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Bucktown Starbucks workers back union drive

Employees at the 2101 W. Armitage Ave. store are the fifth group in the Chicago area to join a nationwide organizing drive.

Chicago Sun-Times

A judge dismisses an ex-Home Depot employee's case about not wearing BLM on uniforms

The Home Depot's uniform policy bans political or religious messages "unrelated to workplace matters" from employees' aprons, or elsewhere on their clothing.

WEKU

NLRB denies Amazon's ask to close union hearing to public

A federal labor board has denied Amazon's request to bar the public from a hearing on the company’s bid to overturn a historic union win at one of its Staten Island, New York, warehouses

The Independent UK

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7 fired Starbucks workers celebrate union vote in Memphis

Seven employees of a Tennessee Starbucks who were fired after starting unionization efforts have claimed victory after their Memphis store voted to join a wave of U.S. locations of the coffee chain that have decided to organize

The Independent UK

Union loses 2 of 3 elections at Starbucks in Chicago

The votes mark an unusual setback for a campaign led by Workers United, part of the Service Employees International Union, that has spread across the country.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago is seeing a wave of union activity. Among the reasons: Workers ‘saw the willingness of their bosses to let them die.’

Last year, Brick Zurek, a shift supervisor at a Starbucks in Chicago's Loop, found working conditions at the store becoming increasingly untenable.

Chicago Tribune

Seattle Art Museum's security guards vote to form a union

The Seattle Art Museum's security workers voted to form an independent union in a 38-4 majority vote Tuesday.

Tribune News Service

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Union sees grounds for organizing at Intelligentsia Coffee

Local 1220 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is seeking to represent the chain’s employees in Chicago.

Chicago Sun-Times

Workers at two Edgewater Starbucks stores vote to unionize — first in Chicago for coffee giant

Organizers say workers at two locations in Edgewater have affiliated with Workers United, part of the Service Employees International Union, in an ongoing national campaign.

Chicago Sun-Times

Unionized Starbucks stores face hard work of bargaining

It’s become a common sight: jubilant Starbucks workers celebrating after successful votes to unionize at dozens of U.S. stores

The Independent UK

Cannabis Workers At New Jersey's Wonderland Smoke Shop Chain Looking To Unionize, Who's Next?

United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 360 submitted a petition to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) by the employees of Wonderland Smoke Shop, becoming the first cannabis accessories business to formally ask the NLRB to conduct an election to unionize.

Benzinga

Quality assurance workers at Activision Blizzard subsidiary unionize, a first at a major US gaming company

A small group of quality assurance workers at an Activision Blizzard-owned game studio have unionized, marking the arrival of the first labor union at a major U.S. gaming company.

Los Angeles Times

In major video game company first, Activision Blizzard employees are joining a union

A subset of staff at the massive video game company Activision Blizzard voted to join the Communication Workers of America. The vote comes as Activision Blizzard is being purchased by Microsoft.

WEKU

Activision workers win vote to form industry's first big union in U.S.

The vote passed 19-3.

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Reason

Break a Leg in the Salt Mines: Federalist Publisher's Tweet About Unionization Was Joke, not Threat

From today's Third Circuit decision in Fdrlst Media, LLC v. NLRB, by Judge Thomas Hardiman, joined by Judge Anthony Scirica: The Employer [FDRLST] operates The Federalist, a right-leaning internet magazine that publishes commentary on cultural, political, and religious issues of current interest, including labor issues. In June 2019, the Employer…

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Amazon threatened workers over union vote, labor officials find

U.S. labor board prosecutors plan to accuse Amazon.com Inc. of threatening staff that if they unionized it could propose paying them minimum wage and of punishing an employee for seeking a paid Juneteenth holiday.

The Guardian - US

Revealed: Starbucks fired over 20 US union leaders in recent months

Workers at the coffee chain have filed petitions for union elections at more than 250 stores, but chief Howard Schultz publicly opposes the movement

Tribune News Service

Grand Rapids Starbucks store becomes first in Michigan to unionize

A Starbucks store in Grand Rapids, Michigan has become the first location in Michigan to unionize amid a broader unionization movement within the Seattle-based coffee chain.

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Labor board alleges 2 Kansas City area Starbucks shops retaliated against unionizing employees

Starbucks has been charged with unfair labor practices at two Kansas City area locations where managers allegedly threatened and fired employees engaged in efforts to unionize.

Businessweek

Starbucks Baristas Are Unionizing, and Even Howard Schultz Can’t Make Them Stop

The return of the company’s longtime CEO hasn’t slowed the workers, who are inspiring activists at Amazon and showing the extent of labor’s new power.

The Independent UK

New York appeals court dismisses AG suit against Amazon

An appeals court in New York has dismissed New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit against Amazon

The Conversation

Starbucks' caffeinated anti-union efforts may leave a bitter taste – but are they legal?

Good news greeted Starbucks workers on May 3, 2022, in the shape of a promise of new pay increases. But there was a catch: Employees at unionized stores – or those planning to unionize – shouldn’t expect to see a dime of this hike.

Salon

Sanders goes after dirty corporations

"No government," said the Vermont senator, "should be handing out corporate welfare to union busters"

Tribune News Service

US labor board accuses Starbucks of retaliatory firings

Starbucks Corp. violated federal law by firing, threatening, and carrying out surveillance on union activists in New York, U.S. labor board prosecutors alleged in a complaint.

WEKU

Starbucks accused of unfair labor practices in Buffalo by Federal labor officials

Federal labor officials filed a sweeping complaint Friday accusing Starbucks of unfair labor practices at its stores in Buffalo.

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