Due to possible listeria contamination, almost ten million pounds of prepackaged meat and poultry products have been recalled by Oklahoma-based company BrucePac.
It’s a bummer, but their economics were never far off from Nike…outsource manufacturing, low paid retail and a premium client base. The slide into anti-people was inevitable. They were clearly bad 3+ years ago, IIRC some of their store staff announced they were going to unionize and then suddenly they closed their headquarters store in Seattle. Same thing happened in Portland’s pearl location under the cover of “safety”–straight out of Starbucks playbook from seattle–that the NLRB found them guilty of breaking labor law and forced them to negotiate with their employees as required by law.
You can understand why these douche companies want to get rid of NLRB…government isn’t any fun when it pushes back against the powerful.
It’s not surprising that Starbucks joined but I didn’t know about REI. What the hell, REI!
It’s a bummer, but their economics were never far off from Nike…outsource manufacturing, low paid retail and a premium client base. The slide into anti-people was inevitable. They were clearly bad 3+ years ago, IIRC some of their store staff announced they were going to unionize and then suddenly they closed their headquarters store in Seattle. Same thing happened in Portland’s pearl location under the cover of “safety”–straight out of Starbucks playbook from seattle–that the NLRB found them guilty of breaking labor law and forced them to negotiate with their employees as required by law.
You can understand why these douche companies want to get rid of NLRB…government isn’t any fun when it pushes back against the powerful.
…just found this…certainly answers some questions https://www.geekwire.com/2021/longtime-amazon-retail-exec-joins-rei-as-its-first-chief-commercial-officer/