Marble Falls A federal judge has granted a nationwide 10j injunction against Starbucks banning them from firing any workers involved in organizing a union or any form of concerted, collective activity. Additionally, the judge ordered the reinstatement of the barista named in the specific charge brought forward in the request for the injunction by …
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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, …
Lowest Common Denominator Unionism
Montreal If you’re looking for leadership from the AFL-CIO to meet the challenge of this movement moment among workers, you may have to keep looking. When newly elected AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler was elected to a full four-year term in the AFL-CIO convention, she declared a one-million new member goal. Reportedly, there was a …