unionbusting

Starbucks broke the law more than 200 times in effort to squash union organizing, labor board says

unionbusting, worker's rights / By max cyril

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is taking Starbucks’ union-busting campaign very seriously. The board’s regional director in Buffalo issued a complaint late Friday accusing the company of 29 unfair labor practices involving 200 violations of the law. The complaint specifically names interim CEO Howard Schultz for dangling improved benefits if workers didn’t unionize, and calls on Schultz …

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Amazon moves its army of union-busters to the next warehouse over, this week in the war on workers

labor, NLRB, unionbusting, unions / By max cyril

Following the Amazon Labor Union’s huge win in Staten Island, they’re going for it again. Workers at another, smaller warehouse—called LDJ5—will begin voting on April 25, and Amazon is once again going hard with its union-busting campaign. “All those union-busters that were there to union-bust 8,000 workers at JFK8 have walked across the street and are …

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Starbucks Workers Are Facing Down One of the Most Intense Union-Busting Campaigns in Decades

unionbusting, unions / By max cyril

Workers at more than 100 Starbucks stores in 27 states have filed union petitions for elections. In response, the company has launched a relentless anti-union effort. In interviews, Starbucks workers tell In These Times that starting a union campaign is the first time they’ve felt hopeful in their adult lives. ?“A lot of us have gotten used to a sense …

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The ACLU of Illinois Seeks a Playbook for Acceptable Progressive Union Busting

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized, unionbusting, unions / By max cyril

The staff union and management are locked in a battle over who can be included in the union. Aunion fight that is playing out in Illinois highlights how progressive organizations can use technical objections to the scope of a proposed union to effectively pursue union-busting while maintaining plausible deniability that they are doing so. This effort …

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How Workers at Beverage Giant Refresco Defeated a “Notorious” Union Buster

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized, unionbusting, unions / By max cyril

Refresco has waged a prolonged and costly fight to stop the workers from unionizing. As the spread of Covid-19 forced millions of workplaces to close in March 2020, Cesar Moreira continued to report to a bottling plant in Wharton, N.J., where he works as a batching technician. During 12-hour shifts, Moreira mixes vats of powdered concentrate and sugar to churn …

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Joe Biden Says He Stands With Unions. This Is His Moment to Prove It.

Leave a Comment / health care, unionbusting / By max cyril

The longest national nurses strike in over a decade could also be a “watershed moment” for Medicare for All. Speaking on the recent National Solidarity Call in support of striking nurses at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, Our Revolution leader Joseph Geevarghese characterized the situation as ?“Biden’s PATCO Moment.” The call was convened by the Labor …

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A Charter School Named For the Author of “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” Is Union Busting

Leave a Comment / Teachers, unionbusting / By max cyril

At Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter School in Massachusetts, teachers say a hostile administration is trying to crush their union. In 1968, Paulo Freire, a famous Brazilian philosopher, authored the book Pedagogy of the Oppressed, a Marxist argument for using education to empower the downtrodden. In 2013, a charter school named in his honor was founded: the Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter …

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How Employers Punish Workers for Forming Unions

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Workers at Solvay’s Pasadena, Texas, plant voted overwhelmingly to join the United Steelworkers (USW) in 2017 and looked forward to sitting down with the company to quickly negotiate a fair contract. Solvay decided to play games instead. Company representatives canceled some bargaining sessions at the last minute, took two-hour lunches on days they did show …

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Tate’s Bake Shop threatens workers with deportation, this week in the war on workers

Leave a Comment / union mobilizing, unionbusting / By max cyril

Workers attempting to unionize at Tate’s Bake Shop are getting hit with an all-too-common, and totally vile, union-busting message: They say they’re being threatened with deportation. Yes, Tate’s—now owned by Mondelez International—hired an anti-union consultant, who apparently looked at the company’s many undocumented workers and went for the threat that would scare them the most. It’s …

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Why Amazon Is Fighting So Hard to Stop Warehouse Workers From Unionizing