‘A very hostile climate for workers’: US labor movement struggles under Trump

National Labor Relations Board, the federal watchdog for workers' rights, has been rendered toothless as employees grapple with corporations

On a cold January day in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, workers at a Whole Foods Market store in the heart of the city made history. Organizers won a vote to form a union for the very first time in one of the grocery chain's 530 US stores.

Whole Foods is owned by Amazon, which has spent years quashing unionization efforts within its sprawling empire. This result amounted to another blow in the tech giant's armor.