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February 18, 2022
News & Commentary

Hannah Finnie

Retail workers at an REI location in New York announced their plans to unionize earlier this month. REI, an outdoor adventure company, has generally cast itself as a progressive company. It uses a co-op model where customers can become co-op members and then share in the profits of the company, and frequently took stands against […]

February 14, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

Starbucks workers across the United States are in the middle of a historic unionization wave. A Washington Post profile dives deep into the organizing victory at a single Starbucks store in Buffalo that started it all. The article not only tracks the events leading up to the first unionized Starbucks in the country — including the […]

February 9, 2022
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

Starbucks allegedly continues to deploy unlawful tactics in an attempt to frustrate the ongoing organizing efforts unfolding at dozens of its cafes across the country. On Tuesday, the firm discharged seven members of a Memphis store’s bargaining committee, claiming they had violated company safety and security protocols. However, one of the dischargees, a shift supervisor, […]

February 6, 2022
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

On Friday, almost exactly a year after the last vote began, ballots were sent out to thousands of Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, who will get a second chance – this time, hopefully, free of unfair labor practices and other interference by Amazon – to decide whether they want to be represented by RWDSU. The […]

January 31, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

Is the U.S. labor movement in a moment of resurgence? Last Friday, NPR published this big-picture snapshot and forecast of the American labor movement. In recent months, union success has dominated national headlines: breakthrough victories at Starbucks, hard-fought contracts at John Deere and Kellogg’s, and decades-high national approval. But the future of the U.S. labor […]

January 6, 2022
News & Commentary

Anita Alem

As the latest COVID-19 wave leads to record-high spikes in cases, Chicago Public Schools, the third-largest public school system in the United States, enters its second day of canceled classes due to a labor dispute regarding classroom safety. Late Tuesday evening, the Chicago Teacher’s Union voted to stop in-person education and move to remote instruction […]

December 21, 2021
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

Following the first successful unionization of a Starbucks store location, workers at a Starbucks store in Seattle, the home of Starbucks’s headquarters, filed a petition for a union election to be held on January 10. The workers leading the unionization drive at the Broadway and East Denny Way location in Capitol Hill have stated that […]

December 17, 2021
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

Three cases involving the right of workers to wear Black Lives Matter insignia at work could lead to a change in how the Board interprets Section 7 of the NLRA. The cases involved Whole Foods, Home Depot and Kroger, all of whom have been accused of retaliating against workers for refusing to remove Black Lives […]

December 10, 2021
News & Commentary

Hannah Finnie

The first Starbucks in the United States voted to unionize yesterday after a long fight at three Buffalo, New York area Starbucks stores. The Elmwood Avenue location in Buffalo voted in favor of unionizing, one store voted against unionizing, and the third store’s results have not yet been determined. Workers United, the union representing the […]

November 10, 2021
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

This week, Fran and Zachary have covered ongoing union organizing efforts at three Starbucks stores in the Buffalo area. Yesterday, the union petitioned the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to hold votes at three additional locations, in its historic push to unionize the first Starbucks store in the United States. The filing comes on the […]

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