Whole Foods workers seek to unionize
All my experience shopping at grocery chains in the US and elsewhere has impressed upon me that these workers represent the absolute classic, textbook case for unionization.<p>Yes, including Whole Paycheck[0] as well as Trader Joe&#x27;s and Safeway and Von&#x27;s and everybody else.<p>While I can imagine Amazon having a loathing of unions, if they really want to be in this space they will sooner or later have to contend with the fact that this is an industry that needs a union. And I think, at obvious risk of being wrong, that the US is going to become once again more union-friendly in the coming years.<p>So maybe a very friendly, not very confrontational, laid-back and smiley group of workers flirting with unionization might be a way for Amazon to put a toe in that water without overcommitting.  Much as the WholeFoods acquisition was per se.<p>[0]: Whole Foods goes by this nickname in California. Because you spend your...