Baja California Any list of Biden administration’s accomplishments for workers has to include the appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), especially its General Counsel, and the pathbreaking work they are doing. Admittedly some of this is low hanging fruit in undoing the pro-management bias of the Trump board. Another piece of the …
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Starbucks and Amazon Aren’t Rolling Over
New Orleans Before union organizing becomes a marathon, it’s important to sprint as fast as you can until the companies catch up. Sadly, we’re seeing this unfold now in the nascent efforts to organize workers at Amazon and Starbucks. The old saying that the “bigger they come, the harder they fall” is an …
NLRB and Union Keep Whipping Up on Starbucks
Marble Falls Hardly nine months ago, workers in a Buffalo Starbucks won the first US-election in the company. In the first eight months since that initial victory, Workers United / SEIU has won 200 elections, 52 of them unanimously, for a win rate of around 85% of all elections filed. According to the NLRB, …