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 Amelia Lucas Source: CNBC Workers at the Starbucks and Amazon Go store in midtown Manhattan filed a petition for a union election on Friday. It’s the first Starbucks cafe that uses Amazon’s cashierless technology to try to unionize under Workers United and just the second of its kind. The store, [...]
Source: Teamsters New Master Agreement Protects 18,000 Costco Workers Coast-to-Coast The Teamsters made history today, securing a new master agreement protecting more than 18,000 workers at Costco nationwide. Ballots were counted at 5 p.m. ET before an independent observer in Portland, Ore., and the agreement was overwhelmingly ratified by a [...]
By Farah Stockman Source: The New York Times This city is known as a capital of organized labor; a legendary 113-day auto strike here in the 1940s helped make health care coverage and pensions the gold standard for employers nationwide. But this year, a notable strike in Detroit happened in [...]
By Dave Jamieson Source: HuffPost Workers who are leading some of today’s most notable union campaigns gathered at HuffPost’s New York City office on Wednesday to share their stories. The panel, “A New Labor Movement,” showcased workers from Amazon, Starbucks, REI and Apple. All of those companies have seen a [...]
By Jeff Metzger Source: Food Trade News It’s too early to call it a trend, but all non-union retailers surely have been put on notice with the recent unionization successes of Amazon and Starbucks. Another merchant where associates have also ratified a new, first-time contract is FreshDirect, the pure-play online [...]
By Noam Scheiber Source: The New York Times Employees at a Buffalo-area Starbucks store have voted to form a union, making it the only one of the nearly 9,000 company-owned stores in the United States to be organized and notching an important symbolic victory for labor at a time when [...]
By Joanna Slater and Greg Jaffe Source: The Washington Post Starbucks workers in Buffalo won a pathbreaking bid to form a union after votes were counted Thursday, part of a wave of labor activism sweeping the country in the midst of the pandemic. The cafe in Elmwood Village will become [...]
By Alina Selyukh and Tom Dinki Source: NPR Starbucks workers in New York are deciding whether they want to join a union, a move that would be unprecedented at stores owned by the company in the United States. More than 80 baristas and shift supervisors from three stores around Buffalo [...]
By Joanna Slater Source: The Washington Post Earlier this month, Howard Schultz, the man who built Starbucks into a global giant, traveled to this city for an unusual gathering of the company’s employees. Schultz talked about growing up poor in Brooklyn and the values that guide Starbucks. The company is [...]