in Utah to unionize. On June 10, 2022, employees at the Cottonwood Heights location voted 11-6 for unionization and joined more than 100 other unionized locations of Starbucks around the nation. The successful effort of the Cottonwood Heights Starbucks workers has surprised some, since Utah has the third-lowest rate of union membership of any state – only South and North Carolina are lower. Starbucks' employees at a second location in Salt Lake City have also petitioned for a union election but have not yet voted.
On the heels of the successful union bid at the Amazon Staten Island warehouse, Microsoft became the first major tech company to announce that it will not fight unionization efforts of its employees. Microsoft President Brad Smith announced the company's approach to unionization in a blog post and reiterated its respect of employees' "legal right to choose whether to form or join a union" and the company's commitment to "creative and collaborative approaches with unions when employees wish to exercise their rights and Microsoft is presented with a specific unionization proposal." Microsoft's announcement is said to have been influenced by its in-the-works deal to acquire the video-game publisher Activision Blizzard. A small...
Russia's Defense Ministry is reporting alleged battlefield successes on Max, but some of its claims lack evidence. Even Russian military bloggers are questioning claims that Ukrainian forces have ...