By Laurel Kalser Source: HR Dive Dollar General violated federal labor law when corporate officials threatened to close a Connecticut store if employees voted for a union, illegally surveilled their actions and fired a pro-union employee, an administrative judge for the National Labor Relations Board opined in Dolgen Corp. and [...]
By Samuel Lopez Source: US Herald Rite Aid, a US-based drugstore chain, has been found to have acted in bad faith after cutting health insurance benefits for some workers without negotiating with the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 8-Golden State (UFCW). The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found Rite [...]
By Alma Avalle Source: Bon Appetit Starbucks employees have successfully unionized over 250 branches of the international coffee chain. They’ve inspired workers at competitor Peet’s Coffee to organize too. The first Chipotle union has won its National Labor Relations Board vote in Lansing, Michigan. Trader Joe’s workers in Hadley, Massachusetts, have organized their store, [...]
By Lauren Kaori Gurley Source: The Washington Post Companies that illegally fire or demote unionizing workers can now be held responsible for workers’ financial demise — including credit card late fees, lost housing or cars and health-care costs — in a move that could help some workers who have been [...]
By Annie Probert Source: The Boston Globe Workers at a Trader Joe’s store in Western Massachusetts filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday, less than a month after announcing their intent to do so in a letter to company chief executive Dan Bane. If [...]
By Melissa Repko Source: CNBC Target has joined the growing list of major companies where employees are trying to form a union. Employees at a Virginia store filed on Tuesday with the National Labor Relations Board for a union election. The workers are seeking collective bargaining and get representation through [...]
By Sharon Zhang Source: Truthout.org For the first time in Starbucks workers’ union campaign, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has found that the company has taken illegal moves in its fight against the union, including retaliation against workers for organizing in Phoenix, Arizona. In response to a petition filed [...]
By Karen Weise Source: The New York Times Amazon workers in Alabama will have another shot at voting to form a union this winter, as the National Labor Relations Board scheduled a mail-in election to start Feb. 4. The agency told the workers on Tuesday that they will have until [...]
By Jay Greene Source: The Washington Post Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., are going to get a second shot at unionizing, after a National Labor Relations Board official called for a re-vote after finding that the e-commerce giant improperly interfered in the first election. It’s a major [...]