Working conditions and a drop in bargaining power and apple could be looking at grass roots organizing efforts. and certainly, we are seeing it, that the more stefl in one story, and amazon, staten island, and then here in new york city, if it happens. exactly. amazon has lost one of their small battles but it is significant because as you mentioned on staten island, workers decided to work together, to create a union, and to affiliate with unions and amazon did not expect that. so you re seeing the biggest employers with these organizers at a grass roots level. on yelp, they say cover expenses for employees or spouses who have to have to travel out of state for reap reproductive care and changing headlines thon. and talking about texas and citigroup is another company
We saw congresswoman, one of the committee members, democrat from virginia, say that merrick garland, the attorney general, needed to do his job, so they could do theirs. whether or not the justice department acts on this again remains to be seen, but you know, we see this frustration, from committee members, who worry that they continue to make these referrals and that people might defy their subpoena, anyway, if they don t think there will be any consequence to them. and of course steve bannon, one of the first people that the committee referred for contempt of congress is facing justice department prosecution right now. thank you very much. and i m certainly going to be speaking with you again soon as the investigation proceeds. still ahead, organizing efforts at a tech giant and inflation comes for the big mac. we re diving into the morning s business headlines next on way too early.
Time now for business. and for that, let s bring in business reporter for axios, hope king who joins me here on set. hope, good to see you again. employees at apple s flag ship store not far from where we re sitting in new york city are taking steps to form a union, this would be, if successful, the first time an apple store would be unionized in the u.s. i believe. where do things stand now and what could it mean? this is part of a bigger story, apple, starbucks, you re seeing the biggest employers in the country, with grass roots unionizing efforts so these workers are forming the collective to try to unionize, and this isn t going to be sort of big labor, where we ve seen parnas decline in the past decade and workers are fighting themselves because during the pam pandemic, they are facing
the ukrainian president praised his people for their war time efforts. earlier in the weekend, zelenskyy met with a group of ukrainian soldiers and presented them with medals for their service. meanwhile donations continue to pour in to ukraine. almost two months into the war. zelenskyy s chief of staff says that $924 million in charitable assistance has come from people and corporations around the world. nearly half of that is, has come from the united kingdom, the netherlands, the czech republic and the united states, and the next largest contributors. zelenskyy s office says the funds are mostly going to the united nations and international humanitarian organization, who are helping ukrainian refugees across europe. meanwhile more than 270,000 tons of humanitarian aid have been delivered to ukraine over the past months. still ahead, extreme covid lockdowns in china are starting to impact the global supply chain. plus two republican lawmakers are reportedly tied to the effort