Source: KOB.com Members of a union supporting workers at the Smith’s and Albertsons grocery stores in New Mexico are set to vote on authorizing a strike. The United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 1564 confirmed they filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board against the [...]
By: Charles Davis Source: Inkl A National Labor Relations Board report has dealt a setback to union-busting efforts by Amazon, a regional hearing officer rejecting the company's arguments that workers at a Whole Foods in Philadelphia should not be afforded the right to collectively bargain. In January, a majority of [...]
By Timothy Inklebarger Source: Supermarket News A federal judge has ruled that Gwynn Wilcox be reinstated to the National Labor Relations Board, following her firing from the five-member panel that oversees labor disputes. Wilcox was fired by President Donald Trump in late January, but Senior Judge Beryl Howell, of U.S. [...]
Source: Brentwood News A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) hearing in Connecticut on January 16 was the moment when grocery chain Trader Joe’s raised a constitutional challenge against the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), taking a similar stance to SpaceX. Not surprisingly, both companies are facing labor-related cases. The NLRB [...]
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 [...]