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Thank you so much and enjoy. This is to where I've been wanting to do for a while and because it just is so bizarre

but this week successfully REI in Lower Manhattan and Soho formed a union.

So this is the REI Union Soho victory.

This is their tweet by a vote of 86% workers of voted to unionize with

our WDSU officially making Arii Soho the first unionized Arii store in the nation.

We go further together. So that very very cute and that's a retail workers union and it's you know

This is off the back of like a number of Starbucks franchises also voting to unionize 86% is really good and it's

exciting for them I the funniest part about this story, however, is like a few weeks ago what was happening in the

REI ether because REI I think fancies itself like a very progressive company you know they are like you're when you shop there you're like oh do you want to be part of the cooperative and you're like I don't know you're like well you get five dollars off after a year, whatever the hell it is, and you're like, I guess so.

You know, there's all these, everyone's trying to be, let me just be real, everyone's trying to be very helpful.

I find, we need more unions in REI because I feel like people they're helpful but then they'll sell me some bullshit but anyway

All power to the workers don't mean to shit on them that's because they're probably their bosses suck. But a few weeks ago,

REI management clearly was trying to thwart this effort and they had they came out with their own podcast and I have the

transcript of the podcast they're really trying to um talk to workers and

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