By Noam Scheiber Source: The New York Times Starbucks announced Tuesday that it was raising pay and expanding training at corporate-owned locations in the United States. But it said the changes would not apply to the recently unionized stores, or to stores that may be in the process of unionizing, [...]
By Anne D'Innocenzio Source: Alabama Daily News Amazon workers and organizers in Bessemer are making door-to-door house calls, sporting pro-union T-shirts and challenging anti-union messaging by Amazon-hired consultants as they try to convince their peers for the second time to unionize their warehouse in an election that starts Friday by [...]
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 [...]
By Michelle Cheng Source: Quartz Starbucks baristas in New York state are looking to unionize. If workers vote in favor of organizing, they would form the first Starbucks union in the US—and could encourage other efforts to unionize the food service industry. The vote at three Starbucks locations in the Buffalo [...]
By Hamilton Nolan Source: In These Times In less than two weeks, a tiny group of a half dozen workers in Barkhamsted, Connecticut will vote on whether to become the only unionized Dollar General store employees in America. These six people in a small town about 20 miles northwest of Hartford now find themselves [...]
By Lisa Fickensher Source: New York Post An Amazon worker at an Alabama warehouse claimed the e-tailing giant has been getting tougher with employees since it won a contentious labor vote there last month. Darryl Richardson — a picker at the facility in Bessemer, Ala., that played host to the [...]