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The Union Win at Starbucks May Seem Small, But It Could Be a Very Big Deal

Dec 14, 2021 Steven Greenhouse

The union victory at a single Starbucks in Buffalo might seem like small potatoes — the vote was 19 to 8 — but in many ways it is a very big deal. It’s the only one of Starbuck’s 8,900 company-owned cafés in the U.S to unionize. Also, it’s a very rare day that workers win a […]

May 2, 2021
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

Yesterday, in celebration of May Day – which, as the Chicago History Museum noted yesterday morning, was designated in 1889 by an international group of socialists and trade unionists, who formed the Marxist International Socialist Congress in Paris, as a day to support workers and honor the achievements of the labor movement, in remembrance of […]

Bargaining for Better Labor Journalism: How The Wave of Unionizing In Media Transforms How Unions Are Covered

Feb 26, 2021 Hannah Finnie

Kim Kelly spent nearly two decades covering heavy metal as a journalist, which is how she wound up as the heavy metal editor at the Vice vertical Noisey. But then Vice, like many digital media outlets across the United States since 2015, began unionizing. For Kelly, that first-hand union experience led to a shift not […]

February 15, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

In response to pressure from unions, community groups, and progressive lawmakers, Amazon backed out of a deal under which it would have received $3 billion in public subsidies to open a corporate campus in Queens. In a New York City Council meeting in late January, Amazon executives refused to agree to neutrality if workers at […]

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The Union Win at Starbucks May Seem Small, But It Could Be a Very Big Deal

May 2, 2021

Bargaining for Better Labor Journalism: How The Wave of Unionizing In Media Transforms How Unions Are Covered

February 15, 2019